My list of tweaks and the verdict
@millercarbon Thanks!! I’m a big Townshend fan so will be doing more tweaking with them for sure. But I don’t love Nobsound springs cause they are undamped and their resonance frequency is much higher than my symposium stuff and they have rubber as a component which I’ve found to be a big no no due to it’s grounding effects which is of course counter intuitive when it comes to damping. But I’ll definitely check out Schumann generators looks interesting! Thanks again !! |
The only synergy going on here is with the mind. Some of us are more open to suggestion and do not have the background to determine what is feasible vs total BS. It is the way things are and there is no getting away from it. Nature operates on a Bell curve.Your first point about synergy and some devices being ONLY in the mind is completely false being a general assumption that means nothing for each specific case... "Some of us are more open to suggestion and do not have the background" is a badly veiled attack or a paternalist remark at best, not an argument at all....Sorry.... And Nature by the way never operate on a Bell curve.... The Bell curve or the Gauss curve normal distribution MASKED the fine graining of reality that percolate trough the visible scale of the Bell and through the illusory normal distribution which is an easy tool that erase the concrete meaningful details .... « The bell curve satisfies the reductionism of the deluded. »p.242 " Fooled by randomness" Nicholas Taleb an expert on the Bell curve by the way in 5 books...Pick one.... https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/GIF.pdf I apologize for my correction about your points but it is not possible sometimes to let pass some affirmation that are as free as deceiving.... My best to you anyway..... «No plane will ever fly... Why? It is the way things are and there is no getting away from it.»- Anonymus Smith I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, 1895 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/ |
Have you tried Nobsound springs? Not as good as Townshend Pods. But remarkably good for how little they cost. If you try them I will not be surprised if you agree they are better than everything else EXCEPT for the Townshend. As for your other tweak results, I could have saved you an awful lot of time and trouble. If you're looking for tweaks that are mostly all grand slams- Synergistic Research HFT, ECT, PHT. Schumann generators. fO.q tape. Get at least a half a dozen Schumann generators. I'm currently running eight. |
@mijostyn Thanks!! But Don’t underestimate a room with serious footfall even if the turntable is heavily isolated and well...heavy. Do some jumping jacks in my room and it simply doesn’t matter if the plinth and platter weigh 20 kilos or more each. Anyway, deductive reasoning is no fun when you’re hunkered down but I am learning.... :) |
Aj, I think you need to give yourself a little more credit. A point of note however is that your strike outs were predictable based on deductive reasoning. No synergy thing here just total BS. Hopefully your report will keep others from wasting money. If you are thinking of spending more money you might want to upgrade your turntable. Really good ones do not care what you put them on. They start out life well isolated. The only synergy going on here is with the mind. Some of us are more open to suggestion and do not have the background to determine what is feasible vs total BS. It is the way things are and there is no getting away from it. Nature operates on a Bell curve. |
I created too many homemade devices to be described here, at low cost, and all were useful to reach my actual S.Q. And this S.Q. is the best i ever listen to... What is the problem? Costly devices are GENERIC and created for all needs... My peanuts cost device were SPECIFIC and adapted for my ears in my room... Simple.... |
AJ, my (b) point was not that. Much more innocent, friendly. I’m only remembering that some of the tweaks I tried I only realized later were things I couldn’t have actually tested because of factors I hadn’t considered. It’s similar to those times someone asks you to taste something just after you’ve eaten something spicy? You might taste it and then realize that you have other things going on (the extant flavor in your mouth) which obscures the new taste. Maybe that’s clearer... |
Hi hilde45 Hard question for sure. But I feel like I have zero ego in this area and am being fully transparent to the extent my brain is allowing me to be. I had no problem saying to myself and to others as documented above that I wasted money and effort. Definitely have not willed anything to be “all that” when it ain’t! Not entirely following your point in (b). My intention was not to state a product is worthless to everyone just to me. Certainly there is a law of diminishing returns here which could be the explanation. But like the Walker Talisman, my fiancée sees me waving it like a wand over my records and thinks I’m friggin nuts - I really wanted her to be wrong lol |
aj523, I wonder if you made any observations: (a) about your own objectivity, viz a vis price paid vs. results? From what I can tell, you seem to be setting that aside, but what do you think about your own objectivity? (A hard question, but one we can get better at!) (b) about those tweaks that did nothing but which you suspect was not adequately tested by your setup? Sometimes, I've done something to my system thinking I'd hear a difference, and when I didn't, people have sometimes pointed out things like, "Your noise floor is too high for you to test that" or "You don't have a dedicated power line, so it would be hard to tell." |
