Entreq Tellus grounding
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Yes, from what I gather, superseded now by the Triton @ £1000, £500 cheaper than Eartha Olympus in the review ?
Interesting...from their website, they seem to suggest Triton is in the middle of their range? Eartha Olympus is listed on their website as 'the best Eartha cable we've ever made' while Triton is listed as an 'Eartha cable to fill the gap between Apollo and Olympus.'
Eartha Cables | Entreq
Entreq's Eartha cables are developed in conjunction with our grounding boxes and are an integral part of the system. To ensure optimal results, we recommend ...
www.entreq.com
How could the plug-in version work "into" your Silver Tellus? It is designed to take chassis or signal ground wires from components and "drain" them into the house ground via the wall socket (i.e., instead of draining them into a "box of dirt"). I assume you could substitute the Tellus for the copper rod with the standard Router.
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The Olympus Infinity T is listed for around US$4900 since day one in North America. Don't know where that US$4000 is coming from.
Yep...
Entreq Olympus Infinity T Ground Box And Eartha Ground Cables Review A flight of fancy or Grounded in reality? Review By Paul Schumann
Entreq Olympus Infinity T Ground Box And Eartha Ground Cables Review A flight of fancy or Grounded in reality? Review By Paul Schumann of Enjoy the Music.com
www.enjoythemusic.com
It's not clear from the review how long he had it connected in his system before doing the review? Seems like he had the Entreq since December and only now doing a review?
I'd gladly pay that for mine. I had to pay the equivalent of $7000 US for mine. (package price with two Apollo cables)
I will say...in terms of the unique kind of upgrade that the Entreq brings as well as the sheer quality of that upgrade...I am also very happy with what Entreq has done. Extremely good results.
FYI - my experiences with this are posted at the Audio Tweaks forum in the "Grounding Boxes" thread, starting with post #69 - 12/30/21.
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Hi all my audioholic mates,
I thought of telling you my Sunday morning audio testing story.
I tried draining my signal cables as well, as they were luckily born with shield output.
I attached them through two ENTREQ Eartha Apollo ’s to two Olympus Ten Infinity Tungsten’s.
Results were… wow, more headroom, lower noise floor and harshness, more air and clean soundstage, more speed and overall dynamics. Sound came just a bit more forward by its own but connecting the CLEANUS brought it back again, so I had much more space between the instruments, with the voice well ahead and the rest spaced in depth and very holographic.
A strange phenomenon though caught me by surprise. At a certain point, going from four to six ground boxes, I achieved LESS definition
Adding the two Olympus Ten Tungsten ’s on signal cables AND one Olympus Infinity Tungsten to the CLEANUS, funny was that the sound became a bit blurred and apparently LESS defined, BUT more delicate, deep and full of ambience info. Well, now such things would indicate to me a SURE improvement!
In fact it took me a while to understand what was going on and finally it was clear that the sound had LOST so much noise that all LOW LEVEL info (harmonics which were previously buried and canceled by noise) started now to be released by playback, resulting in an apparent step back in sound quality but which was a resuscitation instead!
In fact the soundstage was well behind the speakers, with all ambience of theatre or hall MORE present and sensible almost like a reverb was added to the sound! PRECIOUS information which was before cancelled by noise and now was slightly embedding the musical message compared to before but because it was there, captured by the recording.
So that was an improvement and not a loss as it seemed initially. Yes, there was a bit less definition because there were much more low level harmonics. In my mastering studio I have a special device, Dolby Spectral EQ, which works basically on those info.
You can set the threshold of level below which you wish to intervene, say 20dB, so if you raise high’s like that you will not influence the fundamentals but only increase the air and the natural ambience information.
Amazing machine, btw.
Probably if I had never used it I would be deceived by yesterday’s tests.
Testing is a difficult task, since you really must interpret all steps, thereby I am sharing this story to help others.
So it only took a couple of PEAK4 ’s to get back all definition and speed back but this time together with an incredible naturalness. Now the sound was a bit MORE defined than before and much deeper and less harsh.
I am going to try a total of ten screws, choosing among EVEREST ’s and PEAK4 ’s, to finalize what promises to be an amazing final result thanks to ENTREQ.
Stay tuned, guys!
Fabio
I thought of telling you my Sunday morning audio testing story.
I tried draining my signal cables as well, as they were luckily born with shield output.
I attached them through two ENTREQ Eartha Apollo ’s to two Olympus Ten Infinity Tungsten’s.
Results were… wow, more headroom, lower noise floor and harshness, more air and clean soundstage, more speed and overall dynamics. Sound came just a bit more forward by its own but connecting the CLEANUS brought it back again, so I had much more space between the instruments, with the voice well ahead and the rest spaced in depth and very holographic.
A strange phenomenon though caught me by surprise. At a certain point, going from four to six ground boxes, I achieved LESS definition
Adding the two Olympus Ten Tungsten ’s on signal cables AND one Olympus Infinity Tungsten to the CLEANUS, funny was that the sound became a bit blurred and apparently LESS defined, BUT more delicate, deep and full of ambience info. Well, now such things would indicate to me a SURE improvement!
In fact it took me a while to understand what was going on and finally it was clear that the sound had LOST so much noise that all LOW LEVEL info (harmonics which were previously buried and canceled by noise) started now to be released by playback, resulting in an apparent step back in sound quality but which was a resuscitation instead!
In fact the soundstage was well behind the speakers, with all ambience of theatre or hall MORE present and sensible almost like a reverb was added to the sound! PRECIOUS information which was before cancelled by noise and now was slightly embedding the musical message compared to before but because it was there, captured by the recording.
So that was an improvement and not a loss as it seemed initially. Yes, there was a bit less definition because there were much more low level harmonics. In my mastering studio I have a special device, Dolby Spectral EQ, which works basically on those info.
You can set the threshold of level below which you wish to intervene, say 20dB, so if you raise high’s like that you will not influence the fundamentals but only increase the air and the natural ambience information.
Amazing machine, btw.
Probably if I had never used it I would be deceived by yesterday’s tests.
Testing is a difficult task, since you really must interpret all steps, thereby I am sharing this story to help others.
So it only took a couple of PEAK4 ’s to get back all definition and speed back but this time together with an incredible naturalness. Now the sound was a bit MORE defined than before and much deeper and less harsh.
I am going to try a total of ten screws, choosing among EVEREST ’s and PEAK4 ’s, to finalize what promises to be an amazing final result thanks to ENTREQ.
Stay tuned, guys!
Fabio
I pulled the trigger on the Pluton with Olympus cables. I will have a full set of Peak 4 and Everest knobs, as well as a set of Apollo and some Silver cables for experimentation. This will be in addition to the OI T and the OT T that I already have. The OT T will be used from DAC, and the Pluton for Amp Signal ground and Negative Speaker terminal grounding. Once the Pluton arrives the OI T will be on standby until I decide best use for it.
I don't expect to receive everything before the end of the month, but that is the timeframe given to me. All my previous orders have been messed up, and I have pleaded with my dealer to make sure this order is correct the first time, so I will just have to cross my fingers.
On a side note, I was going to go with the Triton, but since it not yet available to me, and the positive threads I have read from gkg2k & LL21 convinced me to just go with the Olympus. I will have the Apollo as backup in case the Olympus is too much.
I don't expect to receive everything before the end of the month, but that is the timeframe given to me. All my previous orders have been messed up, and I have pleaded with my dealer to make sure this order is correct the first time, so I will just have to cross my fingers.
On a side note, I was going to go with the Triton, but since it not yet available to me, and the positive threads I have read from gkg2k & LL21 convinced me to just go with the Olympus. I will have the Apollo as backup in case the Olympus is too much.
Congrats! Look forward to that...note, 5.5 days on the initial audition is what it took to 'really start cooking'...and we ended up taking 12.5 days with the actual system we put in because the cable lengths were much longer.
I've had three orders from Russ Andrews arrive within 10 days after dispatch over the last six months, but my last order has not materialized 6 weeks after shipment. Russ Andrews is shipping a replacement order via a different shipping method/carrier. Not sure what the problem is. Let Peter Bevir know if you haven't already.
