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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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armyslowrdr
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Exactly @wesheadley . You explained to a t what I called tomfoolery.

 

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wesheadley
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I do know my own mind well enough to NEVER trust first impressions with respect to the changes I make to my analog front end. Partly because I understand the placebo effect and the fallibility of human perception.

Again, anyone here want to bet me they can consistently detect the presence or absence of these discs, $5k power cords, green marking pens, $20k cables, or whatever, when replaced by quality alternatives, or simply removed from their systems during blind testing.

Waiting for the UFO’s! Waiting...

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ozzy OP
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I guess if I could explain how they work, I could make my own! Don’t begrudge someone from a making a profit on their ideas. We all would like to. Yes?

I doubt if you fellows would hear the difference even if your ears could, you have made up your mind. Too bad though, you’re missing out on some of the fun of this hobby.

ozzy

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