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    Audiophile Fuses

    I could not find your following post "I should agree with you on the SR fuse. I used the black for two separated power supply of Aesthetix Eclipse linestage. However, I wasn't aware of lower tolerance on all audiophile fuses. I purchased exactly the same value stated in the manual. As a...
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Several Tripoint Troy Elites will be there in piano black. I'm anxious to hear one.
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    Audiophile Fuses

    Long ago when Lloyd Walker sent me my Walker turntable, he said try the fuse in the motor controller in the other direction. Dumbfounded I tried it. It made an amazing difference in the turntable?? Since then I have made a task to assess the impact of fuse direction. I have even tried it on...
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    Entreq Tellus grounding

    I have only one fluorescent light in my room and never have it on while listening. Even with the TriPoint Troy Signature and High Fidelity Cables, I can immediately hear it, if it is on. But you should also know that I never heard any benefit from Entreqs.
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    Twice our house has been directly hit. One hit the water heater and wiped on the intercom, telephones, garage door opener, and blew a hole in the gas line to the water heater. The other wiped out a computer that was on a lightning barrier that failed to work. We did live in Florida for eight...
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    One time when we were hit by lightning, I had an entire system on about six feet away from where it hit. I rushed to my listening room and found it was whole and still on. Everything was plugged into an AC conditioner from a guy in California but whose name I don't recall. I think what happened...
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    We have twice been hit by lightning that has taken out intercom systems, telephones, and blown a hole in a gas pipe to the water heater. I am really only worried about the expensive audio gear.
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    I deal with lightening safety by detaching the power and grounding systems from the wall. I have found that shielded grounding in a star ground connection with more and more shielding greatly improves the realism. I suspect this is all EMI and RFI interferance not getting to the audio signal...
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Mike, I just went through your system and found we only have one common component, the Tripoint Troy Signature. What grounding cables do you use?
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    Yes, I have a friend who has repeatedly proven to me that internal grounding improvements rather than just using the chassis path to ground, make a big difference.
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    I know, however, that shielding grounding wires makes a great difference and that filtering in a star grounding scheme matters. I also suspect that the quality of the ground to Earth matters.
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Tang, I live in Texas and there is no Tripoint or Dalby dealer anywhere near me or for that matter no audio dealers other than Best Buys near. Our shows are the only real way to hear products and even then side by side comparisons are typically impossible and in rooms that often harm the sound...
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Spirit, I am not touting either cable although I have only heard what the various Tripoint grounds sound like. But I had heard what I quoted from Tang. I fully think that if one is in the market for this level of grounding cable one should seek to hear both. I had no idea that Tang liked the...
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    Grounding and Noise Floor

    Bill, I have always had the same question as you about having three grounds on every unit-one through the AC ground, one through your interconnects, and then having a star ground through some sort of a grounding unit. I must say straight away that I tried the Granite Audio unit and heard no...
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Tang, I'm sorry to be so late in my comments. I now have six Thor SE grounding cable with three going to my digital. One to the music server and to its power supply and the third to my dac. One goes to the preamp and another to the amp. The final goes to my phono stage. Actually one of these...
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    Tang, your statement, "Because AE doesn't stock both wires and prefers to recommend Dalby." suggests that you need to make your own judgment.
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    Tripoint troy signature grounding device

    I know what is in Dalby grounding cables as well as what goes in the Tripoint Thor SEs and have compared the latter to the Tripoint Siver grounding wires. I suspect that the Dalby would be okay but inferior as it is just a large number of quality wires. The original Tripoint silvers are just...
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    Vibration Management

    My last paragraph in my earlier post caused me to reread many of the earlier posts on this thread that lead to this posting. In undergraduate school I tried multiple majors. I started in ME then EE and then CE and finally Physics. One of my underlying thoughts is that especially EE thinks we...
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    Vibration Management

    I have no component sitting on provided feet. I have found the Star Sound Technologies Audio Points and Rhythm racks to my tastes. Their key is using special brass and the Audio Points shape and materials to get vibrations in component out a swiftly as possible to ground. It seems to me that...
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    Bob's New Listening Room and System

    Yes how did you measure the effect of the chair?
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    Bob's New Listening Room and System

    I have one Stressless Ambassador - LARGE CONSUL chair in my room and have noticed that when I sit up in the chair properly, my ears are well above the back of the chair. The image is much more real that way. My chair lacks the wings that you have. How did you get the measurements that you...
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    Why do high up-sampling/ over-sampling rates (DSD,) kill PRAT and aliveness of music? Any ideas?

    Al M., I don't want to speak for Wisnon, but I think holographic is the best word. I have a very wide and tall quite precise image, where I could walk among the musicians without running into them and very aware of of were on the instrument the musician is playing on the instrument. Of course...
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    Audiophile Fuses

    I have spent a good deal of money on fuses and heard improvements and I have checked directions on all of them and never found any that don't have a better sounding direction. Of late, however, I have stopped assessing fuses. I have four Synergistic Research Black fuses and they have allowed my...
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    Looking For The Perfect Listening Chair

    Very nice room but not very symmetrical. We have the same chairs but not side by side. Mine is in my listening room above the kitchen and my wife's is in our living room. My room is 18' wide, 27' deep, and 11' high. It is nowhere near as tidy.
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    Why do high up-sampling/ over-sampling rates (DSD,) kill PRAT and aliveness of music? Any ideas?

    It would be lovely to be able to say that system A gets a 57 while system B gets a 93, but THD has shown that is just nonsense. My standard is that the sound stage I have now is very precise in all three dimensions and that often the recording is good enough to make be feel the performers are...
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    Why do high up-sampling/ over-sampling rates (DSD,) kill PRAT and aliveness of music? Any ideas?

    While I applaud the scientific method, in music I go with what I hear. I am in awe of what I hear from quad DSD. I have compared multiple instances where I have quad DSD of the same recording as I have a vinyl version. The sound stage is much better captured in quad DSD. There must be some...
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    What instrument is most challenging for a speaker to make sound real?

    I would agree that the piano is quite difficult to capture, but being a jazz enthusiast, I think brass is very difficult to capture, especially its ripeness. But in general, I think so many instruments represent challenges to reproduce accurately that the question is quite difficult to answer.
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    main difference between real sound and repro sound

    I am aware of all you say, but the reality is that my sound stage is as wide as my room and everything has a well defined location. Furthermore, I hear much detail such as ambience and note decay and the harmonics of instruments. I will not regal you with the components that have allowed this...
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    Looking For The Perfect Listening Chair

    Steve, in 1967 I bought a Stressless chair for $120. It still exists in our daughter's study but is rather worn. It was absolutely perfect for listening. I do now have a new Stressless much more expensive ($2000) chair in the large version. It doesn't have the cupping sides above and being long...
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    main difference between real sound and repro sound

    In the last three years, I have move much further toward realism of what is before me. I have a very rich and precise sound stage before me that includes much information about the overtones of the instruments as well as the human noise of playing it and the non-music of the instrument, such as...

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