SOUND
"Also plugging in the PC-3 EVO to my system, well “supplied” in terms of power, resulted in concrete, unanimous modifications of its sound – for the money unanimously and indisputably positive ones."

"(…) in fact listening to music with Gigawatt we do not engage in analysis of the timbre, but we look at the same musical material under a different angle, from a slightly different perspective. (…) The sound we get is closer to us, is more palpable and nicer."

"This is audible best when we listen to Gigawatt comparing to some cheaper power strip, with a cheaper power cable – like with the mentioned Oyaide set. This is still a very good set, my second choice, when we are talking about expensive systems, but much lesser than the reference system. And compared that, we can really hear what Gigawatt proposes, and why it is worth to pay for it almost EUR 3.300."

"The sound with it, in such comparison, seems cleaner and (yes!) more resolved. This is mostly the result of a slight exposure of the individual instruments, their “own” sound at the expense of the acoustic environment. This results in a splendidly shown, nice, dynamic piano in recordings so distant in terms of the way of recording and time as those from the discs Moon Beams The Bill Evans Trio and Songbird Eva Cassidy. The dark, warm disc of Evans sound slightly softer, in a slightly more open way, as if the instruments would be slightly embossed, slightly pushed forward. The already mentioned disc of Audiofeels (…) sounded in a very credible way, it could be heard, that this is a meeting of a few guys who met to sing (play) together, that there is a kind of tension between them."

"The Oyaide seemed to be the bottleneck. The Gigawatt sounded in a more open and resolved way. It was also unanimously more “three-dimensional”, the shapes were shown clearer and more unequivocal. The change seemed not be big, but you listened to everything in a completely new, comfortable way."

"The sound of the system is very vivid and “clean”. This cleanness is not clinical, what would mean in fact depriving the sound from the flesh, but it is rather showing the depth of the sound, its physicality. Were those voices, or piano or finally the contrabass, especially important on the discs of Evans and the Modern Jazz Quartet, with Gigawatt they gained depth and mass."

Author: Wojciech Pacuła - "HIGH FIDELITY" Read Full Review

“30 kilograms of weight clearly indicates, that we do not deal with a run-of-the-mill unit here. Inside we did not find any lead pellets, only technological advancement and high quality passive filters.”

“After long time of burning-in of the splinter new conditioner, we have started the listening sessions. PC-3 was used to power the whole home cinema installation, including the LCD screen.

We are convinced, that the GigaWatt does its job well. When we disconnected the audio gear from it, and plugged it back to the wall sockets, we felt slight discomfort, that grew on us in time. The sound with the conditioner gained on directness and cleanness, became less nervous and more balanced. On the LCD screen we noticed more stable and fluent picture and much better sharpness and vivid colors.”

VERDICT
“PC-3 has a positive influence on all AV systems. It clearly betters their performance.”

Author: Arkadiusz Ogrodnik - "HI-FI CHOICE" Read Full Review