Peak Mains Module
“They take away much of the frustration of an audio system’s ‘bad hair day’ when nothing works right.”
Alan Sircom - hi-fi+
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Performance
Audio systems are extremely sensitive to the quality of the power feeding them. Throughout the day, high-frequency electrical noise and vibration from the power grid constantly change as other devices switch on and off—both inside and outside your home. These fluctuations directly affect how your system performs.
This is why a system can sound exceptional one day and restrained the next. Nothing is wrong with your equipment. The electrical environment has changed.
Quiescent mains modules address this instability at its source. Installed in the mains loom, they suppress incoming interference and prevent noise from circulating between components. The result is a quieter, more stable system that performs consistently—so great listening days are no longer unpredictable exceptions.
Technology
High-performance audio electronics are shaped as much by their electrical environment as by their circuitry. High-frequency noise, standing waves, and microphonic effects arise as power supplies and components interact through shared mains, ground, and chassis structures—behaviour most audio electronics were never designed to control. The Peak Mains Connection System addresses this with a modular, wide-band approach using patented matrix technology and exceptionally high return loss to manage noise propagation at a fundamental level, revealing performance that lies dormant in even the finest systems.
Specifications
The Peak Mains Modules are constructed in an ultra-low resonant high-grade solid block aluminium casework incorporating our patented EMI/RFI absorption technology.
Technology
High-performance audio systems do not operate in isolation. Every component shares power, ground and physical space with others. As a result, electrical, mechanical and electromagnetic energy moves throughout the system.
Our work begins with understanding those interactions — and controlling them.
Environment
The mains is not simply a power source. It is also a path for high-frequency electrical noise.
At the same time, the power supplies within audio components generate high-frequency electrical and mechanical energy of their own. This energy can travel through power connections and between components, reaching parts of the system where signal levels are exceptionally small.
The result is an electrical environment far more complex than the 50 or 60 Hz mains frequency might suggest.
Interaction
At high frequencies, cables, power supplies and connected components behave as an interconnected network.
Energy can travel in both directions between components. Impedance discontinuities can cause it to reflect rather than dissipate, allowing resonances and standing-wave behaviour to develop within the system.
These effects can increase electrical instability and mechanical excitation, creating conditions in which sensitive components become microphonic. The resulting noise and modulation are small, but they occur within the same system that preserves the finest musical information.
The objective is therefore not simply to filter the incoming mains. It is to control the interactions among all components connected to it.
Absorption
The Peak Mains Connection System was developed around this principle.
Its modular architecture allows high-frequency energy to be controlled progressively throughout the power network, reducing interaction between individual power supplies as well as their exposure to noise arriving from the mains.
At the heart of Peak is our patented matrix technology: a wide-band, high-frequency structure engineered to provide exceptionally high return loss.
Rather than allowing unwanted energy to reflect through the system, the matrix provides multiple controlled paths through which it can be absorbed and dissipated. This creates a more consistently matched high-frequency environment and suppresses the conditions in which standing waves can develop.
Each additional Peak module extends that control, progressively reducing the electrical and mechanical interaction between connected components.
System Result
Peak is designed not to impose a character on the system, but to reduce the mechanisms that obscure its performance. We do this by employing technology that operates at frequencies beyond the audio spectrum without damaging the musical signal.
As unwanted interaction falls, low-level information becomes easier to resolve. Instrumental separation improves. Vocals gain focus and presence. Dynamics emerge with greater ease, while timing and tonal relationships become more coherent.
The change is one of removal rather than addition.
Specifications
Casework
Construction
Ultra-low resonance black anodised high-grade solid block aluminium casework (black anodised)
Dimensions – LxWxH (mm)
240x150x75
Weight (Kg)
4.5
Absorption Technology
EMI/RFI
Multi-phase, wide-bandwidth electrical labyrinth
Mechanical
Proprietary casework design with 3D passive acoustic absorption materials
Connections
Power In
IEC C14 or C15 10A
Power Out (single)
Neutrik powerCon TRUE 1
Power Out (double)
2 x Neutrik powerCon TRUE 1
Power Out (shunt)
Not Applicable
Conductors
Six 1.25mm 99.9% solid silver conductors (2 each per Earth, Neutral and Live)
