These have been on my list of things to try, as have Mahgister's golden plates.
I will look to get some try and report. I've tried a fair few esoteric items now and some of them have been nothing short of remarkable PPT mats and total contact being some examples.
Someone on here commented that there are things you can measure but not hear but there is nothing you can hear but not measure. How can you be so sure of that?
How do you measure soundstage depth and the separation of elements in the mix ? These are things I can clearly hear with improvements to my system over the last 2 years. However Mahgister is right in saying that you can make improvements and not hear anything because you have not lowered the noise floor enough.
Start with the room and speaker interactions such as speakers matching the room and position within the room. Controlling room response with treatments (or in my case just normal furnishings and Lyngdorf room perfect). Then get the power supply and earthing of the system right.
Once you have these then you can start to hear improvements from resonance and vibrations of your system. I suspect the s.gs start to become "audible" at this point too and this is also where good cabelling and fuses (not necessarily expensive) starts to make more audible differences.
I think this is pretty much in line with Mahgister's embeddings experiences.
You can buy 60,000$ speakers and 30000$ components and put them in a 'bad room" for them, then wire your system with ground loops and have shifty power (although well designed kit can negate much of this).
Put that against a well set up $5000 system with the right tweaks , well implemented and set up and YES you could easily get better sound.
Implement a $100000 system correctly and YES it will out perform the $5k one sure.
The art of the audiophile is putting a system together that is cohesive and I for one would love to hear Mahgister's system I'm sure it does sound very good.
I will report back my findings on s.g's thanks
Disco
I will look to get some try and report. I've tried a fair few esoteric items now and some of them have been nothing short of remarkable PPT mats and total contact being some examples.
Someone on here commented that there are things you can measure but not hear but there is nothing you can hear but not measure. How can you be so sure of that?
How do you measure soundstage depth and the separation of elements in the mix ? These are things I can clearly hear with improvements to my system over the last 2 years. However Mahgister is right in saying that you can make improvements and not hear anything because you have not lowered the noise floor enough.
Start with the room and speaker interactions such as speakers matching the room and position within the room. Controlling room response with treatments (or in my case just normal furnishings and Lyngdorf room perfect). Then get the power supply and earthing of the system right.
Once you have these then you can start to hear improvements from resonance and vibrations of your system. I suspect the s.gs start to become "audible" at this point too and this is also where good cabelling and fuses (not necessarily expensive) starts to make more audible differences.
I think this is pretty much in line with Mahgister's embeddings experiences.
You can buy 60,000$ speakers and 30000$ components and put them in a 'bad room" for them, then wire your system with ground loops and have shifty power (although well designed kit can negate much of this).
Put that against a well set up $5000 system with the right tweaks , well implemented and set up and YES you could easily get better sound.
Implement a $100000 system correctly and YES it will out perform the $5k one sure.
The art of the audiophile is putting a system together that is cohesive and I for one would love to hear Mahgister's system I'm sure it does sound very good.
I will report back my findings on s.g's thanks
Disco