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Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker!

I have used small ceramic insulator cones underneath my phono stage for quite some time.
Previous phono was a Gold note ph10 and it did not make ANY audible difference I could detect which way up the cones were so I had left them cone upwards.

When I changed my phono to a Manley Chinook I just left the cones same way.
This afternoon I decided to flip them over so cone down just to see.

I honestly could not and cannot believe the difference!
I may have lost a smidge of low bass but everywhere else is improved in spades.
Much more detail, resolution, air, imaging, dynamics.
Just completely shocking how much better a small change has made.

But I am perplexed why such a huge change on the Chinook where I noted nothing on the ph10?

Any theories here?
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Ban that person!! 🤐
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Absolutely hilarious
And laughably stupid!

The prude police just removed my post alluding to the existence of the prude police.......

Watch this space.
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I see a vacation in your future. 😛
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Permanent Vacation?
Wait sorry that was Aerosmith.

I should be so lucky!
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Have been experimenting with the wood today, only had the African Blackwood delivered Sat.

I still prefer my ex ham radio cones points down under my phono, SUT and CD transport.
The Blackwood lost some dynamics and poise, did thicken up the bass a bit, maybe too wooly in all honesty. This is using 3 pen blanks in place of 3 ceramic cones.

Now where I DO like the Blackwood is under the Pioneer reel to reel.
That needed a little bass boost and it got it and a nice increase in overall gain it sounds like, not sure quite how.
But the presentation overall appears boosted all over but not in an overblown way.

Waiting for the Cocobolo......
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