The write up seemed to make sense in that a single point ground reference is always a good thing in a multi-component system, but the train kind of came off the tracks when I looked at the picture in the link and saw that this device is only connected at one end to the component and just looks like it is hanging in free space at the other end. From an engineering point of view I'm not sure how something can "creates a star-ground reference plane" when it is in no way connected to ground. Perhaps this is just the technically illiterate babble of some marketing writer, but it just doesn't seem to match up with what I see in the picture.
That said, from an audiophile point of view I realize that just because something cannot be explain well in an advertising piece does not mean that it wound make a sonic improvement. (Take this from someone who has heard first hand the effects of magic fish tank gravel and glowing rocks
) There have been many times that we have put something into our systems that by all logical thinking should have no effect at all and ended up saying
when we listened to it. I have become a firm believer in "just because we can't explain it in layman's term, doesn't mean that it doesn't work." Of course there are also plenty of things that one would have thought should help a lot that didn't do squat. The key here is to experiment (especially when you can get a money-back guarantee
) and network with other people who do. Unfortunately, my toy budget is way past shot for the next few months, so for now I will have to stay in the second category.
But Audio Prism has made some significant products in the past and is not known as a snake oil company so I would be very interested to hear back from anyone who decides to give these things a whirl.
