Name: Connected Fidelity Six Star
SKU: 54273
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Connected Fidelity Six Star

£669.00 – £789.00

Power distribution is also not considered that important by many, and overlooked as an integral part of the audio or AV chain.

Connected Fidelity Six Star

Mains Power Distribution

Selecting the best mains power distribution solution for your audio and AV equipment is not straightforward, with many competing ideas and approaches available, almost all designed to ‘optimise’ the incoming mains power alongside the output sockets.

Power distribution is also not considered that important by many, and overlooked as an integral part of the audio or AV chain, which is a real mistake if you want the very best performance – it all starts with the electrical power source and how it is distributed.

The Connected Fidelity ‘Six Star’ star wired distribution block range offers very good dynamics and this presents the music in a natural and convincing way.

If you want to know more about star wiring, and their design and development journey, please do download their ‘white-paper’ called ‘Why star wiring for mains power distribution and why the Six Star design?’

The Six Star distribution block can be used direct from the wall power socket, or from a balanced power source such as our AC-2K, for audio and AV applications.

There are a number of product options available in the Six Star range:

13Amp or 16Amp IEC input sockets.
6 x UK 13A or Schuko16A output sockets.
Optional wide band RFI filtering

Star Wiring

Star wired power distribution is where multiple devices are connected to central L.N.E. power source points, like the spokes of a wheel connecting to the wheel hub.

Each power socket has its own dedicated direct connection to the power source point on the Live and Neutral line, and direct earthing ‘star’ point as well.

This ensures each device in your system receives an identical level of power and the impedances (particularly important on the earth line) are identical for each powered component.

This helps reduce both system hum and background noise.

The Six Star design allows any of the output sockets to be used with any of your audio or AV equipment, they have identical power capability.

Why add an RFI filter?

When used direct from the wall socket (rather than with their AC-2K balanced power unit) they found the distribution block offered surprisingly good power distribution performance.

However, their research into radio frequency (RFI) noise reduction on the signal line (see their ‘RF Blocker’ products) made them wonder about the same issue arising on power lines.

Yes, a properly designed wide-band RFI mains power filter on the incoming mains supply side offers a real increase in clean power without affecting musical dynamics, indeed, quite the reverse, removing RFI back to the wall socket and onward to your audio or AV components increases the efficacy of the equipment performance, offering improved musical micro-details.

Much is made of RFI mechanical shielding, but this form of interference ‘noise’ enters through ANYTHING that is not 100% mechanically shielded, so plastic plugs and sockets break the shield, let in the noise.

Best to use a filter on the power and earth lines, remove the problem where it matters 100%, and it does not affect power performance.

This filter option is not required when ‘Six Star’ is used with a balanced power supply so options are offered – with and without RF filtering.

Connected Fidelity Six Star distribution block features

Live, neutral and earth are hard (no solder) ‘Star wired’ to 6 output sockets, therefore components connected to any of the sockets are offered identical power capability and impedance – no loss of dynamics.
Point to point wiring used throughout is the same wire as used in their power cables and AC-2K balanced power unit.
A specially formulated mains power wire for audio and AV.
All power components and wires are cryogenically treated for highest power flow quality from input socket to output sockets.
High quality Furutech Gold plated input socket as standard, with C14 (13A) and C19 (20A) options.

Six German made high quality output sockets, with sprung protective dust caps, UK and Schuko options available.

External isolated earthing point connected direct to star earth.
Low resonance case construction using plastics and non-magnetic stainless steel sub chassis for low vibration intrusion.
Special design silicon rubber isolation feet.
Star wired wide band RFI filter option for use with ‘direct from the wall’ power supply.
Special price packages along with cable(s) or AC-2K balanced supply (or both) available, please contact us for further details

Additional information

Version	Schuko – C14 IEC, Schuko – C19 IEC, Schuko RF – C14 IEC, Schuko RF – C19 IEC, UK 13A – C14 IEC, UK 13A – C19 IEC, UK 13A RF – C14 IEC, UK 13A RF – C19 IEC

Brand

Connected Fidelity

Connected Fidelity Michael Osborn, designer, engineer, manufacturer, and lifelong music lover, has been working in the Hi-Fi industry for over 30 years. He initially designed and launched the Astin Trew brand audio electronics ranges, then moved into audio products Distribution, introducing brands such as Astell n Kern and Hana cartridges to the UK during his long and successful career in the audio industry. As an inveterate designer and maker, Michael has throughout his career continued to design and develop products for his own use when nothing in the market fitted his sense of what makes music in the home sound so good and ended up selling these products to fellow audiophiles in an ad-hoc way mostly through word of mouth. He has also helped fellow audiophiles develop products they were working on and will be launching some of these through connected-fidelity™ when they fulfil a need in the market and pass the connected-fidelity™ sound-quality seal of approval!

So, connected-fidelity™ is the brand that now offers these fine products to everyone.

Connected-fidelity ™ products all do one thing.

They make the experience of listening to recorded or streamed music in the home more enjoyable by bringing you closer to the actual music.

This might seem like a simple and obvious statement, but the reality is not easy to achieve.

All the products have taken many long hours of development to get right, both sound-wise and price-wise, numerous development samples, research into materials and processes, long hours of comparison listening tests.

Connected-fidelity ™ is not shy about talking about the how and why.

Clearly there are some processing and manufacturing ‘secrets’ that are not disclosed for commercial reasons but are as open as possible about how the products are made – and the manufacture is in the UK.