PRICE DROP: $550 Bybee Power Conditioner - Oyaide, Wattgate & Felix

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This is perhaps the single best accessory I've ever used.  It's a custom one-off product that I had Wayne at Bolder Cables build for me "just" before he switched careers back to being a brewmaster for a local high end brewery.  Hell, if I could have a job making and tasting beer all day, I'd switch too!   :thumb:

This is a Bybee power conditioner with the additional filtering of the AudioCircle Felix, which is a group-developed design from here on AC.  This is a maxxed out turbo-charged version of that design.  From the WattGate connectors, to the double Large Bybees ($200 each) to the audiophile capacitors, wiring and inductors it's as good as it gets. 

It all comes in a Japanese made Oyaide power strip, which is a highly polished piece of audio art.  In person this thing is just beautiful, from the mirror finish, to the ultrathick folded metal, to the brass spikes on the bottom, this is meant to be seen, not hidden away behind a rack.   

The case ALONE is $300 from VH Audio - https://www.vhaudio.com/powerstrips.html

Why am I selling them, I hear you ask?  Because I want to try a big PS Audio P10.  Gotta fund the audio addiction somehow  :lol: 

I almost forgot....how does it sound?  In a word: AMAZING.  It cleans your AC like nobodies business. 

Here's the best way I can describe it - do you know how your system sounds it's best at around midnight (or even better, 2 am)?  It's like that.  Only all the time, all day every day. 














Asking:
$700
$650
$600

$550

This is less than the cost of the parts that went into building it.
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Price Drop.

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Updated description with more detail about the case.

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Price drop again - man you guys are killing me :P

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Tyson..I noticed a 15 amp (purple) and a 20 amp (gray) outlet. So is the IEC inlet 15 or 20 amps? Thanx, Jeff

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IEC inlet is 15a.  Added a new pic to show it. 

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Why am I selling it, I hear you ask?  Because I have 2 of them

Oh really?
Post a pic of both of them with a copy of todays newspaper :lol:

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Only 4 receptacles for all that effort ?

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Why am I selling it, I hear you ask?  Because I have 2 of them

Oh really?
Post a pic of both of them with a copy of todays newspaper :lol:

Ask and you shall receive!  I just added a pic with the 2nd Power Conditioner.  They are BOTH up for sale now  :thumb:

Only 4 receptacles for all that effort ?

Great observation!  In fact the bars work best (IMO) in pairs - I plug all my analog equipment into the one with bar with the purple plugs and all my digital equipment into the bar with the all-beige plugs.  The 2 bars sound exactly the same to me, but the color coding is nice. 

Result?  Absolutely phenomenal isolation between digital and analog power (which is very important IME). The analog equipment gets pure/perfect power delivered to it and it's brick-walled from the digital equipment.  And the digital equipment gets perfect pure power delivered to IT.  It's a powerful 1-2 punch. 

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Price drop down to $550.  Man, you guys are killing me - this is way below even parts cost.  Seriously, if you have digital equipment anywhere in your system, you NEED to hear what one of these can do for you - they are amazing. 

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One other observation - if you have digital equipment at all in your system, you really, really need to hear what a Bybee based power conditioner can do for you. 

In fact, I might actually remove one of the bars from the sale ad.  I got a PS Audio P5 power plant recently and it's awesome.  But even IT can't do for digital equipment what the Bybee power conditioners can.  I might have to keep one for myself just for my digital stuff. 

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Bumpity-bump!

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One bar is SOLD!  The other is still available.  Here's feedback from the buyer of the first bar:

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I’ve wanted to take the bar for a spin to let you know what I think and — WOW!!!! 

First, plugging the equipment into the bar has absolutely opened the GR Research Wedgies up.  I knew that I had hit a sound that I loved when I put those speakers together and had them in my main room, though it never felt as though they were quite right in that space.  Now, it seems that everything is “right-sized,” and the musical space they are throwing with the Bolder bar in place pretty much outrageous. That’s with a front end that should by rights be considerably less refined than what they were being fed.  The Wedgies really are a great design; the Bolder bar is showing just how great!  Everything just sounds right :).  Swapping the Uber for comparison in was very interesting.  It’s not that things weren’t good, it’s just that the magic disappeared.  I very much prefer the magic.