Hello,
For a couple of years I have been using a surge protector that also, supossedly, has noise filtering (EMI/RFI), which I think it is not crap, but not top class either (I do not belive much in cables and things like that once a minimum quality is reached):
I have been connecting here my receiver, my power amp, my streamer and some other stuff. A couple of days ago I have tried to disconnect the power amp from the surge protector and connected it directly to the wall, as many advice and I have noticed that sound is much more open, wider, less compressed, much more clear at top end. However bass is clearly less prominent. I cannot say what I like more, the crystal clear sound from the wall (though a bit fatiguing) or the sound from the surge, less detailed but with more bass and body and sometimes more pleasant
Is the surge degrading the sound or on the contrary the filters are doing their job? I woud think that the surge is degrading the sound if it were be substracting a bit of everything, and indeed it is substracting soundstage and clarity... but is adding bass. Can this happen? can it add bass?
For a couple of years I have been using a surge protector that also, supossedly, has noise filtering (EMI/RFI), which I think it is not crap, but not top class either (I do not belive much in cables and things like that once a minimum quality is reached):
I have been connecting here my receiver, my power amp, my streamer and some other stuff. A couple of days ago I have tried to disconnect the power amp from the surge protector and connected it directly to the wall, as many advice and I have noticed that sound is much more open, wider, less compressed, much more clear at top end. However bass is clearly less prominent. I cannot say what I like more, the crystal clear sound from the wall (though a bit fatiguing) or the sound from the surge, less detailed but with more bass and body and sometimes more pleasant
Is the surge degrading the sound or on the contrary the filters are doing their job? I woud think that the surge is degrading the sound if it were be substracting a bit of everything, and indeed it is substracting soundstage and clarity... but is adding bass. Can this happen? can it add bass?