What is this?

[astouffer]

http://www.synergisticresearch.com/page/active_shielding/enigma/overview

"tube based power supply for Active Shielding"

Well thats a new one for me. I've seen the cables in Stereophile that use a bias voltage to supposedly cut down on noise, but one based on tubes?

http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/10708syn/

$6000? For $6000 I will personally chauffeur you to a concert hall every week for one year

 

[Geek]

What is this?

More audiophool rubbish

That one doesn't even appear to have the plate cap active.

Good grief.

 

[HollowState]

Incredible but not suprising. Yet another well hyped toy for filthy rich audiophool lawyers and doctors to pee away their money on.

 

[kevinkr]

Umm, not that uncommon to use some high voltage gas thyratrons as rectifiers, and in that case the grid is used as the plate and the plate cap is left unconnected. A pair is usually used with FWCT... Not sure if this is what they are doing or not. FWIW this works quite well at a couple of hundred mA and a KV or two... Hope I am not giving anything away..

 

[tomchr]

I suspect this gizmo will do as much for sound quality as myrtlewood speaker cable stands...

I totally dig their product photography, though...

Tom

 

[Wavebourn]

Bootstrapped shield most probably. I used such a trick in a long cable snake to connect guitars directly to the mixing console.

 

[Hearinspace]

Isn't biasing an interconnect more or less the same idea as biasing crossover capacitors ?

 

[jamesjung21]

Interesting to see that the 323A's top cap isn't even connected to anything.

Sorry for going off-topic, but isn't it funny to imagine what Apple Inc.'s lawyers will do once they see the Synergistic Research web page layout? I'm pretty tempted to let Apple know

 

[Ty_Bower]

The first sentence of the article explains exactly what the thing is:

"Sculpted as a work of industrial art..."

 

[pointy]

a half working doughnut toaster with a sod using it pop up button