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Giant Steps

Date Added: 12/23/2024 by Jean-Michel Anquetil
I have now put in service my 9 giant steps ... I will say Stellar Steps. I am quite amazed by what these steps bring to musicality.

I have already under every piece of equipment in my system some excellent mechanical vibration killer from a very good polish manufacturer. All my test have been done putting the Giant Steps between my existing feet and the equipment to be fitted with Giant sSteps. I have made the following observations:

- They do not change tonality (balanced top to bottom) at all which already is an excellent result. Most feet I have tried so far change the tonality somewhat. The worst offenders are spikes or cone type feet (in fact they act as a mechanical diode) and I use none of these type. The one I am using are the type using very hard ceramic ball bearing fitted in a metal enclosure. tThere are many variation around that recipe.

- They work everywhere I have tried them in my audio system!

- They act on musicality (more real, more lifelike, more enjoyable).

- Every time you treat one additional equipment, it is like you peel one layer of an onion to go to the heart of the music. What is very frustrating is once I have equipped three piece of my audio system with these giant feet, I get a very nice improvement in musicality, and If I remove only one set on one equipment I do feel the musicality collapse...

I do think that the magic of these feet come from the spiral material in the center which act as an EMI black hole removing unwanted noise from the audio signal. I am sure they also do work if you put them on top of the equipment. I will try that!

These product are unique in the way they work.

As far as the very hard black part around the center spiral material, this acts as a well for micro vibration. This is less original as other products on the market act or try to act like that as well.

I will purchase some more feet.

Congratulations on designing the Giant Steps. I am sure you can and will probably develop other products using this technology (product platforms ? ... )

Best Regards,
Jean-Michel
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Giant Steps

Date Added: 12/20/2024 by Kirk
I received eleven Giant Steps and placed them under a LessLoss power distributor, a Grimm MU2, and a Feliks Envy headphone amp with RAAL Immanis headphones. I also use a Stromtank battery for clean, off grid power. I did not know what to expect after previously using IsoAcoustics footers in the past with little improvement. After four hours, I listened to quality recordings. The result was stunning, with cleaner, more textured and deeper bass, a wider and deeper whisper quiet soundstage, and previously unheard details now very audible. The best I can do to describe what I heard was a far more stable and solid fullness with explosive dynamics. The soundstage is now thoroughly saturated, filled in, like a living, breathing holographic presentation. The technological leap of Giant Steps is easily heard and very appreciated.
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Giant Steps

Date Added: 12/19/2024 by Jörg Stanislawski
On Monday I received the seven Giant Steps.

You said in your advices to use it on source components. I tried it on the Reference DAC. I turned the CD drive on silent repeat for six hours or so and waited till the next day to give it a try.

I didn’t expect so much of an improvement, as the DAC is so meticulously well constructed and the Panzerholz case seem to be sort of immune to vibrations coming from the outside. But in one of your news mails you pointed out that the Giant Steps not only avoids vibration coming form the outside through the feet into the gear, it would also eliminate vibration occurring inside the gear before it corrupts the signal. That’s really brilliant, why haven’t any other company addressed this or searched for a solution? Any footer available on the market only avoids the incoming vibrations that goes into the gear through the footers. They have no effect on the vibrations in the room surrounding the gear, or the vibrations produced by the gear itself. If you take a look at some footers or vibraplanes that come with absolutely insane price tags, i.e. Harmonix to name one company. They all should be ashamed to never thought this consequently out.

And the Giant Steps go simply beyond it all, at a fraction of the cost of the competitors.

It seems, that other companies don’t have the insight into these physical processes and theories that could affect or improve the reproduced sound. The best example is certainly the extensive explanation in a newsmail form the past, on how the Blackbodies work and the theories behind it.

Thanks also for the simple, but nice package. No money gone into expensive wood, or metal cases, that are only dust collecting in the closet after unpacking.

So, three Giant Steps placed under the Echo's End Reference DAC and the difference was not small as I expected. The room filling sound has a clearness now, as if the music is broken down into its tiniest particles and transported to your ear. Wow.

Yesterday I placed one of the Giant Steps under my phono preamp, it has a size of only 15 x 19 cm and is powered on all the time. So, today in the afternoon
another 24 hours passes by, I give it a try and will listen to the five records with the same volume as yesterday. The next three Giant Steps will be used with
my tube power amp, so (probably) a lot of ringing and vibration going on here.

I will now order another two Giant Steps, can’t afford to get more, but will surely do so in the future.

Thanks for another outstanding fantastic product that you created.

You made the greatest (!) gift to everyone searching for best sound on a budget.

I had only one Giant Step used on my phono preamp with the small footprint.

The sound has been catapulted into completely new regions. It is simply unbelievable.

So from now on, it is no longer necessary to pay thousands or ten thousands of $ or € for a piece of new gear to have excellent sound that rivals the most expensive gear.

So tiny and such ultimate effect.

This is breathtaking. You have surpassed yourself.

Looking forward to what the Giant Steps will do on my power amp.

Thanks so much for creating this unique tweak.


Best wishes.

Jörg
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Giant Steps; C-MARC Stellar Power Cable; BlackGround 8x/10x Speaker Base

Date Added: 12/19/2024 by Maurizio
GIANT STEPS:

Thank you for having sent me the 3 Giant Steps I received this Monday!

My turntable, which was the first target for testing the Giant Steps, is currently under repair.
That is why I chose the main preamplifier which is stacked on top of the PSU (see the attached photo).
The preamplifier has 4 spiked feet which terminate with a tip apparently made of fairly soft plastic.
The PSU is placed on the NAGRA anti-vibration plates (https://www.nagraaudio.com/product/nagra-vfs-classic-vfs/).

NAGRA is a very meticulous constructor and chose the precise points of the chassis where to place the 4 feet.
So I decided to test the Giant Steps under the preamplifier by using only 3 of the 4 original feet, of course knowing that it was a very much imperfect approach.
To note, the tip of the spike of each Nagra foot fits very well into the small indentations on the Giant Steps.
I placed a small black statue on an edge of the top of the preamplifier to move the centre of gravity of the preamplifier to the middle of the triangle made by the 3 Giant Steps.

After having placed the Giant steps and let them “settling” for almost a day, I listened music firstly with the Giant Steps and then without.
I noticed a change that made me realize that your new footers attenuate vibrations that were causing a sort of hardness of the reproduced sound.

The result is, in a way, addictive.

By getting such a good result with my improvised and improvable configuration, I conclude that the Giant Steps will be a very valuable accessory for my stereo.

That’s why I decided to get 12 more Giant Steps.



STELLAR POWER CORDS:

Most of my stereo equipment is already equipped with your Stellar power cords.
Last week I received the last pair of Stellar power cords to replace the last C-MARC Entropic Process power cords that feed my 2 mono power amplifiers.

I am impressed by the improvements of the sound that I would briefly describe as being more “live”: faster response, additional clarity, more and better low-pitch notes.



BLACKGROUND 10x SPEAKER BASES

Last week I installed the two single channel 10x Speaker Bases.

After letting the stereo playing music at low volume for 80 hours, I have already got an overall improvement that is very promising.
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Firewall Module; C-MARC Stellar Power Cable

Date Added: 11/27/2024 by Jean-Michel Anquetil
"Stellar" is the right name!

I received a few days ago another Stellar power cord (replacing a C-MARC Entropic) and another C-MARC Firewall 640x filter.

I already have another Stellar power cord for my amplifier.

These products are now powering my DAC stack (Totaldac D1 direct, Reclocker and D1 drive). The result is again mind, I should write, "musical blowing". This cable brings more silence, more flow to the music, reveals very detailed shade and nuances ... all that makes the music so very lifelike and enjoyable ... The result is so much musical pleasure.

I have many LessLoss products and they all work in harmony to provide more natural music. There is so much hidden music in our files and records which are now revealed.

Well done Louis, thanks.

Jean-Michel
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Firewall Module

Date Added: 11/10/2024 by Maurizio
In the past, I had equipped my stereo system with the BlackGround 10x Power Base and experienced a remarkable leap ahead in quality of the reproduced music,
particularly in terms of transparency and clarity. Then, following the advice of Louis Motek, I inserted Stellar Firewall Modules on my loudspeakers.

Although I have always been, by instinct, reluctant to insert any additional device on a signal line, I can state that, after a run-in period of about 180 hours, the Stellar modules did not penalize any aspect of the reproduction of music of my stereo.

But it was after about 300 hours of playing music that the remarkable benefits of the Stellar firewall modules showed in full.

The modules bring noticeable improvements on clarity of highs, especially for the most challenging recorded tracks of complex music.

I can now listen to lower pitched notes that are well articulated and neatly reproduced.

The musical scene enjoyed an increase in both accuracy and stability in space.

The quality of tonality, so much advertised by the manufacturer of my DAC, is now as simple as impressively right.

The purity of some feminine voices that were sometimes not reproduced at the same usual high level by my stereo, are now stable in time and rendered with much more subtleties than in the past.

Maurizio
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C-MARC XLR balanced signal cable, stereo pair

Date Added: 10/31/2024 by william Lagendijk
Just received my C-MARC XLR interlinks, I ordered two sets, used them from dac to my preamp and from preamp to my power amp. There was an instant improvement, great resolution, more space, more natural and I keep hearing new details I did not notice before! Truly remarkable real high end cables.

Can't stop listening _ great purchase :)

William,
The Netherlands
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C-MARC Stellar Power Cable; BlackGround 6x/10x Power Base

Date Added: 10/07/2024 by Maurizio
During the last few years, I have been using a LessLoss distributor with all connections made with C-MARC “Entropic Process” cables.

Both signal and loudspeaker cables in my stereo system are also with C-MARC “Entropic Process”. I have been greatly enjoying listening to music with such a set-up.

I recently purchased a BlackGround 10x Power Base, and upgraded the connection to the wall socket of the distributor with a C-MARC Stellar power cable. I also used a Stellar power cable to connect the BlackGround Power Base to the distributor.

In few days, the reproduction of sound has acquired an astonishing transparency that personally I had never experienced before. It is what I imagined being the exclusivity of stereo systems much more expensive than mine.

It is now much easier to follow the playing of several instruments and to appreciate sound that before appeared as being only in the background and behind a veil. I can now detect much more easily the differences between several versions of the album that previously appeared just as nuances.

For instance, last year I borrowed the UHQR vinyl of “Kind of Blue” and after listening to it, I concluded that it sounded just “a bit” better, but it was not worth the price. With the new set-up, I listened to that vinyl again and, thanks to the so much improved transparency, I realized that it sounds so good and I decided to keep the UHQR vinyl.

Encouraged by the successful experience with Stellar cables, I decided to finally replace the original quality power cords of the two PSUs of my DAC, also with 2 Stellar cables.

This last investment was also worthwhile. The sound of the DAC is now by far more comparable to that of an analogue source:

I now discover details that tell more about the very music and all this is effortless, no more need to “focus” especially on what I was listening to
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C-MARC bulk wire and cable

Date Added: 09/09/2024 by Gilles Bordet, Cohérence Audio, Switzerland
I'd like to offer you a little feedback on your C-MARC™ cables.

We have used your cables in many applications and configurations. The results have always been excellent.

LessLoss cables are pleasant to work with, and the cotton insulation doesn't melt, unlike plastic. This has enabled us to work at higher temperatures with high silver content alloyed solder.

These cables are very pleasant to listen to. The noise reduction is remarkable. Definition is also excellent. The entire frequency range is faithfully reproduced.
These cables are really excellent products.

We will be integrating your cables into our new products.


Best regards,

Gilles Bordet
Cohérence audio
Manufacture Haute-fidélité

www.coherence-audio.com
[email protected]

Tel. +41 (0)79 542 71 34
Switzerland
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C-MARC Stellar Power Cable

Date Added: 09/06/2024 by Jean-Michel ANQUETIL
Stellar power cord: Call me » Impressed «

I have done a couple of listening sessions with this new power cord (replacing a C-MARC Classic Entropic) on the power supply feeding my Totaldac D1 DAC and Reclocker. The Stellar has run only 6 hours and the result are already very good.

This afternoon I went back to the Entropic to check… and ensure my ears are not lying to me. The progress bringing in musicality by the Stellar is quite significant; I did not expect that much more improvement.

What I do hear is more body in the music, a nicer and more detailed top end, a more articulate bottom, and overall a better top to bottom balance. All that gives more life to the music!

You are right: attention to the power side of our equipment is absolutely critical.
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LessLoss History From the Very Beginnings

LessLoss started its business on Audiogon in late 2007. Within the first couple of month, word about LessLoss spread like wildfire among Audiogon members. Here is the feedback received from our clients during our first year of operation. This is from even before we had our own website.

Louis is one of the best in the business, truly professional and very fast production and delivery. I am very satisfied by your superb service. Many thanks.

Positive by Buyer Sebastian (135) on 07-29-2008

Excellent transaction with Lessloss on dynamic filtering power cord. Good communications & fast shipping. A+++++

Positive by Buyer Sennett (45) on 07-03-08

Bought 3 pc's from Liudas in Jan/08. Outstanding product as advertised. Performance is everything and more than I expected. Kudos to Lessloss cable for a great product. Very highly recommended...A+++

Positive by Buyer Phillykid (33) on 06-19-08

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