"The Border Patrol ampifiers were doing a sterling job of powering the Devore Fidelity Gibbon Nine floorstanders...These speakers have been designed to work equally well with a truly vast range of amplifiers, from low-powered Shindo valve designs to the most muscular Krells, all the while being musically communicative...which they certainly seemed to be with the Border Patrol Class A valves."
Hi-Fi Choice June 2008

I am delighted to introduce the remarkable Devore Fidelity range of loudspeakers to the UK. These unique loudspeakers are equally happy working with valves or solid state and have been designed to work effectively with amps rated from just 10 watts. The entire range has received rave reviews in the States and here is just a taster of what the fuss is all about:-

This is what John Devore calls the Gibbon Philosophy: "What makes the speaker easy to drive? Sensitivity and impedance are important, sure. But you also have to look at the entire loudspeaker as part of the amp, as part of a complete circuit. I want that interaction to be such that the amp stays as happy as it can, whether it's a Shindo or a Krell." Thus the system requires a well-behaved cabinet to go along with the well-behaved drivers —and DeVore accomplishes the former in a number of ways. The cabinet is made from two different densities of MDF, assembled with three different types of adhesive: "The selection of the glue for each part depends on whether the idea is to conduct resonances or isolate them," DeVore says. Damping treatment also involves three different materials; the result is a cabinet in which every panel exhibits a different resonant frequency from every other

The result of all that work is a narrow, medium-size floorstander (38" tall without spikes) with a nominal impedance of 8 ohms (5.6 ohms minimum), 91dB sensitivity, bass extension down to 31Hz, and a relatively high degree of placement flexibility; in other words, a loudspeaker that seems able to do just about anything.

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There are many mains cleaners/power conditioners on the market today, each making its own claim to clean up your sound and brighten up your day. Some have been positively reviewed and some of them even work. But how many of them do the specific job that you require?

Amplifiers come in many shapes and sizes and work in many weird and wonderful ways so naturally the demand they place on the wall socket differs from amp to amp. Whilst all cleaners will (should) attenuate RF noise to some degree, they are not necessarily dynamically optimised for your amplifier. There is no universal solution. The demand of a Boulder will be very different to that of a BorderPatrol for example. Quoting a current (Amp) rating and attenuation (dB) figures will only tell you how the conditioner behaves under steady state conditions on the test bench and not how it will behave when connected to a real world amplifier. 

The BorderPatrol Juicy Current is a mains cleaner specifically designed to work with Class A valve amplifiers. It is specifically optimised to work with the load presented by amplifiers of this type in real world conditions.  It attenuates noise down to 10kHz which is in the audible frequency range rather than only working at radio frequencies (RF) and it incorporates a DC blocker to prevent saturation effects which means it will work all the time and not just some of the time.

It is not a universal system cure-all because nothing is. It won’t make the sun shine in December or turn your Volkswagen into a Mercedes Benz, but it will seriously improve the clarity, definition and listenability of your Class A valve amplifier in your home which will brighten up your day.

Hear the BP 'Juicy Current' Power Conditioner for the first time in the UK at the Heathrow High Fidelity Show