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Seemingly allergic to commas, an Inmate wrote, "Goddamn Lummy your Rocky Road is stellar. Youre no audiophile if you listen to all that [stuff]. I like to give you a bad time and apparently everyone else [does] too. But I think we owe you an apology. Not just for that. But we ignored you and your lady friends when you were pups."
Then this Inmate revealed that, in the mid-90s, he lived in Concord, CA, which was/is just over the East Bay Hills, where I used to meet audiophiles. This guy read the Kimber Carbon IC review in these pages, and asked if I could once again tap my old friend Scylla as a writing partner. He also mentioned that, when he listened to John Madden on KCBS, BUBBA stood for "Brothers United Bad Bodies of America." Now, that usually meant fat dudes. But Madden also threw in skinny dudes, too.
To refresh, in mid-December 1993, when I was using the XLO Pro PL-1500 powercord, Scylla, Kaye, and Jayne went on a road trip from the Bay Area to SoCal. We were not that far from XLO's headquarters, in Rancho Cucamonga. We wanted to take a dip in the hotel's pool, but it unfortunately was taken out of service, for repairs. Feeling like losers, the four of us trudged back to our hotel room.
While the four of us were in the shower, no one said a word. Okay, since Scylla, Kaye, and Jayne were girls (they had not yet turned 21), they weren't BUBBAs. But with their stick figures and flat chests, the years of body-shaming had taken their toll, and the negative self-image came to a boil. We did a long-lasting group hug, and cried.
That was a much-needed purging, our souls were cleansed, and we accepted our bodies. And to the dedicated audiophile, properly treating a cable on a burn-in device can be the equivalent. As we learned in the last post, sticking the XLO Pro PL-1500 for 4 days on an audiodharma Cable Cooker is more than enough. You then need to leave this Cooked powercord in use for a week or two, for its sound to stabilize.
In June 1994, I was between jobs. Scylla, Kaye, and Jayne had completed their junior year of college. We had multiple samples of the XLO Pro PL-1500. The Beautiful South came out with a really mature love song, "Prettiest Eyes." And then the four of us embarked on another road trip, this time to San Diego. Our hotel room had a large/deep tub. We just wanted to sink into a frothy bubble bath.
For the XLO Pro PL-1500, the Cooking process does reduce grain, allow for a little bit of soundstage depth, and bring out some midbass power. Okay, while submerging your body and head in a warm bath is sublime, having an audio product sound that way is bad. When used on a quality sources, such as Simaudio's 750D with 820S outboard power supply, the PL-1500 is exposed. It still makes the music a step slow. There are reductions in resolution, air, space, and purpose. Instead of possessing solidity, the midbass is a bit soft. Cymbals lose their sheen. Snare drum is not as focused and snappy as it should be. The buzz and cut of electric guitar are diminished.
Because the XLO Pro PL-1500 limits your system's resolution, the impact of external factors, such as good after-market AC outlets, is reduced. When your entire system is lashed up with XLO Pro PL-1500s, you feel as if you can't emerge from the water. With the air sucked out of the music, your head feels as if it's still underwater. As I told the Inmate at the top of the page, no, it's not like scuba diving in clear waters, either.
The Inmate emailed, "Hey I listened to Prettiest Eyes. We are so old now Scylla can be the subject of that song."
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - XLO Pro PL-1500, Part 3 - Luminator 21:51:53 10/25/21 (0)
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