Entreq grounding boxes

[GuillaumeB]

Just a thought, if I'm streaming wirelessly to my 200 and have nothing else connected apart from speakers then Entreq grounding can't help can it?

It appears that the connections at the back of the Devialet don't need to be "activated" via the configurator for the Entreq system to work. At the moment for instance I connect to the (unused and unconfigured) Phono 2 right RCA female on both my units.

Another interesting experiment would be to connect an Entreq ground box to the source itself, so in your case your Mac via an Entreq USB ground cable (or Naim streamer if that is connected). In my setup I ground my QNAP NAS and Draytek router. I use the smaller ground box for this.

Guillaume

Hi Guillaume, I am still intrigued by what these boxes do.
Do you use more than one box with no connection between them? (ie no longer a ground) and if so, why and what is the effect?
tia Frank

Hi Frank,

I use one Silver Tellus box specifically to ground the two Devialet units, my ADA sound processor and totaldac d1 server (so 4 ground cables in total). The second Silver Tellus is used exclusively for mains duties, so grounding my two Atlantis mains cables (each one has a ground cable that connects the mains cable to the ground box).

I originally had everything on one box but found that things didn't sound quite right when I added the mains cables a few months later (there was some odd variability in the sound going from amazing to not quite right which suggested a capacity issue). After some discussion with the distributor we tried a second Silver Tellus box and this worked really well.

As a complete aside I also ground my NAS and router to a small ground box. These are in a separate room. None of the boxes are connected to one another. Grounding these (NAS and router) was perhaps the greatest surprise since the improvement in SQ was not subtle.

Guillaume