I am very happy with the old style Bybees in my system. So happy in fact, that I use them on both ends of most of my ICs and speaker cables ( here reverse phase on the amp end ). I tested them first by simply adding them to just one channel ( got the idea from TAS) and found, that the soundstage somehow shifted to the channel that was "bybeeized" and the difference was not subtle. I found no change in transparency, also no change in the soundstage with both channels modded, the highs and lows were the same as before, but the entire musical rendering seemed more lively, transients were better defined, voices seemed more lifelike. Where I could not discern any difference in performance were the AC filters. So generally I had a very positive impression and I've kept them in my system.
As far as the internal bybee mod is concerned, I think one has also to test the hypothesis, that some of the detrimental effects described above, could well be caused by sloppy soldering as well. Just a thought. Cheers,
As far as the internal bybee mod is concerned, I think one has also to test the hypothesis, that some of the detrimental effects described above, could well be caused by sloppy soldering as well. Just a thought. Cheers,