What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?

PS Audio - “Fear of Tweaks” (tales of the intrepid high end electronics designer and his adventures into the Great Beyond)

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PS Audio

Fear of Tweaks

Change can be tough for me, especially when the means to an end make no sense. Like green pens on CD edges, demagnetizers, magic stones, voodoo dots, resonators aligning the earth to my stereo system.

Ideas presented to me that I cannot make sense of get put on hold. Sometimes indefinitely. Sometimes forever.

I remember the first time this became apparent to me. Harry Weisfeld’s, VPI Brick.

See full article at,

https://www.psaudio.com/pauls-posts/fear-of-tweaks/

Thanks Geoff very interesting article indeed!...

In my opinion, the best tweak is ensuring the backside of all of your audio components face towards true magnetic north.  The results are “jaw dropping”.  As the magnetic North Pole moves, you will have to make adjustments to your components placement.

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@geoffkait I agree with @mahgister above. Thanks for the psaudio post. I admit I am in Paul’s camp. Although I have overcome some initial hesitations and tried tweaks that seemed to make some intuitive sense to me, it will probably take someone gifting me the tweak before I try any that seem bat crap crazy to me.


>>>>I know what you mean. But as a matter of fact the “preposterous” tweaks PS audio reviewed in the article I linked to are actually among the least outrageous and easiest to explain tweaks that I’m aware of. That’s why I am kind of surprised Paul at PS Audio was so quick to say those tweaks seemed outrageous to him, to make a whole article out of them. And I'm also a little surprised one of his favorite expressions is, “I have no idea why it works but works it does.” It’s almost as if he’s afraid to be perceived as gullible.

As I’ve oft alluded to, there are some seriously mind-blowing 🤯 tweaks out there, you know, ones that really will keep you up at night. 😳 But VPI Brick, green pen, and Mpingo Disc are, frankly, Child’s Play. Nothing to get hung about. Anyone who thinks audio is a plug-and-play hobby doesn’t understand the problem.