New Synergistic Product: Tuning Discs


I was lucky enough to be asked to try out a prototype of a new Synergistic Research product. For now, I think they are calling it a Tuning disc.

What it looks like is a small wafer (smaller than a dime and is very thin). They are either in gold or purple tops and are attached using some tacking substance. I placed 2 on top of my Shunyata Sigma V2 interconnects.

I wasn’t expecting much but whoa, did these things work! First, I tried the purple on my interconnects and boy did the soundstage widen with lots of air.

Then I tried the gold discs and though the sound stage shrunk perhaps a little but the naturalness of the music was fantastic!

 

Hard to believe that these things work so well, I am really impressed.

ozzy

 

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It's just 1s and 0s - That can't possibly work - It measures terribly - No, I haven't tried it because I know more than you - AND I SPEAK IN CAPS when I am questioning your intelligence and at my most disparaging.

Same story...

I don't miss the likes of George one iota.

 

Most of my additions are fantastic. Well worth the cost for the improvement in music delivery. Huge thanks to members like Ozzy, Tommylion, Frank etc.

I wasn’t expecting much but whoa, did these things work! First, I tried the purple on my interconnects and boy did the soundstage widen with lots of air.

Then I tried the gold discs and though the sound stage shrunk perhaps a little but the naturalness of the music was fantastic!

You didn't have to listen for hours to hear a difference?  Nothing subtle about it?. Haven't tried them so I can't comment.  

Can someone please explain how these discs work? Anyone? Sans any kind of reality based explanation or double-blind tests that truly validate these discs, the only rational explanation for their powers lies in your own mind-- it's called the Placebo Effect and it is indeed very powerful-- you will hear differences, things you never heard before, and perversely, if I snuck into your house and removed those little discs without your knowledge, I would be willing to bet anyone here that you would still hear those same improvements, until it was revealed the little discs were removed. The mind is a powerful thing, one can convince one's self of almost anything.

The only thing that bugs me about little magic tweaks like these are the stupid money prices being charged for so many of them. Like a $5000 record weight's claims that it sounds better than any old $100 version of same.

Again, want to place a few bets?