So the Equitech 2RQ arrived yesterday.
The more I read about it, the more I am convinced that balanced power is the better solution for eliminating noise in theory. In practice however, no way to know till you actually hear the results. Of course you can look at the list of heavy hitters that use Equitech. Never the less, I was apprehensive till I got the unit plugged in.
Started out with my Oppo 95 to PrimaLuna Dialogue HP Integrated to Zu Druid. (high sensitivity speakers more revealing, including noise, I think.)
Put it there cause the thing is freakin heavy, and I didn’t have any help to lift it into the rack on my real system. Long story short, I already ordered another Equitech (Son of Q jr this time) because I can’t imagine listening to that system again without the Equitech.
I feel kind of silly trying to give a subjective impression. All the audiophile terminology sounds pompous and pretentious coming from me cause I’m kind of a newb. But it was apparent right away that this thing is a game changer. Made orders of magnitude bigger difference that all the previous tweeks I’ve laid on that system, and there have been plenty. So yeah, drop the noise floor like that and you are gonna liberate the actual music that has been hidden behind the layers of smear you have been previously hearing. Pretty damn happy about that.
Seems to me that all the filtering that other conditioners use remove some of the music along with the noise. The better ones just have a better noise to music removal ratio. Pretty sure the Equitech just removes just the noise while leaving the music intact.
Glad I came to Audiogon forum again. You guys turned me on to a product I knew nothing about, that seems to be a much better solution than what I previously had in mind.
The more I read about it, the more I am convinced that balanced power is the better solution for eliminating noise in theory. In practice however, no way to know till you actually hear the results. Of course you can look at the list of heavy hitters that use Equitech. Never the less, I was apprehensive till I got the unit plugged in.
Started out with my Oppo 95 to PrimaLuna Dialogue HP Integrated to Zu Druid. (high sensitivity speakers more revealing, including noise, I think.)
Put it there cause the thing is freakin heavy, and I didn’t have any help to lift it into the rack on my real system. Long story short, I already ordered another Equitech (Son of Q jr this time) because I can’t imagine listening to that system again without the Equitech.
I feel kind of silly trying to give a subjective impression. All the audiophile terminology sounds pompous and pretentious coming from me cause I’m kind of a newb. But it was apparent right away that this thing is a game changer. Made orders of magnitude bigger difference that all the previous tweeks I’ve laid on that system, and there have been plenty. So yeah, drop the noise floor like that and you are gonna liberate the actual music that has been hidden behind the layers of smear you have been previously hearing. Pretty damn happy about that.
Seems to me that all the filtering that other conditioners use remove some of the music along with the noise. The better ones just have a better noise to music removal ratio. Pretty sure the Equitech just removes just the noise while leaving the music intact.
Glad I came to Audiogon forum again. You guys turned me on to a product I knew nothing about, that seems to be a much better solution than what I previously had in mind.
