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| Miami, FL Dear Mike, Thanks for making
the VansEvers Clean Line Jr.Power Conditioner. I've always plugged my Marshalls straight to the wall before. When I got my Studio 308 together I was recommended to try your boxes. I have since recorded my last three
albums. "Inspiration", "Facing The Animal" and "Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra" in my studio. It's the best guitar sound I've ever had on record thanks to your Jr. And the
Mamba Power Cords. It amazes me that you can actually tune a power cord to make the sound different, add or take away frequencies. The clarity and bottom end is really good. The warmth it provides to the balanced power
conditioner for my Studer 24-track is another great thing. Thanks for making such great products.
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| Dear Mike, When you first showed up with your power conditioners and power cords, like most audio professionals, I was skeptical. I anticipated giving you exactly 10 minutes to knock me out or get out. I was stunned. More than stunned, I was scared. How, after 15 years in the recording studio business, had NO ONE EVER SHOWN ME THIS BEFORE? How it is possible that changing out a power cord could make such a not-so-subtle sonic difference? Then, add a power conditioner, and everything's somehow different: cleaner, punchier, "livelier." What we here at The Time Machine first noticed with our clean line system is that not only did our noise floor apparently become lower, but it changed in character as well. What noise remained was not that familiar [unpleasant] trashy sound, but a more broad band hiss. Additionally, sonically, our entire system sounded better. Better clarity in the extreme high frequencies, better definition and punch in the bottom, smoother through the midrange. Amazing. I had to go back and re-eq our 4-way main monitor system. And not just re-eq it, but more or less un-eq it. Prior to the installation, I was using 5 bands of parametric eq. After the installation, I was down to 3 bands, and using less amounts of gain or cut at each band. In fact, I removed the low pass filter I had used because the top end just smoothed right out on its own. I wholeheartedly believe every professional installation should use clean line. Sincerely, 
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| Mike, I'm a guitar tech and partner at Johnny's House of Guitars in Largo, Florida. I also engineer at Panda Productions in Clearwater, FL. In the middle of a project, the studio was outfitted with the VansEvers power line conditioners. Even though it was two weeks between the "before" and "after," it was obvious. The sonic improvement was incredible. The difference is not as easily defined as the over used descriptions "crisper highs" or "better lows." It feels
as if the stereo spectrum is expanded, allowing easier placement and more accurate imaging of events. The ease of movement and increased depth is a tremendous tool in the fight for headroom. This increased space allows the song to
breath and makes it easier to get a groove happening. | ||
| Oh, by the way...I was playing around with my guitar amplifier the other day and decided to plug it into the amp section of my (VansEvers) model 85, which I have been using on my stereo systems front end exclusively. Why not, I thought. Holy cow! All of a sudden I had a much, much better sounding and responding amp! I then invited a buddy over with his various amps: Fenders, a Matchless, a Johnson solid state modeling amp, a solid state Fender. *EVERYTHING* sounded significantly better in every way. The improvement was as obvious with the cheap Fender solid state amp as well as a 15-watt, tube powered $2500 boutique amp! The usefulness of this thing was real evident in the stereo system, but with guitar amps the difference is laughable! Take Care, Greg | ||
| I have come to a startling conclusion. A system setup correctly with your techniques and materials, cannot be duplicated by any "new"
technology existing today. Stereo as exists now, has all the ambience, intricate details already there. They just have never been realized because all the manufactures are going ass backwards. DTS, DD, DVD is just a
ploy to create something artificial and make consumers spend money on equipment. Instead of someone (like yourself) taking the time to work with what already exists (stereo) and perfecting that, they have opted to cheat, and create
something that isn't real. Now that I have had a chance to REALLY listen, I cannot bear any other format than stereo. It just sounds FAKE. Maybe for movies it is ok, but anyone who would use circle surround, logic 7, matrix etc. for music is just fooling themselves. The trouble with today's society is we all are so gullible about believing what we are told. Rubbing against the grain, like you do, is almost a losing battle. The more people that get a hold of your system will realize that maybe you were always right, and the manufacturers were wrong. Which they are in my opinion. The latest and greatest new technology, maybe just isn't all that great after all. It has been right in front of us all the time: stereo. John L. Fairchild | ||
| The guitar cord is really quite astounding. The changes it affords are not subtle
but rather quite obvious and with great latitude. I use it on all three of my performance instruments - a Martin D-35 acoustic through the PA system, a Parker Fly through some rack-mount effects and Fender Super Reverb amp,
and a Gibson L-4 through a Fender Concert amp. It enables me to tune into each instruments' strengths and tune away from each instruments' weaknesses. Bravo, |
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