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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@glory ,

 

I am sure you set up a claim with EBAY?  They will have a record of the posting as it appeared on the date you purchased. That he sent 5, not the 3 ordered (ebay will never screw this up), will already make Ebay suspicious. He has also changed his listing and is attacking you in that listing. I have been using Ebay for decades and have never seen that behavior. Shocking. That will also not sit well with Ebay. They will pull the listing. You may have to get on the phone and sit on hold, but you can get a real person.  I am shocked someone would put this in an ebay listing:

User name "Glory" on audiogon forum tried to buy the proprietary gel in August 22, however we refused to sell it to him or anyone else. After the Stereo Times review came out, Gary accidentally bought 5 cables (at a steep introductory discount too) and we shipped 3 immediately and held two for either later shipping or refund. Gary A was so impressed with quality far superior to the Hemmingway's he was using, he told us to ship the other two cables. The short version is he then asked again to purchase off of ebay our secret and proprietary gel that we DO NOT SELL to anyone and again we refused. TWO days later without warning Gary returned the two cables, demanded a refund, but he stole the secret gel off the cable ends before sending them back. 

Our 30 day return policy was not so anyone could keep buying cables to swipe the gel off the ends and pay only shipping, so now anyone buying two or more units triggers a final sale. Try one cable on the main amplifier and if you really don't hear new clarity, depth of soundstage and musicality, send it back unaltered within 30 days.

Can you post a link to the ebay listing please? That's hilarious..."stole"?

Let's all remember to tip the wonderful bartenders and servers, without whom this show would not be possible. 

 

Chris, your ATM machine is now DOA. To those who were shilling, the window to restore your credibility is closing....