About 4 years ago in Stereophile there was a tweak talked about involving 2 quarters and a dime. Place the quarters on the top front two corners of the box, and the dime in between on the front edge. It was suposed to help clarity and imaging.
What other strange tweaks have you all heard about doing to spekaers and equipment to improve the sound of things?
What other strange tweaks have you all heard about doing to spekaers and equipment to improve the sound of things?
vertical dispersion
At that time some english audiophiles checked the trick out too.
They said that due to the sympathetic vibrations of the coins, there was some energy added in the vertical axis above the speaker, so it gave some hint of natural musical instrument dispersion and sense of height. Something in the same line of thought that back panel supertweeters serve today on Wilsons and Martin Logans.
At that time some english audiophiles checked the trick out too.
They said that due to the sympathetic vibrations of the coins, there was some energy added in the vertical axis above the speaker, so it gave some hint of natural musical instrument dispersion and sense of height. Something in the same line of thought that back panel supertweeters serve today on Wilsons and Martin Logans.
nearing Feng Shui
The most mystic tweak (that did nothing not to improve but to even change the sound) was this positive energy ladden foil strips
that this English guy who now lives in Japan sent me for free through self paid mail.
His father he said was into magnetics and inheritted to him some way of magnetically treating foils and mettalic element emulsions so to balance the negative energy charges in listening spaces.
He was so adamant about the clear benefits so I was in a bit of akward position to report him zero benefits in my system and room.
He told me that something very special must be happening not to notice the tragic improvement...
So I thought of a .... paliative. I said that some guru once told a friend (true story) that monuments load their surrounding grounds with tons of positive energy, so it was probable that I had no negative imbalances because I live 10mins walk from the Parthenon in Athens! Hence nothing to treat.
He found it a very reasonable answer.
The most mystic tweak (that did nothing not to improve but to even change the sound) was this positive energy ladden foil strips
that this English guy who now lives in Japan sent me for free through self paid mail.
His father he said was into magnetics and inheritted to him some way of magnetically treating foils and mettalic element emulsions so to balance the negative energy charges in listening spaces.
He was so adamant about the clear benefits so I was in a bit of akward position to report him zero benefits in my system and room.
He told me that something very special must be happening not to notice the tragic improvement...
So I thought of a .... paliative. I said that some guru once told a friend (true story) that monuments load their surrounding grounds with tons of positive energy, so it was probable that I had no negative imbalances because I live 10mins walk from the Parthenon in Athens! Hence nothing to treat.
He found it a very reasonable answer.
Re: The $1.20 tweak was not a pun
OK, I haven't read any of these articles, but couldn't it be the
case that someone wrote an article that was intended as a
pun, but some people took it seriously? Such things has
happened before. NASA sometimes publish April 1st jokes,
for instance, and one of these is reported to have made it
into a french popular science magazine that completely missed
it was a joke.
salas said:
OK, I haven't read any of these articles, but couldn't it be the
case that someone wrote an article that was intended as a
pun, but some people took it seriously? Such things has
happened before. NASA sometimes publish April 1st jokes,
for instance, and one of these is reported to have made it
into a french popular science magazine that completely missed
it was a joke.
Re: Wrong issue
Ok, I have the December '98 issue in front of me. Pages 16 and 19. The only thing JA says with regard to the $1.20 tweak is:
Next month, Part Three [of JA's series "Measuring Loudspeakers"] will look at frequency response and the important matter of dispersion, though I must admit that I'm skeptical that the $1.20 tweak works in the matnner described by Mr. Karnette.
That he said in response to Mr. Karnette's claim that the $1.20 tweak worked by changing the speaker's radiation pattern.
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salas said:
Ok, I have the December '98 issue in front of me. Pages 16 and 19. The only thing JA says with regard to the $1.20 tweak is:
Next month, Part Three [of JA's series "Measuring Loudspeakers"] will look at frequency response and the important matter of dispersion, though I must admit that I'm skeptical that the $1.20 tweak works in the matnner described by Mr. Karnette.
That he said in response to Mr. Karnette's claim that the $1.20 tweak worked by changing the speaker's radiation pattern.
se
Re: Re: Re: Re: The $1.20 tweak was not a pun
Yes. I seem to recall Sam saying that Canadian coins sounded better. Though I just put all my Stereophiles back in their stacks and don't want to go digging through them again.
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Christer said:Did they try it out with other currencies than US cents??
Yes. I seem to recall Sam saying that Canadian coins sounded better. Though I just put all my Stereophiles back in their stacks and don't want to go digging through them again.
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