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Mitigating the Bubble

Today after many years of trials and tribulations I have mitigated a sonic aberration a horizontal phase anomaly in my center stage.  While the center image was always stable and outlined it seemed narrow and bubble like and I would need to shift my body angle to really lock in the image. This was obvious on many CDs and LPs .

I have many man made fixes that helped the situation but never a total cure. Some of these are now permanent fixtures on the ceiling in 2 different locations. I made my own acoustic panels filled with long hair sheep's wool and 3 Argent Room Lenses.  I have laminar flow lenses that focus and stabilize the image across the front stage. I have built and treated an acoustic fan that overcomes the  boundaries with in my room by reducing interference. I have loaded my speaker cabinets 3 times with new drivers and now an outboard crossover. This was after my Essence 30s speakers and my Dunlavy SC4s.  ..All my components are hard mounted and direct coupled to the floor...on rock solid racks and speaker stands, custom mono bloc amps each on their own stand. All of these devices and angles and positions made the image wider and more focused but I still had that little  bubble and shift before me. Always less annoying with each new device and tweak.

So, your probably saying to yourself hurry up and get to the end. The end finally arrived today after having applied a contact enhancer 7 days ago to just 6 RCA ends out of many connections in my system.  Today with a friend who has been here a hundred times sitting in the Chair playing the same music as usual he said there was a wider sweet spot. I despise that term but he said it and not me.What we both heard was a super stable center image that was a few feet wide and not just one. The bubble was gone. The head in the vise was gone.  Off came the straight jacket and helmet. What I have now in this space intime is a glorious fully extended soundstage with all the meat on the bones and the features of talking heads on a real live performance stage. 

I have probably used eight different contact enhancers over five decades but this one blows my mind. This product  Nano Flo is the ultimate in transparency. 

Tom 

 

theaudiotweak
ghasley
2,487 posts
 

@theaudiotweak 

making the instrument easier to play and probably with a cleaner sound. 

It should sound better.  I have never tried this.

Grow a brain

 

No, no…thank you for starting the thread. Please don’t get offended. I really am interested in how this work and for what purpose. It seems though that no one knows what it does or whether it accomplishes the claim.

 

I can see how the casual observer might think that there is something amiss. 

 

marqmike
839 posts
 

Thanks Tom for the heads up on this stuff. This nanoflo product, not the poster, has had a very weird showing up and disappearing act. I am looking forward to knowing a little more about this product. And for nanflo the poster, we are a good group here. No one is being critical, we just like knowing things, especially if something makes our stereo systems sound a little better. So thanks for what your bringing here, so try to enjoy us so we can do the same with you. 

theaudiotweak OP
2,795 posts
 

I support my claims in the original post and can see how this product or maybe some others like it could have more than 1 benefit or application.  Tom

ghasley
2,487 posts
 

What does the product do? How do you know it is doing it?

thecarpathian
4,316 posts
 

So, is this stuff a lubricant, a contact enhancer or what?

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