What time do you wear?

Solingen, the Audio Note and Jager Lacoutre of snipping blades.

Incidentally, this thread thankfully lead me to the Seiko Orange Monster which I got for $200 and wear it more than 35x more expensive IWC - which I love, but I love wearing the OM, and my stereo sounds much airier in the highs, the bass is tauter and more tuneful, the midrange is, well you know, more liquid, and it even slightly improves dimensionality when I wear it, even more improvement than an great pair of ICs and power cords, don't why it works, it is irrational, but so efficacious.

It makes good sense that wearing an excellent watch improves your hifi.

All of the tweaks I buy improve my hifi.

I realised long ago if you only bought a hifi tweak your wife agreed improved things you’d miss out on just about all of them. Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, you can’t detect a 1% tweak improvement. It becomes essential to read very many reviews and use your judgement that a given tweak would pull on the same end of the rope as another tweak. Ten tweaks give a maximum improvement of 10% - and so I’d hear it. Even with a couple of misjudgements, rope-wise, I’d still get a 6% improvement which I’d also hear. Note this is indistinguishable from ten tweaks averaging +0.6% each. Or nine tweaks averaging +0.7% and one error of -0.3%. I’m not a mathematician but wouldn’t be surprised to learn that gives at least factorial 10 divided by factorial 2 + factorial 10 divided by factorial 3 etc etc - permutations of tweaks. This is a big number and makes it pointless trying to eliminate rogue tweaks.

I hope this makes some sense. It’s a lengthy process typing one handed in the foetal position – especially when you can’t see your watch.

I’ve looked up Solingen, thank you, but what I need are very fine clippers not scissors – ideally ones that float.

I see the logic of this. It just might be possible that with 140 tweaks in aggregate, you could possibly surpass the sound of the real thing (TAS), and wouldn't that be something.

Clippers, hmmmm. The Germans seem to be good with steel, but the Swiss shouln't be discounted either. The world's best toe nail clippers upon which everyone can agree? I know it is out there. Nothing worse for the sound of your system than an ingrown toenail - at least according to the lab measurements made by Julian Hirsch in the summer of 1974.

I ditched my toenail clippers years ago after I took an old Dual turntable, glued some high-end 220 grit sand paper to the outer rim, and use it to fine-tune my toenails. It seems to work much better when supported on a maple amp stand. This way I never have a problem with clipping a little too close. If the nails get a little long, I add a weight to it to help with inertia.

And just one more important question, what time do you wear?