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
rixthetrick, "@ozzy - you did not like the Fideliums, this may or may not apply to your system if you do use nano-flo? Once applied, not really reversible (so I have been informed) I don’t understand how my not being impressed with those speaker cables has anything to do with the nanoflow. ozzy |
I'm getting off the thread topic so check out my thread in the cable forum about the Dragons. Power Cable Break In - Such a Change! ozzy
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I just removed all of the NPS-1260 off of my WBT spades and replaced it with the sample of Nano-Flo. Now I’m not sure if this stuff has to be on for while but at least initially I think the sound stage shrunk and has more higher mid/treble frequencies (not in a good way). I was expecting Nirvana instead so far I have Tiny Tim. ozzy
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I still have about a 1/2 bottle of the NPS 1260 product. I have been really impressed with it. My whole system has been treated with it. A while ago Krissy did send me a sample of the new product "nanoflo" that has been discussed on this thread. I have not used it yet, I am waiting on a new power cord to try it on. BTW, Not the one mentioned in this thread. I am wonderin’ if this new "nanoflo" product can be applied on top of the NPS 1260? I hate to remove that stuff. Also, what happened with Krissy with the nanoflo? This has been a very strange roll out of a new product. ozzy
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I'm not sure if the Nano flo hardens/solidifies with time or if it still remains a goo. The NPS 1260 seemed to stay as a semi-liquid. So why not try both products together? I will give the Nano flo a week to perform better in its present state. At that time, I may try to reapply some of the NPS 1260 over it. Just wonderin' if I should try to remove the Nano flo as much as possible since one of its claims is it bonds at a "nano level" before applying the NPS 1260. ozzy |
