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  1. 2011-03-23, 15:16 #1
    Howard Turkster
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    Awesome news -- got my S-Booster

    And it makes a very large improvement in the sound.

    I bought only the SBooster and added it to the stock PS. Excellent investment.

    Thought you all would be happy and interested to hear that.
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  2. 2011-03-23, 16:00 #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Howard Turkster View Post
    And it makes a very large improvement in the sound.

    I bought only the SBooster and added it to the stock PS. Excellent investment.

    Thought you all would be happy and interested to hear that.
    PMI (pardon my ignorance), but what is SBooster?
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  3. 2011-03-23, 16:11 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by magiccarpetride View Post
    PMI (pardon my ignorance), but what is SBooster?
    Some people use a magical thing called google.
    http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...%26prmd%3Divns

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    Chris :)
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  4. 2011-03-23, 16:23 #4
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    Cool

    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmangler View Post
    Some people use a magical thing called google.
    http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...%26prmd%3Divns

    Chris
    I love the way that website carefully avoids explaining how it works its magic...
    You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...
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  5. 2011-03-23, 16:28 #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Leigh View Post
    I love the way that website carefully avoids explaining how it works its magic...
    Me too - I definitely caught a whiff of Audiophoolery BS going on.

    Chris
    Chris :)
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  6. 2011-03-23, 17:38 #6
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    been "up" in here before http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ight=s-Booster
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  7. 2011-03-23, 21:34 #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Leigh View Post
    I love the way that website carefully avoids explaining how it works its magic...
    From memory the site mentions that it uses a (ferrite) choke and (a series of) capacitors (in parallel).
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  8. 2011-03-24, 00:29 #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by HumanMedia View Post
    From memory the site mentions that it uses a (ferrite) choke and (a series of) capacitors (in parallel).
    couldn't find that... but it does make it clear it isn't just a "passive filter" so would seem to be more than a classic c+l+c design, If there's a choke in there it must be small (so low inductance). I'd like to see the output on a scope...
    You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...
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  9. 2011-03-24, 06:52 #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by slate View Post
    been "up" in here before http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ight=s-Booster
    Yeah it looks like 2 or 3 people liked it, and one didn't. The one that didn't got the "Best of Two Worlds" solution with SBooster + linear power supply.

    I just got the Sbooster.

    Curiously enough, my thoughts on it echo the first (one-post history) reviewer that got mocked:

    the sound is more spacial, there is more rest in the sound.
    That is what I heard in my system as well. (analogue outputs, no external DAC).
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  10. 2011-03-24, 09:57 #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmangler View Post
    Some people use a magical thing called google.
    http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...%26prmd%3Divns

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    PMI, what is google?
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