I'm impressed!! Your getting it folks, good for you!
The converts over to Low Mass "tunable systems" is growing. This last month I can really see the numbers of folks trading in their over built approach for one that makes more sense and better sounding.
I know after years of over massing your system (systems) you kept going and going till you finally put on "that" recording and realized maybe you have been going in the wrong direction. I also know making the turn away from traditional HEA feels treasonous at first. But, your doing it and your finding your not alone. In fact your finding that most of the audiophile world has either done or are on their way to doing the same thing.
here's why
No where along the audio pathway can you kill the sound to restore the music. If you kill the sound, your also killing part of the recorded content. Now that you have started getting rid of the extra weight your hearing more music content. I suggest you keep going. Keep unloading those bulky acoustical products and getting rid of those big chassis and heavy cables and lets get to the core of your audio signal. Your audio system doesn't need to be as heavy as you have made it. In fact your system probably weighs 10x or more than it needs to to get the job done, and get it done better then you have ever heard before.
why does it now sound better?
When you start freeing your system from mass you are allowing your signal to work better with the fields of nature. Remember there are 4 basic fundamental forces, the strong force, the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and gravity. No matter what brilliant audiophile theories are thrown at you from our Agon gurus, these are the 4 main interactions that all other energies submit to on our planet. The word "interaction" is the key to it all. Interaction is the opposite from kill. Because the world is made of motion this means that things like audio have a balance to them, no absolutes. The audio signal in motion is highly influenced by it's core's surroundings. You might think of an audio signal traveling down an audio pathway as secluded by itself, isolated from all other energy, but that's not an audio signal in motion at all. The audio signal is in interaction with the four fundamentals that makes everything work. The question comes up, how far away from an audio wire do you have to be before you are not affecting it with the fundamental forces? The answer is both simple and complicated if you think too much. Your audio parts are a part of the four forces therefore it is bound by the same laws as any interactive energy conduit. Your wire for example is part of the fields that interact together with it. Your audio is in a continuum of change. Not necessarily adrift but not confined by a dielectric either. Fields move in and through and surround, all being part of the performance of the audio signal passing through. If you over dampen the conduit you dampen the audio signal (squeezing the sound). Under-dampening the signal becomes an issue when other parts are creating their own energy fields (such as transformers) and are too close to the conduit or if you have shields interfering with the conduits function. Ok I'm not going any further or we will attract attention seeking audio trolls till the cows come home. But all this info is easy to study on your own anyway.
To answer why does low mass sound better is simple. Low mass interacts with the forces better because with low mass your not crowding the signal and fields as they are mingling. Low mass with less interference and more interaction gives you more efficiency.
here's a test you can do
Take a typical amplifier or receiver and take the cover off and remove the transformer away from the other parts and listen to how the soundstage grows. If you move big heat sinks or anything of more mass away from the smaller and more sensitive parts you'll hear a huge improvement with your soundstage space and power efficiency will go up.
out for now, got folks tuning I've got to get to
mg
