Dedicated Lines & Power Conditioners

Sadownic, sorry I missed your 9/21 post. Technical input and discussion are quite welcome. Imo, a discussion from which I can learn is always useful and appropriate; it's the reason I participate in Audiogon.

Regards,

Jea48,

Thanks for the link. That marketing crap from Oyaide sure answers my original question of "how do you guys come up with this stuff". Too funny! It reminded me of one of those infomercials that sells expensive skin products to gullible women.

Hardly providing technical input in that last post of yours, Sadownic. Oh well..., I see this is not going to become productive.

Jea48, thanks for finding an example. This is consistent with why to avoid any greater number of splice or connections in a circuit than minimally required. Oyaide certainly has a reputation for good sounding outlets, even if I've preferred non-plated contacts.
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Hi folks, I want to report you my experience with regard to power conditioning. I've been using very rare Tamura (Tamradio) and Audio Consulting isolation transformers for quite a while. Initially I thought the sound became more "fleshy" and alive (through better dynamics), there was more 3D stage, more (micro) detail, etc. Yesterday I removed all the transformers out of my system, and guess what... the system sounded more musical to me without them! Of course with the transformers there was more silence between the notes ("blacker background"), slightly better dynamics and a more pronounced left to right separation (+ bigger soundstage), but I found that the sound also became somewhat "sterile" and artificial. Could it be that the exaggerated left to right separation and bigger soundstage was in fact a sort of out-of-phase phenomenon induced by the transformers? Without the transformers the system sounds less "clean" (because of increased level of noise floor) and less dynamic, but the whole picture is more like real music to me, less artificial. What do you think? Btw, do you have experience with the original Shunyata Hydra power conditioner? I think I will try this one in the near future.

Chris