For sale is an classic power conditioner built by TG Audio located in Houston Texas. The company operation was suspended when the owner late Bob Crump passed away but is now back in business. However this power conditioner is no longer made. This unit does not belong to me, I am actually selling it on behalf of a friend of mine. There're a few scratches on the surface which has no impact on its operation. I don't know about the exact construction of this unit but I know it has at least 4 Bybees in it (which are worth probaby more than this unit). It also comes with its own power cord which is a plus if you know how much TG Audio is selling their power cord for.
The numbering on the surface has certain meanings: Left bank of duplexes indicated with a "1" is for analog. Right bank of duplexes indicated with a "2" is fully isolated and is
for digital. Duplex marked as "3" is also intended for use with digital equipment.
For a review of this unit, check out:
http://www.boundforsound.com/tweak.htmOr just read the excerpt:
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POINT 11. It doesn’t get any better than this - The Third Tier. This system of AC line conditioning has permanently changed the sound of the Big Rig.
Let’s start with the TG Audio Bybee-Sucker-Spur System. Last year when BFS reported that the line conditioner of all line conditioners was a Jack Bybee TAD plugged into a TG Audio Line Sucker, small aftershocks resonated throughout the industry. We didn’t make a big deal of it at the time, but readers who owned TAD’s added a Line Sucker, and people with Line Suckers added a TAD. The sonic impact was felt from coast to coast as BFS readers were being treated to a sound quality improvement unheard of (no pun intended) by audiophiles ever before. In response, TG started making "The Bybee Companion", a small Line Sucker with only one outlet into which one could plug a TAD unit. This was an important move for TG and Bybee because it is imperative that the Bybee be plugged into the TG, and not the opposite. Reverse them, and it all falls apart.
With this success in hand, TG contacted Jack Bybee and requested permission to construct a single unit with the Line Sucker filter and a Bybee unit in the same chassis box. TG made arrangements so that royalties would be paid to the designers, and it was agreed that Jack Bybee would provide his modules, and TG would construct it all using the lessons learned in the past regarding how things should be wired, and what parts to use. TG uses the very same Bybee filter that John Curl referred to in his interview in the August, 1997 Stereophile.
The Bybee-Sucker was launched with little ceremony at the Las Vegas CES in January. With Speaker Art, G&D Transforms and Presence Line, people marveled at the sound quality coming from a system so inexpensively put together (with the exception of the Presence Line preamp - it is expensive). But it was the late night listening sessions that really made people raise an eyebrow. Out went the Cardas wire, in went the JPS. Out went the daytime amp, and in went the G&D prototype. A few other changes were made to the system for the true aficionados of the art, and people from buildings all around came to listen. One of the guys that understood and realized the significance of what was going on was Chris English of Threshold/ PS Audio. He’d come to listen, go, and then come to listen again. At night after the exhibits would close for the day, he’d come to listen some more. The sound was immensely Hot! Chris wanted to know what was going on, so, on the last day of the show the Bybee-Sucker went into the PS Audio room with a couple of TG Audio HSR cords, just to see what would happen. The PS Audio electronics were powering a set of AudioStatic electrostatic hybrid loudspeakers. A few moments were taken to make the change to the new AC equipment. When everything went back on, the improvements were immediate and utterly outstanding. Chris’ face lit up. Expletive laden comments of astonishment were everywhere. The PS Audio/Audiostatic display exploded with sound. Nobody could believe the improvements, and immediately, I started to think about a review of the electronics and the speakers. Chris English asked to take the Bybee-Sucker home with him for a few days after the show (it turned out to be a month), and I had to get one for the Big Rig. Other than that small group of audiophiles, nobody at the show had any idea that the break-through component of the four days was an AC line conditioner sitting unpretentiously in the corner of the TG Audio room. Nobody knew.
With the right AC line conditioning it’s almost impossible to have bad sound. The Bybee-Sucker took a good three weeks to break-in, and even after that, improvements in sound continued that could only be attributed to its further development. And as it develops, the sonics do nothing but improve. It’s difficult to believe that an AC line conditioner can make such dramatic overall improvements to the sound of a system. But, maybe that’s the way it should be with the right AC line conditioner. For when one thinks about it, a conditioner doesn’t simply improve a single component, it serves to assist every component plugged into it. So, if there is a performance increase in one piece of gear, it’s only logical to expect that each component involved will be similarly improved performance wise. Now the preamp is working better, the ODAP is optimized, and the transport is humming along. It then follows that with all the components working better, that one would hear more of an improvement sonically than if, for example, only the ODAP had been upgraded. Sonic improvements are therefore three-fold, and all the more noticeable. Many improvements for the price of only one AC power conditioner. The Bybee-Sucker with Spur are in a class of their own.
The improvements wrought by their use are not insubstantial. Their performance as a system can only be referred to as groundbreaking, and a breakthrough of major proportions. This is what I have been waiting for as an audiophile - a product that makes everything sound dramatically better.
And you know, I don’t really care what some soft minded cretin thinks about my enthusiasm for these units. They do what I have said they do, and the person who scoffs has either never heard the system, or is deaf and dumb. We cannot be restrained by some flat earth meter reader who hasn’t the guts to listen and learn. A machine cannot measure all that our ears can hear. I recently saw on television that our brain takes in, compares, analyzes, and processes more than two billion pieces of information every second! The greatest audio computer on earth is still between your ears - trust it!
