Round is also good, ‘coz there are drinks involved . . .
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mmmm Barolo now.
It’s Rosé time out here . . .
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I have been using an Add-Powr Sorcer X2 AC Harmonic Resonator to an unused outlet on my dedicated power outlet.
Had it in my system now for about 6 years and will keep it there.
Ron, just call me Donald next time, I like that name better. 
Going back to practicing putting, round one definitely easier than square one in finding holes.
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Somewhere in here is something to be said of a very modest audio budget. Interesting without anything approaching tempting.
I know I could go look it up, but is the Sorcer designed to do the same thing - to convert sines to squares?
Sorry. There is a D after all!
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The Sorcer designs change the quality of the AC line starting from the circuit breaker box and throughout your home. It does not employ filters, isolation transformers, AC line regeneration, nor balanced power techniques. This harmonic resonator uses line transformers connected in series along with a proprietary digital amplifier circuitry under algorithm control. The AC line is “re-referenced” or re-clocked with low frequency harmonics to increase the s/n ratio.
I ordered an ADD-Powr ElectraClear Eau4. Will report back after I give it a try.
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How would ADDING harmonics reduce the S/N? I don’t know of a single piece of gear that uses the 60 Hz in the line source other than perhaps a PS Audio powerplant which I’m guessing uses it as reference when it regenerates AC from DC. The 60 Hz of the power grid is rock stable. Has to be to have multiple sources on the grid.
Hey, that’s fantastic! But do us all a favor: be very careful to review music at the exact same volume, then describe the differences. The video I watched of theirs showed a difference between the classical guitar they were playing before and after the EAU4 was turned on (or was that another of their products?), but being YouTube, all I could hear was a bump in volume.
And what’s even more fantastic (for me) is that you call yourself a jazzophile. Same here. So if you don’t mind, list the pieces you use for review. Then, assuming you hear improvements, I’ll know what to listen for. One thing my brother says is that you need to give it ample time to do its thing before you hear a difference - time to change the power in the circuit.
hmmm–adding odd order harmonics? I think that’s partly what a guitar distortion pedal does.
I clearly don’t understand it.
Luckily, my P20 is working fine now and it sounds smmmoooooth.
Will do! Thanks for the info. I have the Jeff Rowland 501 monoblocks on their own 20a circuit. They are plugged into a Running Springs Audio Duke power conditioner. That’s a long way of saying there’s an open plug at the dedicated 20a outlet. That’s where the ADD EAU4 is going. I’ll give it some time to settle, then it’s either I hear a positive difference or not. I confess I’m skeptical. If it goes well, I may look at another EAU4, or maybe even the Sorcer, for the sources circuit where I have one each of power conditioners divided into analog and digital. At this point, I’m not re-doing my power scheme until I see if this little bugger actually works 
Man, for a minute there, I thought I was the one serious about AC stuff, but you’re nuts 
. I pulled a separate sub-panel from our home’s main panel, and divided it into 3 circuits, 2 are 20A running 10AWG cable, twisted a full revolution every foot for some reason, to PS Audio outlets - 1 each for my PSA Stellar M1200 mono blocks. The third circuit is for lighting. All connections were done using some crazy silver paste costing $65 for a tiny tube. If you asked me whether I hear a difference, the answer is yes, but I did all that at the same time as the whole dedicated room, so exactly WHAT made the difference, all I can say is YES.
As far as where I would plug in the EAU4, both of the sockets on each of my 2 20A circuits are taken - 1 each for the mono blocks, one for my Convergent Audio tube pre-amp and one for the PS Audio PowerPlant 3 that powers my sources. But ADD-POWR assures me that as long as I plug it in ANYWHERE in my home, it will do its magic, so I’m going the closest I can - into the lighting circuit on the dedicated audio subpanel. If I don’t hear the same incredible improvement you (might) hear, I could pull another socket from one of the 20A circuits, but that feels like I’d be choosing one channel over another, inspiring jealousy.
I think this is getting ridiculous… and fun.
I share your concerns. And if this sounds any less smmmoooooth, I’ll probably send it back. The magic here is that supposedly it improves things like soundstage and definition and leaves things like smmmooooothness intact. We’ll just have to see (or maybe even listen).
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I’m absolutely bonkers hahahahaha. This is fun for sure. I have a healthy skepticism about tweaks until I can hear a positive difference. Looking forward to this one.
And a heads-up: I came to this hobby late. Certainly not recordings - I’ve been an intense listener all my life to pretty much every genre out there, but I listened to the art of music from the way it’s usually studied - creativity in form, instrumentation, vocals, rhythm, melody, harmony, history, and production in general. But all of these I could hear well on many systems. About 10 years ago, I decided to add recording QUALITY to the art. It has added a great deal to all the other stuff, that I still study and learn. So much of what I had already learned has also been changed by this new journey.
But all that being said, I can’t always hear what others here talk about. A lot of it, yeah, but there have been many times where my long-time audiophile brother will say, as he has with the ADD-POWR stuff, “It’s the biggest change I’ve experienced in a long time,” and I am often embarrassed to say I can’t tell a damn thing. And I’m 66 and have tinnitus, but I have to say that despite that, my hearing continues to get better, at least my ability to INTERPRET what I hear.
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Hey, I just found buried a bit deeper on one of the ADD-POWR website’s pages a video that helps (try) to explain their basic philosophy. I still suspect we might only be talking here about volume boost, but maybe not.
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Thanks for sharing. I do need a drink after watching it, but since it’s early I’ll grab another coffee.