Fascinating.I'll point out the elephant in this room: https://www.industrial-electronics.com/sams_metallic_4.html
Fascinating.I'll point out the elephant in this room: https://www.industrial-electronics.com/sams_metallic_4.html
unbelivable...Translation Akikoaudio:
Akiko Audio Tuning Disc
A powerful tool for relaxed music playback.
The Tuning Disc is charged for 7 months with vibration particles of natural origin. This irreversible process takes place in-house, giving the material unique properties, which ensure a very relaxed music reproduction. The disc should be placed on or under equipment or speakers so that the energetic energy has the opportunity to influence the immediate environment.
Small details become more audible and, together with a quieter background, ensure a quiet and natural music reproduction. The well-known recording that you thought you knew through and through can therefore also surprise.
The Tuning Disc can be combined very well with our other tuning accessories, because the operation is completely different, but the purpose is the same; Enjoy your music in a relaxed way!
The Tuning Disc is made of stainless steel and is equipped with felt at the bottom, to protect your valuable equipment. The format was not chosen by chance; the diameter is the same as that of a CD and the Tuning Disc can also be used to unclog CDs and DVDs before playing them.
Because the Tuning Disc spreads an energetic field in the horizontal plane, the disc can also be placed under equipment and speakers, without the need for direct contact with the disc.
What improvement can you expect:
- More relaxation when listening to your music.
- Music is perceived as more natural and pleasant. Listening fatigue doesn't stand a chance.
- Spatiality increases, because small details are better perceived.
Placement:
- On the preamp and phono amplifier.
- On the power amplifiers.
- On source equipment.
- On or under speakers.
- On power distributors and power conditioners, switch, modem.
- Anywhere in your set where interference fields negatively affect the sound.
142 Euros is a lot for a drink coaster
How many wrongs make a right?Do cable lifters perhaps have a legit benefit? With the heavy, garden hose size cables they are often used with it seems they might reduce the stress on the equipments' connectors?
Do cable lifters perhaps have a legit benefit? With the heavy, garden hose size cables they are often used with it seems they might reduce the stress on the equipments' connectors?
I would think that the floor is a much more stable environment than hanging the cables in mid-air.Do cable lifters perhaps have a legit benefit? With the heavy, garden hose size cables they are often used with it seems they might reduce the stress on the equipments' connectors?
I'm not sure these belong in the Extreme Snake Oil thread. Maybe start a new thread on them? They don't seem to be fakes and a lot of those old Crown designs are public domain now.Up until 2019 there was a FB group posting built to order very large analog? power amps built by Asian vendors. I haven't found them in a search of ASR. They seem to be based on a Crown design, conventional power transformer up front, and rows of power devices in a fan-cooled heat sink tube.
Anyone know the story of these? Is the idea you need a very large generator to power them?
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Inductance crates noise - who knew?Be very careful folks. This Furutech power cord reviewer at Part-Time Audiophile specifically states that CABLE LIFTERS were his 'gateway drug':
"Then I started reviewing all those Furutech NCF products, and I realized I had stumbled onto something unique. The Furutech NCF Boosters, those small but hefty trestles for all your cables, were truly my first venture into the world of noise suppression. I heard a difference by merely putting my ear close to the woofers of my speakers and immediately noticing a reduction in the electronic presence I heard when I merely laid a loudspeaker cable upon that cradle. Once I had experienced the improvements that NCF yielded, I started investigating grounding systems, power conditioners, Ethernet switches and components that use expensive raw materials known to reduce inductance, which creates noise."
The floor is your friend. Cable lifters only lead to a path of woe and misery...
Hooda thunk? It's those capacitors, dammit, that are causing the noise problem, hey? As for those giant amplifiers, they could make sense for a stadium or similar large venue, although in that case, I'd go switch-mode and save a lot of waste heat energy.Inductance crates noise - who knew?
Yes,your description is better.If it was a crossover, it would have two outputs. One that suppresses above 130Hz, and one that suppresses below.
What you're describing is a low pass filter. Was it designed specifically for audio playback, or was it an industrial component that was taken hostage by nitwits?
offered to send me a sample of his company’s $8,200 Dream 20-20 power cord, I knew that it was an offer that I could not refuse. I have heard good things about Stealth’s products for many years. To boot, the 20-20 is a photogenic looker.
On the outside, the Dream 20-20 features something that I have not seen before – a ferromagnetic collar that slides over the cord’s external length. Stealth states that moving the collar allows the user to tune the cord's "sound" by manipulating resonances in and around the signal path.
Just as an example, Stealth states, the 20-20's complex, vibration-reducing, matrix conductor geometry consists of 176 interwoven, individually isolated, oxygen-free copper wires that together are almost an inch thick.
Examining the rest of this impeccably-made power cord revealed an extreme attention to detail. The ground pin on the male version of the proprietary connectors, for example, is serrated, i.e., it has teeth that help the connector securely grip the AC receptacle.