Stein Music Maestro Lacquer

This makes no sense why would any one want to put lacquer on they're speaker driver's this will change their mass and FR and upset the balance in the crossover and probably void any warrantee what so ever stay away from this!

I tried it. Works for me. It doesn’t add any significant mass to drivers.

I understand that it’s generally applicable to change the resonance frequency of the device to which is applied. Caps, CD’s PCB’s, driver cones etc.

I found two interesting applications:

1. apply to base of tubes. Significant increase in impulse fidelity and clarity

2. apply to USB connector between streamer and DAC. Reduces vibration-borne interference of DA conversion, particularly resulting in less grain in the treble and better consistency of sound stage.

The application to speakers works on bass units to dampen unwanted resonance. On treble it is substantially riskier because the tweeter is more prone to seize up.

These are very desirable improvements, the lacquer is a true audiophile tweak.

I will pass as soon as they said speakers they lost me.

hey everyone, just wanted to see if any others have experience with this tweak?

@celander did you end up trying this in your system?

@antigrunge2 just wondering if you have anything to share about how the lacquer performed in your system? also, if you can share details about how you used it with the USB connector, that would be appreciated as well.

i'm super interested in this product because i'm a big believer in natural oils/waxes having awesome damping/resonance control properties...

@bowsandarrows 

I used it on the metal casing and outside of the connector, obviously not on the contacts (!). the result is best described as less stridency, additional clarity.

haha, cool, thanks for sharing!

so you didn't try this on drivers or anything like that??

also, speaker cabinets? shelves? wooden stuff in the listening room?

i think i'm actually one of these crazy fools that is gonna end up trying this on my speaker's aluminium woofers - just to see if they can impart a more "organic" musical sound or something!!

I did use it on the membrane of my bass drivers resulting in better impulse and reduced boominess. Too scared, though to try the tweeters