Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...

All that my thread suggest cost peanuts...

But implementing correctly something ask for time and experiments...

No audio system is the same than another, the electrical grid, the acoustical field, the vibratory conditions, being very different...

But all systems, nevermind the price need to clean the central electrical grid, before buying costly products, try 3 shungite plates for 50 bucks ( around 250 grams each), put some copper foil on some side, put them the nude shungite side facing the central panel and report here...If the sound in your particular audio system appear after that to be very compressed, it is simple, add a big chunk of pink quartz (around 150 gram or 200 gram)to the shungite plates, one big chunk would be ok...Or perhaps if it is only slightly compressed, a big black tourmaline chunk, that will be less drastic but more musical...Anyway only the shungite+copper in most case will be perfect...I said to add quartz or tourmaline only for those audio system very sensible that will need it...


I dont doubt that all reports will be positive....

This is a beginning...No placebo here...

The biggest jawdropping tweak I`ve stumbeled upon happened way back when I was searching to replace my old Denon DCD-3560. Tryed out a Wadia and a VAC discrete tube dac but I could not just leave that mighty Denon behind. 
  Got me a service-manual and started wondering. "What if I tryed to take out a true balanced signal directly from the four opamps instead of the quasi-balanced they`ve ended up with after the complex analog filter?" 
  So I tryed it, and WOW what a difference! Later I`ve came to know that there is no need for any filters after multibit converters like the BB`s in the 3560. And off course, one DC-filter is enough for a system, no need to duplicate.
  Later on I`ve upgraded trafo`s, clock (at least twice) internal wiring, shielding and damping in the old Denon. It outplayed both the Wadia and the VAC dac back then and is still today in my system. Have two extra 3560`s for parts and two new lazers still.

Thanks...Interesting experience....A good dac is the most difficult piece of gear to buy nowadays...Happy new year to you....

In my "virtual system" section I add a photo of the Schumann Generator +shungite+copper+Herkimer diamond...


No compress sound at all, on the contrary a subtle halo linking and separating each instruments musically in a 3-d all around music with a more natural timbre...If this is placebo my wife put some drug in my coffee... :)


In general observation, all my experiments drove me always, except the normal corrective experiments and counter corrective measures, in the same direction: holographical musicality....


But no single tweak, no single methods, no single piece of gear, or no single audiophile products, gives me the sound I listen to now....  i experience only small or bigger improvement one at a time...Some really powerful, like the "golden" plates with Herkimer diamond+ many Schumann Generators...Or the 5 golden plates I put on my central electrical panel...

If there exist miracle in Audio, we must also use the plural, there is many small miracles.... It is normal because we must treat the room, clean the electrical grid, controls the vibrations, and many other things...

Geoffkait I listen now to the 4 seasons by a Polish orchestra on Tacet Cd, a polish company that make cd from tube gear from the beginning of the chain to the end...
In a word, tubelike sound, and a cd I like much and which i know well...

This is the first time I listen to it on my speakers with a so uncompressed sound... Violins sings...The New S.G. with golden plate+H.D. made small miracle indeed...

Conclusion: my golden plates dont compress the sound....But in my cleaned house, treated room, with all my tweaks...

If you try the S.G. with a golden plate +an Herkimer diamond, it will not compress the sound on your headphone and walkman...Look at my "virtual system" photo for mine...



By the way Geoffkait I use 16 golden plates, yes 16 at least in my audio system....If just one compress the sound, imagine 16 …. :)

If the sound is compressed in some audio system, the reason are : where the plates are located? with copper or without? with Herkimer diamond or tourmaline or quartz to balance the shungite or not? The other possibilities are the limitation of the acoustic and the particular priority needs linked to the particular embeddings of this audio system ... But most of the times the remedies are simple, it is necessary to use quartz or tourmaline or Herkimer diamond to balance the effect of the shungite on all frequencies... This is my experience...



Compare to the Alan Maher product I try, or the Bybee plate, my golden plate cost is peanuts and more effective ….If used and located properly they decompress the sound, if not, NUDE shungite near any amplifier or dac indeed compress the sound, even  on the computer or even  on some external hard drive for example...Location is important and some corrective measure are always necessary ( copper , quartz, tourmaline or Herkimer diamond)… 

The copper polarize  the shungite effect in some direction, concentrate it in some way, and the Herkimer diamond balance it  or the quartz or the tourmaline...