Paul S wrote:

… Bad Electricity has more than kept pace, setting me back at an exponential rate…

OK, can somebody explain it to me as I’m a 3 year old?

http://www.synergisticresearch.com/page/ac_conditioning

I do not claim that it is BS I juts would like to know what it is. Jack Bybee’s Quantum Toys, if it is the same, works very badly. Should I expect the synergistic search’s Quantum Tunneling be the same?

Paul S wrote:

I think I remember reading that Jack Bybee used some sort of nano-crystaline ferric dust or something that is supposed to quiet the noise riding on the current.  However stupid it sounds, it is my understanding that this is what they use to quite things down for SONAR.

Yesterday there was the worst I can remember in my long-lasting with electricity. I mean it was not just bad it was beyond any description. My preamp has 126 steps (near a db per click) and during an average electricity day I listening it at 50-60 slicks. Yesterday at 10 clicks the sound was so loud and so “face hitting” that at the click #12 I experienced a physical pain. The speakers sound in complete mono and I had a feeling that the drivers have lost their suspension. Each channel produced pretty much a single note of 2000Hz-3000Hz – truly amazing. Furthermore, I heard how the diaphragms were resisting sounding – a very strange effect. It sounded like someone scratched the diaphragms with finger nails. It was only at MF channels and I physically heard the sound of deformation of the cones. I initially thought that that what a few days back I was accidently driving my MF Vitavox S2 with unfiltered 300B then I damaged my driver but then I realized that I heard the sound of deformation of my MF cone at… the  left channel – the one that I did not use with during my DHT experiments.

I would sincerely believe that the system is terminally sick if I knew that there was nothing changed in my playback for… days, weeks and month. Today, it sounds near OK, in fact it does sound bad at all. The 12 hour of electricity change – what a difference!

What the hell is it? I truly do not interested what it is all about. It is more or less new company

http://www.audience-av.com/conditioners/

… that for the last 2-3 year made a lot of good noise in the industry. The fun part is that they never made any specific comments what they do in their conditioners and when people on their behave make some claims then the claims sound very bogus. Sure a lot of people say positive things about the sound of Adept Response conditioners but it means shit to me, not to mention that in their positive subjective comment about the positive benefits of Adept Response’s contribution I see a lot of contradictions (among what I have read)

The Audience Adept Response has good press but it hardly has anything to do with sound. That only means that the guys who run marketing for Audience know how to kiss the right assess sand to butter up right people. To promote a power conditioners that has it’s operation sponsored by Harry Pearson is similar to wire an application to a kibbutz and to have Adolf Hitler as your reference…

I do not make any negative comments about Audience Adept Response unit – I never had them, never heard them, I feel curios about them but at the same time I am a bit disappointed with expertise of analyses those units were exposed to, at least publicly available. Does anybody can point out me to the description of how those conditioners work? In the case of power devises I do not need people tell me about sound of the devises – I do not believe them anyhow. I would like to know what is done, how is done and being kind of evolved user myself I would make my own estimated how interesting it might be.

Anyone familiar with these? http://www.vertexaq.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ 
I heard a demo @ RMAF; without, with, without again... 
Very effective. 
In that place, At that time, with that system, etc.  

Part of it is about electrical problem, part about vibrations getting into electrical components. 
I did try the "listen to end of wire through stethoscope while rubbing with penny, hear horrible scratchy noise, change to their wire with "magic box" and the noise went away." 
How that could affect SOUND, I don't really know, don't know if I buy all their explanation, but it sure made a huge difference. 

The typical bad electricity/good electricity difference, so I thought I'd mention it here, even though I don't understand what I heard... 

Robert

It sounds bit childish, with the level of seriousness that  some American History Channels pop programs treat history,  but it might be fun and it looks like it is … free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeA3MRtNaX4

It would not surprise for anyone that I do monitor what I going on with power treatment devises out there. Today I was reading Doug Blackburn’s review in Soundstage about Torus Power Conditioner.

http://www.soundstage.com/equipment/toruspower_rm15.htm

The Torus Power Conditioner is a plain-vanilla isolated transformer, similar to Equi=Tech. The Equi=Tech uses Maryland Toroids transformers; Torus uses Plastron transformers – big freaking deal. The Mr. Blackburn fantasies about the “unique transformer design of Torus” are juts his fantasies. The article has a number of factual inaccuracies – (how without them!) but the inaccuracies are not what I would like to talk about.

What I would like to point out is the very positive from my point of view moment: Doug Blackburn “reviewed” the Torus devise and during his tests he discovered that that Torus is inferior to another competitive product - ExactPower EP15A. Doug actually wrote about it despite that it might scare up the products under reviewing - it was a very good sign. The sign might be colored by the fact that the Soundstage’s publisher Doug Schneider I in a virtual payroll of ExactPower but let pretend that we do not know bout it. Let agree that it is very infrequent that a reviewer writhe objectively inferior review. Perhaps Torus Company did not put together attractive enough “stimulation package” or insist Doug Blackburn to return the unit and changed him for back shipping. Oh, no! If they do THAT then I am sure Mr. Blackburn would write that Torus Power Company is founded by Osama Bin Laden family, the Torus’ employee do not stop behind the school basses and Torus owner is requested sex offender. Perhaps it was something minor - like Torus refused to let Doug   to borrow a dozen of unit for next 10 years – I think they call it “the warranty testing”…

Anyhow, leaving the mockery aside, I think it was commendable for Doug Blackburn to write in his review of Torus unit the following:

“The EP15A produced a lower noise floor with a heightened sense of silence between notes and between tracks. It required extremely quiet listening conditions to pick this up, but it was clearly audible. The RM 15 produced a more silent noise floor than wall-outlet power, but it couldn’t equal the inky-black noise floor of the EP15A. Without the direct comparison, I don’t think I ever would have known there was a difference. Both units produced a pleasing musical experience, but the EP15A is a little more dynamic with a larger soundfield, a little more detail and some harmonic richness that’s not present with the Torus Power unit. Finally, the system’s bass reproduction with the EP15A was more controlled and defined -- tighter with less upper-bass fullness. The Torus Power unit’s bass was strong and deep, but a little fuller and warmer. “