EVS Music Purifiers - Amazed by how much improvement they make! Anyone else try them?

Almost 8 decades......I am 76.

I did not invent this thang.....just tweaked the design for hours. Enacom made the first version of this thing in the 90s. Then Walker Audio made a version and then updated it later (later versions were something like $650 a pair), then Merlin made some that came with their $10K speakers. All the above no longer available. Stein Music makes the "Speaker Match" that sell for $700 and a super version that sells for $1800........and you see what mine sell for. By the way, a second set will cost you a big $100.....this includes a free pair of Ground Enhancers with each set. My versions use multiple tiny surface mount resistors in parallel and a modified small film cap. The end of the surface mount resistor pile is soldered directly to the modified caps tinned end. The ground wire is soldered directly to the cap body on the other side as well. Very delicate work....and the most transparent parts I know of. The wire itself is the connector......so the shortest signal path I can do. All constrain relieved in a hard thick paper tube (fireworks tube). Every single thing you do affects the sound. So, all resistors, capacitors, solder, wire, connectors, damping, etc. affect the sound of everything you do and these things are no exception.

So what the heck is it and how does it work? It is simply an RC filter. It is a single pole filter that operates above 200K (yes, it is measureable). So why would it matter if noise enters your speaker above that frequency? I am not an electron. I cannot tell you how much better it must feel when it does not have those nasty high frequencies along for the ride....he he. All I can do is describe what it does to the sound. There is only one person who returned these things stating he could not hear a difference. I returned his money along with the shipping charge. All he paid was the $8 to mail them back. And immediately I sent them to someone else who loves them.

I had a new experience with these things about 10 days ago. I very recently made a new open baffle speaker (to be described and shown on my website soon) and I am bi wiring it. I had a Music Purifier on the Planar mid/tweet but did not have one on the two 12 inch woofers. The woofers have a 2mh coil on them so they are starting to roll off the highs at around 300hz........so I did not expect much difference when adding a Music Purifier right before the coils. I put the second pair on the woofer wire and OMG.....I about fell off the chair. The purity and ambience went into another level. So, if you are bi wiring or bi amping you REALLY want two pairs.......and more if tri or quad amping.

What is so cool is that these are super cheap and super universal. They work on every kind of speaker and at any price point. So a $2k system will sound better and a two million dollar system will sound better. As long as you have speaker wire that act like antenna....then you have noise going into the speaker. If you have speaker cables that already have filters built in.....like some of the Transparent and MIT speaker cables do....or some ground/shield biased wires like the expensive Audioquest wires, then you might not get any benefit from these things. But that is about 1% of audiophiles have those wires......so that leaves at least 250,000 audiophiles worldwide that could benefit from these things and pretty much all of them can afford $125.

Happy listening! Loving and enjoying this very moment is the key to happiness.

tvad.......yes, two pair.

James......never tried the discontinued $724 Walker things, but many of my customers report way more difference than what you describe (which is what I hear, as well).....way lower noise.....ambience, hall sounds, decay trails, separation of instruments, more harmonic rightness, more inner detailing, air.....etc. However, some only hear a little improvement......at any rate, they love them.

These are not like a zobel that would be in a speaker. Those are operating at lower frequencies and are generally used to made the xover see a more pure resistive load. The Music Purifiers do not effect the speakers impedance and are operating way above the audio bandwidth.

Was just talking to an audio buddy and he said his daughter told him that only "old" people use the dot dot dot thing that I love.  Yes, I am an old dude.....and.......and......and.......he he.

The $449 Carbon XOT Synergistic thangs are advertised as being based on their proprietary technology....they are not normal rc filters.  Would be interesting to A/B my super tweaked $125 things with theirs and also see if they work together in tandem. ....along with my Ground Enhancers (that are free!)

The parts I use are tiny and non inductive.  I doubt even Odam caps (which need a teflon copper Vcap bypass cap in parallel for best high frequency sound) and Path resistors are more transparent (have not done an A/B with them).  Those large parts would have to be put into a super large container and like you said....would cost a ton of money.

The load of the speakers has very little to do with how these work.  Every speaker that has been tried has been improved (except the one case where the person heard nothing...as noted above).

Yes, I have.  Bitdefender is a bit overzealous.......at some point I will have to make my site "secure".  I do no business over the website, so seems silly.  No one is sending me their credit card number or anything on the site.

Try your phone or another browser.

http://tweakaudio.com/

You will get much more valid info on the sound possibilites if you search for reviews on the Walker and Stein devices.  One of my customers (I copied his email from me and it is on my website) liked my devices much more than either version of the Walker ones and ones he had tried to make himself.

Time is an illusion.  I just want happy customers.  If you are out of town for awhile or overseas or whatever.......I really don't care.  If you don't like them....then return them....no problem.  Just be nice.  Sugars and spice....Is this the sewing circle?  Sew love....and also, sow love.

The zobels inside some transistor amps are very similar to what I use.  By limiting the highs right at the output, the amp will "behave" better and be more stable. Having another filter at the end of the speaker wire filters the noise that the speaker wire is picking up and further cleans up any noise coming out of the amp.  Many transistor amps do not have these filters....and very few tube amps have them.

We CANNOT get enough PURE noise filtering.  It does not matter if your are using an inverter (off the grid) and a modded Puritan line filter and a separate ground rod and ground filters and star grounding and and and and.....My friend with his super modded Apogee speakers has all that.....but when he puts the Music Purifiers and Ground Enhancers directly on his speakers.....the sound is way better. 

Noise is distortion....distortion is noise.  This is the game we play......reduce the noise and what you are left with is MUSIC.....and the lower the noise.....the higher the goosebumps.

Yes, I am swamped.  I was already doing some other work for another company that needed to be finished.....and then this happened (me happy!).......and so......anyone ordering right now is looking at a 2-3 week wait.  I will email tomorrow (Sat.) morning all those who ordered already (and all those who will order after this moment) and try to give an approximate ship date.  If you wait to order....the wait time may extend.  Some people have been waiting for their Caladan speakers since Nov....and they paid over $3000 in advance.  This is a lot more palatable.  It will be worth the wait.  

Yes, your expensive cable has no filtering or shielding.  The only cables that MIGHT not benefit are ones with networks or heavy filtering/shielding built in.  This would inlcude MIT, Transparent, Townsend and some bigger Audioquest......and?  So far, no one tried these things with any of the above cables.....so, is just a guess.  Could be, it makes some of the above sound better.  You have to listen to know anything about sound.  Not much risk in trying.