What fun!!! Rick and 3 friends stopped by today to drop off some HF goodies. They stopped to listen for a while and all were impressed by the amazing resolution. Now I have 24 hours to see how much better I can get it to sound with the new HF parts before they come back.
I just put in a second URR pc in the system to warm up and it already sounds wonderful beyond belief.
More later
Enjoy
D |
Thank you JohnP. I'm glad you were able to visit. Happy you agree that it is amazing with unbelievable soundstage. High Fidelity products make up a large part of the sound I enjoy now..
My equipment has been modified way beyond their original state including some pretty fancy Clock & DAC chips, battery power and many layers of Isolation, damping and shielding. Please let me know if your in Austin again and want to listen.
Dave |
Thank You Rick, Bob, Peter, John, Mike & Stan for visiting me this weekend. It was great to see you all! Thanks for all the congratulations, compliments, comments and suggestions. I'm thrilled to have validation
about how rare and special my system is, especially from such serious
audio enthusiasts. It's always helpful to me to have other golden ears
tell me what they hear.
All That High Fidelity magnetic gear is amazing!!
happy listening D |
Audiolabyrinth, Keith I have found that high Fidelity Cables and other products make any component sound better and have proven it to myself by hooking $60K worth of HF stuff to a $4k system with unbelievable results. I've tried many combos of system with more expensive cables than components but not at a 15 to 1 ratio.
HF sounds even better with $60K+ worth of components too.
This post is not for those with the faint of wallet.
I do recommend that you try an HF power cord. Most impressive!!
Enjoy the music!! D |
Tboone, Glad your getting a personal taste of magnetic magic. I remember how thrilled I was at my first listen. I've gone totally crazy since then with High Fidelity stuff and every single step brought more
Magic, joy, delight, amazement!!!!
Cheers D |
Calvin, I humbly suggest you take your time on the speaker choice and hear as many as possible. My friend Stan built a speaker that has base that impressed Rick, a lot, and we are working on my next set that will have much better highs than the ones I'm using now With the same or better bass. You'll just have to do some audio tours. D |
Keith, your welcome buddy! |
High Fidelity cables have made my life more fun! Not only is the music on much more, My system is out of this world good!! I am awed daily and others or similarly impressed. Here is a recent message from the head of a visiting team of listeners "we have a great time everyone was blown way by what you had done, great system". I've had interest from a few reviewers wanting to come by also. that's cool.
HF Friends If you going to be in Austin, PM me and we'll try to set up a visit. in the meantime, Enjoy the Music!!!!!!!!! D |
Jafant, Hi, welcome, I'm in Austin. I love having people buy to hear my
High Fidelitified system. My second power cord makes my system even more………(add all positive descriptors here)……………………!!!!!!!!!!
( example: amazing beyond comprehension )
I have audio friends in Dallas and Houston as well that are High Fidelitietts.
TEXAS AUDIO TOUR!!!
Enjoy the Music!! D |
Calvin asked me how my system is sounding and it is beyond fabulous
and beyond description but I can say that it brings tears of emotion and joy, laughter and gasps of thrill and disbelief, shivers and goosebumps,
a lot of explatives and head shaking at how beyond wonderful the experience is. I've never heard a system I liked better!!!
Keith, perhaps you should plan a texas audio tour. 4 or 5 full loom HF UR systems with URR power cords and more.
I'm off to Houston in the morning to visit audiophiles with MY URR power cords.
happy to see that so many are enjoying the music! D |
Tbg, A guy asked me yesterday if it would be better to buy 4 HFC
Ultimate power cords or two URR PC's at roughly the some price.
What do you think about it?
I Think I would be very happy with the Ultimate they never mAde the URR!
too late now that I've heard the URR!
;-) D |
CalvinJ, how are the speakers doing? |
CalvinJ, Agreed! It's an ordinary (audio) life without the Magic of High Fidelity Cables. Ricks Magnetic conduction cables RULE!! |
"It's better… at EVERYTHING!" 2 HF URR power cords in my system for a few weeks ( with a few tweaks ). High Fidelity's magnetic conduction at the UR level pass low level signals impossible with electrical conduction.
Now, subtle clues in the soundstage, both musical and organic create
such an amazing, intimate connection to the artist that I can see and feel their intent like never before. Difficult not to get wrapped up and carried away by the music that is at once revelatory and dumbfounding. Additional layers of detail presented in a more real and natural way with impossible power, dynamics and effortlessness. Best bass, mids and highs ever! WOW!! and WOW!! again.
Enjoy the Music.. Dave the happy camper. |
400 hour report on 2 HFC URR power cords. Saturday listening team thrilled by the improvements with another week of break in.
Statements:
"It's way better, way better at everything!",
"The bass is ridiculous",
" It's got more dynamics and punch and is also easier to listen to.",
"The Drums are incredible!!",
"Now that I can SEE the drummers movements, it is clear what He was getting at!",
" listen to that echo- wow!!,
(laughing)," Wow!!, Unbelievable!!!
"This is IMpossible!!"ect…
At times like this, It's great to be me.
Enjoy the music!! D |
Thanks All for posts about High Fidelity cables. Ignoring the static, I must agree that the HF URR power cords are most awesome. They have the most magic of any component I've heard in 35 years. I'd like everyone to hear how good they are because it can't be described fully.
(Cal, I love your descriptions But it's like describing magenta to a blind person.) However, the harsh fact is that one URR cost more than the car I have been driving the past 8 years. I believe that once you hear these you will not be the same, they will ruin you for life. That's fine if your wealthy or crazy enough to own them.( Me- not wealthy ).
Absolute Best EVER!! but can you handle that???
I plan and hope to bring my 2 URR's to Houston this Saturday to show friends.
Enjoy the music!! D |
Tara dealing clown is clogging High Fidelity Cable thread
TaraAudiolaberynth 7 out of the last 15 posts on HF thread...none about Ricks HFC cables.
Keith, I welcome folks to hear my system but shy away from folks who so full of themselves as to assume the have better before they get here.
Please stop touting the damn tara shit here or get axed like so many before you. The Sheriff |
Mrmb, Kind sir, I think you are on the wrong thread.
This one is about how High Fidelity Cables Sound.
Cheers D |
Keith, I'm sure you have a wonderful audio presentation at your house.
And I know you love listening, like me. I wish you years of listening enjoyment. Dave |
Had a great visit in Houston yesterday with audio friends! The journey was exhausting, but rewarding to hear such a wonderful system.
Ricks High Fidelity cables were a huge hit!! They will be ordering some soon. This is what happens when folks actually listen to HF cables.
Cal, Tbg, ...Mama told me when I was a lad, "Don't feed the trolls"
"Sometimes they are cute and you through them a few crumbs. Then they turn ugly."
I check this site often to see if there are any new and Relevant posts about High Fidelity Cables. if not, I move on.
For those who can… Enjoy the Music!!! D |
In my experience the CT-1 was a great experience in natural sound and openness. The CT-1E was twice as good with added clarity bass and highs… very nice! The floodgates open with CT-1 Ultimate, a truly different class, 10 times better than the E, jaw dropping realism
amazing bass and highs, pure engaging sound, hard to imagine or describe. The CT-1 Ultimate Reference was, to me, 10 times better than the Ultimate!!
A new galaxy!!! so good it's as hard to describe as magenta to a Tara person.
Funny, do you remember what snoopy heard when humans are talking?
Wa wawa wa wa wawa wa! That is what post about how much better these sound with good costumer service or all the hype without ever hearing the magic. I glaze over when the wa wawa wa starts and look for some interesting to read.
Enjoy the Music mi amigos |
Kzhtoo, Welcome. I have heard both the CT 1E and the CT-1 U. The E was a very nice improvement over the CT-1. THe Ultimate Digital is a huge improvement over the E. vastly improved. I have not heard the HiDia as my last digital was a Stealth Varidig Sextet. I've been listening to different high end cables for decades and In my not humble opinion
nothing else ever came close, not even digital cables at twice the price.
I hope another High Fidelity friend has heard the HIDiamond your using.
ENjoy The Music |
I Love High Fidelity Cables because:
their magnetic conduction designs allow much more music to pass.
I'm so happy to listen to music with HF Cables.
I've never heard anything as good in 35 years of audiophiling.
They've raise the level of sound quality 1000%.
happy to be an early responder to the new direction audio will be going.
Fun to blow everyone away with the purest sound quality ever.
Glad to find other audio sojourners who have found the Grail.
I'm also glad to hear that there will be no more commenting on non HF posts. If you feed trolls they keep coming back, if you do not feed the trolls, they waddle off elsewhere to get scraps of attention. |
Ronnjay, WOW the sure is a mystery as the UR is 100 times better that the E in all systems I've heard of. Only thing I can think of it that it was in backwards, broken or mislabeled so one or both are in backwards.
You could experiment with turning them around. Using a compass is a crude way of checking direction.On interconnects- the north pointing ends are the input and the output ends are south pointing. For speakers cables input= Red is north, black is south.
Output Red south.. Black north. I hope that helps more than it confuses.
If the cable is mislabeled or does not totally blow away the E, I'd send it back. Maybe it is good you commented here because this can be fixed.
Cheers D |
Ronnjay,Your welcome, direction critical in all magnetic conduction cables. IN wrong direction signal would have to flow upstream from the magnetic push, robbing most of the energy. If not that, something is likely to be not connecting properly internally or externally.
Looking forward to hearing what you discover!
Enjoy the music!! D |
Geoffkait, seems like a simple question but it confuses me..
How could you effect one without effecting the other?
Scientists proved 100 years ago that magnets effect an electron beam.
Further complication is that electrons have to be flowing to be effected by magnets.
So magnetism effects the flow of electrons which effects the signal. |
Jafox, the sound is actually changing in my system. Give your subjective idea a try and let us know how it works out for you. Thanks |
Geoff, I must apologize for the Troll invasion on this thread. They will be gone soon. as suggested in an earlier post, don't bother reading anything from Mapman, Jafox or Jmcgrogan2 as they don't have or don't care about audio systems and are just trolling for attention.
Like so many before them, they will be banned, say goodbye children!
And for those are actually on this thread for info on High Fidelity Cables, Welcome!! and I hope your enjoying the music.
For those of you who actually have HFCables, I know you're enjoying the music like never before!!! Cheers D |
Al, hi, do you have an audio system? if you had heard these cables i'm sure you wouldn't be wasting all our time. I'm sure plenty of threads love to discuss perceived change but we are into actual change here so I suggest you my be on the wrong thread. |
Dear Geoff, yes my friend your missing a lot but the truth is so complicated that I simplified a statement to someone else for a simple explanation. I've zero interest in discussing sub atomic particle theory on this thread, or electrophysics or quantum mechanics.
I listen to High Fidelity Cables and surmise that they are much better than all I've heard in 35 years of listening. Hint: Selecting audio equipment requires listening. I invite you to hear these HF products for yourself. |
Sorry Friends, I get frustrated wading thru mental masterbation bla bla bla to find relevant info on HFCables. It's so boring for me to hear, over and over again,, judgments from people who have never heard High Fidelity Cables.
Jimi asked,"Have you ever been experienced?" Well, I have!
I firmly believe that if you've never heard the HF stuff, you couldn't have any idea what we are talking about. I invite you to hear a power cord or other high end HF gear for yourself. You don't have to believe what I say, just discover for yourself. Although I have gained a surprising amount of both, our knowledge and notoriety are not the topic here.
More appropriate here might be how you are Enjoying the Music! D |
Lak, Audiopoints are great and pucks will do some needed isolation from concrete floor. In my system, the wood gives it a better, more natural sound. I also use 12 lb Damping blocks on transformers with good results. Happy to hear that you are auditioning the UR speaker cable. For me it was a huge jump from the Enhanced. I'm selling my 9 foot set of Ultimates to help pay for my UR's which are again, Shockingly superior (as Tbg says). ;-) D |
Ronnjay, thanks for reporting back.
additional info.. the magnetic waveguide is also directional ( north in south out ) and even if correct there could be an internal connection issue. Rick and High Fidelity Cables have wonderful customer service so IF there is an issue, it WILL be corrected.
Cheers D |
Lak, I look at you system pics, very pretty turntable, great looking system that I'm sure your proud of. Congrats!!!
Small tweak suggestion
from what I can see from the pic, you isolation transformers appear to be setting on a concrete or cinder block on rubberized feet on concrete floor. I suggest placing first 3/4" pine plywood on floor, then concrete block (not the lighter cinderblock), then another plywood, next some cones you like, then Iso xfmrs. with no rubber feet. I believe this will give you a tighter sound with more dynamics and purer highs.
I also think you would be shocked at what an HFC power cord would do for you.
;-) D |
Calvinj, I'm using a digital integrated amp (very customized as you would suspect) and an even more customized CD player. (no tubes) I'm awaiting a fully custom integrated amp and in talks for a total custom USB dac with built in card reader. I also have newer custom speakers being built.
HFCables have upped the game so extremely that I must upgrade everything else (gladly). I do sell old equipment and cables ( including HFC) to buy new HF cables. I'll have a UR digital for sale soon when I switch to UR IC's. and a 15A URR too when I switch to 20A.
I'm very glad to have met Rick and think of him as a friend. Pleased that I have been able to give him suggestions on improvements that have proved useful.
Hope you system is wowing you still. Cheers D |
New Video explaining Magnetic conduction is great!!
http://vimeo.com/106602846 |
Calvinj, hello friend, I'm good. I can relate to taking time to build up
HFCables in my system. It has taken me several years so far and I still owe money and want more. Hard to quantify how much better the UR stuff is than the Ultimate line. To borrow a phrase from Tbg, "Shockingly Superior". "Off the chains" is good. I thought the Ultimate was 10 times better than the Enhanced and the Ultimate Reference is 10 times better
than the Ultimate. To me UR is a NEW WORLD even a New Galaxy in audio. Extremely addicting, once you hear them you will do crazy things to posses them.
As far as the rest of my system and taking time on it, over 3 decades so far. I must enjoy the journey as well as the results. I have audio plans that will take years more to realize but I must say the Ricks Magnetic conduction cables breathed new life into the Audio game. |
Johnbstiuu, The URR's Do Amazing things on every component I've tried. Even low cost equipment is made to sound Fantastic. Price being what it is, I'm still paying for the ones I have, but want more because of their magical performance. Grailish to be sure. I agree with Tbg that the power distribution pc would effect the most components over time.(400 to 600 hrs.)
(hint: components should be on as much as possible but no need to play loud as long as there is some current flow they are breaking in.
Also: cords and cables Must be broken in on the equipment to be used.)
My second cord went on My integrated amp and was mind-blowing!!
My source component is battery powered so I don't need one there.
I would suggest Power Distribution PC first and when you get to a second one just try it on a few items over time.
As for cables, again they all make a surprising improvement but I might suggest Source to PRE IC as the cables really Shine in low level retrieval. also depends on what level HFCables you are working toward. because a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, a full loom of Ultimates is a good start. I and others sell their Ultimates on the used market to move up to UR. I was very thrilled by my Ultimate loom!! Until I heard the UR line. It takes time so best if you can enjoy the process. Cheers D |
Fluffers, congrats on the two Ultimate IC's!. Break in time is funny with the HF Magnetic cables. Because Magnetic conduction is different and because it requires time to permeate the equipment hooked up, Some
HFCables start out sounding not good. Some HFCables will sound good (or better) in a few hours other will take several days. This is regardless of if they are used in another system or not, because the equipment goes thru changes as well. Depending on the overall sensitivity of your system, you could hear improvements for 2 weeks to a month of playtime. (yes 600 hrs.)
I agree with TBG that the don't like being moved and it can take a day to settle after moving them. ALSO they do respond to isolation, damping and shielding methods, if your into that.
I think Calvinj is right with his order of most effect but I would add
1. that some level of HFCables sound better faster than others.
(UR power cord sounded good very fast- faster than URR PC)
2. Since every point in the chain makes a big improvement, no HF speaker cables will limit the sound.
3.Good if you can enjoy your new improvements for a while before
the next step. The Ultimate stuff is truly AMAZING!!! |
JUST GOT IN MT 3RD HFCABLES-URR POWER CORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so excited to have another of these ridiculously superior power cords. I have three places to try it so we will see what happens.
Cheers D |
Geoffkait, wow quite a question but no there is no irony here and no mu metal is not used to avoid magnetism, it is used to reduce resistance to the amount of magnetic flow.
as far as you other question about copper wires conduction and mu metal, these magnetic cables and cords are magnetic conduction not electrical conduction. MU metal is a better magnetic conductor. |
Mapman, No cause for concern friend. Magnetic conduction goes on in components and copper wire. It's just that copper wire is a poor magnetic conductor compared to mu metal with permanent magnets pushing and pulling the flow. Mag conduction excels at super noise reduction with much superior low level signal transfer. this allows
unequaled realism. FYI I have heard HF power cords greatly improve the sound on $700 to $100,000 components. |
Calvinj, I know what it is like to be without components for a while. My system was down for 6 months several years ago and it sucked!!
I'm Glad you have some speakers to listen to.
I'm happy to attempt to answer valid questions if I can. I think a valid, respectful question about HFCables is OK. I is a little frustration at times because HF magnetic conduction is a very different method that people are not familiar with. One big issue is that one must hear these to have any idea what they sound like.
I've read the patents, studied the principals, and have done two years of experiments on the High Fidelity Cables at all price points. The common thread thru all my listening is that every HFCable showed me something astonishing!! More purity and realism than I ever dreamt possible. |
First report on third HF URR power cord in system. Wow! |
Gfroman, Congrats G!! Wow you have an impressive system!
I know how mind blowing the UR and URR stuff is and I believe you are in for more of a thrill as the cables approach 600 hrs. It just gets more magical!
I also use my system for TV too. very articulate tv ;-) |
Ketcham, You asked about shielding. I use shielding to limit RF/IF interaction in my system. I find that even a few layers of heavy duty aluminum foil will net a cleaner, purer sound that allows hearing deeper into the music. It is applied using trial and error listening tests.
I find wrapping any cable in al foil DOES NOT WORK. Because it
crushes the space and air sound. However, laying a relatively flat, 6 inch wide, multi layer piece, horizontal over the wire leaves the air and space
and removes much noise. Care must be taken to not lose the high end in the process.
Cheers D |
I was taking to Rick and he is very excited about the NEW magnetic amps he is developing.
He said today that the prototype sounded so awesome
he was hearing 3D imaging never before possible. He mentioned that it was as amazing as his cables. Wow! And this is not the $100,000 amp he developed but a much more affordable unit that has the same amazing imaging. (simple circuit design-zero feedback- no caps or resistors in the signal path- magnetic conduction)
I have volunteered to test the prototype (hehe) and I'm excited all over again about more HFC mag products.
No timetable yet but I can't wait to get my hands on one of these. |
Rx8man, hello! I remember you from the early years of this post;-) |
Fluffers, In my experience the interconnects need to be played with the components you intend to use them on. But, you will get some cable break in playing IC's in another system. As Fplanner2000 says , just sitting there will not help. One month of continual playing is what it might take to be mostly broken in but you can do 600 hours just when you want to listening. could take a year.
in the meantime, ENjoy the music!! D |
Tbg, Interesting about the surprise jump in quality. Yes, I have been breaking in stuff continually for two years and have spent decades breaking in stuff. I am having two amps and a set of speakers built so
another year of break in to come.
I've just sent two of my URR power cords to Frank in Houston to play with so my system is much less magical at the moment. I still have one URR plugged into my HF UR WGPC (magnetic wave guide power conditioner) so the system still sounds better than most systems I've heard. |
