Enacoms for bright speakers?


Love to try them on Thiel speakers:
enacom ad
cdc
Looks like piece of junk to the extreme. Maybe someone can explain how it works I'd be interested. The signal coming down my wire/cable is fine. I just get speakers that reproduce that signal accurately to begin with. That thing probably messes with the LCR values to electrically rolloff some of your highs--who knows. I'll have to admit I'll laugh even harder for the audiophile who's already got $1,000 speaker cables on his/her system ("to correct for the distortion imposed by the cable") and then buys that thing the damage the signal more. (of course their tube amp has probably already done the real damage at 10%THD--and rolled off the highs. So if you own a tube amp you'll never need that thing-its already distorted the signal for you). Get good speakers. $85 dollars in room treatment or deadening your speaker cabinets will get you more mileage.
...and what about RFI,EMI? EZ, although at least theoretically I shared your scepticism, was pleasantly surprised though. Here is a siteabout them :
http://www.positivefeedback.com/ambackissues/enacom.htm
I used them on my thiel cs6's with my nordost red dawn's but took them off when I bought my Nordost spm's and then sold them a year later when I bought my Valhalla's they do make a difference they seem to calm down the confusion on very complex musical passages
Hello cdc,
I doubt the Enacom will cure your problem. Brightness is a stacking of excess energy at a specific frequency. This energy comes from added noise to your system in that range. I doubt Jim Thiel would let a speaker out of his factory like this. I'm sure they are spectrally fine top to bottom. This brightness, I believe is being caused by something down stream. If your components are of a neutral nature, I would look at your cabling and power. Because this is brightness, I have to believe you are picking up some RFI in your cabling and it is being added to the signal and once in you can never get out without filtering and this noise is being reproduced at the speakers. I use the Enacom filters on my 4.5 Von Schweikert's which I think have a lot more zing than the Thiels. The Enacom is a very subtle but effective enhancement. They do tend to relieve some high frequency noise which leads to more sound stage and greater low level detail. They take about 50 hours to break in and if you remove them from the circuit they will have to be acclimated again about 50 hours. Installing them in the system you won't notice much immediately but after a couple of days of playing you will notice a cleaner presentation. What they do basically is filter back force energy created by your speaker returning to the rest position. Under signal the speaker will extend out, when speaker retracts it creates a back force engery which is fed back to your amplifier and here is where all hell breaks loose. This is only simplification but I really don't think they will help your situation. I have a pair I'm not using, if you would like to try them, they are not for sale, but I'll gladly loan them to you. Hell, If Albert could loan out his Domanus, I'll take a shot with these. That's what makes this site different from all other sites, the people. How this helps.
Thanks for listening,
Dave & Gloria
davehrab
P.s. If Sean, AlbertP. or Bob-B is hanging around this morning and reads this, I would appreciate their input also.