Koss Totem Mani-2 - Manual (Page 59)

57 THE AUDIOPHILE STORE
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SUPER ANTENNA
Unlike a whip, a dipole is bidirectional, so you can orient it. Ours
has no switch to muck
things up, and with a
1.8m low-loss 75 ohm
cable and gold-plated
push-on F connector, it
has low internal loss. Its
broadband design covers
the channels 2-69 TV
bands as well as FM.
ORDER: FM-S Super
Antenna, MkII, $55
MORE POWER TO YOU
A simple improvement: better access to electrical power. Change
your 77-cent duplex outlets for these Hubbell 8200 hospital
grade outlets. Insert a plug and it just snaps in. A tighter internal
connection as well. Possibly the cheapest improvement you can
make to your system.
ORDER: AC-DA Hubbell duplex outlet, $23.95
ORDER: AC-DB (more than one outlet), $21.95
ORDER: AC-D20 20A duplex, red color, $28.95
GUTWIRE POWER CABLES
Multiple shielding, including an external electrostatic shield
connected to a clip… you may get get best performance with or
without. Basic Clef and the G Clef are used by UHF. Now in an
upgraded version, with performance “squared.” Length is 1.7 m,
longer cords on order.
Basic Clef 2 has 165 discrete conductors, 95% shielding by 2 shields.
ORDER: GBC-5 Basic Clef Square, 1.7m, $285
G Clef
2 has 195 conductors, with 3 shields providing 98% shielding.
G Clef 2 can be ordered with a 20A IEC plug (for amplifiers requiring
this special plug)..
ORDER: GGC G Clef, Square 1.7m, $385
No budget for the cable you’d like? Make your own!
Double-shielded, to avoid picking up or transmitting noise. GutWire
16, assembled or as a kit. (If you are not comfortable around
electricity, we suggest the assembled one.) Both versions include the
Hubbell hospital grade plug and a Schurter 15 A IEC 320 connector.
The GutWire 12 gauge (kit only, not shown) is a double-shielded 12
gauge power cable with Hubbell hospital grade plug and Wattgate
IEC.
ORDER: GW16-1.5K, GutWire 16 gauge power cable kit, $93.95
ORDER: GW16-1.5 GutWire 16 cable, assembled, $133.95
ORDER: GW12-1.5K GutWire 12 gauge kit, $195
Amazingly good at a much lower price are these two cord plugs
from Eagle. No hospital rating, but a rather good mechanical
connection. Male and female versions.
ORDER: AC-P1 Eagle male cord plug, $5.95
ORDER: AC-PF Eagle female cord plug, $5.95
Making your own power cords for your equipment? You’ll need
the hard-to-get IEC 320 connector to fit the gear. We have two
sizes.
ORDER: AC-P3 10 ampere IEC 320 plug, $9.95
ORDER: AC-P4 15 ampere Schurter IEC 320 plug, $18.95
STINGRAY POWER BAR
Most of these things
knock the voltage to
your equipment way
down, and they generate
more noise than a
kindergarten class.
The Gutwire Stingray
doesn’t. Superior 12 gauge double-shielded cable, Hubbell
hospital grade connectors at both ends. Indispensable!
ORDER: GSR-2 Stingray Squared power bar, $285
IMPROVED CD WITH FINYL
This is the most famous of all the treatments for
Compact Discs. The maker of Finyl claims it reduces
surface reflections and provides a higher contrast
image for the laser cell of your player. Use it just
once. We get a lot of repeat orders on it. One kit can
treat over 200 discs. Or order the refill.
ORDER: F-1 Finyl kit, $40.00
ORDER: F-1R Finyl refill, $35.00
CLEAN YOUR PLAYER
After as little as three
months, your new
player will have more
trouble reading your
CD’s. Why? Dust on
the lens. We’re happy
to have found the
new Milty CD lens
cleaner. Unlike some
commonly-available
discs, the Milty is non-
abrasive, so we use it and rest easy. Wet or dry.
ORDER: 2021 Milty CD lens cleaner, $35
ENACOM LINE FILTER
Far less expensive, but astonishingly effective, we wouldn’t run our
system with less than the Enacom filter. It actually shorts out the
hash on the power line. (For 110-120 V only).
ORDER: EAC Enacom line filter, $105
CLEANER POWER
SILVER SOLDER
This is a lovely solder, from the
company that makes Enacom
line filters (which we also like).
Wakø-Tech solder contains 4%
silver, no lead.
ORDER: SR-4N, 100 g solder
roll, $59.95
INSTANT CIRCUIT CHECKER
Plug it into an AC outlet, and the three lights can
indicate a missing ground, wrong polarity, switched
wires — five problems in all, some of which can be
fatal. None of them is good for feeding your music
or home theatre system. The first thing we did after
getting ours was phone the electrician.
ORDER: ACA-1, Instant Circuit Checker, $21
BETTER DIGITAL
HOSPITAL GRADE CONNECTION
When we put a quality
AC plug on our kettle,
boiling time dropped by
90 seconds! The best AC
plug we have ever seen is
the Hubbell 8215 hospital
grade plug. It connects to wires under high pressure, and it
should last forever.
ORDER: AC-P2 Hubbell cord plug, $25.95
IEC ON YOUR DVD PLAYER
Why do big name DVD
players come with those
tiny plugs for their cords. A
good shielded power cable
will do wonders! Take $18
off if you order it at the
same time as a G Clef or
Basic Clef cable, or $8 off if you order one with any of our other
AC cables.
ORDER: DVD-A, GutWire adapter, $39
MAXCON 2 POWER FILTER
Looks great, and does a wonderful job. Made from milled aircraft-
grade aluminum, with Furutech and Hubbell connectors. Parallel
filtering, so it can be used even with very large power amplifiers.
List $1299, but…
ORDER: GMC, MaxCon
2 power line filter, $995
Needs IEC power cord: order one at the same time for 20% off!