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Oh interesting!

I’ve been using RA stuff since the late 90s and most of mine dates from then or early 2000s! Originally ordered some Kimber speaker cable from them, then was encouraged to start with mains, which I reluctantly tried because of the 30-day money back… Well, needless to say I was impressed. A full loom of what, in those days, were called “high current power cords" ensued. Then an original powerblock, which was then upgraded to be a purifier block, before I added a super-purifier, which in those days came in a separate enclosure which piggybacked off the power block. I then had my mains required with a dedicated ring main and ran a dedicated earth into the garden which was star earthed - a lot of digging and watering but worth it - big improvement.

Silencers and superclamps were fitted and then a mega-clamp (which is great).

Then I replaced interconnects and speaker cables - eventually moving all the way up to Select stuff, which really does sound very good - only the copper speaker cables, but I did get up to a silver interconnect. The select analogue interconnects and speaker cables were sold once I got into Meridian enough (they actually funded my first 6Ks, as Reuben was looking for a reference set of wires, and he had a nice pair of 6Ks - anyone remember Reuben? Those were the days!). Now I just run 8TC on the analogue system and a four-braid copper interconnect. I do use some of their DV digital cables for some of my Meridian system runs and a silver streak for the main source output to processor run.

The improvement which blew me away most, though, was when I bought a Torlyte equipment rack. This is the old Torlyte with the square edges and square, chunky shelf connectors. Wow. I couldn’t believe it. Everything opened out and all the harmonics of instruments were there again - it just sounded so beautiful and “right”. A lot of people overlook Torlyte, but it’s really clever engineering, nothing quite like it on the market…

I haven’t tried a lot of the newer stuff like the Zapperators and Abzorbers, or any of the fuses yet, but must get round to it, I’ve never had anything from them that hasn’t made a nice improvement. You’ve encouraged me to pick up some fuses - maybe I can get them as a Christmas present!

Sorry to hijack - back to the thread!