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NIAGARA 3000 - Low-ZPower | Noise-Dissipation System

REDEFINING THE SCIENCE OF POWERCONDITIONING

The science of AC power delivery is not a simple one;it demands focus, and the devil is in the details. In fact, the great increase in airborneand AC-line-transmitted radio signals, combined with overtaxed utility linesand the ever-increasing demands from high-definition audio/video components,has rendered our utilities’ AC power a somewhat antiquated technology.

WhereAlternating Current (AC) is concerned, we’re relying on a century-oldtechnology created for incandescent lights and electric motors—technology thatwas certainly never meant to power the sophisticated analog and digitalcircuits used in today’s premium audio/video systems. To properly accommodatethe promise of today’s ever-increasing bandwidth and dynamic range, we mustachieve extraordinarily low noise across a very wide range of frequencies.

Further,today’s power amplifiers are being taxed for instantaneous peak-current demand,even when they’re driven at modest volumes. Although we have seen a substantialincrease in dynamics from much of our audio software, the loudspeakers weemploy to reproduce them are often no more efficient than they were two to fourdecades ago. This places great demands on an amplifier’s power supply, as wellas the source AC power supplying it.

Our systems’sensitive components need better alternating current—a fact that has resultedin a host of AC power conditioning, isolation transformer, regenerationamplifier, and battery back-up system topologies. Through differential sampletests and spectrum analysis, it can be proven that up to a third of ahigh-resolution (low-level) audio signal can be lost, masked, or highlydistorted by the vast levels of noise riding along the AC power lines that feedour components. This noise couples into the signal circuitry as current noiseand through AC ground, permanently distorting and/or masking the source signal.

Given thatthe stakes are so high, all sincere attempts to solve this problem must beapplauded.

Once theaudio/video signal is gone, it’s gone forever…

For AudioQuest,honoring the source is never a matter of simply using premium “audiophile-gradeparts” or relying on a proprietary technology—common approaches within ourcommunity. For years, we have all been witness to the same, seemingly endlessaudiophile debates: valves versus transistors; analog versus digital; cancables really make a difference?; and on and on. While we, too, can brag aboutour many unique technologies, we realize that true audio/video optimization isnever a matter of any one secret or exotic circuit. When it comes to noisefiltering for AC power, many approaches can yield meaningful results. However,these approaches may also impart ringing, current compression, and non-lineardistortions that can render the cure worse than the disease!

The Niagara3000 features our patented AC Ground-Noise Dissipation, the widestbandwidth-linearized AC filter in the industry, and our unique passive/activeTransient Power Correction Circuit. Boasting an instantaneous current reservoirof over 55 amps peak, the Niagara 3000 is specifically designed for today’scurrent-starved power amplifiers. Many AC power products featuring“high-current outlets” merely minimize current compression; the Niagara 3000corrects it.

Though it’seasy to tout a given technology, it’s quite another thing to create a solutionthat is consistent, holistic, functional, and that honors verifiable science.It’s not enough to reduce AC line noise and its associated distortions at justone octave, thus leaving vulnerable the adjacent octaves and octave partials tonoise, resonant peaking, or insufficient noise reduction. Consistency is key.We should never accept superior resolution in one octave, only to suffer frommasking effects a half-octave away and ringing artifacts two octaves fromthere. This is the principal criterion for AudioQuest’s Low-Z PowerNoise-Dissipation System.

The Niagara3000 represents over 20 years of exhaustive research and proven AC powerproducts designed for audiophiles, broadcast engineers, and professional-audioapplications. Every conceivable detail has been addressed: In the Niagara 3000,you’ll find optimized radio-frequency lead directionality, capacitor run-informing technologies developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratories and NASA, and ACinlet and outlet contacts with heavy silver plating over extreme-purity copper,assuring the tightest grip possible.

A greatsystem is built from a solid foundation, and that foundation starts with power.With an AudioQuest Niagara 3000, you’ll experience for the first time theclarity, dimensionality, frequency extension, dynamic contrast, and grip yoursystem has always been capable of delivering—if only the power had been right!

We welcomeyou to experience the Niagara 3000 and hear firsthand the remarkable results ofhighly optimized power management: startlingly deep silences, stunning dynamicfreedom, outstanding retrieval of ambience cues, and gorgeous delineation ofinstruments and musicians in space. Once you’ve experienced it, it may seem soelegant, so logical, and so obvious that you find yourself wondering why ithadn’t been done before.

SPECIFICATIONS

Transient Power Correction: 55 amps peak. Provides a current reservoir for anypower amplifier (up to 25mS)

Level-XLinear Noise-Dissipation Technology: More than 21 octaves differential-modefiltering (10kHz–1GHz in excess of 24dB reduction) with linear response,optimized for varying line and load impedance

PatentedGround-Noise Dissipation (All outlets): 3 banks of direction-controlledground-noise dissipation

Non-SacrificialSurge Protection: Withstands multiple AC surges and spikes up to 6000V/3000Awithout sustaining damage—sonically non-invasive

Maximum RMSInput Current: 15 Amps (RMS)

Outlets: Source (5); High-Current (2)

Dimensions: 445 W x 88 H x 386 D mm. (2-RU Rack MountKit included)

Weight: 11.3Kg

Note: Niagara Noise-Dissipations Systems do not ship with an AC powercable. This gives customersthe opportunity to select a cable of the desired length and best possibleperformance. An appropriate 16-to-20-amp-rated (depending on regional voltagerequirements) AC power cable, with an IEC-C19 female end connector and agrounded male plug, must be connected to the Niagara’s AC inlet (IEC-C20)connector. Niagara Noise-Dissipation Systems will function properly with any ACcable that meets these requirements. However, for the best possible results,taking full advantage of AudioQuest’s patented Ground-Noise Dissipation, wehighly recommend any AudioQuest NRG Series 16-to-20-amp-rated AC cable.