I think that is what MillerCarbon does. He knows in theory it improves the sound and does whatever he can in that regard. It’s a free country. I like to justify any expenditure. I find it hard to beleive he can hear every single thing he’s done and when removed he would notice it. Double blind test would be nice to hear.
First, when i add something in my room, for sure i listen and perceive a positive result on the spot or not... Is it really a physical, or acoustical or mechanical or electrical effect? Or is it a placebo?
For EACH minute one change i dont always know for sure even if a change is effectively perceived...
For EACH one big change i know for sure....An Helmoltz grid is not placebo...
The ionizers and the S.G. grid are not minute changes in my mind even if they are not as powerful like an Helmholtz grid....They are enough impactful to dissipate any doubt and it is very easy to put the "on" button or the "off" button here...
For ANY change, we can add it or keep it out, repeatedly...But i has not done always that in the enthusiastic fever of the music listening experiments for ALL perceived minute changes...
But when something is lacking by accident or by experiment, you can verify if it is one positive REAL change or not...But if the change is very very audible what i call a big one, i trust my ears .... For some of the minute one, repeating the experiment was sometimes revelatory of a possible placebo effect , not always....
But at the end with an INCREMENTAL series of hundreds of additions, my audio system bear no more ressemblance at all with itself, before and after all these additions of controls devices in the three working embeddings dimensions... Then....
Explaining all that by placebo is impossible and preposterous for me....
