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 

 

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@ghasley 

I was just on the phone with one of our Tribologists and Metallurgists on an unrelated call about PDFE TRB we have in development, I sent over these clippings, and we all had a good laugh. 

@jerryg123 

 

I can only imagine the reaction from real scientists, physicists and engineers. LOL. 

 

@nano-flo are you up yet processing refunds or are you channeling the late John McAfee for guidance?

Interesting. I have no horse in this race, but part of me thinks back to the two scientists who supposedly achieved cold fusion back in the late 1980’s -- and who were quickly debunked and disgraced (and silenced as well). I've always wondered if they were just too far ahead of their time to be accepted by the powers-that-be. 

Still, what struck me from the press releases was the College of DePage - a statewide Illinois community college system ranked firmly in the anonymous middle of national and state-wide rankings. I know, great things can be found in unremarkable places, but this coupled with the dubious writing of the releases does not lend itself well to Enterprise’s ethos.

@simao I agree on the College of DuPage. With Northwestern, Purdue, Notre Dame, U of I, UIC all in his backyard.....

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