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The Quintet Power Center.

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The Quintet Power Center is the world's first component level AC power center to offer true surge protection and outstanding AC filtering in an affordable package.

 

The Quintet offers both common mode and differential mode noise filtering of the AC line, improves performance of connected equipment and provides a safe and noise reduced power source for both audio and video equipment.

 

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If budget or space requirements preclude the use of either the Premier or Quintessence, then there’s no other choice than either a Duet or Quintet Power Center.  Both provide chassis level power conditioning with remarkable results at an affordable price.

In fact, if you take away the big chassis, extra filtering, front panel display options of the Quintessence Power Center and place everything else in an attractive solid aluminum casing, you have the Duet and Quintet Power Centers.
 
The Duet and Quintet are housed in a gorgeous new chassis whose industrial design is based on the outsides of a BMW motorcycle and is the brain child of one of our country’s brightest new ID talents, Chris Malato.  The outer housing is extruded out of a solid half inch thick piece of aluminum, then machined and anodized into one of the best looking metal sculptures to ever grace a person’s home.

The Duet and Quintet Power Centers are capable of powering an entire system’s worth of equipment and provide clean, safe power where it is needed.  They can be placed behind a power amp, behind a system rack or shelf, attached to the rack, or nestled between the floor and the wall due to their truncated triangular shape.
 
The Quintet has 5 IsoZones™, the Duet has two.  Both are endowed with fully microprocessor controlled over/under voltage control, spike, and common mode filtering supplied by our new Nano Crystalline filter technology.

The Quintet is perfect for operating an entire system, while the Duet is perfect for power amps, projectors, individual pieces or a small system requiring only four receptacles.

What’s the mission?
The mission of any AC power product falls into three main categories:
  • How well does it remove what we do not want on the AC line?
  • How well does it preserve what we do want on the AC line?
  • How little damage does it do in the process of the first two missions?
There are two ways to deal with the problems inherent in AC power, active or passive.  Active means there is an electronic circuit that adds or subtracts substantial energy where needed, or completely rebuilds the AC power as in the case of a true regenerator.  Examples of active products are the Power Plant series, Exact Power AC correction device, APS battery backup unit and Accuphase among others.

Passive means there are no electronic circuits that add or subtract energy in a meaningful way.  These are typically filters that remove noise problems but cannot repair sine wave distortions.  Examples of these types are the PS Quintessence, Quintet, Duet, UPC, Monster Cable power products, Panamax, Belkin, Richard Grey, Shunyata and so forth.

Passive product come in many types of configurations, but the three main ones are series, parallel and isolation transformer based.

What do we want to remove?
We would like to have perfect AC power if we can because the problems on the AC line are many:
 
  • clipped sine wave
  • varying voltage levels
  • harmonics
  • surges
  • spikes
  • noise
Only an active device can hope to eliminate the first three items; but active power devices are expensive and many are power limited.

Passive devices can reduce the last three items and, if properly built, can make a significant improvement in audio video performance.

What the Duet and Quintet will provide
The Duet and Quintet provides clean, noise free power at frequencies considered state-of-the-art in a chassis based product and unheard of in this form factor and size. 
 
In fact, while most “strip” products provide little to no filtering, The Duet and Quintet provide component level filtering starting at 100kHz and above.  Remarkable for products of this size and cost.  Quintets and Duets can be used separately or in addition to other cleaning products for wonderful results.

To make matters even better, the Duet and Quintet provides this component level of cleaning without restricting the power Which is not true in many of our competitor’s products).  The secret is in the small Nano Crystalline cores that permit short heavy lengths of high purity copper wire to be used for the filter. Even on a heavy 15 amp load, there’s no measurable drop in voltage with a Duet or Quintet Power Center. 

Inside is an amazing piece of construction.  From the custom built Power Port AC receptacles, to the 1/4 inch thick copper bars that carry the power from the Power Cartridge to each of the receptacles with zero loss, hundreds of hours of design time have gone into the building of this amazing power delivery system.

Unrestricted, clean and safe power is what the Duet and Quintet provides along with stunningly beautiful video and audio performance.

Let’s take a tour
Perhaps the biggest benefit is clean, safe and unrestricted power.  At 1750 watts there’s enough power for even the most demanding systems.  Whether it’s an audio based two channel system or a video based multi-channel home theater, 1750 watts will power pretty much anything you have. 
 
The Duet and Quintet takes what the wall AC has to offer and cleans everything above 100kHz, where its competitors start their work at a frequency 10 to 100 times higher.  The Duet and Quintet fix problems associated with noise and improves audio performance as well as video while providing clean power to connected equipment, regardless of the power demands.

Surge and spike protection are excellent in the Duet and Quintet Power centers.  This level of performance and connected equipment safety is simply unheard of in a product of this form factor.

The 5 IsoZones and 10 receptacles of the Quintet and the 2 IsoZones and 4 receptacles of the Duet keep one piece of equipment from contaminating another piece plugged into the Duet and Quintet.

Duet and Quintet features
The Duet Power Center features 4 AC receptacles and 2 IsoZones, while the Quintet features 10 receptacles and 5 IsoZones.  Both the Duet and Quintet have a fast acting circuit breaker, Nano Crystalline filter, Power Cartridge, microprocessor controlled under and over voltage surge protection and the Quintet also has a power sequencer, CATV connectors, 12 volt DC triggers and telephone in and out protection.

IsoZones™
IsoZones™ are one of the technologies we’re introducing with the new power line that includes the Quintessence, Quintet and Duet Power Centers.  An IsoZone is a separate differential mode filter, fed by a common mode Nano Crystalline filter.

Each of the 2 IsoZones on the Duet and 5 IsoZones on the Quintet, separates equipment noise.  All electronic equipment generates AC line noise, some more than others.  When you plug a digital device in the same receptacle as an analog device, the noise of one can interfere and contaminate the performance of the other.  To solve this problem, you need effective isolation between equipment.

The challenge is to build a filter that is effective at isolating noise while at the same time, non-intrusive.  It’s not difficult to build a filter that has remarkable performance in terms of noise reduction.  It is even more difficult to build such a filter without using a lot of wire and components that restrict the power delivery of the filter.  The IsoZones use very short pieces of heavy gauge wire, wrapped around small high permeability magnetics to achieve both these design objectives.

To further enhance their performance, each IsoZone is fed from a common mode filter made of pure Nano Crystalline, a remarkable new space age material that has the highest permeability of any magnetic material currently available.  Together, the two filters form an isolated cleaning network that is both non-intrusive and an excellent performer.

Power Cartridge surge and control
One of the more interesting and novel features of the Duet and Quintet, as well as all products in the new power line is the Power Cartridge AC input module.  Invented by PS Engineering, the Power Cartridge contains the surge and spike protection, circuit breaker, over/under voltage control and the first stage of common mode filtering.

The unique cartridge is the heart of our new series and can be replaced in the field should a problem ever occur.  For instance, if the home is struck by lightning or a surge or spike big enough to damage the cartridge, it easily slides out and can be replaced by the dealer.

Power sequencer
The new Quintet has the capability to drive an entire system and it is therefore essential that connected equipment be turned on in the proper order.  Preamps, surround processors and sources need to be turned on first, while power amplifiers, integrateds and receivers should be turned on last.
 
In some cases, like that of a Tivo, hard drive music based systems or control setups, it is important to never lose power.  The Quintet’s power sequencer allows you to select any of the three available power zones and choose always on, switched on or delayed on.  With these choices, you can setup your system to automatically leave power on, turn it on or off via the Power Cartridge power button, and delay the turn on sequence until the source equipment has been activated.

12 volt trigger
The Quintet also features two 12 volt triggers.  These triggers are easy to use and will turn on or off the Quintet’s power sequencer.  Apply 12 volts at either trigger input and the Quintet will sequence on the connected equipment.  Remove the 12 volts and the Quintet will turn off the connected equipment.  !2 volt triggers are commonly found on surround processors, receivers, automation equipment and some preamplifiers.

CATV, telephone
For those owners of complete AV systems that have connected video and telephone, the Quintet supports two sets of antenna, cable TV, satellite or anything using a CATV connector or two sets of telephones.  Anything plugged into these in/out connectors will be protected from high voltage spikes that can come through these outside world connections.

The Duet and Quintet are shipping now
The Duet and Quintet are shipping now for those of you that have pre-ordered.  This is the product to own if you cannot afford a Premier Power Plant or Quintessence Power Center.

We’re proud that the Duet and Quintet provide what many component level products consider state of the art.  Regardless of your system’s configuration if you’re looking for an affordable compact system to provide clean and safe AC that gives your system the best chance of perfection for the money, then the Duet and Quintet are one of the best choices there are on the market today.
 

 

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