Thank you for the kindness @uberwaltz and @nonoise
I feel we do ourselves a disservice by not providing specifics to statements we make ala NASA and fuses, and only giving part of the picture. Such information provides the discussion little credibility benefit.
Likewise, I disagree fuse manufacturers provide ample information, evidence, and background in regard to their products. In fact, they've done the complete opposite. But obviously, from their sales, my (and anyone in the anti camp) assertions prove irrelevant. At any rate, for reasons I previously explained, that doesn't take away from me believing the potential for improvement their products provide exists. I'm not here to debate how much, if any, improvement they provide or whether that improvement represents value, as only the customer has the ability and right to determine that.
Anyway, to practice what I preach, if anyone's interested, here's a link to Bob Backert's GreenForce power supply patent https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/15/91/21/3464dfe8a23d12/US20130279221A1.pdf
After many, many years as tech at a high-end audio salon that went belly up, folks enthusiastically experienced Bob's work via his mods to their equipment. Enthusiastically enough so that Bob began producing his own, now highly regarded, preamplifiers featuring his unique power supply.
I should also mention my friends Vytas and Marc from Veloce, who also took a different path in terms of power supplies, though no patent exists regarding their work, achieved results beyond the norm. Like many great things, they sort of stumbled into what they got unintentionally, and though the results were impressive (impossible and funny sort of story around it, but Harry Pearson of TAS declared the phono stage of their preamplifier the best he'd ever encountered), the understanding didn't arrive until much later. When I happened to guess what happened, they felt surprised, but a sort of light went on for me to make it seem so obvious and simple.
Coincidentally, Bob, Vytas / Marc, and myself (and Robert Stein aka The Cable Company) all live in the Philadelphia area, are friends, began thinking about power supplies several years ago, arriving to the same sort of questions and concerns (though we never discussed it with one another until long after), and began working through them, though with very different solutions
I feel we do ourselves a disservice by not providing specifics to statements we make ala NASA and fuses, and only giving part of the picture. Such information provides the discussion little credibility benefit.
Likewise, I disagree fuse manufacturers provide ample information, evidence, and background in regard to their products. In fact, they've done the complete opposite. But obviously, from their sales, my (and anyone in the anti camp) assertions prove irrelevant. At any rate, for reasons I previously explained, that doesn't take away from me believing the potential for improvement their products provide exists. I'm not here to debate how much, if any, improvement they provide or whether that improvement represents value, as only the customer has the ability and right to determine that.
Anyway, to practice what I preach, if anyone's interested, here's a link to Bob Backert's GreenForce power supply patent https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/15/91/21/3464dfe8a23d12/US20130279221A1.pdf
After many, many years as tech at a high-end audio salon that went belly up, folks enthusiastically experienced Bob's work via his mods to their equipment. Enthusiastically enough so that Bob began producing his own, now highly regarded, preamplifiers featuring his unique power supply.
I should also mention my friends Vytas and Marc from Veloce, who also took a different path in terms of power supplies, though no patent exists regarding their work, achieved results beyond the norm. Like many great things, they sort of stumbled into what they got unintentionally, and though the results were impressive (impossible and funny sort of story around it, but Harry Pearson of TAS declared the phono stage of their preamplifier the best he'd ever encountered), the understanding didn't arrive until much later. When I happened to guess what happened, they felt surprised, but a sort of light went on for me to make it seem so obvious and simple.
Coincidentally, Bob, Vytas / Marc, and myself (and Robert Stein aka The Cable Company) all live in the Philadelphia area, are friends, began thinking about power supplies several years ago, arriving to the same sort of questions and concerns (though we never discussed it with one another until long after), and began working through them, though with very different solutions