Entreq grounding boxes

[yabaVR]

Rufus

Appreciate your comments and sorry I didn't reply sooner, but was waiting for my Entreq gear to arrive.

Arrive it did yesterday, and then hit a snag - the Tellus 2 doesn't fit into my display cabinet. I had previously mentioned this to the Australian distributor that my display cabinet only had a gap of 125mm, but was advised height of Tellus 2 was 120mm so should just squeeze in. Well guess what, it's not 120mm in height, but 135mm - it doesn't fit   . Not fully the Australian distributor's fault as on the Entreq website it states 120mm height, so he was just going of these figures (he only carries small stock so didn't have a Tellus 2 in stock to measure when I previously asked the question).

Also with the new Silver Infinity Cables, they've changed them from Spade-to-Spade over to the new Hook-to-Hook. I wasn’t aware of this new hook arrangement and I can’t get it to fit between my speaker binding posts to connect properly. Now this one I won't blame the Australian distributor too much as he had only charged me the price for the old Silver Eartha Cables, and thought he was doing the right thing getting me the new cables for no up charge. I will try and see if I can do something with the binding post (a thin file comes to mind ), as the new Infinity Cables are supposed to be a step up on the old Eartha cables, so will have to wait and see what I can do there (any suggestions appreciated on how to get between the plastic outer casing on the binding post).

Only installed the Entreq gear yesterday, and as mentioned for this gear needs a day or 2 to settle in before any improvements will be evident (if they are evident I'm still to find out ).

As for the hooks on the speaker cables you can probably 'try' them in this loose position like in the picture. I know that loose connection would not sound the best and it might be difficult to judge the cable. But if you decide to buy them you can then bend a 90° turn at the top of the hook so the thin part of it (the thickness) goes between the binding posts.

These hooks look like an Entreq invention. Are they of pure silver or copper-silver-plated? If the later I would change them for Tellurium-copper-silver-plated Bananas (see picture) or let the dealer do this if you don't have the skills to solder.
Advantage is you get a even less mass connection with the bananas (small mass connections sound better) and you can get rid of the moving part of the binding post of your Devialet.
Sorry to say this but the binding posts of our Devialets are of cheap brass coated first with nickel then gold and produce lots of eddy currents. You can turn them off until they stop. Then turn and pull simultaneously and they went off. You can turn them on again if you need in the future (but you won't ever use them again if you listen to your Devialet with them off).

gui