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AudioQuest PowerQuest Power
Conditioner Fuels Modern Components
By Robert Archer
HAVING ENTERED the
power conditioner/surge
protection category roughly
15 years ago, the popular
cabling and audio accessory
manufacturer AudioQuest
snagged one of the top
engineers in the field when
it added industry veteran
Garth Powell. Today, Powell
serves as AudioQuest's senior
director of engineering,
and not long ago the brand
introduced its PowerQuest
series that includes the
PQ-707.
Trying the PQ-707 in my
home environment, I thought
I would use it differently
than perhaps an audiophile
type of user would employ
the product. I installed it as
part of my home theater to
support a Digital Projection
projector and an OSD Audio
subwoofer.
Features & Setup
Priced at a competitive
level, the power conditioner/surge
protector arrived
at my house along with
AudioQuest's NRG-Z3 and
Monsoon power cables.
The PQ-707 power conditioner/surge
protector is a
10.8-pound, 2U rack-mountable
component designed
to help protect connected
components from surges
and spikes. The unit also
utilizes the company's
ultra-linear noise dissipation
technology that AudioQuest
says filters out a range of
interference from a wide
bandwidth of frequencies.
The company notes the
product is capable of withstanding
surges as powerful
as 6,000 volts and 3,000
amps. AudioQuest emphasizes
to further protect
The PowerQuest PQ-707 incorporates 12 outlets, including
four that handle high current.
connected components,
once the PQ-707 detects
a voltage of 140 volts, the
unit opens a main relay that
cuts off an internal electrical
path to keep those connected
components from
exposure to high voltage.
The unit will internally reset
the relay circuit to return to
normal operation.
Unlike many surge products,
the new AudioQuest
product features non-sacrificial
surge protection,
which means homeowners
won't have to worry they
are no longer receiving the
component's benefits because
of their surge protectors
sacrificing themselves
during a surge or spike.
Supporting high-perAudioQuest's
Monsoon and NRG-23 power cables offer
solid build quality.
formance AV systems, the
15-amp unit is also capable
of delivering peak current
levels as high as 45 amps to
enable components such as
audio amplifiers to maximize
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their performance during
transient peak levels.
The unit provides 12 outlets
with the four designed as
high-current outlets to support
amplifiers and subwoofers,
and eight linear-filtered
outlets meant for components
such as set-top boxes
(STBs), streaming devices,
CD players, Blu-ray disc
players, gaming consoles, and
other source components.
Both the Monsoon and
NRG-Z3 are available in a
variety of lengths, and according
to AudioQuest, the
NRG-Z3 employs its direction-controlled
Perfect-Surface
Copper strands in a
7-strand semi-solid concentric
conductor arrangement.
Additionally, the power
cable employs RF/ND-tech
and direction-controlled,
silver-plated shied conductors
to remove RF noise
from the line and neutral
shields to ground.
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