Use those freebie interconnect, cut the cable near the plug and twist the wires together.
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A preamp should short unselected inputs to ground....but few do.
Marantz CD players once came with them as standard for shorting the digital outputs. That did improve the sound quality.
I have put my hand in my pocket and I have had an RTZ box plus a couple of cables for a few days now.
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Excellent gains were achieved to the digital playback soundstage, equipment being Philips CD610 mk2 as transport and Bel Canto DAC3 with VBS and external linear psu.
Previously some posters were asking if this would work in a fully analogue system, the answer is yes. So get your thought processes around this (yes I know it is magic really :rolleyes:).
All digital kit switched OFF. Analogue system as follows:
Lyra Clavis cartridge> Denon AU320 SUT>MM input on KIN preamp (hybrid)>Dual mono hybrid power amp.
The RTZ was connected to a spare input on the KIN with good result but the best result was when the two leads were connected to the L and R loading sockets, that is the same connection as the output leads from the SUT. Signal ground connection only remember.
Again the improvement was not subtle, a definite jump in SQ.
Yello never sounded so good. It is like I have upgraded the cartridge by a big margin.
Listening to an Annie lennox album, previously it could sound a bit screechy it was just drawing me into the performance.
The bass takes on another dimension, so clean and tight. Everything is better defined and in its own space.
Well chuffed.
Isn't Annie Lennox supposed to sound screechy? :D
Curiosity got the better of me so popped into Alan’s today, rude not to as he only lives about 100 yards from me. Anyway Alan spun a record I took with me, yet another LA4 album, and another I’ve got to find for Alan. So we played the track for a few minutes without the grounding box present, then with 1 of the inputs intimate the pre amp and then with the second input into the Pre amp, all I can say is that these work that’s for sure, definitely more space between the notes, more fluidity, texture and improved bass.
Not much else to say really, it’s a very good product and one I’m looking forward to hearing in my system soon
Lee