VPI is bringing back the Magic Brick!

If these manufacturers and reviewers have fear of tweaks like the VPI Brick what in heaven’s name will they say or do when the going gets tough. It could get pretty ugly. There are a lot more difficult to fathom or preposterous sounding things in audioland than the VPI Brick, that’s for gol dern sure. Let’s see, you got your tiny little bowl resonators, Schumann frequency generators, Morphic Message Labels, battery powered clocks, Red X Pen, green pens, purple pen, Mr. Chip. And many others. Enough to give amp manufacturers and reviewers conniptions. It’s also quite funny, maybe not funny like a clown funny, that PS Audio readership is under the impression the brick works by mass loading. I’d opine the quest for better sound inspires more creativity and invention than a Mission to Mars.

So, I am in Manhattan on a shopping errand jaunt with my wife. We were at ABC furniture downtown, made our way up through Soho, stopped at the old Stereo Exchange (if memory serves, it was the small shop) and bought a stack of VPI bricks. Three- they were heavy. Like an idiot, I’m schlepping these things around town on our other stops. We finally land at the rug floor in Macy’s, and there is a demonstration of guys wearing robes and mystical garb weaving rugs. I stop at the platform where they are working and put down my package with a grunt. One of the swami dudes says, ’that looks heavy, what is it?’ I say, "magic bricks." He nods sagely, like I’m on the same mystical channel, then turns back to his loom.

Was he weaving a magic carpet?

The expression thick as a brick springs to mind.