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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Answer my questions: How many $20K cables do you have on hand that we can try?How many $5K power cables that we can swap back and forth? Where are you located? What kind of components are we going to test these on? Let me know, and I will see if I can get a set that we can try out...."

My Main System: SOTA Sapphire VI w/ vacuum hold-down, Origin Live Silver arm mkII, Soundsmith Hyperion cart, Genesis III speakers and subs, Musical Fidelity "Vinyl" phone preamp, McCormack DNA Gold Amp & Preamp. Morrow and WireWorld cables.

I have tied cables costing in the thousands-- no better than cables costing in the few hundred dollars on up range. The differences are subtle flavor notes on wines-- not better or worse, just differences. You will never be able to rank them based upon sound quality and price. Even more so with power cables-- above a certain materials and build quality. Of course cheap crappy cables can be bested by well designed and made higher end versions-- but when you get to the thousands of dollars per cable... it just mental booshwa.

I am open to trying stuff on my system. I live in California.

My only gripe is that people are being ripped off.

And because of feelings like this, large numbers of posts like this are made which have no effect on most people reading the thread, but I guess make posters feel better.

 

 

I see the Audioholichs pinhead followers are out today.

When they offer a FULL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE......

Yep you are a pinhead. There is zero, notta, zilch, risk with SR products. I know as I have returned some that netted a low ROI.

I bid you good day @wesheadley and your side kick @gita Say hi to Gene.

My only gripe is that people are being ripped off. When the profit margins are orders of magnitude above the actual costs

Funny that the posts attacking my character for questioning the truth in advertising of these tweaker products remain, but many of my responses, which never attack anyone personally, but do question the claims of many of these products are often summarily removed. 

Am I bad for Audiogon's business model? Apparently so. Seems cowardly, yes?

Wes,

I'm. not attacking your character but reading the same criticisms which boil down to. "it can't work", etc in every thread gets old.