Black Discus - Free Sample Alert


I recently requested a free sample of Mad Scientist Audio's black discus tweaks.
They arrived from New Zealand in a week! I was rather hoping that they would not work since cash for tweaking is tight, but, alas, they were remarkably effective in doing what they claim to do. The pucks were placed on the positive speaker outputs of the amps and were held in place with a dab of blu-tac. There was an immediate increase in apparent soundstage and the perceived 'air' around the instruments. I also felt that some low level details were more clearly resolved. I have no idea how it works. The web site has some info, but the fact is that it did work for me. Now I just have to figure out how to rob the cash from the budget to fund getting the full on product. As a side note, Mad Scientist states that the samples are a scaled down version of the actual product to facilitate mailing via letter post to hold down costs. That seems reasonable to me and I'm hoping for a greater result when the real deal Black Discus products arrive. I'll post a follow up, then. In the mean time, order free samples at your wallet's risk.
shyood

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I tried some BlackDiscus free samples. I gotta buy more of these!

My first holy S#!T moment was from placing a small BlackDiscus on the XMOX chip of a WaveIO USB to IS2 board. The music was more real and flowing. I'm going to cut up one these to fit them on some DAC chips.

Putting the large BlackDiscus on the parafeed transformers of my DIY 12B4 SET amps cleaned up the sound so much that I no longer have to convince my wife that I need to install "ugly" room treatment pads in the corners.

I also placed them on flat IEC power cord connectors with a smoothing and cleaning up of the sound without any loss of detail.

Either they help or do nothing. While the entire musical spectrum is benefited, the bass is especially brought into focus. This is an affordable no-brainer tweak.