Alan Maher Designs

The man is ON to something, isn’t he!

I’ve been trying all sorts of his products out since discovering him on the web in 2010...almost a hundred different purchases and not one yet was anything I regretted.

Alan marches to a different drummer than everyone else in this industry (and possibly even in this hobby!), but eventually I’ve learned firsthand over the years to take every word that comes out of him as gospel, no matter how off the cuff crazy he may first seem - his products just continue to back him up...like no one else’s ever do, really.

Currently, at last count, he’s been into my wallet for upwards of 10 grand...and I’ve loved every minute of it. My AMD investment is now well more than the cost of my setup, yet that’s made perfect sense all the way. But the dude is a juggernaut these days: he keeps coming out with more and more new cool sh@t to own that I just have to shrug it off that I can’t keep pace with what I can't afford...fortunately for everyone else, he makes a lot affordable and impressive gizmos as you’re finding out.

But yeah, for me?? System completely transformed - mind completely blown.

I have quite a few of his products and wish I had the results you two gentlemen are experiencing. I have the QPI Magnetic Waveguides, Quantum plug ins, Tricell EMI wrap and outlet pads and I can't say I notice any appreciable sound improvement. If they weren't so simple to install I might think I installed them improperly. I would love to have the results you are having, any suggestions? Could it be that since I'm using a WyWires PowerBroker and don't need any other power cleaning products? 

Hi mac, first off, I’d have to say that quite literally it would be an impossibility of physics that any power solution (no matter what it was or who made it) could be so sufficient that no further electrical noise reduction would be audible...that’s because noise (at the quantum level) is random and self-generating - wherever voltage is present, you have noise. For anybody’s method to work, in either direction, downstream or up, the effects of noise reduction fades as physical distance increases. The noise fades the further you go from the source and the noise reduction effect likewise fades the further you go from the noise reduction device. That’s why he makes so many different devices - to attack closest to the noise where it lives, at the various sources of noise in your home (fridge, HVAC, light bulbs or whatever your wanting to tackle). In short, noise is unavoidably all around us, nobody, not even Alan, will ever be able to get rid of All of it. And the reverse is true. Any noise reduction device you buy will make an audible difference. IOW, there is no such thing in this case as a point of diminishing returns. No matter how many noise reduction devices you have, you can always add one more and hear a difference.

But, there is a problem somewhere with your situ. Alan would prefer that a customer buy and Install his products in a particular sequence, at least in the beginning - where the power enters the home in particular. This, for lack of an easy, clear explanation for us here, sort of "guides", "chases" or "channels", if you will, much of the remainder of the bulk of the noise to areas further inside the home where other AMD devices can be installed to squash it most effectively. Buying his products more in a random fashion without this consideration may be the underlying problem here. It may not be that the existing AMD products that you already have are no good, it’s just that the process of the installation of the particular first few AMD products I describe needs to be followed (and quite thoroughly, frankly, since there are a number of points to be aware of, but Alan himself would be the best source on that - he responds quickly and fully to those questions, IME).

If you need more help from me, let me know.

Regards,
John

Hi guys thanks for the response it's great to know I'm not one of the few audiophiles who are into his products lol!. I got to know about him when I was searching through the Web on dedicated lines and breaker panels. 

The more I read about his approach on dealing with "dirty" lines and emi/rfi the more I got sucked in to his ways. I have had numerous amount of discussion with Alan and like what Ivan said in a particular way of installing his products is what Alan told me too. It makes perfect sense to attack on areas that affects your electrical lines the most eg: fridge, washing machine, microwave, WiFi router. This is to minimise the dirt into your electrical lines which will travel back to your breaker panel and spreading to other circuits in your house.

He has a very systematic way of approach to treating your lines which I feel it's best to let him describe it when you ask him. In general I devided his products into two categories electrical noise and airborne noise. 

I too initially had a slight blip on installing his pressure plate over at my breaker panel. The TriCell plate was installed the other way round which did not seem to give the effect that was described by others. After looking through his fb post that's when I realised it was the other way round! Once I got it fixed that's when I noticed the change in my a/v system. 

 His products need some run in period so you have to have some patience during that period as things may sound closed in or out of phase but after some period of time everything will fall in place and better.

 I have yet to try his plug in products (QPI/TG mini/waveguides) which I have ordered. Only time will tell how will that fare at my place.

tjbhuler, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of fun with the stuff you’ve just ordered! The platforms will gobsmack you...maybe especially if you have digital as I do. It’s true about the adjustment time period for his stuff. Some of his things take no more than a couple weeks to come on song, and some others about a month or even more. The platforms (I now have 7, one for every component!) are said by Alan to settle in at 1 month, but I’ve found that everything does indeed sound glorious by then...all except for top-end HF detail which takes around 3 months to fully return (and Then some as you’ve noted), and even after that for a few weeks they continue to...I don’t know exactly how to put into words, really..."sweeten" just a little bit maybe??...it’s a very subtle thing, really, but also quite welcome.

Also, Alan's products will electrically "see" each other on the circuit (the home being one big circuit). As they see each other once installed, they will tend to audibly magnify each other's effects the more AMD devices you have. The more you install, the more effective each filter becomes...way cool!

Have fun!
John