My note to Joe Cohen from "The Lotus Group" this morning;
>>Sorry to go silent to you. It’s been a crazy month (traveled to SoCal for a funeral and extended family stuff…..and many other things) and I have not got around to complete your device investigations until now. But I just finished with it.
It’s been over a month in my system so far. When I got it in early November, I immediately installed it on my Wadax Reference server. It's really the only place where I can easily attach it to both channels. I thought about other spots but figured that would be the best place. And it is easy for me to access the location for A/B checking. Early on it certainly seemed like the music had a bit more space, more note decay, and a bit more jump in the bass flow. That was my feeling as I listened. I did not hear any trade-offs. About 10 days in a did a quick A/B and thought it had less sparkle "out" of the system, and a little less bass drive "out" of the system. Better in both those regards "in" the system. But that was a brief case and I don’t even recall the track I used.
Just now I did three different tracks, -3- A/B’s in and out 5 times each cut. the first 15 seconds with each track.
--“Chant”, in 24/96 off Quboz ‘Best of Foreplay—2020”
--“Rikki Don’t Lose the Number”, in 24/192, off Quboz ‘Pretzel Logic’
---“White Snow In Early Spring”, 16/44 off my server hard drive, “White Snow In Early Spring” CD rip.
In each case the device "in" caused lower noise, more decay and openness to the music, and greater bass energy and drive. more immersive, and involving. i liked it better. it was not merely different. It was clearly noticeable in my system. These effects are not marginal, or small, they are significant. not huge either. And my test is only confirming what I thought I was hearing.
Not sure being retired I can buy it, but I know I do like what it’s doing, would like to have it, and it’s not just a tiny difference.<<
from time to time i get offered stuff to listen to. sometimes the gear is too big or heavy or involves changes to my system to try it, so i just don't go there. in this case i've known Joe for years, he is a deep thinker, and his stuff sounds good. and it was a small form factor, the price point (around $5500) was real world, and plug and play, so why not?
the delta was not huge, but more than small.....significant. and it's an easy piece to plug in, a small free standing wood box sitting on my carpet floor behind my rack with a single ground wire attached to the ground post of my Wadax Server. so easy. easy is good. not sure everyone would get the same delta that i did. there is an associated 'vault' product that can add to the effect, but i did not try that. i'm in negotiations with the wife to buy this one, don't want to send it back. can't un hear what i heard. it's doing more frequency extreme things than the Tripoint, which is more about the mid range. the Tripoint Elite is plugged into the Wadax Dac power supply. i also have the Nordost QPoints under the Wadax Server Chassis and Dac Chassis......which lowered overall noise and sense of any processing. but a much lesser effect than this PranaWire device.
honestly i don't care why or how it's doing what it's doing, as explaining it always gets me into trouble. i'm just an observer. i can post some stuff that Joe sent me but don't want to get into defending tech info.
it never stops.
www.monoandstereo.com
>>Sorry to go silent to you. It’s been a crazy month (traveled to SoCal for a funeral and extended family stuff…..and many other things) and I have not got around to complete your device investigations until now. But I just finished with it.
It’s been over a month in my system so far. When I got it in early November, I immediately installed it on my Wadax Reference server. It's really the only place where I can easily attach it to both channels. I thought about other spots but figured that would be the best place. And it is easy for me to access the location for A/B checking. Early on it certainly seemed like the music had a bit more space, more note decay, and a bit more jump in the bass flow. That was my feeling as I listened. I did not hear any trade-offs. About 10 days in a did a quick A/B and thought it had less sparkle "out" of the system, and a little less bass drive "out" of the system. Better in both those regards "in" the system. But that was a brief case and I don’t even recall the track I used.
Just now I did three different tracks, -3- A/B’s in and out 5 times each cut. the first 15 seconds with each track.
--“Chant”, in 24/96 off Quboz ‘Best of Foreplay—2020”
--“Rikki Don’t Lose the Number”, in 24/192, off Quboz ‘Pretzel Logic’
---“White Snow In Early Spring”, 16/44 off my server hard drive, “White Snow In Early Spring” CD rip.
In each case the device "in" caused lower noise, more decay and openness to the music, and greater bass energy and drive. more immersive, and involving. i liked it better. it was not merely different. It was clearly noticeable in my system. These effects are not marginal, or small, they are significant. not huge either. And my test is only confirming what I thought I was hearing.
Not sure being retired I can buy it, but I know I do like what it’s doing, would like to have it, and it’s not just a tiny difference.<<
from time to time i get offered stuff to listen to. sometimes the gear is too big or heavy or involves changes to my system to try it, so i just don't go there. in this case i've known Joe for years, he is a deep thinker, and his stuff sounds good. and it was a small form factor, the price point (around $5500) was real world, and plug and play, so why not?
the delta was not huge, but more than small.....significant. and it's an easy piece to plug in, a small free standing wood box sitting on my carpet floor behind my rack with a single ground wire attached to the ground post of my Wadax Server. so easy. easy is good. not sure everyone would get the same delta that i did. there is an associated 'vault' product that can add to the effect, but i did not try that. i'm in negotiations with the wife to buy this one, don't want to send it back. can't un hear what i heard. it's doing more frequency extreme things than the Tripoint, which is more about the mid range. the Tripoint Elite is plugged into the Wadax Dac power supply. i also have the Nordost QPoints under the Wadax Server Chassis and Dac Chassis......which lowered overall noise and sense of any processing. but a much lesser effect than this PranaWire device.
honestly i don't care why or how it's doing what it's doing, as explaining it always gets me into trouble. i'm just an observer. i can post some stuff that Joe sent me but don't want to get into defending tech info.
it never stops.
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