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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
nano-flo
100 posts
 

@deludedaudiophile 

Nice four posts, but I know who you are.

If anyone is interested in putting this curious attack to an end - look up Type II-B diamond and now you have a slice of my secret, Read anyway but they are extremely rare and electrically conductive. Did I mention I am  gemologist?

chrshanl37
833 posts
 

@deludedaudiophile 

 “Something just tells me this guy is here because he sees easy marks ...”

Way to go you answered your question before you even asked it when you 

said :  ”How easy do you think people are to bamboozle here“ 

Lol this thread is priceless! 

 

tommylion
872 posts
 

So you are saying that nanodiamonds are an ingredient in nano-flo, and that they are boron doped?

nonoise's avatar
nonoise
10,645 posts
 

Mr Carbon demanding to take over my business was the final straw in a series of breaches, which is when I pulled the enhancer.

Now, that caught my attention as well. Just what the hell were we really dealing with anyway?

All the best,
Nonoise

 

ghasley
2,456 posts
 

This reminds me of when I was a kid, fighting with siblings in the back seat of the car. My father would pull over the car and everyone got a whipping. I asked why because (of course) I didn’t start it and he said " I’m not going to waste my time trying to figure out which one of you were in the right and which were in the wrong".

 

In this case, as in most cases, buy what you want from who you want but an extra measure of caution is in order. I’m out but I was likely never a candidate...but Chris can lube the drawbridge out front.

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