Holostages - critical review

I own numerous LessLoss products. Love ‘em. My experience with the Blackbodies

I own numerous LessLoss products. Love ‘em! My experience with the Blackbody V2 is more subtle than everything else I’ve tried from LL. If you have a resolving system, when combined with DIY Blackgrounds & ground wires, Blackbodies add another layer of luster to the stereo image. Someone aptly described their effect this way. Consider a freshly polished piece of brass. Shiny & brand new looking. Now look at the surface through a magnifying glass & you’ll see tiny little pits in the surface. The Blackbody V2/Blackground combination fills in those imperfections adding that layer of luster were all in search of.
Too Voodoo for me the Blackbody and I find little or no interest in the products Krissy is pushing. For one her website only lists the Holostages, information is non existent on the other products.... Love the LessLoss products I currently have and their site is very detailed and the science or voodoo is explained in detail. Very professional. I will put my Echo's End Reference DAC up against any top tier DAC.
 
Too Voodoo for me the Blackbody and I find little or no interest in the products Krissy is pushing. For one her website only lists the Holostages, information is non existent on the other products.... Love the LessLoss products I currently have and their site is very detailed and the science or voodoo is explained in detail. Very professional. I will put my Echo's End Reference DAC up against any top tier DAC.
I understand completely. There's a reason the Blackbodies w/Blackgrounds are latest of many LessLoss purchases over the past several years. Despite the scientific explanation on the very fine LL website, I felt they were a little "out there" for me as well. They do perform as advertised, but in a more subtle way as compared to the many other LessLoss products I do own. Besides their wonderful entropic speaker cables, I particularly like the 10x Blackground Power Base, the Dual Channel Speaker Base, Stellar Power Cables & Stellar Firewalls for Loudspeaker. The Echos End DAC would be at the top of the list, but I have a Gold Note IS-1000MKII integrated amp that contains a pretty decent DAC. As for Heartsound's products, the Holostages are the real deal if you're looking for spatial enhancements to your room. This weekend, I expect to spend a fair amount of time listening for the additional benefits of Krissy's Ground Box & Breaker Panel Box. Her devices definitely add to the body, speed, dynamics, snappy attacks, impossibly long decays, saturation, articulate bass & better feel for the acoustics of the room in which the recording was made. As someone who knows the LessLoss signature well, I'm sure you'll agree that LL products achieve a similar sound by taking a technically different approach.
 

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