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RE: Gutwire Perfect Ground Cable

Audio tweaks are a strange phenomenon. One person's success is another's failure, condemned as an item arriving directly from a UFO that landed in Roswell.

I decided to give the ground cable a try. Took an old laptop power cord (each of the 3 wires appeared to be around 20ga) that was no longer in use and cut off the ends. Trimmed down two power wires about 1 inch leaving the green ground available for attachment. Then took an old RCA male and unsoldered the previous negative (ground) connection. Soldered in the green ground wire.

For the AC end I took a 3 wire AC plug and connected the end of the green ground wire to the green ground. The two power wires were trimmed back, so there was no chance of connection.

Then I took a small bit of Stillpoints ERS (RF absorbing) material that was left over from a previous tweak experiment from around 10 years ago and wrapped it on the inside of the AC Plug shell before reinstalling the cover.

Attached the new ground cable to my Schiit Bifrost 4490 DAC through the RCA digital input. The AC end went into the power grid.

Fortunately, nothing fried. How is the sound; more detailed, tighter, somewhat more relaxed with a bit more air. Noticed a bit of sibilance in female voices. Overall, perhaps a bit tweaked up in the high end. But, this cable is certainly not broken in and who know where the sound will be in 25-100 hours.

My humble experiment indicates there may be something to the Gutwire Perfect Ground Cable. Not in every system, but it may offer success with some equipment.


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