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More like system essentials if truth be told!
Entreq manufacture a vast array of products, some of which can only be used with existing Entreq products, like the ground posts, which offer a real nice upgrade to the performance of your ground box.
Other products like the Vibbeaters and the Magma devices can be used as standalone products. If you wanted to get started with Entreq but at a relatively modest level these products are a genuinely great starting point!
Please read on!
Max T, Peak 4, Everest & K2
The Peak 4, Everest and K2 are designed to be added to a ground box to further enhance its performance.
The standard binding posts of the back of any of the Ground Boxes are simply wooden nuts that holds the ground cable in place, they offer no sonic purpose.
You use a Peak 4, Everest or K2 to replace the standard wooden nuts and each of them offers a substantial sonic upgrade.
The K2 is comprised of 2 different metals, the Everest uses 4 and the Peak 4 uses 5 different metals.
When one of these posts is connected to a ground box, it interacts with the box and improves the performance of whatever device you have connected to the box.
All 3 posts are excellent and really do work very well, you don’t need an uber expensive system to hear what they can do. They are all quite different in terms of what they do and what is best for you depends very much on your system, your taste and what you can hear!
The K2 is warm and rounded and overall it offers a darker, more refined presentation.
The Everest is more, open, transparent in comparison to a K2 it is more insightful.
The Peak 4 is almost a hybrid of the other 2 posts, with the best elements of each posted combined into
The feedback I have received from customers on these posts is superb, as always which post is best depends on your system and what you are trying to achieve.
Say Hello to the Max T!
The Max T is the 4th Entreq Ground Post, released in the Autumn of 2023. Since the Peak 4 launched in 2021 it has been the most successful of the 3 ground posts, since then Entreq have released their Tungsten based ground box range and with that has been some profound performance benefits – Max T takes the Peak 4 and incorporates a small slice of what Entreq did with the Tungsten boxes.
Essentially the Max T is all about articulation, texture and really accurate tone, it’s quite a step up over K2, Everest and also the most recent Peak 4
Anyone with an older ground box can really elevate its performance by adding a Max T
What’s the difference between the Posts?
As mentioned above the Everest is more open and transparent compared to a K2, it is not difficult to tell them apart. Sometimes an Everest can be a little too open and transparent, it all hinges on the system and what the listener likes.
The Peak 4 gives you the best bits of both posts and unlocks more texture and helps produce a more 3D holographic soundstage, since it’s launch the Peak 4 has been hugely popular.
Max T is like a Peak 4 in many ways , but it has an ability to make things simply sound more real and more tangible, improved textures, layering and 3D.
How Many Do I Need?
There is no magical answer to this question, it really depends on your system, your taste, how your system reacts to the addition of the new posts and of course your budget.
Some systems have a mixture of all posts and in the right system they can work really well together. But many customers prefer to use one specific post
One of my clients recently said “in the context of my system 3 Everests for £720.00 (used on a Poseidon) represents incredible value for money, there is nothing I could do to my system for that sort of money that could deliver this level of improvement”.
Although K2 and Everest were released first the Peak 4 has been the most popular ground post so far, but the Max-T (October 2023) will be interesting as it is quite a bit better than the Peak 4.
Vibbeaters
These quirky looking little mice are a bit of an eyebrow raiser, but they work really well.
You place a pair of them on top of a pair of loudspeakers (or top of a component) and they pull away unwanted energy, absorb cabinet vibrations and stray magnetic fields. The Vibbeaters contain within them a mixture of copper, sand and very small quantities of precious metals. In context of energy too much of it is a bad thing and by removing this we allow a system to breath more easily. This is especially true with speakers, as the cabinet/front baffle of a speaker can be particularly bad at managing excess energy. The unwanted energy is converted into low level heat, after all you can’t get rid of it unwanted energy, you can only convert it to something else.
Put a pair of these on top of a pair of speakers and simply listen to some music you know well and it won’t take to hear bass lines are tighter, the sound has more control with improved textures and pacing. They sound a bit unusual when reading, but I’ve never done a demonstration which hasn’t been effective.
The Vibbeaters start at £100 each and are really effective, especially on speakers. The first 3 Vibbeaters (as pictured above all use the same mineral mix), the largest Vibbeater the Apollo XX uses a completely different mineral mix and they weigh 7.5Kg each and have been designed to sit on much larger speakers/components.
Magma Tungsten, Magma Slim Tungsten and Magma Slim
Entreq’s 3 Magma devices are a relatively recent arrival to their product line up, they are designed to work primarily under your equipment to isolate them from the surface they sit upon, by absorbing mechanical energy they improve performance, but that is not the only role the Magma devices play.
Magma Tungsten and Magma Slim Tungsten contain within 6 different metals/materials – Silver, Stainless steel, Tungsten, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Steel & Ceramics
This combination of materials are used in very strict ratios and together they create a magnetic field which serves to attract unwanted noise and pollutants away from the component you use them under. There is nothing stopping you using one of top of a component either, located directly above mains transformer for example.
The Magma Tungsten are 45mm high and double stacked, each one can support 60kg and they are £380 each, the Magma Slim Tungsten are 25mm, they use the same material (just less of it), each Magma Slim Tungsten can support 80Kg each, these are £240 each.
The entry level Magma Slim are 22mm high and support up to 40kg each, these use less metals than the other 2 models and are priced at £60 each.
Each of the feet are effective at their respective price points and offer a really viable alternative to other isolating devices as they do something quite different to anything else.