Florida Audio Expo Show Report
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Puma Cat
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Hey Dev, no, Lukasz said they were going to take what they had learned from the (considerable) R&D effort from the Baltic 3 and Horizon development projects, and apply it to the development of some new (analog) amplification products.
Here's what I would recommend, though: Put a Shunyata Altaira Chassis Ground hub when it's available onto an unused digital port of your Baltic 3.
Cheers.
Have you tried ? what was the result ?
Puma Cat
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No, I don't have a Shunyata Altaira Chassis Ground hub, but I plan on getting one when available. I very briefly had an early Altaira prototype in-house for beta-testing back in 2020, but I had to send that unit on to another beta-tester after only about 2 weeks. That other beta-tester had components with more sophisticated "built-in" grounding system, so it was important for him to test it extensively from that circuit topology perspective. To be honest, I don't remember if that prototype was the Chassis Ground hub or Signal Ground hub version as it was about 2 years ago.
What I did do recently, though, was to connect a Shunyata Venom CGC spade ground cable to the screw-down chassis terminal screw on the front of my UpTone Audio EtherREGEN to one of the GP-NR ground posts of my Everest and was gobsmacked at the level of improvement that resulted. Then, I connected another Shunyata Venom CGC ground cable with an RCA plug on the component end to the S/PDIF terminal of my Baltic 3 DAC and the spade end to another ground post of the GP-NR of my Everest, and got yet an another, equal degree of improvement in the reduction of the noise floor. The improvement from connecting both these cables to establish a chassis ground connections from both the EtherREGEN and Baltic 3 to the GP-NR system of Everest was fairly startling: a notably quieter noise floor, more transparency and clarity for reproduction of instrumental and vocals, greater and more full-bodied tonal density and finer articulation of timbre, as well as improved imaging and soundstaging: specificially more solidly-defined and stable images, with more finely articulated layering of instrument and vocals in the oundstage and improved "vapor trail" of decay.
And most notably, it imparts a really nice sense of what I could call "listening ease" to the presentation. I think Hans uses the term "relaxed" to mean the same thing.
The GP-NR system of Shunyata power distributors was put there for a reason, and Man! It really works. Frankly, I'm surprised more people don't use it.
Cheers, Dev.
johnthomas
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I'm under the assumption that when you plug a component into the Everest that chassis grounding automatically occurs and you don't need to run a ground cable from a component to the GP-NR system of the Everest. So I would guess that Everest owners that have everthing plug into the Everest would only need the signal grounding hub. Is that how you guys see it?
crwilli
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Yes, that’s what Richard from Shunyata told me.
Swisstrips
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And similarly, how good the Amber 3 must be, since the Baltic is based of that (basically a souped up A3) if I’m not mistaken? Never heard one though.
Audioseduction
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Here is the final set of images. Please enjoy!
SCAudiophile
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Absolutely incredible photography...don't know how you pull that off in a show environment!
Barry
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Mike, congratulations on a very successful show! Although I did not attend, I watched over a dozen "Audiophile Junkie" videos, and was really impressed by the quality of the participants' rooms and the breadth of the products on display. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the YouTube coverage. I'm definitely going to have to be there next year!
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Audioseduction
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Thanks! Was not easy as the lightning was very poor in most cases. Good thing my lens had an F-Stop of f2.8 which helps.
still-one
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The only problem I see in the shows coverage, when Mike has his own rooms at a show he doesn't have the time for his normal end to end photographic coverage of the entire show. I missed that. 
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The only problem I see in the shows coverage, when Mike has his own rooms at a show he doesn't have the time for his normal end to end photographic coverage of the entire show. I missed that.
Thanks! I didn’t get a chance to hear a single room other than my 3.
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the professor
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Slacker. :woot:
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Grey goose is in short supply in Florida. I wonder why….[emoji848]
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the professor
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I didn't slack off -- obviously. LOL
Just think how bad it would be if I was there all 4 days.
Just think how bad it would be if I was there all 4 days.
kiwi_1282001
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Jays Audio Lab – Top Rooms at Florida Audio Expo 2022
Source: Jay's Audio Lab "2022 Florida Audio Expo:My Top And Most Disappointing Rooms!!!"
Source: Jay's Audio Lab "2022 Florida Audio Expo:My Top And Most Disappointing Rooms!!!"
kiwi_1282001
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Very good according to Jay's Audio Lab. See above video.
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