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

My last and one of the more powerful creation to change the negative acoustical obstruction of a bad room’s topology....


" The Golden Strings"

I put 2 ribbon of copper self adhesive tape (13 inches long) with 40 micro Herkimer diamonds on each ribbon, glued them on each side of my Bell of bells each one dangling from the ceiling in the center of the room ....Each ribbon is centered face to the speakers...

Astounding increase in soundstage and better high frequencies difffusion in all the room, then NO MORE link between the sound and the speakers location, and no problem with my bad room topology and the bad location of one speaker near the wall and in a corner...

I am so flabbergasted that if i was reading my own thread i will not believe it myself...

In my 2 positions of listening the sound encompass me...

The reason is that the direct waves from the speakers are now so reinforced in comparison to the indirect waves coming from the room walls and furnitures, that i created a more"informed wave" for the brain to decode and more easily decoded, because of the Bell of cones in the center of the room, and the grid of cones on my Twin Fans enhancer, that work like stable BEACONS with the "Golden Strings" on the flowing waves of sound in the room....These fixed points or beacons made easy for the brain his Fourier analysis of the waves....The Herkimer diamonds also transform the waves by resonance with them....

This is a description of what i experience not an explanation, nor science.... I could not wait for an engineer to say what i must do to create sound heaven, and i could not pay him anyway... And no acoustician i know of advise his customers to do these ACTIVE acoustical room controls by far.... But it is a total success...Passive treatment are different and necessary but way less powerful....They do not reinforce the direct waves in relation to the indirect and reflexive one and this is my explanation....

Speakers design is most of the times if not always secondary to acoustic controls .... This is very well proven for me now....

I dont know if more than 2 or 3 people read this completely insane thread of mine, but i hope to be useful to at least one....

Cost of the "Golden String" : under ten dollars for the 80 herkimer diamonds from China (3 gram)

If i say peanuts cost no one will contradict me..... :)

UPDATE  :   " The Golden Strings"

After one hour of listening this time at nearfield i have the same powerful transformation...

Incredible.... Two 13 inches copper ribbons with forty stones each....

 I cannot stop listening my very well known files....

I now can affirm with total certitude that the most powerful controls embeddings is the acoustical one passive+active...

The 2 others together cannot give the same amount of spectacular audible effects on soundstage, imaging, dynamic.... The 2 other embeddings work greatly for tonal timbre accuracy  and in a lesser way for the soundstage, and imaging and dynamic... But the acoustical controls affect also the timbre accuracy for sure but much more the 3 other characteristics....

It is normal if we think about it, because mechanical embedding controls and electrical one affect the integrity of the signals but the topology of the room play with the aspect of the signals coming from the speakers that will be affected  most by a bad synchronisation between direct waves and indirect one, and a bad translation of one into another.... The good translation make possible by active controls i call  that a better "informed wave" which is easily and better decoded by the brain's Fourier analysis computer....

I go back to heaven listening  for the night ...

My best to you  friendly ghosts....    :)

UPDATE : Upgrading the " The Golden Strings"


Guess what?

I now connected the 2 " Golden Strings" with the thin phone cable to the "Bell of bells" and then to the Schumann resonators grids and to the "Twin Fans" by the same token... All is connected...

The increase in the extension of the high frequencies was audible on the spot...

No negative impact at all.....

The ACTIVE acoustical controls of the room is the SECRET of Audio.... Save perhaps in a totally acoustically designed room and i am not even sure that this will be better, except perhaps by the best acoustical engineer in America... :)

Active acoustical controls create an autonomous space in the room, out of the walls absorbtion or reflective obstructions of the furniture or other conendrums , the results cannot be improved except perhaps if PERFECTLY treated by a competent acoustician...I am not one, i am only creative....

Active acoustical controls is my greatest discovery, and i called the new sound: "informed waves" because the balance between the direct and reflective waves seems to be in synchronisation, thanks also to the powerful resonance passive feed back controls by the Herkimer Diamonds grids....

The same components i did not like so much 2 years ago, i am in love with now and listen to in extasy...My Mission Cyrus 781 speakers, my Starting point systems NOS dac, and my Sansui AU 7700....Changing any of them seems to me useless.... For sure i can buy something better but at a cost that will be ridiculously high compared to this system cost.... And the music is delivered holographically, inhabit my room like the speakers did not exist...

My motto is the truth in AUDIO:

Dont upgrade anything before rightfully embedding everything......

I dont know what i can say more than that , then i will go back to heaven....

:)

I realize searching the internet that NOBODY seems to know about ACTIVE room controls...

All acousticians speak about numbers acoustic wave equations and how to treat a room with passive materials... They like their model too much to change it .... :)

Anybody reading my posts will think that i am nut....

:)

Ok i am....

:)


« You cannot crack a nut with another nut»- Groucho Marx 

You CAN crack a nut with another nut. Place two walnuts in one hand and squeeze. You will be amazed!

Excellent discussion.

Magister: I have installed my first two golden pyramids directly on my very flat Nordost speaker cables. They fit almost exactly.
Initially, I placed the shungite pyramids there without the copper cladding. The result was NOT good! Suppressed highs and meds, flabby mid bass. Muddy image. Ugh. After adding the copper tape (easy after you do the first one) the sound changed dramatically. Mid/Hi resolution returned, transients enhanced, bass tighter than before and vocals clearer than previously.
Bear in mind that this is an ongoing experiment and these reactions are very early.
In my estimation, the untreated pyramids attracted EMR for adsorption affecting the adjacent cable for up to a meter. Assuming the copper rejects or reflects the EMR, the only shungite surface in play is the one sandwiched on top of the cable or Shumann generator, or connection.

This is one of the nicest placebos I’ve taken in a long time!