That all makes sense, Al. Still, I feel like there's still a touch of Magic in it, in the sense I stated in the OP.
Among the stranger things commonly reported about ERS fabric is that using too much of it tends to diminish high frequencies, as Chad described in this thread. That is puzzling to me. Could it be that using too much ERS fabric somehow affects certain circuits in the way that high capacitance interconnects can act as a low pass filter?
And something else you said struck me:
Eureka! THAT explains my experience with ERS fabric. The two changes I reported in the OP were...
--the decay of notes
--instrument timbres
...both of which I associate with jitter. That association is a result of my experience adding a reclocker to my system. The raison d'ĂȘtre of the reclocker is to reduce jitter. Adding the reclocker provided me with an impression of what jitter sounds like, or more importantly, WHAT THE REDUCTION OF JITTER SOUNDS LIKE...
It sounds like what I heard after installing the ERS fabric.
This explanation is consistent with my placement of the fabric:
1. preamp power supply
2. reclocker (with an Audiocom Superclock 4)
3. preamp master clock (another Audiocom Superclock 4)
#2 and #3 are both digital circuits where the amount of jitter has a significant effect on sound quality. I think I can say with a reasonable amount of confidence that the ERS fabric is helping to reduce jitter.
Thank you, Al, for leading me to this realization. I still don't know whether Magic exists, but I am more confident that the changes I heard exist in my listening room and not in my mind.
bc
Among the stranger things commonly reported about ERS fabric is that using too much of it tends to diminish high frequencies, as Chad described in this thread. That is puzzling to me. Could it be that using too much ERS fabric somehow affects certain circuits in the way that high capacitance interconnects can act as a low pass filter?
And something else you said struck me:
...the only digital circuit points that would be susceptible to rfi-related noise are those at which jitter might be an issue.
Eureka! THAT explains my experience with ERS fabric. The two changes I reported in the OP were...
--the decay of notes
--instrument timbres
...both of which I associate with jitter. That association is a result of my experience adding a reclocker to my system. The raison d'ĂȘtre of the reclocker is to reduce jitter. Adding the reclocker provided me with an impression of what jitter sounds like, or more importantly, WHAT THE REDUCTION OF JITTER SOUNDS LIKE...
It sounds like what I heard after installing the ERS fabric.
This explanation is consistent with my placement of the fabric:
1. preamp power supply
2. reclocker (with an Audiocom Superclock 4)
3. preamp master clock (another Audiocom Superclock 4)
#2 and #3 are both digital circuits where the amount of jitter has a significant effect on sound quality. I think I can say with a reasonable amount of confidence that the ERS fabric is helping to reduce jitter.
Thank you, Al, for leading me to this realization. I still don't know whether Magic exists, but I am more confident that the changes I heard exist in my listening room and not in my mind.
bc