Wyred STP-SE : Break In Times

I agree with Face. There are a couple of simple internal mods to make it better yet. Tom

Feil

I have found some history here and on Google about you and Wc65Mustang being the same critter and I will be posting very soon. Goes back to 2005 and 2006..Yeah know some of us never forget. Tom

Rpw,

I replaced all the steel chassis fasteners with those of musical brass. Between the actual transformer and the chassis I placed 3 Audiopoint .2's on 3 Audiopoint APCD2's all of brass. This was all tensioned and secured with a brass rod and locking hardware. I took care to mark on the transformer and the chassis as to their orientation so as to maintain the measured factory noise level the same. I replaced the only 2 Dale fixed resistor values that are always in the signal path with Z foils from Vishay. All simple stuff I always do the steel for brass replacement for all my components and all my transformers are direct coupled as described with .2's Audiopoints or larger. Tom

Clearly you want to remove all the steel fasteners and replace with brass... Tom

Wc65Mustang/Audiofeil you are correct..and who are you today? I do sell what I believe in and use all the time. Can't imagine mounting a transformer on bowling balls or even bearings. I also buy brass fasteners from the local supply chain to use in my system and acoustic resonance control devices.Not the big box store but local hardware retailers.. Also use brass and resonance grounding and tuning methods in patented devices for musical instruments.

Tom.. seller of Audiopoints and purveyor of resonance grounding methods and acoustic coupling. That's me..

Dsper

My experience relates to the preamp only and it did originally sound dark and closed in..Now it does not and is very open and neutral. I have never liked any type of conditioner or power strip in my system so I would go direct to the wall as simple as you can and see if that cleans up the high end. Sheen on the cymbals sometimes means added distortion or glare somewhere else in the chain. Being obvious is not always a good thing to hear. Tom