Stillpoint ERS Paper Question

You guys have whetted my interest to retry this material. I find it most curious that my tiny amounts just kill the dynamics of music while others using much larger amounts report great satisfaction. I will follow Phaelon's suggestion of using a paper punch and trying such dots in different locations.

This product works well, however, it does take time, effort, and much experimentation to get it right. I started by placing full 8 x10 sheets on top of my preamp and CD player. Improvements were immediately heard. I bought the self-adhesive sheets with intentions of mounting several cut-to-size pieces inside each component. I started with the case of the CD player by mounting sheets on the inside of the upper lid, inside of the lower lid, and both sides. Without listening to the results, I proceeded to cover the preamp power supply case and incoming power wires. This was a mistake.

The warning that comes with the ERS cloth advises that you do not mount this stuff near any analog circuits or the high-end could become too extended or too prevalent. That is what I first experienced. I actually had to carefully pull each sheet back off each mounting location and start over. You can remove this product within a few hours of mounting on most surfaces if you are careful. I used hair dryer to slightly heat up the adhesive.

I then restarted by covering the inside top lid of the CD player ONLY above the digital section. I also added a sheet on the side panel of the same section housing the power supply. This made quite an improvement over my initial impressions with the full sheet just sitting on the top of the unit. It also means that far less material is needed when mounting the ERS cloth inside the unit. I listened for awhile and then added a sheet under the digital section on the inside lower lid. Another improvement, although not to the same extent. To test the high-end issue, I placed sheets on the rest of remaining sections of the inside case. This is when the high end became obnoxious and the sound became overall dead. Quickly pulling it back-off and the CD player returned to it's original improvement.

The same sort of results happened in the preamp test. Too much cloth affected the balance, athough not to the same extent. Covering just the power supply case - no cloth on the inside of the main case was the best result.

I then tried to put some inside the case of the Maggie 3.6 external crossover, but I found no significant improvement. This may have to do withn the fact that I use the Z-sleeves at the end of my speaker wire runs, which do the same job as the ERS cloth. Z-sleeves are produced using ERS as one of their main layers.

This tweek does indeed work, and work well. The difference is unlike some tweeks in that it takes more effort to get the proper results.

Tgun5, I certainly did not have your good fortune with ERS although I started in largely the same manner. Everywhere I tried even small amounts, it killed dynamics and high frequencies. I am going to try some paper punch sized pieces this weekend. Presently my four sheets sit unused on a shelf.

I'm with Tbg, I've tried very small amounts in many locations and it always killed dynamics and high frequencies. Perhaps tiny punch sizes are a possibility.

I placed full sheets on top of and below the CD, and two line conditions and one sheet atop the amp. with great results. then I put a 4"X7" piece to the underside of the top cover directly over two transformers in the Ayre CD 5xe. and the sound had a deeper soundstage and more articulation. I then wrapped the two SR balanced interconnects about 7" dowm from the CD player as well the SR PC and then the sound really lost something, it seemed. Or I was simply listening to sound with less noise, although the sound seemed to have less snap and dynamics. though I may put this stuff back in place and listen to this set up for a week or better to let the cables and system equalize then decide on what I like.

Where I got incredible results was by putting a sheet on top of my DVDO video processor and below it, on top of my Arcam DVD player and below it and on top of my Meridian G68 processor, WOW, the picture quality was increased amazingly so. Like buying a new projector, or CD player, as well the sound of the system really really smoothed out. I am going to do some test on the projector, i.e. firstly the video HDMI, secondly the pc going into the projector. If the picture gets any clearer than it already is I will be even more amazed of ERS cloth.
Thats as far as I have got witht this product, but do find it a lot of fun to tweak around with and overall seem to like it most for picture quality then sound, knowing exactly what I am hearing and equating that sound is tough for me for