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” Well, I wasn’t surprised. With the 740P still plugged directly into the Shunyata Research Venom PS8 power distributor I normally use for my electronics, and with only the 650D connected to the 820S — also plugged into the Venom PS8 for the duration of my listening for this review — I played a random selection of music fed from my laptop computer. (I no longer use the 650D’s CD transport because all of my CDs are now ripped to a hard drive.) Right off the bat, I heard a subtle improvement in image focus — that is, how sharply outlined the aural images of performers are on the soundstage — as well as a bigger soundstage (though how much the stage grew depended on the recording played). I thought the 650D also sounded a bit more dynamic, which was welcome — one of my reservations about the 650D has been that its sound is a bit too laid-back. These weren’t drastic improvements, but when I heard them, I surmised that the 820S had lowered the 650D’s noise floor”