Thanks for the laugh. Happy Holidays everyone!
Anyone hear of the Black Cable Tie tweak?
Black Cable Tie Tweak. Just in time for Christmas!
Here's a fun little project. Count the number of drain spouts on your house or apt building - drain spouts are the long, 6" diameter vertical metal pipes that run from the roof gutters to the ground. You might know them better as waterspouts, downspouts, roof drain pipes or some other arcane word or terminology so don't bust my chops.
Obtain enough 14" black cable ties from Home Depot so you'll have one black cable tie for each drain spout. IIRC 14" black cable ties come in a pack of 10 which should be plenty unless you live in Buckingham Palace. If you encounter a drain spout that's too wide for the 14" cable tie, use two cable ties per drain spout. First, freeze the cable ties.
Place all cable ties in the freezer overnight (about 12 hours). Remove them the next day and allow to thaw to room temperature. Secure one black cable tie snugly around each drain spout at a point approximately one foot up from the bottom opening of the pipe near the ground.
After all cable ties are in place go listen to some favorite recordings.
Cheers, Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Advanced Audio Concepts
Here's a fun little project. Count the number of drain spouts on your house or apt building - drain spouts are the long, 6" diameter vertical metal pipes that run from the roof gutters to the ground. You might know them better as waterspouts, downspouts, roof drain pipes or some other arcane word or terminology so don't bust my chops.
Obtain enough 14" black cable ties from Home Depot so you'll have one black cable tie for each drain spout. IIRC 14" black cable ties come in a pack of 10 which should be plenty unless you live in Buckingham Palace. If you encounter a drain spout that's too wide for the 14" cable tie, use two cable ties per drain spout. First, freeze the cable ties.
Place all cable ties in the freezer overnight (about 12 hours). Remove them the next day and allow to thaw to room temperature. Secure one black cable tie snugly around each drain spout at a point approximately one foot up from the bottom opening of the pipe near the ground.
After all cable ties are in place go listen to some favorite recordings.
Cheers, Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Advanced Audio Concepts
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Al wrote, "No, John (Jmcgrogan2). Perhaps I was too subtle. My comment was a dig at those who seem to feel that it is never legitimate to reject a tweak "a priori," no matter how absurd the tweak may seem to be." I hate to judge before all the facts are in but the folks you are scolding do not appear on this thread. Prevention is worth a pound of cure, eh? Lol "It's what I chose to believe." - Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus |
No, John (Jmcgrogan2). Perhaps I was too subtle. My comment was a dig at those who seem to feel that it is never legitimate to reject a tweak "a priori," no matter how absurd the tweak may seem to be. Happy holidays! Best regards, -- Al |
It is common in debates about controversial tweaks for "believers" to say to "skeptics" something like "you can't say it doesn't work if you haven't tried it." Perhaps this particular tweak serves as an illustration that there are finite limits to the applicability of that kind of statement, which is a point I've made in several of those debates. Perhaps. :-) Regards, -- Al |
I find different colored ties emphasize different frequencies. I had some work done on my roof one time and they had to remove the ties. Without the ties I thought I could buy something better than what I have at Walmart. That is how bad it seemed to sound. When they went back on I was in nirvana again. Anyway I got to wondering if it would work on other things. So I started to put them everywhere, on my ears, my car, ect. Well after putting them almost everywhere I left for work and when me and my wife came home after work I couldn't get into my house because of the ties on my door knobs. The lock smith couldn't even help me. I had to break in a window. Well my wife said no more wire ties. That was the end of that. That was the the day the music died. Now I have been trying other things to get that same effect. What I do is go to the hardware stores and seek out the bargain baskets and buy a little bit of everything and do different things with them but nothing and I mean nothing has matched using those wire ties. Yup those were the good old days. I wonder if they even make the wire ties as well as the use to. I doubt it. |
Ejlif wrote, "I don't know who is crazier you or the coconut audio guy." Me either. Show of hands? "I'm sure you are messing with us you can't be serious?" Yes, no, maybe. "Just seeing if anyone is actually crazy enough to try this?" But is anyone crazy enough to report good results? That's the real question. "It's a good laugh that's for sure." Agree. |
OK so a plastic non-conductive device placed around a non-related, non-electrical object is an audio tweak? I find that if I open the ashtray in my car that is stored 17 miles from my house with one folded gum wrapper (must be folded 3 times lengthwise) placed perpendicular to the travel direction of the ashtray and then reducing the right rear tire of the same vehicle to be 2.75PSI less than the other four, but adding the same 2.75PSI to thye spare tire, along with taking a 27" brown round shoe string tied in a double bow leaving a loop of 3.45" and hang it off a 8d nail driven into a open stud in your basement leaving 1.033 inches exposed, and hang the shoestring with the bow down, all this coupled with a slice of dried toast floating in a 8" saucer with 18 ounces of tepid water with once corner of the toast pointing directly at the handle of the saucer and if you have a cat, place small pieces of adhesive tape to his paws and place him on a counter top covered in aluminum foil and room temperature set to exactly 71.25 degrees F or 27 degrees C and an ambient humidity of 36% that by the time you accomplish all these things you will be ready to sit and enjoy some good analog music...But if you want to listen to digital then use a black 32" shoestring on a 10d nail with 2.1" exposed on a rafter in your attic and add celophane to the countertop under the alumimnum and rasie the temperature 2.7 deg F and .09 Degrees C but maintain all else. Wow what a graet sound you will experience.Now everyone have a Merry Christmas and I recommend you don't tell anyone what you are doing. |
