groundenhancers

[tmazz]

Now, to be honest, if someone were to have snuck into my home and installed these, I would likely have chalked it up to a very good day in my AC grid and hoped for the same the next day. 

Which is still not a bad amount of improvement for a $30 investment.

[shep]

i want! can't we whip up a group buy? Like I said I'm not up to spending 60$ right now, having splurged on KCI Silkworms and a major cdp upgrade in the near future. I like the discription of thinking it's a good day on the grid. That makes a lot of sense and I hear that easily here where the voltage can dip down to 200 v on a bad day. Today being a case in point. We have our first snow fall and of course everyone has turned up the wick.

[TooManyToys]

Two 6" pieces of 16 ga automotive primary wire gets you pretty close.  That ain't $60.

Geez, send me a dollar and I'll mail you two 6" sections any day of the week. 

[evan1]

Two 6" pieces of 16 ga automotive primary wire gets you pretty close.  That ain't $60.

Geez, send me a dollar and I'll mail you two 6" sections any day of the week.  

I think he's in Australia.

[shep]

I don't know where he's from. Even for an Australian he has the oddest written English I've ever seen! I almost bought his stepped pots, the ones that plug directly into the amp, a few years ago. Very good i believe. I got something even better...from Australia. Given the difficulty people are having at AC to duplicate his design, I think I will wait a while. Thanks for the offer though.

[evan1]

I don't know where he's from. Even for an Australian he has the oddest written English I've ever seen! I almost bought his stepped pots, the ones that plug directly into the amp, a few years ago. Very good i believe. I got something even better...from Australia. Given the difficulty people are having at AC to duplicate his design, I think I will wait a while. Thanks for the offer though.

Shep, I wrote that thinking you were in Australia

[mdconnelly]

Shep, I doubt Ric would offer much in the way of a discount on a group buy.  He's already swamped with orders and at $25/pair when ordering two pair, it's a pretty nice deal.  While I suspect parts cost is minimal, it has to take some time to put these together not to mention all the time spent dealing with email from the likes of us   

But, contact him and see what he'll do...

[shep]

you're right of course. How did I get to Australia? I live in France.

[evan1]

you're right of course. How did I get to Australia? I live in France.

Sorry , but close enough to no one 

[shep]

actually you are close to the truth.. there are exactly 11 people in my hamlet at last count.

[rollo]

  Well we are not nuts. It appears that Genesis and VMPS are going to supply either the Audio Prism or EVS ground enhancers with new speaker purchases.
  Now the question is wether the Audioprisms are better designed than the EVS. If any of these are better [ which they should be] than my homemade babies I am in hook line and sinker.
  Now this whole ground plane thingie. would a star ground system for every component in the system achieve the same or more of the benifit found usuing " a ground plane " for the speakers? Or just solder a wire from the driver basket to the neg. terminal as a ground plane.
  Acoustic Revive makes an expensive ground conditioner that is very affective. Could these be similiar devices used as ground planes.
  The nervosa is perking again.


charles

[evan1]

  Well we are not nuts. It appears that Genesis and VMPS are going to supply either the Audio Prism or EVS ground enhancers with new speaker purchases.
  Now the question is wether the Audioprisms are better designed than the EVS. If any of these are better [ which they should be] than my homemade babies I am in hook line and sinker.
  Now this whole ground plane thingie. would a star ground system for every component in the system achieve the same or more of the benifit found usuing " a ground plane " for the speakers? Or just solder a wire from the driver basket to the neg. terminal as a ground plane.
  Acoustic Revive makes an expensive ground conditioner that is very affective. Could these be similiar devices used as ground planes.
  The nervosa is perking again.


charles

Let your Nervosa perk. I am happy with my results.

[Phil]

For those who are happy with these:  Did you experience a breakin period and, if so, how long?

Mine have about six hours on them and the HF is sibilant and brittle.  I hate breaking in anything that requires listening to the process 


Phil

[richidoo]

In one of the AC articles, BudP commented on the break in adventure, iirc.

[bacobits]

Shep, do you have any CAT 5?
Someone over on AC  said they got an appreciable difference using that in 2 one foot lengths of one twisted pair each.

If they don't work out here I will send you mine.
IF they ever get here.

Den