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This is not a reason to return the Niagara 5000AP or abandon the use of such an AC plug! Typically, the outlet

in question can be slightly opened up by gradually exercising it with an AC plug. For this, we actually do not

recommend an AudioQuest or any other premium brand of AC cord or male plug. For exercising the outlet, obtain

from an electrical supply house or hardware store a generic three-prong 15-amp-rated AC cord or plug that affords

a generous and secure area to handle. Any will work, but the best will be those with three brass (un-plated) prongs

so that if multiple insertions are required, no nickel plating from the generic AC plug will find its way into the

AudioQuest NRG Edison outlet.

High-Current | Low-Z Power Banks

There are two High-Current/Low-Z Power outlets (labeled "1" and "2"). These outlets feature our Transient Power

Correction Technology (90 amps peak - up to 25 mS duration) and are designed to enhance the performance

of power amplifiers via our circuit's low-impedance transient current reservoir. Power amplifiers, monoblock

amplifiers, integrated amplifiers, powered receivers, or powered subwoofers should be connected to these

four outlets. The primary mono, stereo, or multi-channel power amplifier(s) should be connected to Bank 1.

This enables the standby sense circuit, which requires the current draw of a power amplifier connected to (and

only to) outlet Bank 1. In terms of sonic performance, there is no difference between outlet Banks 1 and 2. If the

standby sense circuit is not utilized, and the sense circuit bypass switch is set to "Enabled, " any outlet on the two

banks may be utilized.

For systems with only one or two power amplifiers, the two uppermost outlets of Banks 1 and 2 will provide

slightly superior performance due to their closer proximity to the AC outlets' radio frequency noise-dissipation

circuit. However, the outlets located directly below will certainly afford exemplary performance!

Regardless of class of operation or circuit topology (valve, solid-state, digital, or otherwise), the Transient Power

Correction Circuit will not compress the current of any power amplifier. Quite to the contrary, it will improve the

amplifier's performance by supplying the low-impedance current source that the amplifier's power supply so

desperately needs.

However, the other four AC outlet banks (Level-X Ultra-Linear Noise-Dissipation System), are not appropriate

for power amplifiers. They have been optimized for line-level audio preamplifiers, DACs, universal players,

turntables, and video products that utilize constant current voltage amplifier circuits. These circuits never suffer

from current compression, but their lower input level and higher gain require a more robust means of noise

dissipation. This is key to the Niagara 5000AP's discrete AC power banks, in that not every circuit is treated the

same, but rather isolated bank by bank and optimized for best performance.

Level-X Ultra-Linear Noise-Dissipation System Power Outlets

There are four banks that utilize this technology within the Niagara 5000AP. All four of these are in turn isolated

from the High-Current/Low-Z banks 1 and 2. This offers a great advantage in controlling the complex interactions

of RF (radio frequency) and other induced noises present in the AC power supplied from your utility, the noise

that will be present on and in every AC cord, and the noise that is produced within your system's components

and that "backwashes" into the Niagara 5000AP's output circuits.

Though it would be simple to recommend putting the digital or video components into banks 3 and 4, and

the line-level audio components and turntables into banks 5 and 6, the quest for optimal performance is more

complex. This scenario will work, and likely work well, but a certain amount of experimentation is best given

the fact that no filter can eliminate 100% of all noise. The size of many of these RF-induced waveforms possess

sinewaves as small as the edge of a piece of paper, and the interactions are complex. So long as the power

amplifiers are in their appropriate banks (Outlets 1-4), and the other components are in the remaining four outlet

banks (Outlets 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12), you should experience exemplary performance. Still, for the audiophile with

patience, the reward will be system performance with the highest possible resolution and lowest possible noise.