2. amps-preamps
  3. 1120750167

Do I need power conditioning

Hello everyone.
Need some help here. My system - Esoteric P700 transported modified with Trichord Research clock & digital board with power supplies; Musical Fidelity Trivista 21 DAC; Krell KRC-HR pre-amp; Krell FPB300c power amp; Monitor Audio Studio 20SE speakers; FPB fed by dedicated mains supply; Rest from a home made distribution box (which outperforms a VH Audio Hotbox) fed from the wall by an Eichmann Express power cable; then Pure Note Sigma power cable to KRC-HR; & VH AUdio flavour 4 to rest of components.

Problem - sometimes, the system sounds wonderful with a sound stage so encompassing that you hear ambience & echoes clearly from behind the listening position. Othertimes, it loses its magic.

Question 1) - Do I need power conditioning;

Question 2) - If yes, which conditioner would you recomment.

Any help & advise will be much appreciated.

Thanks.
solentgreen

Showing 2 responses by audio_girl

audio_girl
91 posts
 
The Shunyata Hydra makes a BIG DIFFERENCE in my system, especially with my JC-1 monoblocks! They don't even sound like the same amps with this unit!
These amps MUST have power conditioning to bring out their full potential.
Big, Big, improvement over running them straight into the AC outlet!
audio_girl
91 posts
 
Hello Solentgreen,
The Shunyata Hydra makes my system, particularly the JC-1's sound more coherent, better focused, smoother, more open, blacker background, and they have better inner detail.
After getting used to hearing them with the Hydra, its impossible for me to bear listening to them without it!
With the JC-1's plugged straight into the AC outlets they sound grayer, hazier, courser, flatter, and less coherent.
Michael Fremer also commented in his review of the JC-1's, in Stereophile, about the Hydra making quite an improvement.
ALL of my components benefit from the Hydra, but the amps show the widest margin of improvement with it.
Best of luck in your quest.
More to discover