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DFPC Series [Signature]

Date Added: 01/31/2011 by Aldo Russo, Melbourne, Australia
One of my mates is heavily into music and has a great rig powered by a nagra amp.

I have a very good rig also. He came over last night for me to try your signature power cable. I am running an Arcam AVR and had a Plinius power Amp which I borrowed from my mate, but the sound was missing foundation, openness, and dynamic even with the power amp.

I have Grover speaker cable and have a combination of Grover and Cardas power cables, and Usher speaker on the rig at present.

When my mate came over with your cable, he collected the Plinius and I was running my rig through the Arcam. He suggested your cable would blow me away. I used the cable initially on the CD player and then switched to the Arcam and I could not believe the difference your cable made to the system even without the power amp, it was extarordinary. I would not have believed it if I hadn't heard it myself.

By installing the Signature the system sounded much better than when I had the Plinius as the power amp.

The cable improved the foudation, weight, openness and dynamic of the system to a level I would not have thought cables would achieve. I can't wait to hear the sytem with your cables and the Plinius (or other power amp depending on what I buy), it will be awesome.

I was blown away by the difference, I am very impressed and as I say wouldn't have thought that cable would make such a difference.

The change of cable may result in there being no need to change the amp to get more grip/grunt.

I think it is important to acknowledge people that have the enthusiasm, technical knowledge, expertise and desire that you obviously have to go to extreme lengths to provide a quality product that we enthusiasts can benefit from. I admire your dedication and persistence to improve your product. Most people have no idea what impact such power cables can make and are skeptical, but I say don't judge from ignorance, until you experience it you are unable to comment.

I was seriously blown away even my mate with the Nagra could not believe the difference one power cable could maske to my modest rig.

I am happy to support such a fine product and as I say people such as yourself that are dedicated to perfection in their field, without which how would we push the frontiers?

I am (as you can see) very impressed. Great work.
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DFPC Series [Signature]

Date Added: 02/15/2011 by Stefan H., Gothenburg, Sweden
I'm deeply impressed about what you have accomplished! Probably the best power cords I've ever heard, Louis! Thank you for a substantial upgrade of
my system.

Some key words (which you have probably heard many times before) to characterize the sound achieved by the Signatures:

- Fantastic resolution and much more details coming out of the loudspeakers.

- Very much improved control from bass, mid and finally valid also for the
high frequencies.

- Transparency and transients I've not experienced before...

- Closer to how the music was recorded... I'm now in the mood to listen to
all my music collections and CD's again and experince the "new" dimension!

Very Good!
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DFPC Series [Original]

Date Added: 02/20/2011 by Predrag
I had many power cables over the years. Just to name few: Qed, Kimber, Supra, Tara and this LessLoss DFPC Original clearly beat them all!! This is a really fine product. It doesn't ad anything and doesn't take anything from the sound!

Clearly recommendable!
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DFPC Series [Signature]

Date Added: 02/28/2011 
Now that the cables have been properly broken in, I can say they really lift my whole system to a higher level. Everything just is better placed with more liveliness. Many thanks!
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Tunnelbridge Distortionless Interconnect System

Date Added: 04/04/2011 by Alan Carruth
After hearing the Tunnelbridge at the 2010 RMAF in Denver, Colo., I decided to replace my Nordost Odin interconnects with the Tunnelbridge. I compared the Tunnelbridge with my Odins and Valhallas and the Tunnelbridge completely blows the Valhallas away, and even the Odins come up short compared to the Tunnelbridge. The sound stage is more true and better developed, and the clarity and purity of the sound is wonderful. It is so natural sounding. The electronic edge I have been living with for so long is greatly diminished. The separation of vocals and instruments even in complex pieces is wonderful. There is such space in the listening experience. The dynamic nuances and subtleties of the singers and musicians is amazing. I can hear the breath around the words and sense the performer's presence almost as if they are in the room. The purity of the sound is maintained from bass to treble with little if any distortion on the extreme ends. I truly become a part of the performance. I have listened to a wide range of music (symphonies, quartets, chorus, jazz, blues, pop, rock, metal, gospel, all kinds of vocals from many different labels) and the results are the same no matter what I'm listening to. I find myself moving to the music constantly and frequently get goose bumps. If you have an extra Lessloss Blackbody, I would recommend using it on the Tunnelbridge power supply. It takes the experience to a whole new wonderful level. I also recommend using a Lessloss DFPC Signature power cable with the Tunnelbridge power supply. It definitely makes a difference. A stock power cord will deteriorate the sound stage and return that unwanted electronic edge to the sound. In my final evaluation I would recommend the Tunnelbridge over the Nordost Odin interconnects without reservation.
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DFPC Series [Original]

Date Added: 04/06/2011 by Jamie Ice and Jordon Critz
"Check this out. This is what I'm using to power my amps. It's a power cable from a company called LessLoss Audio. They're a real high end boutique power cable company. They're pretty crazy. Look how thick it is and how braided it is. Ha! It's very braided! (laughs). You'd be amazed at what this does to your tone. It's kind of like a life vest for when you have really bad power. It gets rid of a whole bunch of buzz and stuff but also makes your tone more sparkly and your bass a little more punchy. Yeah. Kinda geeky, but it's a really cool thing!"

Jamie Ice, guitarist for the band Green River Ordinance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRDvUVHs4BQ

"Still using the same LessLoss Audio power cables. These things are pretty sick!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMb13GR4ptA

Producer Jordan Critz:

"My name is Jordan Critz. I produced a record for a band named Green River Ordinance. I toured with them and used your power cables and was very impressed with them."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bBu9HD_Qo
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DFPC Series [Signature]

Date Added: 04/07/2011 by Arjan
I have the Signature as powercable on my Primare CD 31 player and it sounds amazing. The sound from my B&W Nautilus speakers is effortless. I have tried many power cords over the years from Kimber (PK10 Gold), Furutech (Alpha 3), LAT Int. etc. But the LessLoss are the most ear friendly I have ever experienced. The Primare sounds very analog and yet detailed and dynamic. Next to this the customer service or should I say customer care is excellent. I am a very happy customer.
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DFPC Series [Original]

Date Added: 04/10/2011 by alan
I replaced 3 powercords with DFPC original. The previous powercords used Oyaide Tunami and Furutech connectors. 2 of the powercords were for Atmasphere m60 monoblocks. The third is for a Wyred4Sound dac2. The speakers are full range statics. Speaker cable and interconnects are 'home brew'. The system is supposed to 'get out of the way'. I changed all three cords at the same time and haven't bothered just trying with the DFPC supplying the dac or the poweramps. Changing the three cables made an immediate difference from the moment of installation: more energy, more drive, more low frequency (but without any sense of slowness), more space, and all this without any feeling of agression. The only annoying thing about this is that presumably the signature cables are even better and its always tempting to squeeze an even better sound out of the system. Compared to my previous power cables these cables were a really nice step forward.
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DFPC Series [Original]

Date Added: 04/14/2011 by Steven L
I have received the PC, thanks.

It's a Fantastic PC and it really W A K E UP finally my system. Very extended detail with good high and definition and most importantly extended and tighter BASS, coupled with great impact. Now my system can ROCK.

Finally, I can listen for hours without any fatigue.
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Firewall

Date Added: 04/20/2011 by Claudius
My system:

Mac Mini
Transparent Audio USB Cable
Ayre QB9
HMA Sestetto Cable
Octave HP500SE
HMS Sestetto Cable
ADAM Audio Pencil Active Speakers
ALL Power Cords Lessloss Signature
3 Lessloss Blackbodys

I have a dedicated power line with a special grade fuse in the power distributor in our house. The wall receptacles are from HMS. A DFPC Signature is feeding the Firewall. Another DFPC Signature is feeding a Furutech TP609e. From there all other gear is fed by Signatures. Before buying the Firewall, the system was fed by a HMS "Netzleiste", which is something like a classic in Germany. I still use it for the mini, which seriously hurt the sound when being plugged into the Furutech.

Before going into the details, I have to confess that I am biased. I was completely overwhelmed by the naturalness the Signatures introduced into my system. I started of with one cable for the QB-9 which gave the QB-9 more weight, more flow and even more naturalness. I then bought cables for all my other gear. But I still had the HMS distributor between the cables and the wall receptacle. It never did hurt me. Then I read about the Blackbodies and bought 3 of them. As with the cables, they did exactly what Louis had told me. They gave my system a clarity and see through quality I didn't think was possible. My system sounded good without the Lessloss products but it sounds excellent with the powercords and the Blackbodies. Well I am an audiophile. So I kept thinking about the firewall, with the most positive bias one can have. I expected nothing else than the biggest upgrade I ever made to my system. So my expectations where very, very high.

When getting the Firewall I was impressed by its size and its looks. I thought "Damn, why does this thing have to hide behind my rack?" It is big and heavy, and the looks of the Panzerholz are striking. Before getting the Firewall I had some longer email conversations with Louis and he advised me to set the Firewall up exactly as written on the LessLoss Firewall page (there is a separate PDF Firewall Usage Guide to download). I did this and started to listen to music. Well, to say I was disappointed is putting it very mildly. I knew my system had to warm up (the QB-9 takes some time when it was off the grid and my Octave Pre has an external power supply which usually takes at least 5-6 hours to reach its peak). But I have heard my system cold before. When I leave the house for a week or longer I take everything off the grid. But it never sounded this bad - at least I thought it sounded that bad. After listening for about half an hour I turned down the volume and turned on the TV. I slept really bad that night. The next day I thought, well I heard about burn in of the older Firewall, which was supposed to take weeks. When I got back from work the next day I listened to some music and it was sounding better. Even better then before. But not 4000 Euros better. The sound was thin, but the dynamics where very good, quite was quite and loud was loud. But after an hour I got tired of the sound. This was a really bad sign. So I emailed Louis who confirmed that there was burn in time and it should be much better the next weekend. So I slept a little better that night. The next day I invited my brother, who is a recording engineer and also an audiophile. My wife and kids were not at home this night, so we cooked something, had some wine, talked a little and had the stereo in the background. It sounded good. It sounded very good. So we sat down and had a listen. First was Mahlers 5 (Gustavo Dudamel, Deutsche Grammophone). I turned it up a bit. I turned it up some more. The orchestra reached a peak and the whole room was shaking, I felt the sound and I had goose bumps all over my body. My brother looked at me in disbelieve and I had a grin all over my face. I didn't say anything, but kept thinking: "what the ****, what the ****, "The dynamic range of my system had increased in a way that I thought not possible. The control over bass was extraordinary, we could turn up the system to a point where the active speakers went into safety mode and up to that point we always felt that the system can easily handle it. My brother kept saying "This is phenomenal, I can feel the music, this is almost like life….". We heard music, drank wine, drank some more wine… I went to bed happy and drunk and thought what a good investment. Until next evening.

I listened to my system and something had changed. It had lost some weight, it sounded thinner, but there was a new quality to the sound. It had top end sparkle, it produced pictures of an enormous size. Wow-… but after an hour I got tired, listening fatigue. I emailed Louis and he said that it is very probable that you will experience "performance bumps" while the unit burns it. But it should be better next weekend. After the experience the night before I couldn't wait for the weekend to come.

Well I could write about the next week and a half, where I experienced two more bumps, but I'll skip over that. All I can say is, that burn in is lengthy and painful. Louis wrote that he can hear some 90% of the good things right away. I would say that I heard about 60% at the beginning, at maximum.

How is the sound now?

On the website it says that you will experience dynamics floating around freely. This is the exact truth. My system is utmost dynamic. It is impossible for me to listen to classic orchestral music in the background because most is too dynamic. The other day the UPS man rang the doorbell, heard the music and asked me if we were artists. I asked him why he thought that and he said, because I had friends who made such great live music at my house. At first I thought he was making fun of me. He really thought I had a jazz combo playing live at my house. Afterwards I understood, because the music has a natural quality with the Firewall that exceeds the naturalness the Signatures impose on a system by far, very far.

Talk about details. If you want to, you can get lost in finding new details in records you thought you knew very well, because you heard them on a lot of very different systems. For example "A case of you" Live by Diana Krall. I always hear some coughs in the audience. I thought it was about 5 or 6 (I can't remember). With the Firewall in place you hear a plethora of coughs. You even have an idea where in the audience the people who cough sit and I think I can hear which coughs are by the same persons. But this is not important. Important is, that the emotional quality of my system is so much better than before, that I constantly get goose bumps and I am usually not a very emotional person. Something more related to music. ;-) You can easily hear the decay of a triangle while the whole orchestra is playing.

You can easily hear every detail there is (so it feels) but you don't have to. Just don't. Just listen to the music.

Talk about bass and energy. Listening to a bowed acoustic bass (I don't know the exact translation of "gestrichener Bass"). If you ever heard one just beside you, you know how the bass can make your body vibrate. You feel it at you sternum. The bass in my system has become exactly this quality and the ADAMs are good with bass but not really great. I know a lot of speakers which can do better in that region. With the Firewall it is like having a very good active subwoofer in my system.

Talk about color and resonance - exceptional.

Talk about speed, rhythm and interplay of instruments. On good recordings (mostly old ones - very sad!), you hear the interplay of the band.

Talk about highs - cymbals and hi-hats to die for. Attack, shimmer and resonance - wonderful. Top to bottom extended in a way I have not heard before.

Are you into computer audio? If so, you know about different players sounding different. I have never before so easily discerned the sound signature of the various players. Just for the fun of it I changed one of my interconnects to my old interconnect (not a cheap one!). I remember that I could hear that they sounded different, the one I replaced was good sounding but did not have as much air and did not have the same emotional quality of the HMS Sestetto. Changing the cable back was like listening to a broken system. The degredation of the sound was dramatic. I now knew why I did not like these cables.

So, is the Lessloss Firewall the most dramatic improvement I ever had in my system? YES. Is it worth the cost? Yes. It is a lot of money, an awful lot of money. But to bring the investment into perspective: I had very expensive cables in my system for evaluation and they would have cost almost as much as the Firewall and they did not bring this much improvement.

What others say: in the meantime 5 other people have heard my system and where from deeply impressed to shocked at the improvemt. I will now invite my dealer who sold me speakers and my pre to let him listen to my system (the other day I took the Blackbodies to his place and he was impressed with the results). My wife said: This is really moving sound. My kids either say: "Can we listen to some music?" or "Turn down that music it is too loud." or "Turn down your music and let us listen to our music." I can now even enjoy some kids' music.

But most of all I am on a mission. On a mission to rediscover all of my digital albums. I can't wait to listen to my 1000 LPs. So I have a lot to do. But then again. Maybe I'll listen to these new interconnects from this Lithuanian guy? ;-)

Caution: if you buy the Firewall, then don't let it sit on thick carpet. Make sure that the Firewall sits with its 3 tiny spikes on something hard. Experiment with placement. I put some resonance control devices under the little spikes. With great result. If you do not place the Firewall properly you will not hear the full potential! And: expect about 10-14 days burn in. AND: once burned in is not always burned in. I accidently unplugged the unit and had to experience it the hard way. This is the only thing where you should not trust Louis: the sound right out of the box can be very frustrating. So if you don't like the Firewall, wait for a couple of days and you will know where the sound will be heading over the next couple of days.

Greetings from Berlin,
Claudius
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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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