In the bail of extra hay. Before we get to roll around in it, first this signal path. 20m CAT8a off my office router. SOtM inline LAN isolator. LHY Audio SW-6sfp switch. Fibre optics. COS Engineering S10 switch. SOtM inline LAN isolator. 27" iMac with Audirvana Studio like the desktop. USB into Singxer SU-6 ultra-cap powered bridge. AES/EBU into Cen.Grand DSDAC 1.0 Deluxe in fixed and DSD1'204 modes. Lifesaver Audio Gradient Box II set to 100Hz/4th order hi/low pass. Kinki Studio EX-B7 monos into Qualio IQ speakers. Gold Note PA-10 Evo into sound|kaos 2×15" cardioid sub. End of. Phew.

With its high 8kHz filter hinge, super-shallow 1st-order low pass for a 6" dipole SB Acoustic Satori mid and 2nd-order high pass for a dipole Mundorf AMT, this Polish tweeter system outshines Raidho's justly famous monopole planarmagnetic on shimmer, dynamics and reach. It's likely why this system really magnified the extra airiness. Inject air into a vein and you die. Inject air into the treble and tunes come alive. Because our biggest system naturally stages and scales the most, the usual benefits of higher treble elucidation in the imaging/layering discipline of specificity really paid off. The Telos makeover's delta had grown. Even a casual listener wouldn't have missed the A/B/A demo's differences.

Unlike the other type of noise killer which can eventually wrap me in a heavy velvet blanket of sumptuous drowsiness, this one enhanced projection and the energy behind full-throttle vocals from Alireza Ghorbani, Dhafer Youssef, Miguel Poveda, Dulce Pontes and Montse Cortés. Everything was light-filled, pure, present and direct. That peculiar relaxation and deflation of musical muscle tone I've heard elsewhere was absent. If my three systems are representative, there really is an unmistakable signature to how this particular ground-noise attenuation manifests. I began to see it as Vitamin G for musical sunlight. I'd say that the effect's magnitude in our downstairs system doubled over the other two. I think of the enabling parties as our 2.5MHz direct-coupled amplifiers and open-backed twin-drive treble system. My inner gremlin for whom G is shorthand for greed is good now wondered. How many of the four Macro minis could I eliminate before the effect eviscerated?