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You cannot hear RF when you turn up the volume full blast that’s inherent noise from the parts themselves. Humans cannot hear radio frequencies. It has NOTHING to do with turning up the volume to listen for "noise". RF is NOT noise like EMI is on the power line. RF is a high frequency high pulse rate extraneous overloading energy. its just a pulse just like the music & video signals are, but shorter wavelengths in the Khz, MgHz, GHz bands. Trillions of pulses per second bombard all electronics and permeate all electronics because the parts and wiring contain metal which strongly attracts RF. All brand contain metal in strands of wiring, circuit traces, and the leads on all passive and active parts and all chipsets as well as inside the parts themselves. Literally sponges for RF. Bad news for signal integrity and power supply charge. All stock gear have 80- 90% empty power supplies due to todays high prevalence of high pulse rate RF being collected and passed along and amplified in every brand and model. Stock performance is awful in side by side direct comparison of the same model.

Inside every single model we upgrade today, every chipset every active part every passive part gets RFI EMI treated as well as dampened from physical vibratons. Every factory stock brand & model made is full of radio frequencies. All brands are completely unshielded, unattenuated, non-dissipated, non-damped. Ditto for wiring and conductors, acting more as RF EMI antennas bringing in more extraneous pulses then the intended signal content by a factor of over 100! This alone is severely compromising the sound and video. We fix all of this. It is very time consuming however the results are unparalleled.

Our Scientific method used to is based on empirical data gathered from an Agilent Spectrum Analyzer and active and passive probes. Results are constantly attested to by our many satisfied customers.

Audiophiles & Videophiles, many of whom were initially skeptical, after conducting their own A-B comparisons in their own systems, discovered the truly gigantic performance difference we offer by using our RFI & EMI RIDDED & SE Upgraded equipment and cables.

Even the most high-end brands are dramatically improved upon by suppressing this airborne RFI EMI collection+reproduction+amplification interference which humans cannot hear directly but is ever-present in the air all around us and drains the musicality from your listening experience and worsens video.

There are no other products or mods on the market that solve the problem of airborne Radio Frequency collection, reproduction and parasitic amplification. It is the root cause of less than the best possible reproduction available to you.

We wouldn’t have a 30 day in system buy back guarantee unless we were absolutely certain it wouldn’t come back.

Stock = lesser sound quality & average video compared to your equipment’s potential.

You aren’t getting the best available return on your investment using stock, factory “For Profit Built” internally un-suppressed and non-SE Upgraded RFI & EMI RIDDED HiFi & Video.

No returns in over 15 years

Yours in Music,

David J. Schulte

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RFI EMI collection, reproduction, & amplification is the #1 most widespread most pervasive obstacle to perfect fidelity, period. It is not the brand or model, parts nor circuit design. Parts swapping mod firms do not even come close to our results.

Remember just 1 WiFi router in your home emits a constant 2.4 billion RF pulses every second into yourself and into your gear and cables every fraction of every millisecond dramatically robbing power supply in your components and wrecking signal fidelity. The high pulse rate of RFI is over 1,000 times more pulses reproduced than the actual signal content alone.

Turn on your smart phone or tablet WiFi and note how many WiFi router options appear: Every WiFi is emitting a steady 2.4 billion RF pulses per second into both you and your electronics constantly as long as it is plugged into wall power.

The airwaves all around us are constantly filled with radio frequency pulses humans cannot hear, nor does it produce audible distortion directly, it overloads the circuits/chipsets/power supplies robbing every aspect of performance, both audio and video, gobbling up power and heating up active parts.

We recommend starting your Upgrade Company journey with either the TimePortal power cords or upgrading your source component. This is where it all starts.

TimePortal power cords have 10x more RFI EMI ridding materials over power conditioners alone. Our SE Upgrade into your source will make you a believer.

All brands and models made today are still being sold with buck naked wiring/chipsets, active/passive parts which must have our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology painstakingly applied. This is a 4 part engineering breakthrough comprised of shielding, dissipation, attenuation, & dampening. RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology in and of itself elevates all brands and models to above stock State of the Art, above Class A, above Editors Choice, above cost is no object brands and models, proven, no if ands or buts by or 14 year zero returns track record.

RFI EMI collection, reproduction, & amplification is the #1 most widespread most pervasive obstacle to perfect fidelity, period. It is not the brand or model, parts or circuit design.

By dramatically reducing the number of RF & EM pulses permeating both the signal content and power deliver by a factor of 100, its just like putting in a 100x larger power supply. Clients are amazed at the new sound quality, most notably, larger 3D soundstage with blacker background, previously unheard of bass slam depth pitch & speed, an unusual ease refinement and musicality even on the poorest playback material.

Remember that any electronic system is only as good as its noisiest or worst sounding link in the chain, never the best. To apply this technology to its full effect one ought to have our RFI EMI RIDDANCE installed from power delivery to the loudspeaker cables and loudspeaker crossovers. All chipsets and electronic parts within all of the systems components must be shielded/attenuated/dissipated/dampened with our RFI EMI RIDDANCE and all power cords and interconnects and speaker cables must be wrapped with our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology as well, since the negative lead of the loudspeaker cables is a huge RF antenna whose current flow is back to the source, preamp and power amp.

Imagine your system all the way up loud 200 watts or so….would a thin wall reduce the volume much? No. RF frequencies in the air are 10x-100x louder then your system all the way up. Would the see thru braid shielding and thin mylar “shielding” of factory cables reduce the volume of your system? No, not at all in fact. But RF is 20,000+ watts of cellular broadcasts constantly. All WiFi routers constantly spray 2.4 billion RF pulses constantly into your home and into you too. Shielding must be thick, redundant, affixed tightly with numerous materials around all cables/chipsets/wiring to be effective. Factory shielding does not work much at all either. RF goes right through constantly contaminating your system robbing all power supplies and ruining signal integrity.

Your entire system must be RFI EMI RIDDED to properly reproduce music and video signals.

Your cables and stock gear are naked and highly compromised despite OEM claims of shielding, they aren’t! We wouldn't have 100% guarantee otherwise!

Checkout our real & verifiable client feedback and comments accessed above via the "TESTIMONIALS” tab from the Menu bar at the top of our website.

Performance problems with all brands of High-End Audio and Video:

Magazine touted "high end audio" sounds dull, flat and boring!: weak one note bass, fuzzy midrange and highs, veiled, hash, small and flat. Simply not musical, simply not "live".

The most expensive equipment is simply not working anywhere near its true potential unless it has been internally upgraded with our 4-part shielding, dissipation, attenuation, and dampening from the trillions of radio frequencies that are all around us.

Stock gear is just not satisfying or your would not be reading this.

Performers and instruments sound electronic and small, not like they're right in front of you. Video that looks mildly washed out, hazy, colors lacking in depth detail & immediacy, grainy in comparison to film or real life. Whites that glow. Blacks that blend together. Read on and we will explain why...

Magazine Class A rated "Editors Choice" new models only demonstrate incremental improvement, not revolutionary improvement like our upgrades provide. All stock consumer electronics are internally naked spending the majority of their power supply storage and bandwidth reproducing radio frequency noise rather than the intended signal content all by itself. Naked chipsets, amplifying parts, wiring, power supply parts ruins performance.

The Upgrade Company has reverse engineered the most expensive high end brands for decades. Even today, no matter how much we spend on the latest & greatest new model, performance and build quality are always lacking. The latest magazine "Class A" "Editors Choices" "Top Picks" sound dull, flat, hazy, grainy, one dimensional next to the same model that has been upgraded. This is not difficult to understand. Like so many audiophiles today, we too were once caught up in the "Merry-Go-Round" of buying and selling one model for another, never achieving the level of performance we were after, and knew technology could provide. Manufacturers want you to believe that their highest priced models automatically equate to "State of the Art" performance. Magazine reviewers want you to believe their top recommended models are night and day better than the lower ranked recommended models, or models they failed to "review". This is simply not evident when listening. Reason being: both the low priced and high priced models from the same manufacturer nearly always contain the same supplier for the wiring, printed circuit board material and electronic parts! They buy in bulk. There's simply more of the same brands of parts in the more expensive component with a more expensive outer casework and remote. In both instances, the high priced and low priced models greatly benefit from upgrading to the highest end parts, shielding dampening and wiring. For top-of-the-line models to be profitable in the market place, reviewers have to promote them and talk them up. Basic economics, you do not establish profitability by selling 5 or 6 pieces per year. Nor are the magazines themselves profitable unless they earn well over fifteen thousand dollars month for advertising and their reviewers compensated somehow, typically in free or "loaned" gear for their high words of praise.

The inner cover ad in a major high end audio publication is said to be a minimum $6000 a month, or free gear, and a review is generally not granted until at least several months of advertising have been paid for, or other arrangement has been made. No one works nor publishes a magazine for free.

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Who are you going to trust? A salesman? A magazine reviewer or your own ears & eyes backed up with a 100% Buy Back Guarantee?

You cannot hear RF when you turn up the volume full blast that’s inherent noise from the parts themselves. Humans cannot hear radio frequencies. It has NOTHING to do with turning up the volume to listen for "noise". RF is NOT noise like EMI is on the power line. two totally different wavelengths. RF is a pulse just like the music & video signals are, but shorter wavelengths in the Khz, MgHz, GHz bands. Trillions of pulses per second bombard all electronics and permeate all electronics because the parts and wiring contain metal, metal in strands of wiring, circuit traces, and the leads on all passive and active parts and all chipsets as well as inside the parts themselves. Literally sponges for RF. Bad news for signal integrity and power supply charge. All stock gear have 80- 90% empty power supplies due to todays high prevalence of high pulse rate RF being collected and passed along and amplified in every brand and model. Stock performance is awful in side by side direct comparison of the same model.

Our Scientific method used to is based on empirical data gathered from an Agilent Spectrum Analyzer and active and passive probes. Results are constantly attested to by our many satisfied customers.

We wouldn’t have a 30 day in system buy back guarantee unless we were absolutely certain it wouldn’t come back.

Stock = lesser sound quality & average video compared to your equipment’s potential.

You aren’t getting the best available return on your investment using stock, factory “For Profit Built” internally un-suppressed and non-SE Upgraded RFI & EMI RIDDED HiFi & Video.

No returns in over 14 years

Yours in Music,

David J. Schulte

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The Electronics Handbook, Second Edition,

Edited by Jerry C. Whitaker

Excerpt tilted: Noise In Mixed Signal Systems

"It is also common, however, as stated earlier, for electronic systems to begin and end as analog circuits (disc players, DAC’s, Music Servers, AV receivers & AV Controllers) but in between have digital logic subsections. Such a system is called a mixed signal system, and noise is a concern both at the input to the system and at the output. Noise at the input is converted into errors in the digital logic circuit; the data then picks up further errors as it is processed within the digital logic circuits, and when the conversion from the digital to the analog domain is finally made, these accumulated errors become noise once again at the digital logic circuit’s output. There are some mixed signal systems that combine digital and analog circuits on a single semiconductor strip substrate, and these can produce crosstalk, which originates within the digital logic circuits and creates noise within the analog circuit section. The most common of these are power supply noise and ground bounce.

But digital-to-analog converters used in this process are subject to all of the noise problems of analog circuits since they themselves are analog devices, and rely on resistive components, which have thermal noise limitations; thus, the digital information necessarily enters the digital system with noise present"

Radio Frequence Noise (RFI) vs. Electromagnetic Noise (EMI) magnetic low frequency (Hum)

EMI is mostly magnetic in nature and typically 60 pulses per second at most, which does create not a lot of extraneous demands on the power supply or amplifying parts and chipsets such as DAC’s & Video Scalers, etc

However RFI in the air is emitted heavily by just 1 WiFi router 2.4ghz (that’s 2.4 billion pulses per second of RF pulse emissions ) which presents a HUGE draw on electronic power supplies and chipsets and amplifiers which all collect the RF pulses as noise. There are numerous WiFi routers in the vicinity of the typical urban home each being picked up by all electronic devices. Just count the WiFi options listed on your smart phone or tablet. How many WiFi options do you count? Each one is 2.4ghz constant RFI emission. Now count up all the HDTV and radio stations on XM FM AM etc Police Fire EMS. Then count up each persons mobile phone and each device in your house including alarm clocks and all tablets TVs laptops pc’s cordless phones anything with a digital display readout anything wireless is radiating radiation commonly called RFI. These frequencies and all harmful to the human body.

The air around us contains trillions of RF pulses which are constantly collected by metal, metal wiring, metal part leads on all electronic parts, all chipsets, all circuit traces, etc

This overloads both Audio & Video gear which is constantly forced to reproduce and amplify every RF pulse which drains power supplies and overloads chipsets causing greatly reduced signal reproduction. Power amplifiers heat up when played loudly due to RFI. The speaker impedance hasn’t changed a bit. That stays the same. Billions of airborne RF pulse per second getting amplified are what heat power amps up and make tubed amps sound thin flat and anemic due to a gross lack of power supply storage.

Remember just 1 WiFi router alone emits a constant 2.4 billion RF pulses every second. Turn on your smart phone or tablet WiFi and note how many WiFi router options appear: each option is a steady 2.4 billion RF pulses per second soaking into your gear and cables every millisecond dramatically robbing power supplies everywhere billions of times faster then the actual signal content pulses. However the airwaves all around us are constantly filled with trillions of RF pulses each and every millisecond, with a million or more per second produced by most modern digital devices in and of themselves from onboard RF generators and RF generating switching type power supplies.

We recommend starting your Upgrade Co journey with either power delivery or a source component. This is where it starts. Perhaps a Furutech NCF duplex wall outlet & Furutech 105D cover plate, fed by isolated ground shielded stranded Romex in the wall from the breaker panel itself. Then plug in an SE Upgraded+RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology fitted large capacity power storing device that stores a large amount of power in a magnetic field, a Richard Gray Power Company Model 400, 600, 1200 fitted with Furutech NCF outlets and a 20A Furutech NCF IEC inlet fed from the wall and exited by a TimePortal Cables RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology fitted Signature power cord feeding your power conditioner that’s been SE Upgraded+RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology fitted also with Furutech NCF plugs. Doing just this will elevate the system dramatically, far more so if TimePortal power cords feed each component as they contain far more RFI EMI RIDDING material then any stock power conditioner or other brand of power cord other then Stage lll.

Inside the equipment, all brands, all types, exist naked wiring and naked signal conductors which must be wrapped with our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology which is a 4 part engineering breakthrough comprised of shielding, dissipation, attenuation, & dampening. RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology in and of itself elevates all brands and models to above stock State of the Art, Class A, Editors Choice cost is no object performance because RFI EMI collection distribution & amplification is the number 1 most widespread most pervasive obstacle to perfect fidelity, period. It is not the brand of parts nor circuit design. By reducing the number of RF & EM pulses outside the signal content, it is akin to freeing up readily available power supply by a factor of 100. Said another way, in all stock gear, due to its buck naked non attenuated factory mass produced condition, each make and model would need a minimum of a 100 times larger power supply to achieve the highly saturated at all times power delivery one of our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology fitted models has. We’ve proven that midfi AV receivers that’ve received our SE upgrade and RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology far far outperform stock cost of no object seperates at the highest price levels when used within a system that has the same RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology installed in the power conditioning power cords and interconnects.

Remember that any electronic system is only as good as its noisiest link in the chain from power delivery to the loudspeakers, chipsets and parts must be shielded/attenuated/dissipated/dampened and all wiring must be wrapped with our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology which is a 4 part engineering breakthrough comprised of various materials for shielding, dissipation, attenuation, & dampening.

Our RFI EMI RIDDANCE Technology in and of itself elevates all brands and models to above stock State of the Art, Class A, Editors Choice.

Your investment is 100% GUARANTEED ZERO risk to discover that you're missing out RFI EMI RIDDANCE TECHNOLOGY that makes everything else sound dull, flat, fuzzy & boring.

Try us out today!

A+ BBB rated & 30 Day In-System 100% Refund Period

Yours in music, David J. Schulte / President

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Massive untapped potential in all brands

Judge for yourself in your own system

A testament to our claims being met is the sheer number of upgrades that are placed into the systems of enthusiastic music lovers every year. To attempt to convince you or others of the merits of our upgrades we can claim many things, but nothing speaks louder than the appreciation our customers have, our 100% refund policy unmatched in the modification industry, and our monthly A+ rating by the BBB. The only way you or anyone else will know if our upgrades elevate a component to State of the Art is to hear it with one's own ears in one's own system

Doubting the veracity of our claims is foolish. Judge our upgrades for yourself in your system. Always take with a grain of salt any online comments as those are completely anonymous, and disregard any advice given by dealers & salesman who have no interest in your finding out that there is an entirely better level of performance available through upgrading & modifying. Our "Signature Edition upgraded" versions are for real or we would not be selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of SE upgraded new models year after year. Nor would we continue to maintain a 30 DAY IN HOME 100% Buy Back Guarantee and A+ BBB rating for many years now.

To learn more read our "WHY UPGRADE?" tabbed webpage from the Menu bar at the top of our website.

When High-End audio or video components are still in their unshielded/unattenuated/undissipated/undampened factory form, the wiring and circuitry and electronic parts collect radio frequencies right out of the airwaves from both outside the unit and from clocks and power supplies inside the unit, which drains the main and local power supplies rapidly. This is because all electronic parts, chipsets and wiring contain METAL. Doubt this? Try replacing your AM or FM tuner's antenna with a piece of string or fish line. Only a length of wire or metallized antenna will collect the radio station. All DAC's, Video scalers, DSP chipsets, Op-Amps, all active and passive electronic parts contain metal. Printed circuit boards wiring and flat ribbon type conductors contain metal, all of which constantly collect radio frequencies out of the air hundreds of thousands to millions of times per second. RF & EM contamination also reduces the effectiveness in the audio bandwidth by having to reproduce radio frequency and low frequency bandwidths and the music at the same time.

The Upgrade Company is the only audio aftermarket company able to maintain a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee with an unparalleled 30 Day In Home Refund Period

There is no specification or measurement set that has been devised anywhere in the world that can be taken to indicate wether or not a product will sound good. Only you can decide for yourself. If there was a measurement for good sound, magazine reviewers would simply take and publish these measurements and rank the results in order of best to worst. The fact remains that Mid-Fi low cost brands measure the same as Hi-Fi expensive brands. Hence the need for reviewers to opine on what sounds good.

The Upgrade Company provides you the very highest performance. Far higher sound and video quality over both all brands of audio video gear, including top of the line cost is no object models from AYON, Esoteric, Audio Research, McIntosh, Krell, Ayre, Bryston, Anthem, Classe, Burmester, Mark Levinson, MBL, etc ALL brands of audio & video gear. Why? #1 their chipsets, power supplies, electronic parts and wiring are never shielded/attenuated/dissipated/dampened. #2 their electronic parts and wiring were chosen "For Profit" not the worlds best. Alarmingly even in top of the line models. Our clients have determined that our upgrade was a much wiser investment then investing more money on a different model that's still in it's factory mass produced "For Profit Built" internally naked condition.

Every component in your system that has not been upgraded with The Upgrade Company's RFI & EMI treatment technologies will reduce the final system performance by a minimum of $10,000 in MSRP, per non-upgraded component. Substantial audio & video performance capability is lost and remains un-tapped within each stock non-upgraded model. The Upgrade Company SE upgraded Oppo BDP-105D Universal player for example surpasses both the lab measurements and the perceived performance of the most expensive stock non-upgraded CD or SACD players costing as much as $70,000 in direct side by side double blind comparison.

Additionally, the low frequency magnetic fields radiated outward from transformers, switch mode power supplies, high voltage AC and DC wiring, induces a magnetic flux in the XLR & RCA input wiring, all signal conductors, all circuitry, and all parts unless they are all very well shielded and attenuated, painstakingly, by hand with the right materials & techniques.

Unless The Upgrade Company's internal RFI & EMI attenuation and shielding technology have been installed over all of the internal wiring and conductors and the parts themselves, the performance of the very highest cost models remains average at best with plenty of room for "new" models.

The fact remains, the same generic electronic part brands are being used by almost all high end audio manufacturers in their lowest cost models to the highest cost models to save costs from bulk ordering. Tremendous untapped potential resides in all models.

For your convenience, The Upgrade Company provides a selection of brand new "A" stock "Signature Edition" upgraded models for Online Shopping

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No other modification firm nor manufacturer is allowed to install our shielding into production models, modifications, updates or upgrades, by law.

In order to achieve a super high performance level, the latest models all require the finest electronic parts, wiring, shielding and dampening that technology affords but is missing due to cost & time needed to manufacture constraints. There really is no other way to reap all of the original performance the recording contains. Buying new cables or speakers is fine, but it's still a fraction of what The Upgrade Company can provide you with an upgrade to one or more of your components, including your CD player, universal player, CD transport, DAC, Blu Ray player, preamplifier, power amplifier, surround pre pro, tuner, electronic crossover, or passive speaker crossover. Manufacturer's are in business to profit, they simply cannot afford to use expensive parts, wiring, shielding and dampening. It's too labor intensive and time consuming. Automated mass produced manufacturing is the norm today unfortunately.

There is no specification or measurement testing that has been devised anywhere in the world that can indicate wether or not a product will sound good. If there was a measurement for "good sound", magazine reviewers would simply take and publish these measurements and rank the results in order of best to worst. The fact remains that Mid-Fi measures the same as Hi-Fi. Hence the need for reviewers to opine on what sounds good. It's what drove Stereo Review magazine out of print years ago.

There is no specification or measurement correlated with transparency. There is no specification or measurement correlated with soundstage depth, height or width. There is no specification for bass speed, heft, or slam or tightness. There is no specification or measurement correlated with how clean and defined the midrange and high end is. There is no specification or measurement correlated with musicality. There is no specification or measurement correlated with forwardness, or digital "irritation". There is no specification or measurment correlated with perceived resolution. Some of the worlds best stock players and stand-alone dac's use ca. 1988 Philips TDA1541S1 dac's with just 16 bits of mathematical resolution: Zanden and AMR high cost brands are both examples. Yet both of these brands are dramatically improved by high cost replacement parts and RFI & EMI shielding, just as Esoteric's $25,000pr D-01 VU 24 bit monoblock dac's & $25,000 P-01 VU transport are.

High-End audio manufacturers continue to get by giving consumers just 5-10 pieces of audiophile grade parts in a typical unit while stuffing roughly 100-300 "For Profit" low cost generic parts that do not belong in a high end stereo or high end video unit. The use of widespread generic dirt cheap parts is not only found in audio equipment sold at the Walmart and Best Buy type stores of the world, the fact is these same parts are also found inside your expensive supposedly "Latest & Greatest" purchase. We'll show you some of this to you over on our PHOTOS page. There is so much to show from all of the manufacturer's today. We could fill a book with explanations & photographic evidence of "For Profit Built" practices employed by all manufacturers today.

The typical audiophile model contains 50-300 dirt cheap .05-10 cent surface mount capacitors instead of proven high-performance (high cost) types that require a human to insert into the circuit board, align and hand solder. Instead, manufacturers greedy to profiteer rely on automated assembly devices to insert, align and solder the parts onto each circuit board. The only parts these machines accept are generic parts that are used in everything from remote controls to your laptop computer. The finest most expensive best measuring parts must be installed by hand by a human being. This takes at least 50 times longer then the automated assembly machines take, and therefore costs the manufacturer too much money. Manufacturers simply cannot afford to use the best parts and hand applied shielding.

Mass produced & stock ultra-high end Hi Fi sounds dull, flat and boring: weak bass, ill-defined mids and highs, simply not musical, simply not "live", simply not satisfying or your would not be reading this. Performers and instruments sound reproduced and small, not like they're right in front of you. Video that looks mildly washed out, lacking in depth and immediacy, grainy in comparison to film or real life. Whites that glow. Blacks that blend together. Digital and analog audio and video signals, as well as power supplies, are all highly susceptible to radio-frequency and electromagnetic influences and interference which originates both within the component and from external sources including what travels in along connecting cabling and power cords, which always function like antenna's, collecting RFI and EMI right out of the airwaves. Metal wire and metal circuit board traces collect radio frequencies. All circuit board traces collect RFI and EMI wether they are analog, AC or DC power supply wiring, the power supplies themselves, digital circuits, analog circuits, video, control, etc. You wouldn't hang a piece of string or fish line as an antenna for AM, FM or digital domain tuner reception would you? Of course not. Only a wire or metallic antenna will collect radio frequencies out of the air. Every wire and circuit trace inside your components is doing the same thing, severely compromising the delicate audio and video signals, wether they originated in the analog or digital domain. A modern digitally based surround prepro has typically 5 clocks inside radiating RF energy into the circuitry through-out the unit. A standard CD player has 1 or 2 clocks, a universal player like the Oppo, 6 clocks. With all that RF energy radiated inside digital equipment including prepro's, CD/SACD players, DVD/Bluray players, transports, digital amplifiers, dac's etc, proper RF and EM shielding is of paramount importance. Transformers and power delivery wiring radiate out of band energy into delicate audio and video circuits, both analog and digital circuits, in the low frequency domain mainly through magnetic influences. The high frequency RF energy radiated outward from every digital clock in the circuit induces jitter and out of band energy in all nearby clocks and all circuits. For years the first digital alarm clocks had to be registered during manufacture with the Federal Communications Commission, because they broadcast their beat frequency out into the airwaves. All digital devices broadcast their beat frequency. The Upgrade Company's unique RFI and EMI treatment solutions result in the very lowest jitter and highest overall performance in the high end audio and video industry. No manufacturer or other modifier can match our results because....

There is no consumer electronic manufacturer or aftermarket modifier installing the upgrades The Upgrade Company performs. By law.

Unshielded power supply delivery wiring and unshielded analog or digital signal conductors are the single largest cause of noise in all brands. Manufacturer's simply do not have the time it takes to install the shielding, even though they are indeed aware of the great benefits of shielding all power supply and signal conductors. Rarely a high end manufacturer will install a minor amount of shielding only in cost-is-no-object models, at best only 1 or 2 pieces of partial largely ineffective shielding material in their most expensive models, again, due to time to manufacture constraints. For example, on the PHOTOS page you can see for yourself how Esoteric installed flimsy resonant non-adhesive aluminized mylar foil shielding (not the heavy adhesive lined silver shielding/dampening product we use) over some of the power supply wiring runs in their $25,000pr flagship D-01 Monoblock DAC's, but not in any of their lower priced models. One would presume that for $25,000 the manufacturer would install shielding over all of the wiring and conductors to drop signal to noise levels to the absolute best, correct? The S/N ratio, clarity, black background and overall resolution and musicality are all greatly improved with treatment to the rest of the unshielded wiring in the D-01 flagship dac's, before we even start to upgrade the "For Profit" generic parts the manufacturer installed.

The RF & EM noise we shield out is created inside every model and brand regardless of cost or prestige: For example, there are typically 3-6 clocks radiating strong RF (radio frequency radiation and interference) and power transformers radiating EM (electromagnetic radiation and interference) inside all CD/SACD/DVD players, surround prepro's, computers, dac's & switching power amplifiers for example.

The typical Universal player from Oppo, Marantz, Denon, McIntosh, Krell etc contains as many as 8 clocks and many power transformers. One power transformer is typically a very noisy switching mode power supply type which radiates it's switching radio frequency strongly into the delicate audio and video signal circuitry nearby. The voltages many circuit chips operate at is only 1-5 volts or less. Some analog chipsets are powered by 12-18v DC. HDMI and digital circuits operate on as little as 1 volt, the same level as the radio frequency contamination being spewed into the chipsets from clocks located just millimeters away on the circuit boards. The actual video and digital audio signals are being contaminated severely. Analog signals are also typically 2 volts or less usually in the hundredths of a single volt. These are very delicate signals that are easily influenced by extraneous voltages in the vicinity. Airborne RF radiation put out by all clocks and radio & TV stations and anything digital in the room is always collected right out of the air by anything metallic: this includes all of the signal traces and the chips themselves. RF radiation is also collected by the power supply traces and voltage regulators themselves, again right out of the airwaves. This is measurable and found in every brand and model regardless of retail cost. There are many clocks mounted directly on all HDMI and SPDIF circuit boards regardless of cost or brand, which radiate high magnitude RF noise directly into adjacent analog, digital and power supply wiring and circuitry. It's really incredible how much the clock radiation degrades signal integrity, of both digital & analog audio and video performance. We shield this nasty RFI and EMI radiation out of the parts, wiring and circuit boards to the best that technology can accomplish. The improvements are absolutely tremendous.

As you can see it is a huge compromise to purchase stock unshielded "For Profit Built" high end audio & video.

Our RFI & EMI RIDDANCE Technology is installed in addition to the very best hand selected and performance matched electronic parts.

Each electronic part and wire in the signal path can be thought of as an interconnect, and every part and wire in the power supply can be thought of as a power cord. Why not replace hundreds of these parts through our upgrades instead of a just one or more pairs of interconnects or power cords between your components at a high price? Buying better interconnects for $500.00 - $10,000 does not provide as good a return on your investment as one of our $699-$2000 SE upgrades. Through upgrading, The Upgrade Company replaces essentially hundreds of interconnects and power cords, all for one low price, with 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

The level of total transformation The Upgrade Company provides is far greater then purchasing the most expensive cables or new models top rated by magazine reviewers.

For pennies on the dollar over supposed "State of the Art" new models that are built by large corporations,"For Profit", and then talked up by the major HiFi magazines around the world.

A TRUE STATE OF THE ART level of performance is waiting for you....

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The Upgrade Company has reverse engineered the most expensive high end brands for decades. Even today, no matter how much we spend on the latest & greatest new model, performance and build quality are always lacking. The latest magazine "Class A" "Editors Choices" "Top Picks" sound dull, flat, hazy, grainy, one dimensional next to the same model that has been upgraded. This is not difficult to understand. Like so many audiophiles today, we too were once caught up in the "Merry-Go-Round" of buying and selling one model for another, never achieving the level of performance we were after, and knew technology could provide.

Manufacturers want you to believe that their highest priced models automatically equate to "State of the Art" performance. Magazine reviewers want you to believe their top recommended models are night and day better then the lower ranked recommended models, or models they failed to "review". This is simply not evident when listening. Reason being: both the low priced and high priced models from the same manufacturer nearly always contain the same supplier for the wiring, printed circuit board material and electronic parts! They buy in bulk. There's simply more of the same brands of parts in the more expensive component with a more expensive outer casework and remote. In both instances, the high priced and low priced models greatly benefit from upgrading to the highest end parts, shielding dampening and wiring.

For top-of-the-line models to be profitable in the market place, reviewers have to promote them and talk them up. Basic economics, you do not establish profitability by selling 5 or 6 pieces per year. Nor are the magazines themselves profitable unless they earn well over fifteen thousand dollars month for advertising and their reviewers compensated somehow, typically in free or "loaned" gear for their high words of praise. The inner cover ad in a major high end audio publication is said to be a minimum $6000 a month, or free gear, and a review is generally not granted until at least several months of advertising have been paid for, or other arrangement has been made. No one works nor publishes a magazine for free.

Every electronic part and wire in the signal path can be thought of as an interconnect, and every electronic part and wire in the power supply can be thought of as a power cord. Our upgrades essentially replace a high number of interconnects and power cords within your components. The effects are truly remarkable.

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