Hi Audiocrack, you have made me very interested in the Emperor ground cable because of the following:
From Miguel system in youtube, it sounded pretty real.
From your comment and Miguel comment, these cables seems to be correcting room abnormalies or expanding the soundstage. It would be very beneficial to my small room.
Again, i want my system to sound real. These ground cable seems to push that front instead of vibration which improve focus, source which improve noise floor and dynamics/resolution.[/QUOTEM
Hello Hieukm,
In all honesty: if Miguel would not have visited me in October last year and let me experience the effects of the Emperor ground cables (albeit they were the mark i version, the current mk ii version is clearly superior to its predecessor) in my own Tidal LA system I would probably not have believed it myself.
As mentioned on the La Assoluta thread we created the ‘ideal’ conditions for grounding: (i) grounding features are an integral part of the Tidal La Assoluta concept (for example all driver baskets as well as the xovers chambers are grounded, dedicated grounding binding losts, etc), (ii) Miguel added dedicated grounding schemes and binding posts to some of my audio components such as tge Kondo g-1000 linestage, music server and Telefunken M15A tapedeck and (iii) connecting my dedicated electricity center through a copper wire to a very long ground rod / earthpin. In this context the Emperor mk ii cables yield all the sonic benefits I described earlier on the La Assoluta thread. One of them in indeed that the room boundaries and deficiencies are less obvious resulting in a purer / less mechanical sound with a deeper and wider soundstage. In my room the impact of the additional soundstage depth is greater than the soundstage width though.
My speaker has field coil driver and dedicated grounding post too. I dont have the grounding for xover chamber. My current pre-amp has dedicated grounding post but not my amp. My source has not grounding post but when i upgrade it in future then i will make sure it has dedicated grounding post as well. My electricity center also connect through a thich copper wire to a 20m deep ground rod/earth pin. It does not reach 1.5 Ohm like your did but it reach under 4 Ohm, which is decent for me. All in context, my system is also gear toward heavily grounding scheme.
Elite already improve the room boundaries factor so much as now i am having quite amazingly deep sound stage. Sound stage width is really beyond side walls. My system already give me feeling of sitting in the venue as there is so much details, micro dynamics, hall information and sound wave projection at me. Your finding again is in line with what my system demonstration. I am just hoping for more.
What i am focus now is trying to make the instrument sound more realistic through tonal, timbre, density, decay, speed. If the Emperor grounding cable is what it takes then i have to investigate.
Moreover, i am also trying other stuff mentioning here such as AM fuses, Schnerzinger and Kuro cable.
