New JENA Labs Reference Power Conditioner In The House

Dpod4 said:
Was able to quickly listen to the Sequoia. Aptly named. Big sound. Three immediate and undeniable impressions, one quite surprising and unanticipated. And a fourth final perhaps cumulative effect.

The first suite of effects was similar to other Jena Labs effect --> instruments and voices and ambient room around instruments and voices got bigger/more spacious. More volume filled (like filling a balloon with air or water.) Soundstage got taller.

Second effect was most interesting --> compared to other power conditioner it was as if a "milky sluggish haze" disappeared. Transients became clearer and sharper. More definition, especially on bass. Detail is more obvious especially in upper registers.

The third suite of effects was most surprising and unanticipated --> there was a more coherent sense of order and placement, as if without the sequoia stuff was moving about and not secure in the music plane. With the sequoia the music (instruments/voices/decay/etc) was more anchored in space and more importantly therefore more coherent in context to one another.

The final effect (maybe an outcome of other effects working together?) is the pace and rhythm was much better...speed and toe tapping and starts and stops and longer decays...the timing and pace was much much much much better ....less a speeding up of the pace and more of a removal of sluggishness if that makes sense.

The only other thing I noticed that wasn't pleasing was a bit of sharpness in the upper mids and treble ... More bite. But this may be just more of the recording coming through and the fact the unit has less than an hour burn-in on it.

More impressions later.
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Would it be possible to tell us what you where comparing the Sequoia to?
 
BTW that initial listening test was done just with Amps plugging into sequoia. I can't wait until I have the whole system plugged into it - I might be picking my ears up off the floor. Just gave my mono ma9s2 amps to Jennifer and Mike today to do the full JENA Labs mod on them. Their last mod to my ma9s1 brought them up to par with stock ma9s2. So given the fact the stock ma9s1 monos beat my Constellation Centaur, I can hardly wait to hear the modified ma9s2 monos with everything plugged into the mighty Sequoia. I thank God I live in the same zip code as JENA Labs!


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I know this is an old thread but I just found it from an internet search. Jennifer and Mike are building me a sequoia right now. My question is now that you've had the sequoia for a few years are you still impressed? Looking forward to getting it.
 
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