The Best Tweak?

No comprendo:

"---Minerals for filtering and protecting from EMI and RFI...

---Ionization...

---Schumann generators...

This is unorthodox..."

Tweaks? Whatever @mahgister is smoking 😂. I want to have it. But he never disclosed it, no matter how hard I tried (in another thread) 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@mahgister : don’t be offended please. It’s a joke

Pace Rhythm and Timing tends to be one of the more difficult parameters of a system to sense, but perhaps the most important when it comes to musicality and how engaging a system is. It is system enabled, and primarily a function of all the electronic components. In general, tubes get this right much more easily than solid state… and the solid state ones that really get it are expensive. I have to say the systems I have heard that immediately drew me in with outstanding rhythm and pace have been tubed. But some companies like Pass have made great advances.

My system is incredibly satisfying from this perspective (under ID). I always think that if you focus on detail and slam, then imaging, it is really easy to loose it. Then you have a sterile system that technically sounds great but leads to boredom after short listening sessions. Once you finish being amazed that you can hear the conductor zip up his fly, you start reading the newspaper or go cut the lawn.

After fifty years of pursuing the high end. If I were to have a system that really excelled at only thing it would be PRAT. Also, for thirty-five or so of those years I could not sense and identify it. I mean, some systems would simply emotionally connect with me… and many across the spectrum would to different degrees… but being unable to put my finger on this parameter left me chasing details, micro details, imaging and slam, which can be heartless without PRAT.

I am currently listening to some digital music by Debbie Tebbs… I am finding it hard to sit still and not sway and bounce with the music… This is why I have my system… it gets the joy or sometimes sorrow across.

Timbre experience and perception is the first parameter...

You can have some PRaT without natural timbre experience...

But you cannot have timbre right and no good PRaT...

Why ?

because the instrument Timbre is made by a spectral envelope but also by a time envelope , and the onset and sustain and decay of timbre cannot be right without some good PRaT in the system...

And when you tune a room with your ears  you dont use PRaT perception as the first meter or the first rule for the tuning and for the incremental very long refined tuning  but the timbre perception...Classical non amplified instrruments are the best : piano, human voice acoustic guitar, organ ,  then orchestra and chamber instruments...

For the tubes amplification and the S.S. amplification you have more experience than me...😊

I picked two Sansui S.S. amplifiers precisely because for the AU 7700 Sansui replicated their tube amplifier sound in this S.S. AU series ... They did it on a long period 20 yesrs i dont remember )  and tested it publicly with an official listening between an Au model and their top  tube model... The sound was identical...

The only tube amplifier i bought was around 400 dollars and i did not like so much  "his S.S. sound" nevermind the 40 tubes i tried... I sold it...I guess a top tube amplifiers cost more than 400 bucks...

My actual Sansui alpha sound not as the tube-like Au 7700 but very good with no harshness at all and it is very low noise floor... i needed a very low noise floor with the AKG k340 because they pick everything in my audio system and electrical grid...