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| Footers- Break In? Such A Change. The Center Stage 2m footers are extremely impressive. I’ve been through many footers: Nordost Sort Kones, Stillpoints and several other top footers. I previously used the Stillpoints, but read about these 2M footers (in TAS) and decided to get a s... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? I have noticed the vitriol as well (I think we all have). It started around 2010 (or 2012 if you go to the Steve Hoffman forums). I can see exactly when the threads began being nasty (mid 2012). From what I can see, before I left that forum over ... | |
| Stillpoints Ultra 6 vs Critical Mass Center Stage 2 Magnuman, i would’ve thought the same thing - until I got the Center Stage 2M in my system and let them "settle" for 10 days. As good as the Townshend isolation pods/Sesmic Isolation Platforms are (and I have both the iso pods and the Seismic Iso... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses As usual, late to the party. Not the Synergistic fuses in general, just the Purple (People Eater) fuse. I decided to go with a Purple fuse first and change some other things later. The fuse, like all the earlier generations does the job terrific... | |
| Results with Shunyata Venom Defender I got a Defender after my above posts. I had it installed in a PS10 power distributor. What was interesting is that I did not hear the improvement in the music i played when the CD player was plugged into the PS10. I’ll go so far as to say I found... | |
| proper burn in for cd player Capacitors take time to burn in, as do resistors. Also, copper wiring. This has been known since High End components were made, particularly in the 1980s, when High End components proliferated. Just put the CD player on repeat 24/7. No need to... | |
| Results with Shunyata Venom Defender I understand where you’re coming from. However, the PS 10 is a power distributor, not a line conditioner. It is a continuation of the PS 8, which can - and has - been used with a Defender. Many years ago, when it was reviewed in The Absolute Sound... | |
| Results with Shunyata Venom Defender I wonder if they will have the same effect when plugged into one of Shunyata’s power distributors? I bought a Venom PS 10. It is nice enough, but in the past, I’ve had Audience Adept Teflon capacitor conditioners, PS Audio Power Plants, and a few ... | |
| Review Shunyata Venom V16 Power Distributor I agree with Carbon Miller about how even the most subtle vibration can throw the music "off." Of course, one can become completely obsessive about this, but it doesn't hurt to try some minor "mods" such as putting Blue Tack on an outlet cover (an... | |
| Review Shunyata Venom V16 Power Distributor I want to commend you for keeping your cables separated and not touching each other. I’ve written about this in forums for years, and have done it since 1990. It makes a significant difference in the sound, as does turning off power outlets, light... | |
| Shunyata Alpha NR "Settling In Process"? Seeing this after 2 years. Interesting. I’ve heard the Delta NR V1 (owned it), the Alpha NR V1(auditioned it) and owned the Sigma NR V1 (bought it). I can’t agree with MillerCarbon and I’ve had every single generation of Shunyata power cords and... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration Townshends, yes. I have a Seismic Isolation platform and it is quite effective. | |
| Mat for Rega P10 And I just saw two typos in my post. But the biggest was:"The Stein sounded like my system had just had a $10,000 component dropped into it."I meant to type "$2,000 component dropped into it."So much for posting after a cutting down some trees an... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 I was hoping to hear the actual answer to the original poster’s question: has anyone heard the Stein Perfect Interface but so far, not one person has been able to actually answer the one - and ONLY - question they were asked to comment on. (We do ... | |
| KT120 back to 6550 Very old thread, but I thought I’d add something I saw on the whatsbest forum site about the KT120s.The poster (who has a 100k+ system) noticed that the KT120 were not "particularly transparent."I would have to agree with that, having had them for... |