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THE AUDIOPHILE STORE

CLEANER POWER

MAXCON2 POWER FILTER

Looks great, and does a wonderful job. Made from milled aircraft- grade aluminum, with Furutech and Hubbell connectors. Parallel filtering, so it can be used even with very large power amplifiers.

List $1299, but…

ORDER: GMC, MaxCon2 power line filter, $995

Needs IEC power cord: order one at the same time for 20% off!

ENACOM LINE FILTER

Far less expensive, but astonishingly effective, we wouldn’t run our system with less than the Enacom filter. It actually shorts out the hash on the power line. (For 110-120 V only).

ORDER: EAC Enacom line filter, $105

GUTWIRE POWER CABLES

Multiple shielding, including an external electrostatic shield connected to a clip… you may get get best performance with or without. Basic Clef and the G Clef are used by UHF. Now in an upgraded version, with performance “squared.” Length is 1.7 m, longer cords on order.

Basic Clef2 has 165 discrete conductors, 95% shielding by 2 shields. ORDER: GBC-5 Basic Clef Square, 1.7m, $285

G Clef2 has 195 conductors, with 3 shields providing 98% shielding.

G Clef 2can be ordered with a 20A IEC plug (for amplifiers requiring this special plug)..

ORDER: GGC G Clef, Square 1.7m, $385

No budget for the cable you’d like? Make your own! Double-shielded, to avoid picking up or transmitting noise. GutWire 16, assembled or as a kit. (If you are not comfortable around

HOSPITAL GRADE CONNECTION

When we put a quality AC plug on our kettle, boiling time dropped by 90 seconds! The best AC plug we have ever seen is the Hubbell 8215 hospital

grade plug. It connects to wires under high pressure, and it should last forever.

ORDER: AC-P2 Hubbell cord plug, $25.95

Amazingly good at a much lower price are these two cord plugs from Eagle. No hospital rating, but a rather good mechanical connection. Male and female versions.

ORDER: AC-P1 Eagle male cord plug, $5.95

ORDER: AC-PF Eagle female cord plug, $5.95

Making your own power cords for your equipment? You’ll need the hard-to-get IEC 320 connector to fit the gear. We have two sizes.

STINGRAY POWER BAR

Most of these things knock the voltage to your equipment way down, and they generate more noise than a kindergarten class.

The Gutwire Stingray

doesn’t. Superior 12 gauge double-shielded cable, Hubbell hospital grade connectors at both ends. Indispensable! ORDER: GSR-2 Stingray Squared power bar, $285

MORE POWER TO YOU

A simple improvement: better access to electrical power. Change your 77-cent duplex outlets for these Hubbell 8200 hospital grade outlets. Insert a plug and it just snaps in. A tighter internal connection as well. Possibly the cheapest improvement you can make to your system.

ORDER: AC-DA Hubbell duplex outlet, $23.95

ORDER: AC-DB (more than one outlet), $21.95

ORDER: AC-D20 20A duplex, red color, $28.95

INSTANT CIRCUIT CHECKER

Plug it into an AC outlet, and the three lights can indicate a missing ground, wrong polarity, switched wires — five problems in all, some of which can be fatal. None of them is good for feeding your music or home theatre system. The first thing we did after getting ours was phone the electrician.

ORDER: ACA-1, Instant Circuit Checker, $21

electricity, we suggest the assembled one.) Both versions include the Hubbell hospital grade plug and a Schurter 15 A IEC 320 connector. The GutWire 12 gauge (kit only, not shown) is a double-shielded 12 gauge power cable with Hubbell hospital grade plug and Wattgate IEC.

ORDER: GW16-1.5K, GutWire 16 gauge power cable kit, $93.95

ORDER: GW16-1.5 GutWire 16 cable, assembled, $133.95

ORDER: GW12-1.5K GutWire 12 gauge kit, $195

IEC ON YOUR DVD PLAYER

Why do big name DVD players come with those tiny plugs for their cords. A good shielded power cable will do wonders! Take $18 off if you order it at the same time as a G Clef or

Basic Clef cable, or $8 off if you order one with any of our other AC cables.

ORDER: DVD-A, GutWire adapter, $39

SUPER ANTENNA

Unlike a whip, a dipole is bidirectional, so you can orient it. Ours has no switch to muck

things up, and with a

1.8m low-loss 75 ohm cable and gold-plated push-on F connector, it has low internal loss. Its broadband design covers the channels 2-69 TV bands as well as FM. ORDER: FM-S Super Antenna, MkII, $55

ORDER: AC-P3 10 ampere IEC 320 plug, $9.95

ORDER: AC-P4 15 ampere Schurter IEC 320 plug, $18.95

SILVER SOLDER

This is a lovely solder, from the company that makes Enacom line filters (which we also like). Wakø-Tech solder contains 4% silver, no lead.

ORDER: SR-4N, 100 g solder roll, $59.95

BETTER DIGITAL

IMPROVED CD WITH FINYL

This is the most famous of all the treatments for Compact Discs. The maker of Finyl claims it reduces surface reflections and provides a higher contrast image for the laser cell of your player. Use it just once. We get a lot of repeat orders on it. One kit can treat over 200 discs. Or order the refill.

ORDER: F-1 Finyl kit, $40.00

ORDER: F-1R Finyl refill, $35.00

CLEAN YOUR PLAYER

After as little as three months, your new player will have more trouble reading your CD’s. Why? Dust on the lens. We’re happy to have found the new Milty CD lens cleaner. Unlike some commonly-available discs, the Milty is non-

abrasive, so we use it and rest easy. Wet or dry. ORDER: 2021 Milty CD lens cleaner, $35

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Koss 76 manual Cleaner Power

76 specifications

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