Zephyr24069 and Jmcgrogan2
Nice exchange! The eightfold unfolding lotus paths to audio nirvana all multiplied like a mandelbrot set leaves a beautiful image to which to meditate as our systems provide the magic carpet.
Power supply/conditioning is a big deal for me as I seem to live at the end of a spur on the grid and the vacillations and vicissitudes of clean power is grinding. I've tried many conditioners, too, including Richard Gray, Running Springs (not the Dmitri), Audience, Furman, Chang and Tice among other and found Sound Applications to be the best for me. However, having heard having heard the Bybee gear at Laufer Teknik, I thought it to be very, very good. Of course, it was paired with Boulder amps and The Memory Player BUT all feeding my beloved Dynaudios and man-o-man it was sweet.
Now I have big, burly Topaz/Elgar isolation transformers in basement. My power is super quiet and the sound in my system dynamic, but after reading some white papers from VInce Galbo (MSBTech), i'm think about conditioners again....with wall power for my amp. Bybee and Sound Applications are high on my list.
I wonder if either of you have tried Sound Applications?
Balanced power conditioners/suppliers have held some fascination for me, but I've never had the opportunity to have an all balanced system and so haven't tried it. It seems like a stem to stern proposition and although Plinius offers XLR inputs, the circuitry is not truly balanced. BPT and EquiTech hold some curiosity for me there. Truth be told, I love having the basement as the home for my conditioning, so the wall mounted units from Equi=Tech are enticing.
Having that end of things in the basement just leaves a tidy bank of outlets in the house. I have Afterburner outlets, too, and think they are the cat's meow. Substantially better in my environment than the lesser Furutechs I have tried and the Porter ports .All wired in series with cryo'ed old Diamond Handiwire said to be better sounding than today's Home Depot copper goods from Elgar out to the outlets. Oy.
Some tea and a pillow, please. My mandala is appearing.
