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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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Carpathian

You were right it was about me.. Sorry about that.

Gotta get back to product benefits not personalities... Tom

deludedaudiophile
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@deludedaudiophile ,

I hope you will continue to post more  on the forum threads.

Very interesting stuff!

 

I am outspoken, experienced, and knowledgeable, with a serious physics background, current working in materials science for batteries, but have dabbled in semiconductor processing as well. I am not going to build you an amp, or DAC, or tell you how to set up your room (though I could help you -- pretty good with a table saw), but if you want to talk in detail about fundamental physics and electrical properties of materials, constructed devices, EM fields in devices and constructions, etc. which underpin almost everything in this hobby, I could bore you for days on end.

I don't perceive my views on many topics that audiophiles treat as religion would be well received here.

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mahgister
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You are welcome....Dont let others dictate your way....

I don't perceive my views on many topics that audiophiles treat as religion would be well received here.

 

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rixthetrick
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@twoleftears - oh, I so don’t want to encourage Chris (nano-flo) but I did not detect a volume increase with the product, a possible result of better conductivity.
This following is 100% pure speculation, grain of salt with the following please?
@ozzy - you did not like the Fideliums, this may or may not apply to your system if you do use nano-flo? Once applied, not really reversible (so I have been informed).


I was told by Jeff Smith of Silversmith cables (USA), that one of the reasons the Fidelium speaker cables sound so good (besting in many reviews much more expensive cables) was the principle that it lowered reflections within the cable, this is also the premise that Mad Scientist (New Zealand) use in their highly regarded, highly praised reviewed cables.
I don’t know if Jeff will mind me saying this? He told me that his cables were designed entirely from knowledge and he ran the numbers until it was a very good result, and didn’t need to hear it to know it was a winner.

Why does it actually sound really good, it may be that it somehow lowers or lessons the reflections in the cables connected to it. The Fidelium cables do have resistance and the geometry does lower skin affect, while the volume slightly decreases the noise also decreases and the sound is portrayed on a lower noise floor. Like I stated, and others may or may not chime in, it does however have some of the characteristics of silver conductors, without the glare that is sometimes noted in presentation. Volume didn’t appreciably seem to change though.

@nano-flo - it was Krissy who informed me that I was not correct, Krissy confirmed that at least on that and a few other areas of your explanation are correct. I stand corrected and though I am not particularly fond of your business practices (not that I am of any concern to you), my opinion of myself is more important to me, so yeah, when I speak out of line with truth, I’m more than likely to own it and apologise.
Humble pie isn’t tasty at all, there’s no sugar coating it.

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ozzy
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rixthetrick,

"@ozzy - you did not like the Fideliums, this may or may not apply to your system if you do use nano-flo? Once applied, not really reversible (so I have been informed)

I don’t understand how my not being impressed with those speaker cables has anything to do with the nanoflow.

ozzy

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