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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
2,506 posts
 

@theaudiotweak so you are willing to do business with someone like Chris? So, I guess you grade character on a curve?

 

@holmz +1

sheridd2
28 posts
 

No, I’m not kidding. There was live snooker on the TV and it was really sharp. Now the TV is Samsung Q9F fed off a PS Audio Dectet with a Bybee iQSE sitting on the Connect box and the picture and sound going through a Sonos system is superb.

I know the picture and sound really well as it’s used a lot and I could see a change in the picture. Didn’t really get to test the sound out at that stage as I was more interested in checking the stereo system.

Elaborating a bit on my earlier review of the music system, tonally the system hasn’t changed, which was one of my concerns that Nanoflo might affect this. I’ve worked hard to get my system were it is and I didn’t want the sound to be changed. Nanoflo doesn’t change the sound, it just gives you more of what you already have.

ghasley
2,506 posts
 

@sheridd2 

 

Its a good thing you like the result. Earlier postings in this thread seem to indicate the treatment is irreversible.

 

What exactly motivated you to purchase this product? Was it the mountain of testimonials from “credible” sources or the amazing sets of data provided by Nano-Flo showing before and after results?

 

 

 

theaudiotweak OP
2,801 posts
 

Am I supposed to stop my written  descriptions of what has been a great part of my life living and working in audio? My writings are about the product  benefits and not of its maker. His comments on this thread are a detriment to his product:'s acceptance. Tom

 

sheridd2
28 posts
 

I’ve loads of tweaks in my system and pretty much happy with all of them. I was going to buy / try the HFC Q45T contact enhancer but it disappeared just as I was about to purchase. The thread on that, the 1260 predecessor material, lead me to this thread.

Reports seem to indicate that Nanoflo was at least as good as the Q45T. I’m happy I tried it and looking forward to how the sound of my system will improve over the next week. I was very happy with it last night, after only around twelve hours after the application of Nanoflo.

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