Hi Jazzhead,
With your extensive grounding experience, discussion previously as to the Entreq especially with the new Olympus / Poiseden boxes and adding Atlantis ertha, prices certainly have taken a hugh leap quickly into Tripoint's territory.
For many forumer who might own a Tellus or S.Tellus, how would the best approach be in taking a next big step into grounding? Adding a Olympus / Poiseden or seriously consider a Troy / Troy S.E would be the best move. Troy comes with silver cables included and might be a good compromise over adding the Apollo's or Atlantis.
Or for serious newbie looking to get into grounding with say a budgt of 6k, which hoice or combination of boxes to add 1st?
There is so much more clarity from just a Silver tellus, really cannot imagine the clarity with your grounding arsenal together with LL, Spirit, Tbg, Barry.
Thanks for the post JT which makes a valuable contribution to this thread and particularly for newbies and those wanting to progress.
In my experience adding grounding is a no brainer be it Entreq or Tripoint.
Which you choose is to me a matter of which gives you the biggest bang for your bucks and is possible within your available resources.
One important caveat,however. If you have significant problems with the quality of your mains supply it may be more sensible to address that first. Happily I have a good mains supply and was using an Audience Aspect passive power conditioner before going down the Entreq road. Spirit can advise better than I on that issue.
As you highlight new Entreq products have emerged in the last year or so and could affect choices and decisions. It also depends on how many amps and sources you have in your system and in my case the use of Entreq speaker cables and i/cs which need to be connected to grounding boxes.
The priorities for me would be grounding amps, sources and negative speaker speaker terminals. Number 1 for me would be pre amp and power amps with a Silver Tellus or Olympos Tellus if resources permit. That gives pretty extensive grounding in itself. Next, and possibly before all the sources would, be the negative speaker terminal grounding either with two Silver Minimus or preferably, again if resources permit, using the Poseidon,
The choice of earth cables can be system dependent, The more expensive cables are not always the best match as an earlier post from Fiddlefaddle attested. That said I have been very pleased with the Apollo earth cables. The Atlantis can give better results but not invariably and Apollo is usually a safe and effective choice and can always be upgraded later.
Receivus works but that would be towards the end of the process in my experience and starting with the amps.
Atlantis Tellus would come before Receivus but more cost effective if you need to earth four or more components to a Silver Tellus.
Grounding in my experience is a cumulative process. The more comprehensive the better.
I find Entreq more user friendly than Tripoint and it has the advantage that you can add and upgrade over time and as resources permit as compared with Tripoint. Tripoint might in the past have had an absolute advantage, albeit at a higher cost, and may still have. My hunch is that is less so so with the advent of the Poseidon and Olympos Tellus but I have not heard an A/B comparison so I can't say definitively. Again depends on available resources and which is the most cost effective.
Hope that is helpful based on my experience, but others may have different takes based on their different experiences
