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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 

 

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agisthos
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Let me fill you in more on what is really going on here. All of Chris's old endeavours and websites are available to see via Internet Archive or Wayback Machine.

He claims to have invented a lubricant solution using spherical nano diamond particles. I do not know how good his product was, but the general idea is legit. Microscopic NM size particles which can polish and plate the insides of bearings and engines is not an original concept and there is many successfully products that do this.

In 2006-2012 he had a series of nano diamond lubricant products (under the names NanoLube, DiamondLube, QuantumCoat) targeting the automotive markets with oil additives, armament industry with gun/knife lubricants e.t.c

But this is a heavily saturated and competitive market. So in late 2021 Chris discovered the Audiophile world, with its huge margins, 10x markup, and saw easy green pastures. So he pulled all his previous retail products, and now just does audio only. A $20 power cable with nano diamond coating on the prongs for $1500 e.t.c

I sincerely hope the product is good and this is a superior contact enhancer solution for audiophiles. But Chris past history, and how he has acted here, so far show all the signs of him being a grifter. The fact he has pulled the contact enhancer product and is now just selling $4000 power cables and a soon to be released line of fuses (which will be $1 fuses with the contact goop polished into them) shows where this is all going.

agisthos
504 posts
 

@ghasley 

 I don't take issue with someone who buys the power cord or the "contact enhancer" or even the off the shelf fuses smeared with the gel. Its all good. In fact, he at least seems to be learning from this demolition derby exercise: the reason he will remove the gel from the market probably has more to do with the fact that some are prepared to pay considerable sums for a treated fuse with less pushback than selling enough gel to treat a case of fuses. I also predict version 3.0 of the power cord will be out before he has shipped version 1 or version 2 to any actual paying customers. 

Very prophetic.  

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jerryg123
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@thecarpathian Merry Christmas and I like your post. 

  

So where do you go from here? 
 

I hear the sound of a toilet flushing...

thecarpathian
4,316 posts
 

Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you and all.

Yes, unfortunately for him, that is the direction he chose.

 

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glory
1,614 posts
 

Merry Christmas to all Audiogon members 

 

Do all that’s within you to live at peace with all men.

Here’s my writings to Chris yesterday.

 

Good afternoon Chris, Merry Christmas.

A Christmas proposition for you:

Reimburse me for one cable and  make sure it’s gooped up and also a full vile of goop and ship back to me. Rest assured, I am NOT in the in the market to steal Nano Flo from you and start a cable company. I’m 69 years old, retired and I don’t need the hassle of doing something like that, stealing from you. That’s not on my agenda you can see by my audiogone Feedback I don’t do members wrong.. I’m a pretty upright straight shooter. It’s not in my DNA to steal as I’ve been a business owner,  operator for over 30 years as a high-end paint contractor and I’ve never screwed anyone.

I in return will have Audiogon delete the whole thread that’s online and before it’s deleted I will write in, refund received by Chris Arnold, everything is cool and thanks everyone for your input.

I would then write a positive review of your work and submit it to you before posting with no hint of our conflict.

 Each of us will have to trust each other that we are upright business owners and that in the end we always do the right thing .


We may become friends in all this.

 

Chris was selling a full vile of goop at $900.00 before he yanked the goop. He would still be $600.00 ahead on the refund but I wanted to cast this line in the waters to see if he would at least respond.

 

😳🙈🙄

Crickets

Now I await PP to do their thing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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