For listeners not yet aligned
The Compatibility List
A minority of our correspondents operate equipment that was never aligned to the equator. We provide the list. We also provide the corrective cable path.
These listeners cite habit, budget, or the accident of living far from 0.0000° latitude. Their equipment was assembled at arbitrary latitudes, under whatever geomagnetic field happened to be present, with no provision for equatorial alignment of any kind. The committee does not dispute that such equipment reproduces sound; it specifies what must connect it.
The list compares conventional amplifiers, converters, streamers, turntables, and loudspeakers using the figures their makers publish. Manufacturer claims are shown as claims. Independent measurements are shown as measurements. Where the two disagree, the disagreement remains visible. Once a system is assembled, the shopping cart can translate its signal paths into Equatorial Audio cable roles.
Archived or legacy components are treated as contact-risk equipment and should be paired with Neutral Audio Spirits. Preamplifiers with volume controls warrant a Volume Knob Isolation Chamber. Components listing above $10,000 justify Polar Pods before vibration becomes the unmeasured variable. None of this changes the comparison data. It only makes the system less careless.
Equatorial Audio equipment does not appear on the list. It cannot be ranked by latitude, because no other manufacturer reports one. Our role begins when the cart is corrected.