Another shout-out for the Mad Scientist: his Graphene Contact Enhancer is magic sauce. Prior to trying it, I had moved from Caig Deoxit Gold to Acoustic Revive ECI-50 with clear improvements in both cases. Potency of the GCE is in a different league alltogether: Immediacy and transparency resulting are nothing short of astounding. The biggest impact appears to be on anything related to power supply. In particular mains cables (apply to each connector inside the plug as well as outside), fuses and their holders and to a lesser extent RCA connections and speaker cables, whether ended or bare wire show significant benefits. An all around class act again
Kiwi Mad Science
When reading about the Mad Scientist‘s Black Discus products I became intrigued enough to order some from NZ.
madscientist-audio.com is a small outfit in New Zealand specialising in what you might call black matter. This material, of which there is no decription or recipe available is a hard resin with great RMI/EFI properties and, so it seems also addressing vibrational distortions.
Specifically I have experimented with the following:
Tube toppers: these go on top of small signal tubes (in my case WE435a on a Wavac EC300b amplifier) When they arrived I was already using EAT tube dampeners and the combination of the two resulted in a further tightening of the sound: incredible leading edge and reverb along with a holographic widening and deepening of the soundstage with cristal-clear height and localisation. Very worthwhile for little money.
Black Discus Nano Donuts: theses are meant to go on top of torroidal transformers, I used them with great effect on the Innuos Zenith Mk3 server as well as the Voltikus power supply on my Antelope Zodiac Platinum DAC.
The effect is not subtle: foremost a significant tightening of the bass with corresponding increase of blackness through lowered noise floor. In addition there is a heightening of micro detail (e.g. reed noises on clarinets, character of different sticks on xylophone and vibraphone, etc) They come in 3 different sizes, because of enclosure constraints I could only fit the smallest ones.
Black Discus Nano discs: 2 of these came as a sample gift in my package, which by the way because of Covid took 2 weeks to arrive in London. After some experimenting I ended up using them on my Wavac amp‘s positive speaker bindings as suggested by the Mad Scientist. To my surprise I got a reduction in sibbilance as well as greater clarity on vocals out of them. I am using Bybee Golden Goddess Speaker Bullets as well as Stein Speaker Match on my Duevel Bella Lunas, nevertheless there was a discernible improvement, albeit not on the same scale as with the previous 2 items.
This Black Magic is truly working and actually very intriguing. I wish there was a good explanation on the inner workings, that said the price of admission is modest and the efficacy well worth it.
madscientist-audio.com is a small outfit in New Zealand specialising in what you might call black matter. This material, of which there is no decription or recipe available is a hard resin with great RMI/EFI properties and, so it seems also addressing vibrational distortions.
Specifically I have experimented with the following:
Tube toppers: these go on top of small signal tubes (in my case WE435a on a Wavac EC300b amplifier) When they arrived I was already using EAT tube dampeners and the combination of the two resulted in a further tightening of the sound: incredible leading edge and reverb along with a holographic widening and deepening of the soundstage with cristal-clear height and localisation. Very worthwhile for little money.
Black Discus Nano Donuts: theses are meant to go on top of torroidal transformers, I used them with great effect on the Innuos Zenith Mk3 server as well as the Voltikus power supply on my Antelope Zodiac Platinum DAC.
The effect is not subtle: foremost a significant tightening of the bass with corresponding increase of blackness through lowered noise floor. In addition there is a heightening of micro detail (e.g. reed noises on clarinets, character of different sticks on xylophone and vibraphone, etc) They come in 3 different sizes, because of enclosure constraints I could only fit the smallest ones.
Black Discus Nano discs: 2 of these came as a sample gift in my package, which by the way because of Covid took 2 weeks to arrive in London. After some experimenting I ended up using them on my Wavac amp‘s positive speaker bindings as suggested by the Mad Scientist. To my surprise I got a reduction in sibbilance as well as greater clarity on vocals out of them. I am using Bybee Golden Goddess Speaker Bullets as well as Stein Speaker Match on my Duevel Bella Lunas, nevertheless there was a discernible improvement, albeit not on the same scale as with the previous 2 items.
This Black Magic is truly working and actually very intriguing. I wish there was a good explanation on the inner workings, that said the price of admission is modest and the efficacy well worth it.