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Just wondering how you guys are placing your orders.... I am sure Ric is overwhelmed by the response to the GE's.I have e-mailed twice and do not want to be a "P.I.A.". but I would lie to secure an order .How are we supposed to order andpay using paypal??Should I just be more patient and wait for Ric's response?
but they're by no means plug-and-play. If you take all of the usual and necessary steps of good audio husbandry you'll get terrific results (if I'm anything to go by...)
Well the best I can offer is you read the DIY thread here and the Audiogon threads here for hidden clues as to what you're suppose to hear.
originally I had placed them between the spade and the nut, on my speakers they seem to sound much better secured to the post....What we are hearing is a reduction in 'digitalness" , more weight in the overall sound, perhaps a bit less transparency, but overall a very pleasing, easy to listen to sound.
My hooked Enhancers were of the plug n' play variety for all intent & purposes. No installation protocol was needed or rituals followed to get to where I fell in love with them quite quickly. Guess I was just lucky hea? Cheers,Robin
Why would you need clues as to what you're supposed to hear?
The only one returned for a refund was by someone who is using a PS Audio GCA600 Ice Power based amp that has no true ground. He said it veiled the sound and made the images fuzzy (the total opposite of what almost everyone says). I do have other customers with Ice based amps that love them....so not sure what is going on here.
So, any ideas on what one might do if the product doesn't settle down with break in, as some have reported in their systems?
I don't think there is one post about damping the GEs. The GEs are mounted to a vibrating thang (speaker) by a single solid core wire. This wire is going to vibrate and so is the GE. Please use the cotton string supplied or whatever and damp the thangs. I think some of you will be pleased with the difference. There are no hard fast rules here and I will have pictures soon on the website showing this done, but I can describe here some possible scenarios:Tie the string relatively tightly to the GE near the heatshrink closest to the connector...then tie the other end of the string to the speaker wire that it is laying next to or just tightly wrap the string around both the GE and the speaker wire. If your GE is sticking in the air not near the speaker wire then you can use some magic tape on the back of the speaker (leaves no residue when removed...also bend one end of the magic tape under so you can easily remove it) and use some Blue Tack to hold one end of the string to the tape on the speaker and tie the other end of the string to the GE with a little tension. You can do this on the back of the amp as well. Also you can kill some resonances in the GE by tying some sting around the GE tightly in two places (on the cotton) and then tie it with some tension to something else with another string. You could also just use some Blue tack and scrunch it between the GE and whatever.......use your imagination.
Well I've had my Ground Enhancers on for 24 solid hours now and their contributions haven't faded in the least during the system(and my) "acclimation" period. I find the benefits to quite dramatic in my system which is already heavily loaded with power, signal, and other tweek conditioning. The sound stage expansion is likened to my Acoustic Revive RR-77, only greater and more importantly comes with the inner clarity that really accounts for this depth perception of the sound stage. While I hadn't actually noticed any "ringing" that's said to be caused from the long wire lead, I did find it benefitial to use the included string that I attached from the Enhancer's tip to my speaker cable to add a very slight tension to them. Cheers,Robin
Hi Robin,I'm not suggesting they're difficult--they made a positive difference wherever I put them--it's just that with minimal effort they can sound spectacular!
well, it's been 2.5 days since I received my ge's. after much experimentation I have found a combination that works in my system, and yes, they DO work. I have them on the tweeter/mid module of my speakers and the corresponding output on my amp.first, I will recommend that they be placed on the inside of the spades (on the post). originally I had placed them between the spade and the nut, on my speakers they seem to sound much better secured to the post.I biwire my speakers with two separate runs of acoustic zen satori from two outputs on my krell amp, interestingly enough, when I had them placed on the terminals of both the bass module and the upper module, it sounded awful, muddy, congested, boomy. It wasn't until I removed them from the bass module that I realized the sonic improvements most of the users on this thread have realized.I did a blind listening test with my wife, inserting and removing the ge's...and the difference with them in the system is now significant ( they did seem to need some break in time as well).What we are hearing is a reduction in 'digitalness" , more weight in the overall sound, perhaps a bit less transparency, but overall a very pleasing, easy to listen to sound.As long as nothing changes negatively from here, they will remain in my system!
