A friend of mine told his mother he was dating a crystal healer, she said, I didn't know crystals needed healing.
I can easily hear a difference in my electrostatic 505 mini panels, depending on whether I use polystyrene, polycarbonate, polypropylene, or film and foil as protection caps.
Things even get blurred sounding, (barely noticeable), if the audiophile bypass technique is used.
I think at least part of the Bybee is a resistor, and don't amplifiers measure better into higher resistances?
Or what is it an autoformer does for output stages?
My tweaks have included Bybees, mechanical isolation devices, ferrite beads, and simple shunt filters in homemade power filters.
Some work, some don't.
Sometimes I'm surprised at what works.
Some spring loaded footers work separating my midrange/midtreble array from U Frame
bass bins, and do well as isolators for a 12AX7 phonostage kit. They are better than sorbothane, which was unexpected. Audible hum from the speakers is gone, with these under the phonostage, and footstep thumps are gone from my turntable with more spring footers under it.
There's plenty of unbelievable tweaks out there.
There are also many credible ones.
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This is the only one which is reproducible. The others simply are expectation biased.
Best regards!
Kay, mechanical isolation devices for speakers can be easily proven to work, when they work. No expectation bias here.
Oh, THANK YOU for alerting me to Bybee products!!
Bybee Technologies | Innovative Audio Products
Simply outstanding!! I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair!! This is the most unbelievable (literally) crock of ******** that I have personally ever read!! This guy is a genius!!
If I didn't have any ethics I could come up with so many products.
I'm amazed at the stuff people buy, with just a little knowledge in
electronics they would realize how much of this stuff is total snake oil.
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Tried them in a CD power supply, coming off the transformer, and in a line level 3 way passive splitter/ filter.
No reliably audible difference.
Differences I was able to hear, I could also hear without them, so I put them down to late night listening differences.
I can't help thinking that when some of the older people here think they hear a difference it is wishful thinking
The fact that Bybee doesn't know affect from effect tells me all I need to know about this particular type of sci-fi product sheister.
Different to my experience in series with speaker cable at speaker input.
Effect is subtle and not subtle....lowering of background between the notes dirt (lowering of system intrinsic noise induced imd ?) enabling cleaner, clearer more precice instrument/vocals placement.
Downside was a subtle extra 'signature' character that that I found to be displeasing long term.
Dan.
Max, I have had similar problems with using Bybee devices directly in the audio path of my best sources, such as ultra high quality analog. I don't usually have much of a problem with adding them in series with compromised sources such as TV sound. I do use them on my speakers, however, and in my power lines.
bit of a stretch: one place I was living in I had a long cable run next to a wall. Speaker cables and an audio cable from PC to the stereo. 8m or so. When I was connecting it to the PC, I got zapped. Must have been because there was AC cable next to it, induced something over that distance. Should have tried to run the cable elswehere, what happened then
Yes, IME the worse the signal/worse the gear the greater the effect, and stands to reason.
Ie, the quiter the gears intrinsic noise the less the auduble effect, and this accords with explanatories and same deal with my filters.
My filters can be applied to both channel cables at once, and this nicely improves center channek width, sound source location and depth placement.
Dan.
The only thing i'm certain of is if i had $3000 spare and i felt my speakers needed improving i'd be spending it on a new pair not on 4 ' magic ' beans .... i mean bullets regardless of
the proprietary specially developed wire they contained.
the proprietary specially developed wire they contained.
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Of course, if you have $3000 speakers, adding another $3000 in Bybees is excessive, even silly. However, since I have over $30,000 in my reference speakers, then Bybees make more sense. If I had $300,000 speakers, like some of Bybee's customers have, then $3000 in Bybees makes even more sense. It is a small, but real 'improvement'. It is based in quantum theory, and nobody understands it completely.
I project $300 or less to treat your whole system in nearish future, guitar/bass/kb less than $100.
Dan.
One real nuclear physicist contact whom I suspect did know has gone to heaven.
Dan.
Or was he sent there ?
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