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List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey.

1. Add Powr sorcerer X2/4 

Get this guy with a Nordost QB base and chuck your high $$$ power conditioning units for sale on the ‘Gon.

2. Hemingway Zcore cables. The beginning line of Zcore called the Alpha will outrun 90% of the super high end cables on the market 😱. They’ve been tested by those who run the big name brands and the Alpha comes out on top. Why? One word, realism. The next line up called the Beta is where the breakthrough Technology comes into play. Install a few of these and you will be a believer in this design. Sigma and Omega are next in line and although big $$$ you don’t suffer the law of diminishing returns.

3. Theoretica Applied Physics Bacch-SP Adio 3D Sound Processer. One box does it all. The future in one box. Bottom feeders will choke on this one.

https://soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/913-theoretica-applied-physics-bacch-sp-adio-3d-sound-processor

4. Quantum Science Audio fuses. These guys work! Go Red! Unleashing your equipments full Glory.

This tread is only for your listed breakthrough products and not open to the haters and Eeyore type folks. I am sure they will leak in here to try and mock and distract this main purpose.

Dear Eeyore,

Please name your favorite, Positive, breakthrough product. 

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mahlman
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In sell my stuff threads like this I never see what I think is the most amazing single device for sound quality which is a Xilica XP 4080 or equivalent. To take control of all the variables and bring your components up to the highest level they are capable of and correct for room problems too. Of course it requires time to learn and program and software to use with your calibrated mike so you can assess what is really going on. Beats the heck out of try this and try that expensive gizmo until you stumble on something you really like.
  I see Mr OP that your listed personal system reflects all that nice tasty expensive gear you are loving on heh heh.
wjt3
204 posts
 
Easy one--- AGD Vivace  !!!!!!
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roblewis5
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Trinnov Altitude 16

It doesn’t go as far as the Theoretica regarding stereo separation in that it doesn’t do cross-talk elimination, but uses the same idea of adding digital filters to the output to correct for measured problems caused by walls and speakers, it doesn’t need a camera to track you and it works for multiple listeners. This has a startlingly large effect on the immersive effect of the audio - like spooky holographic cohesive sound field, most pronounced on well-recorded material. It was such a large upgrade to my system, I can’t even remember why I used to care about cables, etc.

I might be curious to hear the Theoretica one day just for kicks, but I don't want one because I think its focus on a 3D soundstage (and my need to stay within it) would reverse all the progress I made with the Trinnov in terms of being able to relax and forget about the equipment and just enjoy listening to the music.
avitacom
90 posts
 
Roy Mottram’s SP14 preamp by Vacuum Tube Audio. 
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tunehead
165 posts
 
Streaming and streamers. Period. Discovered (for me) in 2021 after being away from HIFI since the early 90’s. This is the only thing I see as something that did not exist only a couple of decades ago yet has become as important and diverse as those core components I already knew about like power amp's, pre amp's, speakers, cables, turntables, CD players, R2R, tape decks etc. Ya, I’d say breakthrough technology.
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