Have decided to dip my toe in the Wave Kinetics A10-U8 footers following Mike and Bruce's successful experience and recommendations.
Four on their way and should arrive towards the end of next week.
Will let you know how it goes.
I have upgraded my Tellus to 2 boxes of Tellus 2. I have also Everest caps on all ... Total of 6. The Everest caps did add abit too much details and as opposed to my prior single Tellus box which also had the Everest caps. I realised that the probable reasons were the symposium roller blocks that I used. I used Gyrotension vega prior with good effect and would be ordering 2 sets to see if they may address this.
There are so many people I have heard of (on these forums and word of mouth elsewhere) that found the Everest caps were too much of a good thing. Maybe (based on Mike's and Bruce's testimony), every high end Entreq component should include a discount voucher for a set of four A10-U8 feet By the way, I think A10-U8 is a terrible name. Sounds more like a naval submarine variant than a high end audio component isolator!
I changed out my symposium roller blocks and deployed the Gyrotension vega isolator footers on all my Entreq boxes. I have now managed to tame down that hyper detailing wrought about by the deployment of the Everest caps. Now I can hear the details without getting fatigue...the details are there but no longer bright or edgy thin. I Guess the wave kinetic footers would do the same but the gyro are cheaper.
Thank you Jonathan.
Fascinating.
What you say does make sense and it will be very interesting to hear how four work on your Rega CDP if you can organise that.
As for using them on the ground boxes I suppose it is possible that they work better on the bigger and heavier ground boxes which would provide a more secure coupling.
Thank you Jonathan.
Fascinating.
What you say does make sense and it will be very interesting to hear how four work on your Rega CDP if you can organise that.
As a direct result of Mike and Bruce's recommendations I decided to try the Wave Kinetics A10-U8 footers .
A pack of four arrived last Saturday which I placed under my DCS Puccini to replace the four Stillpoint Ultra SSs on my Entreq Athena rack. Three of the four SSs went under one of my Silver Tellus ground boxes and the fourth was added to the three under my Audience Aspect.
I have now had a few extended listening sessions with the new set up and mainly sacds both rock (Abcko Rolling Stones) and classical (Esoteric Dvorak 9, Julia Fisher Bach Sonatas and Partitas Pentatone).
I am delighted with them. More body to the music, clearer lyrics, more defined leading edge attack and improved tonality and flow. I confess I have not sought to isolate the effects of the revised Stillpoint placement as compared with the A10-U8s simply because the revised set up works so well together and I am sure the changes have simply complemented each other.I am sure the major part of the benefits has come from the A10s as the improvement in sound quality is so much in line with Bruce's experience.
The build quality and aesthetics of the A10s is also very good, In addition the plastic tops and felt covered bottoms resolve any scratching issues which can so easily be a feature of Stillpoint use.
Will be ordering another two sets very soon. One is destined for the Rock turntable and the second under either the Poseidon or the Olympus Tellus which will give me a better fix on how much they will or will not benefit the grounding boxes which currently have only some modest RDC cones under them.
So many thanks Mike and Bruce for making me aware of the A10s.The combination of features and performance set out above adds up to a very good buy and I can gladly join Mike and Bruce in recommending them.
Will post on the next stage once I have got them up and running.
Hi All,
I have recently seen the light and had spiritual experience when my friend and dealer of Entreq gear hear in NZ plugged in the Tellus II to my system. I wasn't expecting much and had many of the reservations outlined in various threads and sites across the globe. My jaw is still somewhere near the ground after experiencing a majority of what has been covered off in this thread. Fast forward 230 pages of whatsbest, every thread of information on the Entreq products I can find. A did have one question that you guys might be able to help with while my friend and dealer is enjoying the delights of Munich High End (Lucky bugger) I am currently running an integrated amp(NAF 300b), the new Tellus II is supposed to be the same in design as the Poseidon and have three separate boxes. On the Entreq site PO mentions that the ultimate connection for this box is ground wires to the negative speaker terminals. Given I don't need to connect much gear(Integrated, DAC and maybe Phono stage) I am keen to explore this. It does however mention on the website that wherever possible you should use the RCA earth wires. Has anyone grounded an integrated and if so tried the difference between using the interconnect inputs and speaker posts. I know each system is different and these boxes and cables can throw up surprising results but just wanted to throw the question out there and see if anyone had gone down that path....Cheers
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