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 

 

theaudiotweak

Showing 18 responses by thyname

Oh you can have a gazillion of personalities at a time. You have proven it. It’s easy to create Gmail accounts. Pathetic. Sad too. Sick

0h boy! @theaudiotweak you really had to reply to the deluded audiophile? It was a bait. Wait for a big reply now debunking everything you said. Like a clock. He is the “smartest” of THEM all. He can “debunk” everything that the Deluded Audiophiles say

I am very confused. Who is Chris, Tom, Krissy? One and the same person? What does this have to do with High Fidelity Cables and Rick? Or is Rick the same human being as the three ? 
 

 

@steakster : it’s the same dude. From your list. You will have to update your list 🤷‍♂️

Well, at least Tubebuffer is not trying to hide the fact that he reappeared with a new handle. Not at all, completely open. Unlike the deluded dude posting here who is now on the 12th handle in disguise

@cleeds : our "friend" has learned to adapt with Audiogon forums. And rightly so, after being banned and resurfaced at least a dozen times. He has learned the lesson, after 13 tries. Now instead of saying "you are delusional" to audiophiles (which he certainly hates with passion), he says something like "I am sorry a dose of reality is too much for you". Just as offensive, insulting, and condescending, but polite enough not to be kicked out of forums.

@theaudiotweak :

I know who you were in the past and you would harass one and all. You are worthless for sure never a positive always a negative.

It’s not going to work. He will always come back, as he finds a way. As they say, three things are certain in life: 1) Death, 2) Taxes and 3) Deluded dude coming back to Audiogon over and over. Human equivalent of malware

 

Here is the list of his previous (all banned) usernames:

 

thynamesinnervoice

 

cindyment

 

snratio

 

yesiamjohn

 

sugabooger

 

dletch2

 

audio2design

 

dannad

 

roberttdid

 

headaudio123

 

audiozenology

 

atdavid

What is happening? This is so sad. Unfortunate too. One perfect example why many things in audio get such a bad reputation, and the “snake oil” moniker. Very sad.

 

Nano Flo dude: please give the guy the money back. He already returned your stuff. You have them. Not only the fair thing to do, but also the legal thing to do

@glory : please don’t take this wrong, but you appear to be unable to claim your money back from obvious channels (eBay, PayPal, Credit Card). Shall we say a bit “slow”? And the Nano Flo shark has figured this out already. Good luck to you.

 

Oh…. And why someone would really pay $1,500 (or even $100) for this crap is truly beyond my comprehension 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I think you have to figure out what “snake Oiler” means 😉.

 

‘’Oh… and you are Full Time such. Your hobby 

@holmz : as a master snake oiler, you should know this very very, very well. People present all kind of stuff. This was not even slightly difficult to figure out. 

May I be blunt @glory ? Here we go:

 

You will NEVER get the money back from the grifter. Period.

If you are incapable of getting the money back from official sources (eBay, PayPal, credit card company), you are out of your money. 
 

Does this seem straight forward to you?

@glory : good! You are taking the steps you should have taken weeks ago. Better late than never, as they say. 

@holmz : nasty little person. That’s all I have for you. I don’t even know why I am engaging you. As my grandpa used to say: Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty and the pig enjoys it. Perhaps I should have listened 

So when are you going to create a brand new username and post screenshots of the PMs from me when you were posting as Audio2Design five usernames of yours ago? What do I have to say to trigger you?

 

Obviously feel free to use this Deluded Audiophile username to post those screenshots. You can create a new username pronto. Very easy for you. What do you have to loose? Do it