The filtering systems present in most electronics are designed for ripple suppression, they operate with limited frequency and depth, and are not sufficient to eliminate this type of disturbance. A different type of intervention is therefore necessary, positioned at the point of greatest effectiveness, upstream in the chain, where all the system components draw their energy.
Background noise, even if not directly perceived as such, is the element that most of all prevents deep ‘blackness’, the basis that makes any reproduced sound true.
The Materik 1 is a high-end, parallel-type mains filter, which, unlike series-type filters, avoids any negative impact on system dynamics. On the contrary, by eliminating any mains disturbance at the root, it creates an extremely deep silence that brings out even the smallest harmonic and spatial information, contributing to a realistic and incredibly textural reproduction.
Materik 1 consists of different cell types in a mixed series-parallel configuration, each of which has a specific function:
- cancel out high-frequency disturbances in the electrical system
- attenuate the distortions of the sine wave at mains frequency, eliminating the higher harmonics
- dampen the over-scillation phenomena that are generated in the power supply stages due to reactive components, and that are inevitably carried over to the mains, from where they propagate to the other components of the system.