I believe you guys are getting off topic.
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New Synergistic Research Carbon Tuning Discs
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Republicoftexas69
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I failed to mention that the Coax was tried on five different DACs and four different transports, ranging in price from $2000 to $23000 in DACS and $600 to $6500 in transports. Maybe the Foundation Coax is to be used in a low end system, but then I would choose a $20 Monster Cable for 30+ years ago. It just is not neutral sounding, colored to the extreme. Based on our experience only. Many audiophiles may like it.
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Maybe you had a broken, defective coax cable. I don’t know what else to tell you. If a cheap cable from 30+ years ago was better in any of your systems. Anyways, we are off topic here. As rightly suggested by the OP
NO, it is not a broken or defective cable (unless they make defective cables). The bass is tight, deep and punchy. It is forward sounding. It is airless, dull on top (highs are present but no air). The mids are choppy, some instruments are present, others are hidden. Just one weird cable. Is it possible that this is just not a good sounding cable? Do you own or have tried this cable? There's a money back guarantee if you try it and don't like it. Ted Denney indicated that it works best in a loom of SR cables.
Possible. But worse than a $20 cable from 30+ years ago you mentioned? It sounds strange.
No I don’t have any coax cables in my system. I just don’t use coax in my setup and configuration. I never tried Foundation series cables. Just other SR (non coax) cables upper in the lineup.
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The original Monster interlink 300 (not 300i or 300 MkII or any 400) was designed by the guy, Bruce Brisson who went on to create MIT cable company. This 40 year old cable is a simple design. It has great bass, neutral mids and rolled off highs. Not the best cable, but superior to so many tweaky expensive cables (High Fidelity, Transparent, Audioquest).
I've found many cable manufacturers make cables that have a sound, like a tone control. E.G. Kubala Sosna has a dark, warm sound, dependable and often useful in bright sounding systems.
The Coax Foundation cable did have great macro-dynamics, superior to the laid back Monster Coax (which is why I don't use it, just had it from the 90s).
It sounds like you know exactly what you are looking for with your new coax cable. Best of luck.
This is an excellent video that was posted on Synergistic’s web page for the Carbon Tuning Discs. I think many of those who question how these discs could have an effect don’t really understand how electricity flows. I learned about the Poynting vector in my freshman physics class at engineering school over 35 years ago so the idea that the altering either the magnetic or electric field can alter the signal made me receptive to what Synergistic may be doing. I think their critics would benefit from watching that video.
May I ask what lead you to try it on the heat sink? I just ordered a box of these and will start by trying them as advised on your web page. I have quite a few of the ECTs placed throughout my system and I have to admit that I've never been confident that I've deployed them optimally. Unfortunately I haven't been gifted with the patience that would allow me to do a lot of experimentation so I would welcome any pointers you might offer. I have really appreciated kind of the benefits your fuses, outlets, outlet cover and the ECTs have brought to my system.
I tried it on the heat sink, because the entirety of the circuit, including the ic chips, are located beneath it; maximum electromagnetic interaction. I also placed a gold disc on the routers Antanas betwixt the two. With Tuning Discs, less is more, certainly where electronics are concerned. When voicing cables, almost all cables should get either a purple or gold tuning disc.
Without revealing trade secrets, do these affect cable resonance like Golden Sound, Harmonix, and Acoustic Revive tuning dots, or operate at a "quantum" level like WA Quantum, Akiko, and Telos tuning "chips" claim to, a combination of both or something different?
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Trade Secrets- if you are curious, simply try them. We make it very easy for you to do so, and if they don’t perform to expectation, or you think they sound like something else (they do not) send them back to your dealer. Easy Peezy Lemon Squeez?.
For anyone that's used High Fidelity's NPS-1260 contact enhancer or the new version in their system, are the tuning dots' effects of the same magnitude?
Probably will try them as I did the others I mentioned. Just curious what they act on.
highstream,
I am using the NPS 1260 on most of my connections. I think these 2 products effects are different. The NPS 1260 increases the conductivity. A good thing.
The SR tuning discs have added additional improvement in the way a cable produces the sound. Such as with the gold a calmness, the purple an openness.
Perhaps having the benefit of using both products at the same time is an extra good thing, I can't say for sure. But I really do like both.
Try the SR tuning discs and see what you think. The price of admission is small.
ozzy
I am using the NPS 1260 on most of my connections. I think these 2 products effects are different. The NPS 1260 increases the conductivity. A good thing.
The SR tuning discs have added additional improvement in the way a cable produces the sound. Such as with the gold a calmness, the purple an openness.
Perhaps having the benefit of using both products at the same time is an extra good thing, I can't say for sure. But I really do like both.
Try the SR tuning discs and see what you think. The price of admission is small.
ozzy
