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The Front Panel Power Switch
Your Liquid Fire Headphone Amplifier is equipped with a Piezo power switch. Piezo switches
virtually never wear out from either mechanical or electrical failure. However, Piezo switches
operate differently from mechanical switches and touch switches. The action of a Piezo switch
is somewhere in between a touch switch and a mechanical switch.
Touch switches require only a touch to the sensitive surface of the switch to cause it to
respond. Touch switches, obviously, are sensitive to nearly any kind of touch and will
sometimes activate even when you don’t want them to. A mechanical pushbutton switch
requires that you cause the switch mechanism to make some amount of travel as you push it.
A Piezo switch is similar to a touch switch in that there is no detectable mechanical travel, but
there must be some small deflection of the front face of the switch. Thus, a Piezo switch feels
like a touch switch where you must apply some small amount of pressure to activate the
switch. This pressure is low, but not zero. Take some time to understand and feel how your
Piezo switch works and then it should operate without issues for the life of your amplifier.
What about those tweaky things like cables, power cords,
better feet and such, that I’ve heard so much about?
Everyone has an opinion on this one, and we can say without a doubt that at this level of
performance
every change makes a difference. The extent to which this change is an
improvement is, of course, the subject of much debate. Such is the nature of high-performance
audio. We have found that, due to the extreme resolving capability of the Liquid Fire, varying
your selection of items such as aftermarket power cords, resonance control products,
interconnect cables, and headphone cables will very likely result in changes to the sonic result
perceived through your choice of headphones.
One of our closely-held opinions with regard to the entire matter of “What makes ‘better
sound’ better?” can be summed up in a few short words – “if the musical result of the change
MOVES YOU, then it is worth considering. If not, spend those discretionary funds obtaining
more of your favorite music!”
OK, so now comes that time when we require you to read some verbiage written in legalese. If
you understand all of it, you’re probably an attorney. If you don’t understand all of it, you’re
one of the rest of us who doesn’t like reading this any more than we like requiring that you read
it….but here it is…..