Tacima - anyone else disappointed ?

[a.g.]

trevor79:Found the TV had a even better picture plugged into the Tacima, also find it good for low current kit, eg PS3, DVD recorder.

A PS3 is hardly a low current device. I'll wager it uses more electricity than your AV amplifier.

 

[Anonymous]

It uses a lot less juice than a full class A 200w x 7 Onkyo 875 amp!

It heats the room up well in these cold winter months.

 

[Anonymous]

I.D.C.:
It's quite an on going debate this one.I am home next week and looking forward to giving this a try along with the clear audio mains cables I ordered. Agree with Trevor in that you can't really go wrong for the price with the Tacima. From reading the many debates on this I am going to run the cd player and pre amp from the Tacima and the power amps from the old mains block. I would like to run the amps from a direct mains feed later from what I have read from you Trevor.. As for the cinema set up I will plug everything into the Tacima. Will the av-amp be ok doing this or will it be best fed off the mains? I feed the dvd into the amp then onto the tv.

I would try it both ways with your AV amp and see how it sounds. Much depends on the degree of contamination of the supply v the high current restriction of the Tacima.
I have dealt with this myself by hard wiring it into a 40A spur wired on a 20A circuit breaker from its consumer unit, then plugging in 2 x BT mains conditioning units which employ Mains capacitors giving a stabilized high current feed to my AV equipment.

As with most things it is addressing the weakest link that gives the clearest benefits.

Hope this helps you.