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Getting Started
Getting Started 1
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Owner’s Reference
Quintessence Power Center
Once your new Quintessence Power Center is unpacked, you’ll need to fi nd a convenient place to
set it.
There are several ways to mount the Quintessence Power Center: on a shelf, or in a rack. If you are
placing the Quintessence Power Center in a rack, you can use the supplied rack ears or you can use
a rack shelf. The Quintessence Power Center does
not generate heat so concerns of airfl ow and heating
of other equipment are not necessary.
If you are rack mounting the Quintessence Power
Center is supplied with a set of rack ears that can be
mounted to the Quintessence Power Center.
If your equipment is located a long distance from the
Quintessence Power Center, it is preferable to use
a long, heavy gauge shielded power cable between
the wall AC receptacle and the Quintessence Power
Center, rather than long individual power cables
between the equipment and the Quintessence
Power Center.
The Quintessence can benefi t from aftermarket isolation devices such as cones, spikes and
Sorbothane pads.
Once you have chosen the location for the Quintessence Power Center you can use the supplied AC
power cord to connect it to the AC wall receptacle or you can use an aftermarket power cord and
receptacle.
We strongly recommend the use of a PS Audio xStream Power™ AC cable and a PS Power Port™
AC receptacle, or Soloist AC receptacle to feed
the Quintessence Power Center electricity.
While the supplied power cable is adequate
for the task, it is not going to provide the best
performance. Choosing any xStream Power
cable will make a signifi cant performance
improvement over the stock power cable.
We recommend the use of the Soloist in-wall AC
receptacle to feed power to the Quintessence
Power Center. We, however, discourage the
use of any other power conditioning equipment
before or after the Quintessence Power Center
without considerable evaluation to determine
if there are any sonic or visual shortcomings of doing so. The Quintessence Power Center has
a signifi cant input and output passive fi lter design and adding extra power cables to its input or
additional fi ltering to its output may, in fact, be less than desirable.
Isolation
Power Cables
Location
Mounting
Conditioners
