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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
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:
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!
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.
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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.
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Making your own power cords for your equipment? You’ll need the
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
MORE POWER TO YOU
A simple improvement: better access to electrical power. Change your
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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SILVER SOLDER
This is a lovely solder, from the company that makes Enacom line filters (which we also like).
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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.
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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
abrasive, so we use it and rest easy. Wet or dry. ORDER: 2021 Milty CD lens cleaner, $35
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