Walker Audio Extreme SST
Hi Tvad, thanks for the courtesy. But what I said was that the "contents" are described in the statement I quoted from the web site; and this was in response to Ncarv's comment that he didn't have information about the contents of Walker SST. The in-house production comment is purely from me, not the web site, and is based on personal knowledge. Sorry that part was not clear. . |
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If you do a google search on "conductive silver grease," you'll find many other products with seemingly similar claimed benefits at much lower prices. Arctic Silver is one I happened to see that guarantees real silver content. Many others do not have real silver in them, but are merely silver in color. Also, as far as I know, there is no electrical transmission over interconnects and speaker cables. I could be wrong, but I've never received a shock from handling them. Additionally, Jonathan Scull desribed a similar product in Stereophile over three years ago: http://stereophile.com/finetunes/396/ Finally, a friend came to me with some "silver grease," which he has used on all metal connections in his system and claims tremendously increased resolution and liquidity (of the music!). He has used it on everything from power cords to tube pins. Also, Flitz metal polish has been recommended specifically for treating the prongs on power cords for stereo equipment for better sonics. I'm not knocking the Walker product; in fact, I accept that it is effective as claimed. I just wonder if there are other similar (or even identical) products out there that would yield the same effect. |
I recently applied the SST on my tonearm cables and cartridge pins and was surprised to hear a very positive improvement. Next up was the tonearm cable to RCA box (I own a Scout) and again noticed a similar improvement but to a slightly lesser degree, regardless it was a big enough improvement to make me a believer. I always try and make sense of this stuff and I'm sure a low output MC cartridge could benefit from this stuff at any connections along the way to the pre-amp. I would not have believed it if I did not hear it myself, and get some friendly pressure to try it out in the first place. I for sure will use this on any other cartridge/tonearm interface that comes through my system. One of these days I'll try it out on my amplification components. |
