I have loaner Pass XA100.5s and a loaner XP20 at the moment. Been listening to them for about a week or two. I typically plug each amplifier directly into its own dedicated 20a circuit. My front end is all plugged into a Shunyata Triton/Typhon Conditioner and then into it's own dedicated 20A circuit. I've recently been reading comments from Shunyata about how great the Typhon is for amplifiers so I decided to give it a try the other night. Just plugged the XA100.5s into the Triton.
To say there was a change would be a gross understatement! Bass solidified, a kind of grunge I had taken note of was gone. Everything was smoother, cleaner, more liquid. The soundstage improvement is amazing, both in depth and width as well as definition of players on the stage. These were not slight improvements. It sounded like I had inserted a different preamp and amplifiers into the system. For my own sanity I plugged the amps back directly to the wall to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. I wasn't.
To say there was a change would be a gross understatement! Bass solidified, a kind of grunge I had taken note of was gone. Everything was smoother, cleaner, more liquid. The soundstage improvement is amazing, both in depth and width as well as definition of players on the stage. These were not slight improvements. It sounded like I had inserted a different preamp and amplifiers into the system. For my own sanity I plugged the amps back directly to the wall to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. I wasn't.