Thread: Shunyata Launches - ALTAIRA GROUNDING SYSTEM!!

Oh yeah baby, this is the real deal.

Altaira brings more to the party than Everest or Alpha/Sigma v2 power cables did.

It's right up there with Sigma Clock-50 for quantum leap in system utility.

That's all I have to say about that!

Originally Posted by brodricj

Oh yeah baby, this is the real deal.

Altaira brings more to the party than Everest or Alpha/Sigma v2 power cables did.

It's right up there with Sigma Clock-50 for quantum leap in system utility.

That's all I have to say about that!

You were a skeptic! Glad you got to experience “the real deal”!


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Originally Posted by Puma Cat

And...it gets EVEN BETTER when you implement a segmented system, e.g. partitioning the digital front end from the "analog amplification" gear.

One Altaira doesn't have enough grounding posts for my system.

If I went segmented that would be another SG, right? I'm wondering whether the power supply for the SACD transport would be on the analog segment with the pre-amp and its power supply, or would you put it on the digital segment with the transport?

I was thinking the smart money would be to add a 2nd SG rather than buying a set of grounding cables. A set of GC is $1K+ more than the cost of a grounding hub. I couldn't see the sense of that when basic wire worked so well. I had placed an order and paid in full for a set of Omega GC's but I cancelled that yesterday. I put up the do not disturb sign yesterday and had a good listening session with the newly grounded system. What Shunyata says in its marketing material about the performance benefits of Altaira I fully endorse.

My Mil-Spec M27500A16LE1S06 wire arrived today. This is a shielded silver plated stranded copper wire with a PTFE jacket. I bought 50' of it. The plan was to cut it to length to connect my source components to the Altaira grounding hub. I had a change of mind and decided to use it to connect the Denali to the Everest, and the Halcro mono amps to the Altaira. There was a short piece left over that I used to connect the Altaira to the Everest. Previously the Halcro mono amps were connected to the Denali grounding post. Now the Altaira is fully loaded:

Altaira ground > Everest ground.
Altaira SG1 > Esoteric D1X-R
Altaira SG2 > Esoteric D1X-L
Altaira SG3 > Esoteric C1X + power supply
Altaira SG4 > Esoteric P1 + power supply
Altaira SG5 > Esoteric G-02X
Altaira SG6 > Halcro mono L + mono R
Denali ground > Everest ground

Initial impression is grounding the Denali to the Everest and the power amps to the Altaira has made an incremental improvement over the previous configuration (which was source components grounded to Altaira and power amps grounded to the Denali). Grounding the source components to the Altaira using cheap 30 amp ETPC copper made a significant improvement; in fact it was a revelation. The next step is to buy more of the Mil-Spec silver wire to replace the ETPC copper for the source components. I'm terminating the wire with Audioquest silver plated spades. The Mil-Spec wire is cheaper than the entry level Shunyata Venom grounding cable (I can build six DIY ground cables for about the same cost as one Venom GC).

I would like to know whether I can hear any difference between silver wire and cheap copper wire grounding cables. I would also like to know if the Shunyata grounding cables sound better than the DIY silver/copper grounding cables. Unfortunately these are not available for demo from local dealer channel.