Ozzy, its good that you have not given up on the chips.
Baffling stuff, knowing they work, i still cant imagime how it will work on a piano.
There are 2 new chips, the power and semiconductor chips.
I have used both, together with a no risk trial of the whole range of these "stickers".
So far, negatives need rebalancing of the sound with other types of chips or tweaks. Keep an open mind and tweak on.
The ic chips in my palyers shows no ill effects as described by yourself. But agree that too many same chips in a system requires a rebalance of the Sound by tweaking elsewhere or using a different chip.
What is that i found each chip doesnt have a different characteristic. The flattening of the sound imho, the cable chips which are easiest to use can sound flat and overly smooth once you have a good number in the system.
With one cable chil on each cable didnt work for me, the last interconnect beside having them on all pc's flattened the sound.
Heres where the lower chip comes in, it sound more bombastic and fleshed out. Now when i reintroduce the last ic with the cable chip, brilliant!
Adding another power chip improved it further. Now came the 3rd and last power chip i had. It added further to the solidity, but now the staging sounds more closed in and vocal show some grain and hardness. Here where i add another cable chip to the ic and this smooths out the sound again.
In regards to speakerchips, specifically adding a capacitor chip on the woofers cap gave it better lows and shifting it where the midrange cap is located, the midbass improve, likewise a transformer chip at the location of the woofers inductor was nice as well. These were place outside the speaker know the specific location of the parts.
I didnt experiment much with the fuse chips, besides the cdp, they just went in and i didnt notice anything detrimental. Their effect is nice but smaller compared to the larger chip. Size does matter! Maybe 2 or 3 chips per fuse brings more benefits.
Now, how many more capacitor abd inductor chips to i need. Its crazy so far. I just keep ordering, the total on each order makes me think again as the price add up so quickly.