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Biggest hype-worst tweak

I was wondering what everybody had found to be the biggest waste of time regarding tweaks-I've tried most-largely with satisfying results.The worst one for me was a Statmat (this months Hi-fi Choice has Jimmy Hughes still raving about the thing!)-a polythene floppy mat for sitting on top of your CD's-with weird markings-supposed to disperse static and make motherships land in your garden or something... Pure nonsense-had me pulling my hair out as it stuck in the tray constantly and my face twisted at the strain of trying to hear something/anything.....how my girlfriend laughed as she picked the thing up-you need help she remarked-I sent it back...and yet I fear I might have missed something Ben
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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Bencampell: /don't marry this girl: you marry someone smarter than you/your life is over,as you know it.The world is full of people smarter than me/ I try to stay away from them. I did have this mat. My player ate it.(Theata data 3) Even before the belch/couldn't hear any diff./Also had the 'glow in the dark' one/same result.Green pen/same.You live in Brooklyn?/ wanna sell your bridge?
redkiwi
1,092 posts
 
I agree guys - the CD mats are the worst. I found the Blacklight thing made a difference all right - but it just warmed things up by removing detail. I guess if you had a bright system you might find this beneficial - but it is about as close to the "band-aid" analogy as you can get.
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megasam
798 posts
 
I hear no positive effect from any CD mat I have tried, but at least they are inexpensive. I also have heard no improvement from using cable elevators to lift speaker cables off floor. Then there is the whole Shun Mook stable of bizarre tweaks that are very expensive, I doubt if many of these are very useful, but I have not tried them presonally. Tweaks I use are Auric Illuminator, Bedini II, and Kontak cleaner/enhancer, and various isolation devices.
no_money
638 posts
 
Had the same experience as Redkiwi, Blacklight took away all of the air and made it way to dark for me.
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