Indispensable Tool!

@mahgister 

A scientist starts out with a plausible theory then devises and experiment to prove or disprove it. The literature for this disc is beyond stupid and totally implausible, experiment not needed. It is a scheister taking advantage of people's ignorance on these issues and psychoacoustics. 

@jmfinney 

Don't feel bad. All of us have been lead down the path a time or two. Whenever there is a device, add on or piece of equipment worth trying I rig a blinded AB comparison. My wife is the master switch person. 

@pinthrift 

I've got that beat. I recently blew up a pair of JC 1s. You might ask how I did that. I had just gotten a pair of Atma-Sphere MA 2s and the JC 1s had been relegated to subwoofer duty. I was having teething issues with the MA 2s and the system was down. I decided to switch the JC 1s back to the Sound Labs electrostats but had neglected to take into account that I had modified the SLs to work best with the MA 2s by removing the resistor on the primary of the high frequency transformer. When you have an amp with a very low output impedance like the JC 1 and hook it up to a transformer with vanishingly low impedance at high frequencies what you get is a radio transmitter, an ultrasonic oscillator. They lasted about thirty seconds, then POP, POP,POP and smoke as the output resisters exploded. So much for fuses and protection circuits. 

The story continues. I got a pair of very powerful QSC commercial amps to drive the subwoofers and arched out three of them, one caught fire as I stupidly re engaged the circuit breakers. QSC was great. They kept sending me new amps, only one survived. Finally, they decided to send me a different, even more powerful model and they have been killer. QSC was never able to tell me why this was happening. The subs are an easy 4 ohm load. They never charged me a cent and paid for all the shipping.

The MA 2s settled down and have been perfect since. Happy Ending.

A true scientist will buy one and test it with his own ears to begin with...But life is short, scientists had no time to test something which had no explanation in science to begin with...

But there is plenty of things that had no scientific explanation in life ...

Then trying them before bashing them is the more ethical way to act...

I am not interested by this device because i dont need it by the way ...

We cannot wait science to live and we live  above science or  without it most of the times... Mankind survives without the version of knowledge we call "science" today...

I prefer to be wrong with imagination than to be right  without it ...

Bashing anything that had no explanation in science takes us to the abyss ...

Anyway what is science for one is not for another... Experimenting is not enough... We need first to experiment with the same protocol in the same room with the same concepts...

Is string theory science ?

Is epicycles science ?

In the last years in the name of "science" we were lead to the abyss by power...

Science without intuition and values  is like an impotent man trying to copulate ... Only obsession for power will result without love ...

 

@mahgister

A scientist starts out with a plausible theory then devises and experiment to prove or disprove it. The literature for this disc is beyond stupid and totally implausible, experiment not needed. It is a scheister taking advantage of people’s ignorance on these issues and psychoacoustics.

     The problem with naysayers isn't that they're ignorant.

      It's they, "know" so much that's incorrect (OR: they're just stupid).

                               Classic Dunning-Kruger Effect!

     "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."  (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872) 

     "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"  (Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873)

      "The super computer is technologically impossible.  It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." (Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University)                        

      "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."  (Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923)

      "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." (Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television)

      "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible!" (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895) 

      "The bomb will never go off.  I speak as an expert in explosives."  (Admiral William Leahy, re: US Atomic Bomb Project) 

     When the steam locomotive came on the scene; the best (scientific) minds proclaimed, "The human body cannot survive speeds in excess of 35MPH."

      Until recently (21st Century); and the advent of the relatively new science of Fluid Dynamics, the best (scientific) minds involved in Aerodynamics, could not fathom how a bumblebee stays aloft. 

     Often; Science has to catch up with the facts/phenomena of Nature and/or, "reality" (our universe). 

     I haven't been in school since the 60's, but- at Case Institute of Technology; the Physics Prof always emphasized what we were studying was, "Electrical THEORY."         He strongly made a point of the fact that no one had yet actually observed electrons (how they behave on the quantum level) and that only some things can really be called, "LAWS." (ie: Ohm, Kirchoff, Faraday)   

               PERHAPS: that's changed in recent years and I missed it?

     Feynman was and will remain, my favorite lecturer (yeah: I'm that old).

     He mentioned often (and: I took to heart) his favorite Rule of Life: "Never stop learning!"

     For all his genius, he never grew overly confident in his beliefs.    The perfect obverse to the Dunning-Kruger sufferer.

     ie:  “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

     and: “I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything.”

     Tesla is probably my favorite innovator, who (despite the incessant, projectile vomit, from his day's naysayers), took the World, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century, with his inventions.

                                                  His thoughts: 

     “Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

     “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed, only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

                                       ps: HAPPY LISTENING!

Have had the Ayre disc for many years and it is now ripped to my server. Track 7, Full Glide Tone, on repeat at very low volume works well for burning in new components. It is sort of the equivalent of warming up your car, many do it even though some say it shouldn’t make a difference. I don’t care what “many do” or what “some say” - I have it and use it, but one is enough and I certainly wouldn’t consider it an “Indispensable Tweak”.