I wish I couldn’t hear the difference in power cords. Now I have to decide if I want to replace the SR Excite power cord that cost half as much as the Tempus with a Grande that costs considerably more than the switch it would be connected to?? But it sounds so good now??
I’m going to wait…
Good luck. Thought I could get by without a switch. Now, a Tempus sits here.
Thought I could get by with a lesser cord to power it. Now, a Stealth CGLE is hooked up to it.
I have a bad habit of keeping things I’ve tried and liked.
what we won’t do for our children
I finally received my Tempus last night after a 3-week wait. The difference between the SW-6 and the SW-10 was a nice step up. But the difference from an SW-10 to a Tempus was in a whole other spectrum. I haven’t even listened to 2-channel music yet through Roon because my wife and I were so excited to watch (and listen) to a movie off my NAS. We were not disappointed to say the least. Money, very well spent. This screen shot was off Moana 2 which just happened to be on her Emby watch list. Pic doesn’t do it justice whatsoever, but it still looks cool. I have never seen this/these kind of ‘pop’ and I’ve owned LG OLEDs exclusively for over 6 years. I won’t even go into the audio improvements!
Count me as yet another switch skeptic who wound up with a Tempus… perhaps the argument is actually that if you haven’t heard enough of a difference with other switches, you should just go all out with Tempus…?
That said, Al’s dealer has tried it, so there’s that counter. So many dependencies… at some point maybe I will bring my SW6 and Tempus to my other home/system and see if it has different impact there. It’s a decent but much less optimized setup across the board (no room treatment, 100A condo vs. 400A house mains, Xfinity cable w/a much smaller Unifi setup vs. AT&T fiber w/a full Unifi stack, Furutech power distributor vs. Gryphon Powerzone etc. etc.).
I thought about trying a better switch on my Sony OLED + Google TV streamer… I guess I could try the SW6 there and see if I notice anything on top of the Unifi U6 in-wall HD that’s there right now. Adding a Furman linear filter and better power cords/iFi PSU made a much bigger difference than I was expecting, more the sound than the picture. Even my wife was shocked how much more bass and clarity there was, before the power upgrades she thought the Google TV had very muddy dialog (and this is through a Sonus Arc soundbar).
I noted a mild improvement with the SW-10 and my video streamers/OLED. But it was nothing like the Tempus. But I was a little worried when I first powered it on. I was getting all sorts of skipped frames, slight freezing and audio drop outs. I thought I may have gotten a dud. But after running it in for maybe 15 minutes, it stopped with the funny business. I think it just needed to get up to temp. I had that happen with the LPS unit which powers my Nvidia Shield Pro as well, albeit to a much less noticeable effect.
I think the main reason why my dealer told me not to buy a Tempus is the Tempus 2 is maybe six to eight months away.
I am guessing, I know nothing for certain about the Tempus 2.
I love that the Tempus improved the TV. I have a Sony OLED that doesn’t seem to need any improvement. But if improvement came Good Golly! But it’s a totallying different system far away from my main audio system. It is on its own separate network.
I don’t see myself being a two Tempus guy. Still.
Congrats and interesting to hear about your experiences. The impact the Tempus has also on TV/video components is very much overlooked. Today most TVs do streaming and the improvements are incredible. I still remember when I first watched video content with the Tempus and thought I somehow got a new TV 
This actually may feel weird (some bits are bits mindset I had left) though what noise can do to video is so obvious as it does to audio.
@aangen Well some dealers have different motivations. At some point in time there is always a successor coming up. I would suggest trying one and you can judge for yourself.
You must have missed the part where I explained I tried to buy one this week and my dealer told me to wait. He also wants me to pack up my two MUON Pros to sell before the model 2 arrives.
I have no need for a lecture on “you got to get in some time, something new will always come along”. I’m not a noob, thank you very much.
Sure thing about the Muon2, I totally get that. I’m just curious though about your dealer’s view on the Tempus. And sorry if I came across as lecturing - that wasn’t my intention.
I was just giving you schitt. We’re pals.
It’s pretty simple math made more difficult by tarrifs. A $5500 device, with a 15% tarriff, that would need to be sold for what, $2750, in less than a years time so the new $7887 unit can be purchased? And it will need special feet and a new $17,000 power cable that fortunately, is made in New Jersey by Stealth Audio. No tarrif.
The SW6 is paid for. Mmmmmmm.
I am missing something and hope you don’t mind schooling me a bit.
How, exactly does a better switch help with an OLED 4K TV? Isn’t the audio and video feed care of an HDMI cable.
I am still slumming with a 55” Panasonic Viera 1080p Plasma and an Anthem AVM 50v Pre/Pro, so I might not be up to speed on the latest signal path for 4K monitors.
TIA.
That makes more sense. So your dealer may actually hear a difference between an SW6 and a Tempus. Since I only do streaming and no BACCH the Tempus was a nice upgrade that I could do now. I’ve never heard BACCH (too complicated for my liking) but in my system the Tempus improvements made me think that could be closer to what BACCH does without having to master the art of being a sound engineer.
If something better comes along in a few months that would be nice!
I am putting down my upgrades next year:
Muon Pro 2 and Tempus 2, these are little boxes that do not count as components. At least that is what I will tell my wife anyway; just like cables.
The OLED is also a streamer - I’m using the native Google TV for Netflix et al. Though on my older OLED, I had to get a separate Google TV Streamer box because the UI had gotten too slow and some apps barely functioned. So in theory, yes, I could take that TV off any sort of network connection. It might be on WiFi now.
One annoying thing about Sony TVs is that the latest ones have WiFi6 but only 100M ethernet, so WiFi is actually significantly faster downstream than wired. Even my latest-hotness Bravia 8 II is stuck on 100M since they’re too lazy to upgrade the network controller. Blergh. (The TV is otherwise awesome though.)
That is what I have used on my Sony 75 OLED too. HDMI for Sono Arc Ultra, plus another HDMI for Dish Network. Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple+ are all built in. I also have a 4k Sony DVD player, but I have not used it for quite a few years. I do not have any use for other types of cables.
I also use a $400 AQ conditioner designed for HT, because I could not tell much difference from P15, nor from Puritan PSM156.
I sold all my AQ Coffee and Vodka HDMI and use Monster 3k HDMI because it is actually better than AQs in my system.
Side note - the What!HiFi review of the Google TV streamer said that it had mediocre sound quality vs. e.g. an Apple TV. I’m fairly certain a better power supply than the stock USB-C wall wart helps at least close that gap. We’ll see if a switch does anything, I’m a bit skeptical because the amount of noise on that device has to be insane (I’m not sure I can even turn off the WiFi radio completely).
Gotcha. Thanks for the information.
