What so special about ARAY technology and what does it contribute to chord M6
I made this change recently. I had a spare Powerline, so I put it between the wall plug and my Isotek power board and then moved the 250DR plug from the power board to a second wall plug and it’s worked well. I haven’t thought about plug order on the board though.
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I do not know how the ARAY technology works, you can ask a technician about that, but I know that it works. Listen and you will see for yourself.
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I was interested to read this as I had assumed it to be the reverse.
I have a Hi-Cap2 and NAP140 power amp - which of these two comes first?
And does this only apply if the power-strip is wired serially?
The NAP 140 amp needs to be plugged in first, and then the HICAP. You can of course reverse the order and see if it makes any difference.
On the subject of plugging order; I have always used star wired strips & blocks and tried many. In my experience it’s a myth that star wired sockets sound the same. They don’t. Not even with equal length wiring (which is rare by itself).
A few weeks on with the Puritan surfaced an interesting aspect/characteristic. As the star wiring is done from a small PCB in the centre, it’s wired as 2 x 4. And indeed, the sockets sound virtually identical ‘in pairs’ from the centre outwards if that makes sense. There still is a sonic difference between 1 and 4 to either side. This provides interesting options for the plugging order.
Very happy with this power strip.
BTW, Puritan can do ‘customs’ as well. Different sockets, inlet, wiring etc.
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WW replied to my question in this regard « We recommend connecting high-current demand pieces (power amps) closest to the inlet. »
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Star wire it all and do them all the same lenght, as then they will all be the same and you can plug in any order you like as they are all the same so will sound the same
That makes most sense.
Indeed - and closest is actually on the wall socket - this is what I do.
So wall double-socket has one side for the Power Amp and the other for the WW block, which in turn has Pre then source(s).
Placing Power Amp anywhere on block is worse I found - bass goes boomy and lumpy and not in any way better. Easy to try to determine what you prefer, as perhaps with smaller speakers the bass problem is not as acute - but with large full-range speakers it does not work as well into the blocks I have tried, but perhaps some designs sort that out.
In any and all cases - experiment and decide yourself, as no point doing what is suggested if it sounds worse - IMO of course! 
DB.
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Sorry Mike
Electricity is not a science.
There is a pragmatic applied science of electrical engineering.
But there are indeed genuine mysteries about what electricity is and how it works.
Some of these grey areas were touched on in this thread:
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Do you have shares in Chord?
Lighten up JimDog, it’s a leg pull towards French Rooster
And BTW, I’m an electrical engineer.
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Ehh?
I know you’re an EE, Mike - a true professional.
I am quite interested in electrical engineering, but very interested in the mysteries of electrodynamics and quantum fields.
Ehh?
It’s relative to the tuned and super array conductor geometry
Don’t ask me more, I have no idea on what is it 
Yes, I have it on good authority that the super aray will make every system sound super, but I have no idea what an aray is! 
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Love this thread… 
And what about apartment insurance?
They don’t cover such a sockets in a case of fire…
Also Ilan does not approve that’s…