Audio equipment, on both recording and playback end, suffers a degradation in coherence between conduction in p-type and n-type semiconducting substances. The audible effect is a subtle veiling and constriction, the "solid state" sound eschewed by vacuum tube lovers, who prefer the more emotionally involving sound of tube amplification. Years of careful research, experimentation, and (most of all) LISTENING have shown the nature of this degradation and why solid state amplification (especially those with complementary circuits) lack that last degree of musicality and realism- it's built right into the very devices that their designers use!
My latest invention addresses this directly. Well, not really my "latest," but I had to wait until it could be released without me going to prison for revealing military secret technology I developed while working is some super-secret program. In fact, I still can't talk about it fully here, but can offer a wonderful application of it to serious audiophiles whose systems and ears can justify the expenditure.
Basically, it addresses a fundamental issue- the difference in mobility between electrons and holes. In a sense, it works directly on the effective pseudoparticle mass, causing a matching and alignment of electron and hole flow.
What does that mean to the audiophile? No longer does one need to rely on bulky and unreliable tubes to achieve musicality and a coherent sound that just "hangs together" in a way that we can't achieve with solid state, despite more than a half century of trying. By the use of my invention, the coherence and musicality of tube circuits, their unique ability to convey the subtleties of performance nuance, to more directly connect the listener to the essence of the music, and yes, to get the foot tapping, can be achieved by solid state circuits.
But it's not just limited to solid state! Even tube circuits are vastly improved. How can this be, you might ask? The answer is in timing- the electrons which pass between cathode and plate are discrete packets of energy that travel though the vacuum of the tube at speeds much lower than light. Once they reach the plate, their nature becomes that of an electromagnetic wave propagating through the wiring of the circuit at near-light speed. This sudden mismatch of velocities, along with transit times through the vacuum that vary from tube to tube in a circuit, cause an effect similar to the infamous hole-electron mobility mismatch. The same technology that restores coherence to solid state amps can be used to improve even state-of-the-art vacuum tube gear.
The most wonderful news: the technology is affordable! For under $2000, a single unit can improve a solid state stereo amplifier- naturally, two are required for monoblocks. As well, there are versions optimized for preamplifiers. Vacuum tube aficionados can use a model optimized for that application, though unfortunately, the price is a bit higher due to the need for higher temperature materials.
If your system is worth it and you're someone who truly cares about the sound of music, there's no greater improvement that you can get for under $10,000.
I would actually gladly do so, but from what I've gathered from this thread, the teachings amount to "x has an effect on audio quality that can't be explained with the kind of physics we have available today" or "x has an effect due to reasons that I can't tell you because it's secret" or "x works because guy who sells x has worked with Feynman thirty years ago". Not much enlightenment to be had there, unfortunately...
dfy: I think Ye missed the depths of sarcasm in my post 😉 read it again with that in mind 😀
you are fighting a war with familiar tools of logic and pragmatism, these have no effect on your chosen opponent, trust me
you are fighting a war with familiar tools of logic and pragmatism, these have no effect on your chosen opponent, trust me
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Fair enough 😛 . I will stop trying to argue this and calm my mind with the idea that people who spend money on audiophile Ethernet cables and quantum purifiers usually don't know what to do with their money anyways, so no children will be deprived of a proper education and noone will starve as a result.
The country's two largest CMAs are 'atypical'? Based on a comparative with your eyeball measurements? Can't argue with that science.
You see, that may sound like a humurous aside, but I am related to a family with exactly that problem: the father is obsessed with audio to the extent that while he borrows and spends thousands on audio gear, relatives chip in to buy his daughter new shoes. We live in a world where the judicious bargain hunter could assemble a tremendous audio system second hand for a few hundred quid, but a pernicious and wholly mythical story has built up where even the most sensible person (in all other walks of life) believes that good music reproduction depends on exotic materials and top secret spinoffs from military technology. In the UK, maybe it's related to the country's biggest obsession: cooking - where 'you are what you eat' and so it's all about the quality of the ingredients. Some people might extrapolate from that to all other activities, even if it's just about shuffling numbers from one place to another (asynchronously).
With 4 kids, although tempting to go buy that new highly praised DAC, in the end, I take care of my children's essential needs first.
I don't want to know how they work, I just want to know if they do work. Since you can't sell them, I don't want to buy them from any general store. I would only consider those made from 100+ year old Baltic Birch (the amount of rings DOES matter!) and perhaps those sold in areas close to the source of the trees. Do you have a hi-end shop I can email in your area? I'm sure they will explain how best to utilize them so I maximize my sound stage and maybe get some other surprising added benefits.
Look up which year the Stadivarius vilolins were build. Their fantatstic sound come from the fact that at that time there was a severe drought, and the year rings in the trees are very narrow and compact.
Use wood from those years for your cable lifters - it'll lift your music to new heights as well!
jan
A hard core 'objectivist' ignoring clear measurements in favour of personal perception, who humorously insists the standard SLA of big city utilities will be changed by complaining... it must be Friday.
BTW, the EMI filters you posted are 100% completely and perfectly ineffective against the spectrum linked by Mr Push Pull, measurements which correlate spot-on with many I made elsewhere. That should be instinctively obvious just from picking one up and examining the component size, and easily confirmed with a spec sheet.
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