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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
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rixthetrick
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He said, she said, this could go around forever.

@nano-flo - specifically, which $3500 power cord did your developed cord best in RFI testing?
Please give us some insight into the manufacturing process of the power cord, do you have a manufacturing plant where you make the molded ends with strain reliefs? Are there any particular specifications on materials like say 5n copper crystal wire?

It does as you suggest, look quite unassuming, particularly for a $1500 item.

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twoleftears
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Perhaps this is relevant here.

 

deludedaudiophile
493 posts
 

I have been following this thread for the last week. Often read Audiogon over the years. Never felt the need to post, but this is just too good of an opportunity.

Did it ever occur to even one of you that Diamond is not a electrical conductor. It is an electrical insulator. Not just an insulator, but a very good insulator. Even in small spherical sizes.  

deludedaudiophile
493 posts
 

I would have real doubts about a nano scale diamond ball lubricant too. Diamond can be an excellent low friction surface, when both surfaces are coated with diamond. Things won't "roll" on nanoscale diamond balls. The balls would just dig into the surface.

I have to say, I loved some of the stuff from his website. The mechanics, and other mechanically inclined people may find some humor:

Drastic Plastic Nitro Fuel Dragster IL Tom Motry's race car rose from 6000HP to an estimated 8000HP after service.

That's some amazing breaking of the laws for thermodynamics.

But wait

Joe Manderino, (the head of maintenance) talked me into treating his 400HP Camaro, which afterward pulled its first wheelie ever of 6 inches off the ground, and beat a 750HP Chevelle in the quarter mile. On Joes third pass the Camaro pulled the wheels off the ground by 3 feet without a wheelie bar. 

Does anyone want to tell the creator of this story what the wheelie bar is for?

Of course, you have to feel for the misunderstood inventor (emphasis mine)

VanGuard Pai Lung, Inc. industrial knitting machines NC.  They were to be our pathway to world distribution in the textile industry. Use of our novel nanomaterial allowed them to extend mill warranty from 6 months to TWO years and forced the mills to run faster, smoother, cooler and quieter without wear. BTW, their volume of service calls plummeted as profits skyrocketed. I wish them nothing but love, but we are not interested in helping them further.

But strange, all these first hand accounts, but never a few bucks paid for ASTM-D6425 testing (or similar) a common process for high pressure lubricants.

I do love the chutzpah of the price list, a few extracted here ...

  • $1,500,000.00 Locomotive equivalent of steam or diesel (call for review of service specifics) Immediate and permanent emission reduction and lower fuel costs
  • $5,000,000.00 Swing or Draw Bridge 
  • $25,000,000.00 Sea Cargo Vessel or Cruse Line Ship (stern to bow wear protection) 

Of course, with a product that will take your SEMI from 5 to 8.5 MPG (no, really they make that claim), the prices seem like a bargain.

 

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