PSU1 cables
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Topic: PSU1 cables
Posted By: Guests
Subject: PSU1 cables
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2014 at 9:19pm
just a question about the cables on PSU 1 power supply. the figure 8 cable i have replaced with after market heavy gauge one with upgraded plugs and shielding, i have noticed if polarity right way round ie. live in cable from plug to fused side in power supply things sound more aggressive , punchy, is this possible. also is the low voltage cable as good as it gets or is there a better upgraded one i could purchase from gsp. any comments would be appreciated thanks.
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Posted By: ICL1P
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2014 at 10:17pm
You might like to read from page 8 of this thread. http://audio-forum.gspaudio.co.uk/solo-diamond-ultra-linear-oh-my-god_topic1653_page8.html
------------- Ifor ===== Reflex M & ACCESSION M, CuSat50, Majestic DAC, a Proprius pair.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2014 at 10:50pm
thanks very much for the tip off on the threads, interesting reading. its not just me then thanks again
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2014 at 11:57pm
Topic moved here to Power Sources as it did not belong in Graham Slee Headphone Amps
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2015 at 3:21pm
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Michael, appreciate this is an old thread but I have upgraded the mains-Figure of 8 cable to significant benefit, worth trying from my own evidence. As to the DC lead the DC lead, there is a common view that upgrading this is unlikely to bring much benefit. As ever retaining an open mind I will be having a Pure Silver and screened lead made up in the near future; assuming this is 'as good as it gets' this should (in my system and to my ears) settle the discussion. Once concluded I will get back but may be a month or so away yet. Kind regards, Richard
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 1:33am
I'd like to thank Richard for dropping off his mains leads for us to try.
Construction is quite solid, and we used the longer cable of the two. The cable is quite stiff, but it could still be formed to (only just) reach between the nearest socket and one of our PSU1 caddy PSU1's.
Termination at the mains socket end is by a 56 series IP66 industrial 13A plug with its locking ring removed. Here's an example of the straight variety: http://www.screwfix.com/p/clipsal-56-series-ip66-13a-plug/10586
The fig8 end is a F*r*t*ch cable mounted socket (female plug) which retails at nearly £40.
The cable in-between is printed with the product's name. On inspection through the clear plastic 56 series plug, without taking it apart, it looks like the wire is silver plated or stranded silver wire. The cable has a screen/shield connected to the earth pin, along with the earth wire, but it isn't used to conduct either because the fig8 end is just live and neutral.
Placed on the cable near either end is a soft-ferrite sleeve, covered with some blue heatshrink.
It has been an idea for us to produce an aftermarket mains lead for the PSU1 that is beefier than the standard cord, but because we have been unable to find a sensibly priced rewirable fig8 cable socket, this hasn't happened yet. We decided to compare Richard's cable with the short lengths of standard lead which comes from the caddy's distribution blocks. These are served by a standard RS Components IEC lead.
We (John C, Leo, and I) noticed the biggest difference by using it on the PSU1 used to power a Majestic DAC. The input to the Majestic DAC was analogue, using my ceramic cartridge preamp, fed by my Sonotone 9TA ceramic cartridge.
We played And You And I plus Siberian Khatru on side two of Close To The Edge by Yes. The turntable was one of our Technics SL12XX which is "bog standard".
Richard's cable had the effect of separating out the instruments and voices (obviously this record is mixed down in the studio as are all of its kind, and the positioning is decided on the mixing desk, not by natural mic placement).
It presented Jon Anderson's voice in Siberian Khatru more centrally between the speakers than we have heard before, and forward of the drum set which has the cymbals being gently tapped, which seemed quite natural, if not veering toward the impressive by giving it some hi-res treatment.
The track And You And I can catch many set-ups out on the lyrics "a man can see the moment's answer to the dream" which is often heard as "a man conceived the moment's answer to the dream", which is how all the lyrics sites would have it... (perhaps they used a different take for the CD?) Richard's cable allowed that to be heard, but it also does it with the standard cable.
Overall, we felt the stereo image had a tad more precision, and tonally it was well distributed, with perhaps a bit of emphasis on the mids, making it very slightly more forward, as well as very slightly wider, and in one place a particular instrument was heard playing hard left.
Not wanting to be outdone, we had a quick experiment using some high voltage copper wire cable (1000V) wired to a normal 13A plug, and spliced to a fig8 end cut from a standard cable.
We first used some heavy duty 2.5mm^2 cross section, but this was found too harsh in the upper registers. It was swapped for some 1mm^2 section cable, which removed the harshness. It did not fully achieve what Richard's cable was doing.
I hunted high and low for a suitable soft ferrite. I would have preferred to have found two to place at similar points to those on Richard's cable, but had to make do with one, and parked it roughly centrally.
This gave a slightly different presentation. It placed Anderson's voice in front of the cymbals, and reproduced the hard left instrument placement. But whereas Richard's cable felt as if Anderson's voice had been yanked into centre stage with great precision, and at highest resolution, our "mock-up" treated it a little softer. Richard's cable made the Sonotone sound more like a decent budget MC, whilst ours made it sound more like a cross between a 1042 and AT95E (both MM's).
I would say the only let down by Richard's cable was a trace of harshness on the busy ending of Siberian Khatru, where we felt the superconducting silver plate or whatever it is, reinforced the mids too much, making the harshness - which incidentally was due to the HF resonance of the Sonotone - more obvious. We felt our hurriedly built cable fared better here.
OK, I guess some will think we're crazy for using a ceramic cartridge for a test like this, but the 9TA is an original and uses an original 70's diamond stylus, and they were the best around in its day. The thing is, it is highly capable of showing up these differences in our system. When using a high quality magnetic these differences may well have been much harder for us in our system to spot.
I would like to thank Richard for the opportunity of trying this aftermarket mains cable. It has given us a challenge to make something that could possibly make a difference ourselves.
Graham
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 10:18am
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Thank you Graham, thank you for your rapid response, you must have been working rather late! I think/hope I have proved my point re the mains cables, not that mine is best in any way BUT there are diferences and has perhaps provided room for thought! As you correcly say differences are going to differ system to system - from brief comments by speakers for example drop another 40Hz at the bottom end for example. One point to clarify the cable used is multi-strand Super-Pure Silver (99.9999%) (not plated), has dual layer internal shielding and has claimed current capacity rating of 26A so is well over spec'd for running a PSU! As discussed briefly, a dedicated two core cable should be preferable as will be more flexible though this down to cost. In my various tests the high purity silver cables do provde the degree of naturalness referred to BUt take a long time to burn in (100-200 hours minumim). For further information, my tests on the PSU produced the same type of 'benefits' than on amp or CD but they were more significant - possibly to do with greater current draw? Whilst this cable is a step down from those used on my mains Hub, CD Player and amp the benefits are cumulative and in many cases reduced or removed colourations I had throught were speaker or room related. Hopefully you will conclude as to whether it is a development ares worth pursuing but suspect this will be a way of further enhancing your excellent products!!! Good luck and I am sorr to have lumbered you with additional work!!! regards Richard
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 2:53pm
Richardl60 wrote:
One point to clarify the cable used is multi-strand Super-Pure Silver (99.9999%) |
OK, that seems to confirm my opinions in listening. 99.9999% is basically "bullion grade" silver. It is a very similar presentation to some interconnects I tried from a well-known cartridge expert some years ago. Putting arguments for and against musical memory to one side, the thing I was aware of was the reinforcement of mid-tones - the tones our ears are most sensitive to.
This is because of the "superconductive" property of silver - most chemistry books point out its superconductivity. And I will also add here, that the differences between copper and silver interconnects cannot be resolved by any audio analyser I have had the pleasure of playing with - that's all of them bar one by the way.
Just because it cannot be measured by audio analysers doesn't mean it can't make any difference - the conductivity has been measured by science! Otherwise, how would chemistry books know? I am saying this for the benefit of the testosterone charged cable-sceptic brigade.
The differences I have heard between silver and copper have stood the test of time, so in my world they do exist. Maybe to other readers they don't, and that's OK by me - we are all different to some degree or another.
Let me explain the differences I find by using an analogy - that of a "compander" which is a piece of electronics used in post-production which can expand or compress the dynamic range.
As many have commented correctly, most music is compressed, and it is very true of vinyl, without it I'm afraid to say vinyl would not "work".
Silver, in my opinion, is akin to turning the compander knob in the direction of expander. Putting more and more silver into a system is akin to turning the expander section up and up.
I don't see it the other way round however. I don't see the use of all-copper as turning the compander in the direction of compress. My reason for saying so, is explained at length somewhere on the thousands of pages of this forum.
I do however see the use of high capacitance cables as compression of the highs, and that a poorly executed copper interconnect design could lead to dynamic range compression.
From an equipment designers point of view, it would be wrong to use silver because it would risk me producing a damped or over damped sound, ruining the fidelity of the product. On the other hand it is good to have an understanding of silver to prevent a situation where any emphasis resulted in something unlistenable when using silver (either interconnects or a mains lead such as this).
Therefore, should I develop a mains lead, it would have to be non-silver based, and have what many on here relate as having the "house sound", which I hope means that it doesn't contribute anything to it. And because of that I would not use silver.
Graham
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Posted By: Drewan77
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 3:13pm
I had a phone conversation with John C earlier today and emailed him links to a few sites that I purchased from to make braid armoured IEC and Fig-8 mains power cables for my system. All use copper conductors but are screened, used mainly because of the mass of spaghetti behind my system where interconnects/power cables often lay in parallel. I was not attempting to 'improve' the sound via power cables but to protect the more delicate interconnect signals
I did notice a change in the audio signature (slightly 'fuller' is the only way to describe it) when I added these beefier fig-8 cables to my PSU1s but I really wonder if it is more to do with new & clean copper interfaces at the plug/socket ends?
The only experience I had with silver conductors was the original wiring within my OB speakers which I changed over to Spatia a couple of years ago. It took away a thin veil of treble harshness that the silver definitely seemed to impart
------------- Older than I once was, younger than I'll be ............................. Andrew
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 4:50pm
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Thank you again Grahm I agree that in the same way BMW prefer to stick with the philosophy of rear wheel drive, any particular manufacturer will have their own ideals, aims etc and commendable that there are adhered to. The only other supplementary point I would make that from my own listening is that my mains HUB, Mains cables and inerconnects are all higher grade pure silver than the lead you have and in the context of my own environment many unseen colurations have been removed with the key features being of openness & naturalness - in combination with each other (end equipment) this end result does sound 'different' and if switching back to OFC copper produce distint colourations which are the 'copper sound' rather than 'Silver sound'. I would liken this to switchig between vinyl and CD, you know which you are listening to! This even went with switching from WBT cu & silver bannanas - which sounded bright, thin and uncontrolled for quite some time before >100 hours made a significant difference - how a plug material switch can take time to burn in or have this impact is beyond me but probably the single least rational change vs benefit I have encounterd. As an adendum, I have found that the mains 'upgrade' path has produced the most pronounced route (i.e. more substantial than interconnects of speaker cables and not by a small margin). Anyway good to see the thought process has been stimulated! Good luck with whatever you decide to do. Kind regards Richard
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2015 at 5:05pm
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Andrew, hi. Yes I agree conductors need 'appropriate attention' - I have juts acquired a new piece of hardware from a national site and was suprised how dirty the terminals were (speakers in particular); lots of black oxide on my cotton bud! Contrary to my thoughts some years ago that 'all plugs were the same' I have again changed my views through experiences (mains, interconnects and speakers) so the point about end connectors does appear valid, though in my opinion supporting the well designed bit between them! As stated elsewehere there is a world of difference between a well designed pure silver/silver plated copper and at no stage have I ever encountered harshness via my pure silver cable you refer to, though everyone has their own experineces on the matter, myself included. I note you throw away line on mains cabling, my own experinces with mains and interconnects ( & speakers for that matter) mains produce the biggest benefit of all of these connections, certainly with my HUB, Amp & CD, to a lesser degree the PSU F8. Cheers Richard
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Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2015 at 7:39pm
I haven't stretched my purse to pure silver like Richard but have heard improvements from some of my mains cable changes.
------------- Jon
Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC.
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2015 at 2:18pm
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As you say open mind & ears! Cheers, Richard
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Posted By: ServerBaboon
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2015 at 9:55pm
Mains cables, perhaps you need one of these as well.
http://www.powerinspired.com/ac-regenerators-c-98.html?osCsid=13b57a6ad44caaff22a472e7bea08448 - http://www.powerinspired.com/ac-regenerators-c-98.html?osCsid=13b57a6ad44caaff22a472e7bea08448
------------- Steve
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Various bits of GSP Kit ..well two so far, unless you count the cables that is.
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2015 at 11:59am
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Thanks, have toyed wit it - looked at the PS Audio range. I am led to believe that in certain areas and with high draw power amp situations in particular these can be beneficial, but have concluded I will stick with my separate mains ring, spike, HUB & Power cables for now. Kind regards, Richard
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2015 at 12:36pm
The Powerinspired mains regenerators are very keenly priced in comparison to many others. I own the AG1500 & am very happy with it. Possibly worth investigating at some point.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2015 at 11:55am
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Noted may have a closer look, kind regards Richard
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Posted By: DaveG
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2015 at 5:07pm
RichW wrote:
The Powerinspired mains regenerators are very keenly priced in comparison to many others. I own the AG1500 & am very happy with it. Possibly worth investigating at some point.
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This looks really interesting. I guess the reason for the reasonable price is that it's not specifically targetted at "audiophiles" and the manufacturer makes no claims about improved sound etc. only that it does a good job of providing clean power. But a product that seems to be gaining a following nonetheless
------------- Dave
Michell Gorbe + HR PSU -> Cadenza Bronze -> SME V -> Elevator -> Accession -> Proprius -> B&W CM6 s2 | Cusat 50 & Spatia cables ->
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Posted By: ServerBaboon
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2015 at 11:36pm
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I have been intrigued since the company appeared on wigwam, not a bad word said.
@RichW What do you run off yours.
------------- Steve
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Various bits of GSP Kit ..well two so far, unless you count the cables that is.
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2015 at 8:07am
To my knowledge the Powerinspired regenerators were not primarily designed for 'audiophiles' or HiFi but as part of a multi-application industrial UPS system. They are very well built but look a bit utilitarian & don't have a fancy, expensive case. Mine has worked faultlessly for over two years & is used to power all source components.
It makes the system sound more consistent - don't need to wait until after 9 -10pm for the sound to be at its best.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2015 at 10:03am
RichW wrote:
To my knowledge the Powerinspired regenerators were not primarily designed for 'audiophiles' or HiFi but as part of a multi-application industrial UPS system. They are very well built but look a bit utilitarian & don't have a fancy, expensive case. Mine has worked faultlessly for over two years & is used to power all source components.
It makes the system sound more consistent - don't need to wait until after 9 -10pm for the sound to be at its best.
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Possibly the most sensible suggestion I've heard yet - that, and Andrew's batteries...
EMC, or not, as is the case: electromagnetic disturbances due to mains wiring being multiple antenas, will, to some permissable extent influence circuitry which the mains powers. Filtration of the mains close to its entry to equipment also helps, but a simple soft ferrite sleeve positioned on the cable will not have much effect, although some difference could be evident in an AB-blind test?
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Posted By: CageyH
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2015 at 4:45pm
I am reading this thread with interest, as I will (at the moment) quite happily pin my flag to the "mains cable changes are foo" mast. However, I am open minded and if an upgraded cable is made available, I will happily try it to see (hear) if it can make a difference. If it does, then I wil be happy to admit it. I guess I don't understand why it would, as the electrons still arrive where they should. If it is just down to noise rejection, then a good quality screened copper cable should do it?
I never used to believe in cable "burn in" either, but recently things have changed my mind. So, if a cable does become available, please expect to see my name on the "interested to try it on the loan scheme" list.
------------- Kevin European loan coordinator, based near Toulouse, France. Funkified SL1200 Mk.II, BB3, Firebottle Kin , ADI-2 DAC FS, Modulus 686, PD-S703, Solo UL, Triangle Antal EZ
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 2:07pm
My layman's understanding of it is that the National Grid is a big antenna for RF noise (as Graham states) & is getting noisier. Just shielding the last metre or so of cable to the equipment won't filter out any RF noise already there but will only shield noise ingress along it's own length? HiFi mains cable vendors say this sort of thing as well & I have had good results with 'foo' mains leads from Kimber/Russ Andrews. I also remember how a worn out old two way mains socket adaptor wrecked the sound of my system many years ago - good mains contacts are essential IMO.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: CageyH
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 4:29pm
I can see where a mains regenerator would come into it, but I think it all depends on where you live. I live in rural France so I am quite a distance from heavy industry. It also gives me a couple of advantages. I don't have fuses in my plugs. My HiFi is fed from a radial supply. The mains entering my system therefore must be a bit "cleaner"?
As for RF interference on the national grid, it's not something I had really considered.
I guess there is only one way to see if it makes a difference, and that is to try it.
------------- Kevin European loan coordinator, based near Toulouse, France. Funkified SL1200 Mk.II, BB3, Firebottle Kin , ADI-2 DAC FS, Modulus 686, PD-S703, Solo UL, Triangle Antal EZ
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Posted By: Suggs
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 4:58pm
Like you Kevin, I too live in rural France but do use a mains re-generator...if you see by how much the incoming voltage varies here in France, you'd have kittens The "noise" on the line is surprisingly also there...there are many remote farms and silos using vast AC motors...my PS re-generator reduces this hash by around 90% as well as keeping the voltage variations under control...I would strongly recommend a trial if you can get such a thing.
I also have one on the TV and sound system...picture quality was vastly improved when it was added. Even my wife said so 
------------- Derek
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Posted By: Richardl60
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 4:58pm
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Kevin, hi. I used my own 'logic' when started out that high capacity mains flex from focus/wicks or whatever fed through a hard wired block should be as good as is needed asthgis would be high capacity and removed the need for plugs? My brother introduced me to a 'budget' after-market cable and there was a significant improvement on amp/CD. Over the months that followed, I acquired various cables via the well known selling website before my brother again lent me after he had tried various manufacturers cables to a particular brand. He he both OFC Copper and Silver plated copper - horses for courses - one better suiting CD the other for amp. Again following to the top of this manufacturers free I have seen such big improvements these have humbled hardware changes, and resulted in amp, CD & Power HUB with very pure, very highly shielded and top quality F*****h plugs. I took a punt on the figure of 8 to my two GSP PSUs and again a sinilar but smaller difference (albeit not the top of the range cables I use on everything else). Sceptical, me yes! Burn in - I 100% could not observe any differences until more recently with my Pure silver they do take 200 hours+ (displaying various traits including lack of life/dynamics, lack of focus, lack of openness and brightness at differing periods of the burn in). Screening - like anything there does appear science here, some of which I believe is down to screening, power capacity, inductance etc, etc. My cables are highly screened with multilayed screening; Material - there are lots of purities, thin strand, heavy gauge, copper, silver coated, pure silver, they do all differ but is down to like most things how they are made and what the end result is. Length - again defies logic but my amp and CD cables have external cable lengths outside plug of 29 & 32 cm respectively - very short BUT the benefits are apparent so I fully agree that why the last few inches makes a difference is barmy, but in my expereince with these cables length doens't matter as they say. Good luck Richard
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Posted By: Drewan77
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 4:59pm
I was in S Yorks today and called in on the guys to drop something off for John. Whilst there, we discussed cabling & Graham was most enlightening about RF interference and the frequencies involved
I have been using braid armour screened mains cables to my equipment in the mistaken belief that this would avoid possible interference when laid alongside interconnects. John stripped the end of a piece of GSP interconnect cable and I see that this is both copper foil and copped braid screened so my fears on that score are unfounded 
(Graham also played me some vinyl with one of his ceramic cartridges through a hybrid 'naked' phono stage. I am amazed at the beautiful quality of what I heard but hardly surprised it sounded so good....)
------------- Older than I once was, younger than I'll be ............................. Andrew
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Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 6:44pm
Drewan77 wrote:
I was in S Yorks today and called in on the guys to drop something off for John. Whilst there, we discussed cabling & Graham was most enlightening about RF interference and the frequencies involved
I have been using braid armour screened mains cables to my equipment in the mistaken belief that this would avoid possible interference when laid alongside interconnects. John stripped the end of a piece of GSP interconnect cable and I see that this is both copper foil and copped braid screened so my fears on that score are unfounded 
(Graham also played me some vinyl with one of his ceramic cartridges through a hybrid 'naked' phono stage. I am amazed at the beautiful quality of what I heard but hardly surprised it sounded so good....)
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Yes, it is a warm welcome at GSP and packed with knowledge from the wise men that work there.
------------- Jon
Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC.
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Posted By: CageyH
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2015 at 7:57pm
Suggs wrote:
Like you Kevin, I too live in rural France but do use a mains re-generator...if you see by how much the incoming voltage varies here in France, you'd have kittens The "noise" on the line is surprisingly also there...there are many remote farms and silos using vast AC motors...my PS re-generator reduces this hash by around 90% as well as keeping the voltage variations under control...I would strongly recommend a trial if you can get such a thing.
I also have one on the TV and sound system...picture quality was vastly improved when it was added. Even my wife said so 
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I have one on my shopping list, but it's down below: Pushchair Cot Car seat Other baby related items Mrs H wants.
------------- Kevin European loan coordinator, based near Toulouse, France. Funkified SL1200 Mk.II, BB3, Firebottle Kin , ADI-2 DAC FS, Modulus 686, PD-S703, Solo UL, Triangle Antal EZ
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Posted By: Suggs
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2015 at 6:58am
Not to mention continually outgrown clothes, extra school activities, music lessons, riding lessons, holidays, college education, first car, wedding costs,etc., etc. Bon courage as they say in our part of the world 
------------- Derek
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Posted By: CageyH
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2015 at 11:04am
Can you see why I was not keen to borrow a Majestic?
------------- Kevin European loan coordinator, based near Toulouse, France. Funkified SL1200 Mk.II, BB3, Firebottle Kin , ADI-2 DAC FS, Modulus 686, PD-S703, Solo UL, Triangle Antal EZ
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Posted By: BackinBlack
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2015 at 11:26am
CageyH wrote:
Can you see why I was not keen to borrow a Majestic? |
In some ways, a wise move. once heard it is almost impossible to resist!!
------------- Just listen, if it sounds good to you, enjoy it.
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Posted By: Fatmangolf
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2015 at 7:14pm
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That's a wealth warning, as someone pointed out before.
------------- Jon
Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC.
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Posted By: ICL1P
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 6:16pm
RichW wrote:
The Powerinspired mains regenerators are very keenly priced in comparison to many others. I own the AG1500 & am very happy with it. Possibly worth investigating at some point.
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Do you just connect a gang of sockets to its output?
------------- Ifor ===== Reflex M & ACCESSION M, CuSat50, Majestic DAC, a Proprius pair.
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 6:25pm
Yes, an 8 way trailing socket plugs into it which supplies everything except the amp. The amp is supplied via an Isotek filter unit plugged into the wall.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: ICL1P
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 6:32pm
Why do you treat the amp differently?
------------- Ifor ===== Reflex M & ACCESSION M, CuSat50, Majestic DAC, a Proprius pair.
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 7:50am
Hi Ifor, I was initially concerned that my amp (it's a big integrated) would overload the regenerator on transients when playing heavy music at volume - as I like to do now & then . I've had the Isotek Titan filter for many years & one of the two outputs supplies the regenerator & the other feeds the integrated amp. I actually reckon the regenerator would probably be powerful enough to cope with the full system at all volume levels & I might give it a try - still experimenting really.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: ICL1P
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 7:54am
Thank Richard.
------------- Ifor ===== Reflex M & ACCESSION M, CuSat50, Majestic DAC, a Proprius pair.
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Posted By: FAT2BIKER
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2015 at 12:52pm
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Hi Daft question coming up, what is a figure of 8 cable. Cheers Dave
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Posted By: RichW
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2015 at 12:55pm
Hi Dave, It's the connector. It looks like an '8' end on.
------------- Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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Posted By: Chris Firth
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2015 at 1:20pm
FAT2BIKER wrote:
HiDaft question coming up, what is a figure of 8 cable. Cheers Dave |
It's also known as a Telefunken mains connector.
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