AudioQuest Niagara 7000 Low-Z Power Noise-Dissipation System

AudioQuest Niagara 7000 Low-Z Power Noise-Dissipation System

If you are looking for a complete solution to noise issues that can prevent your audio/video components from achieving their potential, then the AudioQuest Niagara 7000 Low-Z Power Noise-Dissipation System is the perfect choice for you. This revolutionary product was designed by one of the field’s foremost experts and includes a wide range of features that are designed to drastically reduce noise and distortion, while also providing superior current delivery across a wide range of frequencies.

The Niagara 7000 utilises patented AC Ground-Noise Dissipation, Dielectric-Biased AC Isolation Transformers, and a unique passive/active Transient Power Correction Circuit with an instantaneous current reservoir of over 90 amps peak for improved performance. With this product, you can finally experience the clarity, dimensionality, frequency extension, dynamic contrast, and grip that your A/V system has been capable of delivering.

The Niagara 7000UK represents over 20 years of exhaustive research and proven AC power products designed for audiophiles, broadcast engineers, and professional-audio applications. Every conceivable detail has been addressed: In the Niagara 7000UK, you’ll find optimised radio-frequency lead directionality, run-in capacitor forming technologies developed by USA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories and NASA, and AC inlet and outlet contacts with heavy silver plating over high-purity copper and beryllium copper. This assures a tight grip and the greatest RF (radio frequency) noise dissipation possible. A great system is built from a solid foundation, and that foundation starts with power. With an AudioQuest Niagara 7000UK, you’ll experience for the first time the clarity, dimensionality, frequency extension, dynamic contrast, and grip your system has always been capable of delivering—if only the power had been right

Please note, the image above shows US Sockets on the rear of the Niagara 7000, however we will be supplying the UK socket version.

Here's what AudioQuest say about the Niagara 7000

The Niagara 7000 Low-Z Power Noise-Dissipation System is a complete rethinking of AC power filtration designed by one of the field’s foremost experts, Garth Powell. In Niagara 7000, AudioQuest believe they’ve created a product that revolutionises the art and science of AC power—a product that will inspire audio/video enthusiasts and help to create an even more immersive, emotionally compelling experience.

In designing Niagara 7000, AQ aimed to successfully address problems that prevent today’s audio/video components from achieving their potential. Due to the great increase in airborne and AC-line-transmitted radio signals, combined with overtaxed utility lines and the ever-increasing demands from high-definition audio/video components, a complete rethinking of AC power technology is needed to provide our A/V systems with the power required to fulfill their potential.

Further, today’s power amplifiers are being taxed for instantaneous peak-current demand, even when they’re driven at modest volumes. Although we have seen a substantial increase in dynamic range from much of our audio software, the loudspeakers we employ to reproduce them are often no more efficient than they were 50 years ago. This places great demands on an amplifier’s power supply, as well as the source AC power supplying it. In our efforts to properly accommodate the promise of today’s ever-increasing bandwidth and dynamic range, the Niagara 7000 affords extremely low system noise and provides superior current delivery across a very wide range of frequencies.

Through differential sample tests and spectrum analysis, it can be proven that up to a third of a high-resolution (low-level) audio signal can be lost, masked, or highly distorted by the vast levels of noise riding along the AC power lines that feed our components. This noise couples with the signal circuitry as current noise and through AC ground, permanently distorting and/or masking the source signal. Our systems’ sensitive components need better alternating current.

We realise that true audio/video optimisation is never a matter of any one secret or exotic circuit. When it comes to noise dissipation for AC power, many approaches can yield meaningful results. However, these approaches may also impart ringing, current compression, and non-linear distortions that can render the cure worse than the disease. While there currently exist a number of AC power conditioners, isolation transformers, regeneration amplifiers, and battery back-up system topologies, Niagara 7000 takes a holistic, science-based approach to AC power technology and represents a comprehensive solution to the ever-increasing noise that plagues our power lines.

In the Niagara 7000, you’ll find optimized radio-frequency lead directionality, run-in capacitor forming technologies developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratories and NASA, and AC inlet and outlet contacts with heavy silver plating over extreme-purity copper assuring the tightest grip possible.

The Niagara 7000 uses our patented AC Ground-Noise Dissipation, the world’s first Dielectric-Biased AC Isolation Transformers, and the widest bandwidth-linearized noise-dissipation circuit in the industry. Our unique passive/active Transient Power Correction Circuit features an instantaneous current reservoir of over 90 amps peak, specifically designed for today’s current-starved power amplifiers. Most AC power products featuring “high-current outlets” merely minimize current compression; the Niagara 7000 corrects it.

Features

• Transient Power Correction provides power amplifiers a current reservoir of over 90 amps peak (up to 25mS)
• Patented Ground-Noise Dissipation System yields lower distortion and greater resolution from audio, video, and digital components with grounded AC cords/circuits
• Level-X Ultra-Linear Noise-Dissipation Technology: More than 23 octaves differential-mode filtering (3kHz-1GHz in excess of 24dB reduction) and 20 octaves common-mode filtering (20kHz-100MHz in excess of 30dB reduction) with linear response, optimized for varying line and load impedance
• 12 Low-Z NRG Series AC Power outlets: 4 High-Current Low-Z Power; 8 Level-X Ultra-Linear Filtered Power (source components) Outlets feature thick direct-silver plating over beryllium copper. This assures the most efficient dissipation of induced radio frequency noise possible.

The Niagara 7000 uses AQ's patented AC Ground Noise-Dissipation System, the world’s first Dielectric-Biased AC Isolation Transformers, and the widest bandwidth-linearised noise-dissipation circuit in the industry. AQ's unique 4 passive/active Transient Power Correction Circuit features an instantaneous current reservoir of over 80 amps peak, specifically designed for modern current-starved power amplifiers. Most AC power products featuring “high-current outlets” merely minimize current compression; the Niagara 7000UK corrects it.

Specification

• Surge Suppression: Non-sacrificial (nothing to damage with repeated 6000V/3000A input surge tests, which is the maximum that can survive through a building’s AC electrical panel).
• Extreme Voltage Shutdown Voltage: 275VAC (will activate the main high-current relay to open within less than 0.25 second; automatically resets once the incoming power is within a safe range).
• Level-X Ultra-Linear Common- Mode Noise Dissipation: In excess of 30dB from 60Hz to 100MHz, linearized for dynamic (rising) line impedance with frequency (source) and 10- to 50-ohm load, system current dependent.
• Level-X Ultra-Linear Transverse- Mode Noise Dissipation: In excess of 24dB from 3kHz to 1GHz, linearized for dynamic (rising) line impedance with frequency (source) and 10- to 50-ohm load, system current dependent.
• Input Current Maximum Capacity: 13 to 16 amps RMS (total).
• 11 AC Ground-Noise Dissipated Outlets in 3 Isolated Groups: 3 High-Current/Transient Power Correction outlets for on-demand current to variable-current equipment (amplifiers). 8 Level-X Ultra- Linear Filtered AC outlets.
• Power Consumption: Typically, less than 0.25 amps at 240VAC input, or with the power correction switched to Standby setting. (This is dependent on a reactive vector load. For more info, see “Operation and Continuous Use: Rear-Panel Power Correction Switch | Niagara 7000UK Current Draw.”)
• Dimensions: 445mm W x 149mm H (133mm H without feet) x 437mm D (3-RU rack-mounting ears, optional)
• Weight: 41.7 kg

About AudioQuest

AudioQuest has been the largest cable supplier to the high-end specialist market for many years. AudioQuest is sold in several hundred outlets in the US and in over sixty countries. Bill Lowe (Founder) is especially pleased that this success has been possible despite his insistence that the foundation of the company, and the foundation of AudioQuest marketing, must be the performance of the product. In the audio world, many professionals have learned that it is not always convenient to listen to the products they sell … they might learn something they don’t want to know! Bill has always understood the challenge of basing the existence of AudioQuest on the performance of the product. However, to Bill, this is the only reasonable way to do business and the only acceptable way to combine his passion for music (and all things high performance), with his need to make a living.