@agisthos he got the Furutech Pure Power 6
Is There Some Problem With Shunyata's Everest Power Conditioner
I have been looking for a Shunyata power conditioner, and was thinking of going all the way and picking up an Everest, which is not only stupidly expensive but is the predictable darling of all reviewers, who gush about how wonderful this product is. However, there are currently SIX Everests for sale on US Audiomart. For a transformative and expensive product with seemingly universal acclaim, the fact that there six Everests for sale at the same time makes me wonder if maybe it is not so amazing and transformative and people are having buyer's remorse after picking one up. Comments or insight?
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@audioquest4life, I wonder if the whole “settling in” phenomenon has any scientifically explainable basis. I am no electrical engineer — far from one — but it doesn’t make much sense to me that an already burned-in product will sound better after it settles in after moving it. But nonetheless, I can’t argue with it, since I too have experienced it with the Everest! Off-topic but 80+ tubes? That is quite an impressive complement of tubes! It must suck when you have to buy a new set! I think about availability of the measly 8 tubes in my ARC REF 6 in the future, and although I have a replacement tucked away, which should be good for another 4000 hours or so, I still wonder about the future availability of tubes, not today, of course, but say, 8 years from now. Logically, I know that if you can buy NOS 1960’s tubes, it should be pretty likely that I will be able to get recently manufactured tubes, but still, I have contemplated going SS for the pre because of that . . . |
I also ponder the scientific meaning of the type of phenomena we and others hear and experience regarding listening to our systems again after extended periods of non use. I believe tube warmup adds to the mix for sure.
A German friend of mine who is an electrical engineer built me custom cables years ago and was a big fan of Neotech OPOCC copper cables. He said they were the purest cables for sound and by changing the conductor to the silver variant, it would result in more emphasis in the highs. I have the pure silver speaker wire variants to this day as my reference speaker cable. They are about 8 or 9 gauge wires, look like welding machine wires. Neotech is an OEM supplier to a few other name brand cables. My friend also stated that cable metallurgy is so debatable in th audio community, yet he believed in sound cable construction that helped allow for clear and undistorted sound without any undue influence from harmful effects of EMI/RFI. This article is pretty interesting regarding cable connections: https://www.tempoelectric.com/Wire_and_Cable_Facts.pdf Maybe that explains why we hear things differently at various times and configurations when we are playing around with our systems. Plugging and unplugging stuff.
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