Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2019/08/01

The PowerStation is the latest addition to iFi’s collection of performance enhancing audio essentials – a six/eight-way mains block that uses Active Noise Cancellation and ensures any audio or AV system is supplied with clean, consistent electricity to unleash its full potential. The PowerStation is the first to offer the company’s proprietary Active Noise Cancellation in a whole-system, six/eight- outlet mains solution.
The Active Noise Cancellation technology uses inverse noise current to cancel out the noise in the mains signal. The way this works is not unlike the technology in noise canceling headphones. According to iFi, passive noise reduction systems are effective at the top end of the frequency spectrum and need large capacitors to be truly effective, which make the best such products bulky and expensive. Active Noise Cancellation is effective in reducing noise consistently across the entire frequency spectrum, by approximately -40dB. This is coupled to additional passive filtering on each outlet to eradicate noise at the very highest frequencies, typically caused by wireless transmission systems. The result is a reduction of both differential mode noise (caused by conventional switch-mode power supplies, for example) and common mode noise (including interference caused by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), the company says.
The PowerStation’s smart diagnostics system helps to avoid potential issues by indicating both correct polarity and whether the system has a ground/earth in place. Instantaneous and repeatable protection ensures that damage will not occur as a result of power fluctuations and if the protection circuit is triggered, the PowerStation will only reboot once it is absolutely safe to do so.
The PowerStation’s case is solidly constructed from dark anodized aluminum, each of the six/eight mains outlets is independently isolated in its own chamber, with the addition of strategically placed EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) to damp vibrations and PurCopper –a form of 99.9999 per cent pure OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) continuous cast copper– is used extensively.
The retail cost of the PowerStation is US$499 (ex tax) or €549/£499 (inc. VAT.)

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