Taralabs cables

Zephyr24069 and Jmcgrogan2

Nice exchange! The eightfold unfolding lotus paths to audio nirvana all multiplied like a mandelbrot set leaves a beautiful image to which to meditate as our systems provide the magic carpet.

Power supply/conditioning is a big deal for me as I seem to live at the end of a spur on the grid and the vacillations and vicissitudes of clean power is grinding. I've tried many conditioners, too, including Richard Gray, Running Springs (not the Dmitri), Audience, Furman, Chang and Tice among other and found Sound Applications to be the best for me. However, having heard having heard the Bybee gear at Laufer Teknik, I thought it to be very, very good. Of course, it was paired with Boulder amps and The Memory Player BUT all feeding my beloved Dynaudios and man-o-man it was sweet.

Now I have big, burly Topaz/Elgar isolation transformers in basement. My power is super quiet and the sound in my system dynamic, but after reading some white papers from VInce Galbo (MSBTech), i'm think about conditioners again....with wall power for my amp. Bybee and Sound Applications are high on my list.

I wonder if either of you have tried Sound Applications?

Balanced power conditioners/suppliers have held some fascination for me, but I've never had the opportunity to have an all balanced system and so haven't tried it. It seems like a stem to stern proposition and although Plinius offers XLR inputs, the circuitry is not truly balanced. BPT and EquiTech hold some curiosity for me there. Truth be told, I love having the basement as the home for my conditioning, so the wall mounted units from Equi=Tech are enticing.

Having that end of things in the basement just leaves a tidy bank of outlets in the house. I have Afterburner outlets, too, and think they are the cat's meow. Substantially better in my environment than the lesser Furutechs I have tried and the Porter ports .All wired in series with cryo'ed old Diamond Handiwire said to be better sounding than today's Home Depot copper goods from Elgar out to the outlets. Oy.

Some tea and a pillow, please. My mandala is appearing.

John/Zeph,
Don't want to hijack this thread too far....Maybe we can start another? I forgot about Audio Magic! I had one that was light as air almost...

The SA and the Bybee Stealth are not balanced and are not a regenerator like the Dmitri or my Elgar.

I have the Elgar 5kVA 0.0005pf on a dedicated circuit and 2 Topaz, a 5 and a 2.5kVA, both 0.0005pf (91005-31 and 91002-31 I think...maybe /U's) that I never wired into place. They are NOS or nearly so and I may sell them if anyone is interested...they are HEAVY!

But, not nearly as heavy as the million dollar system 800 lb. guard dogs brutes at your friend's place. Yowza. Maybe if I had those I wouldn't hear any difference with power cords. Sure would save me some money if I could throw a couple of inexpensive power cords on my gear and call it day....Hmmm. Now that's an idea!

The Afterburners have been in my system for years now...I don't even think about them anymore, but I do know I like them and tried a few before settling on them. I have 3 duplexes. They are pure copper and may have been before the Rhodium craze days....I never listened to any Rhodium ones in any case.

Is there some way to unsubscribe from a thread on audiogon?

As the saying goes, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse..I might add over a broken telephone as he picked up his hammer and saw. That might be either to nonsensical or pearls before swine, but there it is.