What you are doing here is to promote your own products in a way that I (it may just be me..) find rather "strange" and out of place. I am not saying that all tweaks and accessories are not effective, but my experience tells me that the acoustics are way more important than much of what you and others are producing/promoting. To sometimes (but quite often) ridiculously high prices.
Tweaks, Cables, and Filtration: Essential for World-Class Stereo Performance?
- Thread starter Ted Denney III
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Somehow, I knew you would claim big improvements with “tweaks”.
So a demagnetiser improves the sound from CDs treated with such? CDs are made of a polycarbonate base, a thin coating of aluminium covered by an acrylic protective layer. None of which are ferric or magnetic, so it can only be placebo effect (no doubt brought about by a strong belief and expenditure of money).
I’m not sure which turntable one can buy for $600, unless we’re talking about a Crosley, but the effects of fuses on sound quality are easy to prove to yourself. Here’s the difference between one of the world’s most popular upgrade fuses, the Synergistic Research Purple Fuse, and the new Synergistic Research Master Fuse engineered to be placed in a DAC or preamplifier in a loom of otherwise all Orange, Purple, or Pink fuses. Were we to replace the control fuse, in this case the Purple fuse, with a glass fuse, the contrast would be greater still.
Ted Denney
Lead designer CEO Synergistic Research Inc.
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Tony, out of curiosity, what do you call a medium-cost power cord? What is that number or price range?
I don‘t mean it to be about cost but it comes down to that.
I found mid grade power cords <$800 were so so. When I tried some higher end power cords in the $1.5k and up range then I heard significant improvement. The noise floor dropped which I thought was already quiet and the sound and clarity improved. The whole soundstage improved. The amps, the DAC and then the preamps in that order.
I tried upgraded fuses in my Pass Labs amps (not SR fuses) and didn‘t hear a difference plus the fuses kept blowing. After having a few hundred dollars in fuses go up in smoke I stopped experimenting.
So … A mere 15 posts in and the thread morphs into yet another SR Infomercial .
Different audio forum … same old playbook !
Yes … not easy transversing the forum these days without stepping in of your many bovine pats !
In my old system, I had Magnepan 1.6s. I had just met Ted at RMAF and he said I should try three things: SR Black fuse, SR jumper cables instead of the included Maggie jumper, and an HFT on the crossover panel. I tried each one at a time and they all made a difference. A year later I upgraded to 1.7s and added them in again one by one. Again better sound. It was very noticeable.
In my experience, ethernet cables have a huge impact. I recently did a shootout between Blue Jeans and Synergistic Foundation SX Ethernet cables. The Blue Jeans literally sounded broken.
What a bizarre hobby. You have tweak's and audio jewelry vs the WE guys using 60 year old NOS wire both feel their systems are world class. Who's right? Who cares! If you are good consider yourself lucky!
Rob
These peaked in popularity during Watergate....
30+ years old and still a great digital tweak.
30+ years old and still a great digital tweak.
Hello Todd!
Do you really believe that cable elevators and specialty fuses are "essential"? In your experience is there any way to quantify in some relative sense what you mean by "essential"?
What I am trying to understand is that if cable elevators make an "essential" difference, then what is the nature or the magnitude of the difference made in your opinion by a change in preamplifier or source component?
Ron, if I may, this video—if you listen on your hi-res headphones or through your reference stereo—demonstrates how effective cable elevators can be. Signal is not electricity running down a wire, but rather an electromagnetic field that surrounds each conductor and the cable itself. When the cable is resting on the floor, the electromagnetic field interacts with the floor, and this has an audible effect on the sound, which can be heard as a compression of the soundstage, lack of definition in the bass, and a noticeable loss of resolution. It’s more pronounced in person but still audible on a compressed YouTube video.
I wonder, what is your perception of electricity? How do you conceptualize it? What do you think it is?
Could we see the views of members who regularly contribute, have experience with some or all of these things and do not sell the stuff (and are not tech/equipment junkies)? Positive Reviews by people I have never heard of don’t convince either.
Agreed. Pretty obvious to one who simply cares about the message and not the messenger per se. As a former avid fly fisherman, he's found the right fly and is getting some bites. Hence, the reason for the SR product videos. Yum.
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The product videos are a direct way to answer questions. While people are speculating on whether certain types of products can work, the videos themselves offer compelling insight.
