TubemanRQ
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Some reason that doesn't surprise me much. The cleaner the power the better in my experience as clean power whether from the Wyrd or elsewhere really cleans things up. I just use one Wyrd and a cheap $50 furman power conditioner. Oddly I found a $30 audiophile power cable going directly to my desktop computer to make some of the biggest difference, especially in terms of bass which is very big and powerful sounding now, it's silky smooth with great dynamics and everything is very fleshed out and clear. I think cleaning up the power going to the computer itself really helped clean up dirty USB ports. Maybe another Wyrd or something will improve things more.
Yes, clean power is SOOOOO important. My system uses 4 Powervar power conditioners. 2 of them are 20-amp rated units, 2 of them are 16-amp rated units. The Powervar conditioners have incredibly LOW output impedance, and excel at bringing noise on the neutral leg to ground, and dissipate it.
I also use a WYRD to feed an outboard USB SATA drive case holding an SSD that I rip CD's to using DBPoweramp. I can tell the difference between using a WYRD to feed the ripped CDs to the SSD vs. not using a WYRD and just using the stock USB bus on the PC that I use to do the ripping!
My theory is that even though the data is digital, the noise on the analog waveform carrying the digital data, can negatively affect the sound quality of the data being ripped to the SSD. If I take the same SSD that I ripped the same CD to, I can hear the difference between a track ripped being fed to the drive from the WYRD vs the same track being fed to the same drive over the standard USB bus. The track being routed through the WYRD sounds more open, holographic, and better!!
I know I know, "But it's DIGITAL, and DIGITAL is the same 1s and 0s." Well, apparently my ears are telling me otherwise! LOL
-TRQ