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Ryan Coleman has posted a review of the Weizhi Audio PRS-6 Power Distributor ($3200) at Positive Feedback Online. His conclusions:
Beyond dynamics, I am listening for two things in a conditioner: noise floor and tone. Noise floor is one side of the coin; the other side being identified as "micro-detail," for when you're speaking of one you is really speaking of both. Elevate the noise floor and you lose detail in the recording, simple as that. Well, I will say the Weizhi PRS-6 brings the noise floor as low as any conditioner I've heard, but never with an inky-blackness that can sound artificial. To use an analogy: some conditioners will make the empty space sound like a wall that's been painted black (flat and impossibly mono-color), while others will make it sound like a moonless night (deep and hollow). The Weizhi sounds like the latter. So does live music. Both may recover the same amount of detail, but one sounds more natural.
And that takes me to the second thing I listen for in a conditioner: tone. The Weizhi's tone is organic and, dare I say, completely developed (though dependent on the AC cord used to feed it, as none is supplied with the unit). This reminded me of when I owned a full range planar speaker. When one has no crossovers, one gets to listen to music without crossover-notch distortions and driver non-linearities, which is a sound that's sweet, inviting, and musical—the antithesis of hi-fi. That's what the Weizhi is like.
You can read the full review here.