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In Reply to: RE: I'm all aboard the tubular wire train as I mentioned. Can I suggest you give streamers a whirl sometime? Nt posted by geoffkait on March 31, 2014 at 07:48:41
I will have to look up what this is.
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Just tried and don't see anything that is wire.
More explanation please.
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Mapleshade's ground plane ribbons are "streamers."
Has anyone used those Mapleshade Streamers and heard "startling" improvements? I am not being facetious. I have the highest regard for Pierre Sprey, but sometimes he is given to hyperbole, IMO.
You wrote,
"Has anyone used those Mapleshade Streamers and heard "startling" improvements? I am not being facetious. I have the highest regard for Pierre Sprey, but sometimes he is given to hyperbole, IMO."
I think the whole idea is the cat's pajamas.
Do you know what he is covering his foil with?
Looks like the same foil as the inductors but with a plastic covering. Plastic, BAD is my first reaction.
From what the fellow who came up with this idea (Bud Purvine as far as I know) opined that a cotton covering was part of the scheme.
One would need to first coat the foil with shellac (my favorite coating) to slow oxidation and then place between lengths of cotton cloth for the best effect. Of course, Purvine also found it best to form a loop which is not clear if this has been done from the photo. Maybe MAPLESHADE found it was not necessary?
Whether to use foil or litz wire? Cotton cloth or not? I thought these were questions with settled answers. I should know better. Nonetheless it would be interesting to hear Mr. Purvine's assessment of this.
claimed that wire surface area was critical. His recommendation was to use litz since it has a large surface area. I have utilized his ideas using 4 inch wide copper foil with very good results. Looping did sound better, BTRW.
Streamers are not the same thing as ground loops. The far ends of the streamers are left unattached as per Mapleshade's description. I don't know what he coats the foil with. I do not coat mine.
Edits: 04/01/14
Gonna make me some streamers.
Be interesting to see if they make a difference used in conjunction with the EVS Ground Enhancers used on my amp.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
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