And strangely, thebigguy's posts don't make this topic any more weird.
Mitigating the Bubble
Today after many years of trials and tribulations I have mitigated a sonic aberration a horizontal phase anomaly in my center stage. While the center image was always stable and outlined it seemed narrow and bubble like and I would need to shift my body angle to really lock in the image. This was obvious on many CDs and LPs .
I have many man made fixes that helped the situation but never a total cure. Some of these are now permanent fixtures on the ceiling in 2 different locations. I made my own acoustic panels filled with long hair sheep's wool and 3 Argent Room Lenses. I have laminar flow lenses that focus and stabilize the image across the front stage. I have built and treated an acoustic fan that overcomes the boundaries with in my room by reducing interference. I have loaded my speaker cabinets 3 times with new drivers and now an outboard crossover. This was after my Essence 30s speakers and my Dunlavy SC4s. ..All my components are hard mounted and direct coupled to the floor...on rock solid racks and speaker stands, custom mono bloc amps each on their own stand. All of these devices and angles and positions made the image wider and more focused but I still had that little bubble and shift before me. Always less annoying with each new device and tweak.
So, your probably saying to yourself hurry up and get to the end. The end finally arrived today after having applied a contact enhancer 7 days ago to just 6 RCA ends out of many connections in my system. Today with a friend who has been here a hundred times sitting in the Chair playing the same music as usual he said there was a wider sweet spot. I despise that term but he said it and not me.What we both heard was a super stable center image that was a few feet wide and not just one. The bubble was gone. The head in the vise was gone. Off came the straight jacket and helmet. What I have now in this space intime is a glorious fully extended soundstage with all the meat on the bones and the features of talking heads on a real live performance stage.
I have probably used eight different contact enhancers over five decades but this one blows my mind. This product Nano Flo is the ultimate in transparency.
Tom
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I will regret even suggesting it, but after looking at turntable porn today, I expect there is a better market for a nano-diamond lubricant for turntable bearings than may provide a real and measurable benefit, compared to a contact enhancer of dubious value. To anyone considering it, this constitutes public disclosure and hence anyone trying to patent such a thing for this application after this date will be out of luck. I took a screen capture. |
I am sorry if a dose of reality is too much for you. I have never had anything I would call digital glare. Not in 2+ decades of owning half decent systems. Digital does not have "glare". It has perfect and flat frequency response (normally). If you have an issue, I would start looking at how your system is performing. Too bright, is not because of digital, it is because of a poor system including the room. |
Perhaps you need to consider that your logic is flawed. Human experience is not exactly universal, but close enough. Checks the calendars. It's 2022. If you are experiencing anything that you call glare related to "digital", then you either have really poor equipment, or your equipment is broken. If you think it has "glare" because your analog does not, then you need to understand what your analog system is doing to "soften" the sound. A good DAC in 2022, unless your system is broken, does nothing but output the analog exactly as intended. There is no glare. Convincing yourself it is "glare" when it is not, is a surefire way to ensure you never find or fix the problem. Do you want to be an audiophile with a broken system blaming "digital" or do you want to get to the root cause? |
It is interesting you make that comment @theaudiotweak , Maybe you should tell nano-flo. Easy marks.
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