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C-MARC Classic Power Cable; Firewall Module; C-MARC Classic RCA unbalanced signal cable, stereo pair; C-MARC Digital Cable; Power Distributor; BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 11/22/2022 by René from Copenhagen, Denmark
I have been involved in the wonderful hobby of High End HiFi for decades gradually improving my stereo as my knowledge, funds and regards for my family allowed. It has given me countless hours of joy and, in the beginning, countless hours of frustration as well.

One of the quirks of this hobby is the vast number of variables involved. That is probably the reason one still cannot just order “The Best Stereo”, pay the bill and live happily ever after. It is still very much an art to not just chose the right components but also be able to make them play together and not against each other. One thing I have learned during my long journey travelling the “Stereo Jungle” is, very few people master this art while vast quantities of animals of prey seem to thrive in sewing confusion dressed up as absolute knowledge, amateurs as well as professionals.

Little wonder that most of us have been through periods of repeatedly swapping out components of our stereo in an everlasting search for the holy grail. Sadly, frustration and confusion often follow the initial burst of joy over a new component and the search starts over again. But there is a solution to this I found out.

My journey took a completely new direction as I, by chance, stumbled upon LessLoss, a company driven by a rare combination of deep insight and experience in both the technical the performing and the recording side of music, look for the credentials on the homepage. Add to that the real time feedback from a worldwide community of satisfied customers. A company that takes pride in always striving for the best, very often breaking new grounds in a spirit where Quality always beats Quantity and getting to the soul of music seems to be the top goal.

Fighting noise seems to be the dominant road for LessLoss, nothing our ears perceive as noise but the cleaning up of all kinds of ultrahigh frequency noise, a lot of which was not present a few decades ago. Noise everywhere in our modern world polluting and thereby hindering our expensive equipment in doing what it would be able to do were the pollution not there.

My present LessLoss chain consists of C-Marc power cables, digital interconnect and speaker cables, all Entropic Processing. Add to that distributor and firewalls, also the oh so important Entropic Processing. As I like to experiment, learn, and pass on knowledge I presently have a somewhat extreme chain, more or less like a choo-choo train, some of the stuff on loan for the experiment and the knowledge of the lenders:

From the Furutech Schuko outlet 2m C-Marc Power Cable (from now on CM PC) hooking up to 2 CM Firewall64x + 1 external CM FW640x + the latest LessLoss distributor with dual 640x firewalls inside, via 1m CM PC Entropic Processing (EP) + another identical distributor + CM PCs Entropic to all equipment. Speaker cable is CM Entropic with Entropic speaker firewalls going into satellites and subs.

The result is a setup that can play at very low volume with an intensity and involvement that ought to be sought for by all audiophiles with family sleeping in neighboring rooms at the time of night when stereo sounds its best and genuine audiophiles are active. There’s a transparency and naturalness to the extremely coherent sound that makes it very easy to slip inside the musical event and easily hear just how the greatest of the greatest master their instruments down to the most subtle vibrato or understated attack.

Of course, when you play louder things get even more involving and easier to grasp but still with a naturalness and musicality that lets you listen for hours and hours in a row without the slightest hint of listener fatigue. Aggressive music sounds aggressive but not tiresome, soft music sounds wonderfully soft but definitely not uninvolving. Attack and explosions in music sound scary if intended and scale, pace, timing, and rhythm is just present in the coolest and most natural way. In fact, it doesn’t take long before you completely forget the stereo and just hear the musicians or singers. Good live recordings almost make you wanna reach out and touch. “Just one more number,” keeps popping up in your mind until you have forgotten time and place often floating away on an inner travel to wonderful places. Did anybody think Zen?

All this LL equipment is not needed to make a genuinely fine sounding setup, but have I yet reached the point where I cannot tell the difference when adding the next piece? Nope, you can never get too many firewalls it seems, but one always seems enough – until you add the next. My guess is, you cannot get too many of the newly introduced BlackGrounds either.

In my mind it’s impossible to exaggerate the value of what LessLoss as a company succeeds in doing as music is the universal language and bearer of immense amounts of cultural goods that our generation is lucky enough to have access to through electronic media. The LessLoss vision potentially opens up virtual access to time travel to a plethora of incredible musical performances in a way other brands can only dream of. Getting as close to the very soul of the performers as possible is what that vision is all about. Only LessLoss offers a completely coherent upgrade road that step by step always takes you in the same direction, closer to the natural unrestricted sound of musical instruments and the skill of the performers. Should you ever need help or guidance, Louis Motek, head of the company, is always open to an often humorous always elevated and skilled discourse over this and that when it comes to his lovechild and music in particular.

So, how much do I want LessLoss to succeed with their mission of (clean) Power to the People? Strangely, it now goes way beyond just making my own stereo sound stellar, as it almost gives me more pleasure to introduce it to others, passing on what truly cleaned up sound can do for their musical experience.

Let me round this up by saying, of all the genuinely many items I have bought into my stereo I have never regretted one single purchase and I would not return one single piece even for a full refund because I was unhappy with it. I have upgraded items but always to the next LessLoss model. I may well do that again cause there’s even a friendly upgrade policy. What can I say but,

Less loss, more pleasure.
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BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 11/29/2022 by Sven Boenicke, Boenicke Audio


Added 8 pairs to mains.

What shall I say… this is a psychedelic experience of dramatic magnitude.

From what you wrote about it, I expected a lot, but what it does is not what I expected. 

The incredible thing about its effect is that it does exactly what my comdev and the newest gen. resonators we use do, but even stronger, of course.

It’s that energy shift away from the glare and garbage especially in the top end into the organic, colorful, beautiful - the brown, red, orange and golden colors.

That’s what I so love. Plus, it does something on the reach-out and communication level which is magic.

Count me in to get many more of them. This has to go in products.
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BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 12/02/2022 by Jens, Copenhagen
To be truthful, I was very sceptical when I first heard about this new 'device' a while back. But then I have been sceptical of everything I ever got from LessLoss - before I put it into my system. After - well, I have yet to experience an item from LessLoss that does not make a positive difference in my system!

Even so, the BlackGround seemed somewhat more mystical than the cables, Firewalls and Bindbreakers I have already deployed in my system, but after an exploratory email correspondence with Louis Motek, I decided to get a few of these new things (perhaps I also felt a bit of an obligation after having godfathered the name for them!).

I received the new devices the other day and wired a couple of them up to work on the AC for my system. Yesterday, I got a chance to try the BlackGrounds out - still not daring to expect much.

That was quite a WOW experience!

These are my initial impressions from my brief listening session yesterday with one BlackGround on Line and another on Neutral on the AC:
- System seemed to play louder! (no settings whatsoever were changed in the system)
- Reverb improved, both room wise and on instruments/voices
- Room description/ambience improved
- Layering and detailing improved

Even though these were not night and day changes, they were easily discernable and heightened the general performance of my system.

Once again, Louis put all my doubts to shame - phenomenal!
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Firewall Module

Date Added: 12/07/2022 by Sincerely, Bob, Boston
Met close to all expectations for upper frequency changes in clarity and smoothness and still breaking in.
Reinforces loyalty to your products, several of which I have!
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BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 12/13/2022 by Poul Svensgaard
I received my 5 BlackGrounds today and hurried to build 4 of them into my homemade power distributor. It looks a lot more pretty with the lid on ? – but it works!
 
Immediate and huge improvement in detail, resolution, ambience and dynamics. Simply much more music! I have recently invested in many upgrades for my music system and none of them made this huge an improvement and those were all much more expensive. Very excited.

Just tonight it has developed much further compared to when I first wrote. Great product!

 
Best regards
Poul
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BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 12/18/2022 by Jörg Lemann, Germany
Yesterday my first Blackground order has been delivered.

And of course I could not resist to prepare the setup connecting the Blackgrounds to the speaker terminals of my mono amps.

The first listening experience was very promising* ... and that with the smallest solution possible ?

Instantaneously the idea arose to divert 2 additional Blackground 10x Power Base for this use case. But then I remembered that you wrote somewhere that you plan to launch another product (similar to the 10x Power Base) for that.

Best regards,
Jörg

* I didn't use my standard "test" LPs (like Sound of Jazz from Analog Productions) but a few that I hadn't listened to for a longer time and it was a gorgeous sound experience.
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BlackGround voltage-ground interface

Date Added: 12/31/2022 by Michael Ross, Southfield Michigan
Hi everyone. I'm a longtime user of LessLoss products. So this time, after buying 5 of the Blackbodies V.2, I decided at Louis's suggestion, to purchase 5 Blackgrounds to properly ground them. I had already heard some subtle improvements with the V.2s alone, but because of past success with other Lessloss products, I bought 5 Blackgrounds. After getting some directions from Louis, I then played my system ..... What an improvement! More "Living Presence", more oomph to the sounds, like it was being pushed out of the speakers more powerfully. Just more power to the music.
The scientific explanation for this can be found on the LessLoss website. I recommend reading it. I'm very happy and plan to buy more Blackgrounds in future!
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Echo's End

Date Added: 01/04/2023 
Being a truly analog guy, I have always struggled with my digital front-end unit. I have owned my fare share of streamers, servers, DACS. I was getting to the point that I was going to sell my Moon by Simaudio 680D and 280D and just spin records. Not that the Simaudio products were bad they were just, well, too digital still ... and really my favorite DAC was a Border Patrol DAC I had years ago. Maybe it’s all these “Chip’s” in these modern DAC’s and the quality of the components surrounding these chips?

So, I decided to take a step backwards ?

Let’s get a separate server and streamer (Innuos … from Constantin at Atelier 13 Audio) and let’s go back to the future and go with an R2R Ladder DAC ... but who’s. Well I got on all the forums, read the trade rags, and got even more confused. I had done home demos of a some of the more popular DACs the reviewers rage about and still was looking for more.

I reached out to Constantin at Atelier 13 Audio in Nashville, TN. A man I truly trust and have done business within the past. He recommended that we give the LessLoss Echo’s End DAC a test along with the LessLoss 640X, and I agreed. I was going to be out of town for a couple of weeks, so Constantin burned in the DAC for 2 weeks while I was out on the road, and shipped it to me in time for my return.

Okay let’s get to the point. I got home, the box was sitting in my listening room, and I tore into it. The build quality is fantastic. Looking at this wooden box one would think it is a piece of furniture not stereo equipment, same for the 640X. I connected it all and let it play in background for a week before sitting down to give it a serious listen.

So, the evening came to sit down and put the Echo’s End through its paces. Blacker than black background was the first thing I noticed; dead ass silent. Dynamics are astounding, range, depth, detail, breadth, hell it was like listening to my analog front-end. As matter of fact it may even be better in some respects. No digital edginess or shrillness, even with poorly recorded music.

I can not say enough about these wonderfully crafted LessLoss products. I am a customer for life, and I will be buying all my gear from Constantine at Atelier 13 Audio.

The devil is in the details.

Jeffrey Strickling MSME
Dallas, TX
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C-MARC Classic Power Cable

Date Added: 01/18/2023 by Luc Richard, Québec, Canada
I continue to discover the great qualities of the C-MARC Classic. 

As many reviewers and passionate audiophiles like myself, I do have dozens and dozens of songs that I use to analyze different behaviours while testing a device, cable, or anything else.

And tonight it was with Michel Camilo, using the song Suite Sandrine Part III, from the amazing album One More Once, recorded in 1994.

I use this specific track to analyze as per if a device will bring the outcome to be more, or less 'confused'! What I mean, there is so much different information on this song, from complex and virtuoso piano playing, to the amazing and highly complex drum and bass from Cliff Almond and Anthony Jackson, adding to this mix a huge and complex Brass section, and zillions of percussions!! All of this produces tremendous melodies and solos, with tricky rhythms and powerful punches! 

During the Piano solo, and also at the Percussion solo over an amazing and powerful Montuno, there are many activities with the percussion, and this is where the 'confusion' may appear!
 
With the LessLoss Classic AC cable on my Esoteric X-01 D2 CD player, you can hear every single percussion in these moments, but on top of that, they get separated from each other in such a way that you can not only distinguish every single attack, but it generates a better rhythmic flow, while bringing more space and air between each other. You also get a better sense of space as per where each musician, and their own percs, figure within the scene. You also feel every nuance in their lighter to heavier attacks. And all of this, while keeping an organic experience, without falling on the over-analytical result, which is quite impressive.

And trust me, I have been using this song on all my tests for more than 20 years!

I really look forward to adding the 640X in the line.

From what I have read, I should prepare for an audio therapy!! :-)
Kudos to you and the entire LessLoss Team!
And thank you once more for your amazing support and collaboration.
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Power Distributor; Firewall Module; C-MARC XLR balanced signal cable, stereo pair; C-MARC Prime Power Cable

Date Added: 01/23/2023 by Greg Bauch
I am listening to some nice jazz this morning and can hear the musicality that has emerged through the use of your power distributor, power cables, interconnect and firewall for speakers. I always knew something was missing, but was not sure what that was. Congratulations on your fine work.
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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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