I have yet to try the WA Quantum Chips on High Fidelity cables. Has anybody done so? |
Tgb, I have Rick's HF cables (phono), you think the Chips will make a difference? Have you already tried them? Any updates will be most welcome! |
Unconscious, you reminded me. No, as yet, I have not tried them. Next week, I will give them a try. Of course, I have no idea where to place them, so there will be a good deal of trial and error. |
Is anyone using a transformer chip in a tube amp or tube preamp? |
Unconscious, I forgot to add that I don't have HFC phono cables at present as I need XLRs to input into my BMC MCCI phono stage. I can try them on pcs, ics and speaker wires. |
I know the manufacturer says they are all different chips, ie; different programming. But I'm curious what I'd do if I found something that worked and wanted to make them proprietary and as application specific as possible via surface area. Ya know, try to throw people off from using scissors or a hole punch on a speaker chip to make dozens & dozens of fuse chips and hawking em for two bucks a pop. Or cut larger chips into smaller ones or rectangles into circles. I'm curious if anyone's actually tried making smaller chips from larger chip sheets and using them in place of application specific sizes. I wonder if the recipe is the same across the board but the appropriate dosage is in the chip size or shape rather than 'programming.' Just a thought. |
Salinas212, I think once you cut them the electrons will leak out.
Just kidding.
I doubt if there is much difference in the products. Perhaps some are a little more powerful than others. But, to be honest I don't know what they are made of or how they work. Give it a try, I'd be interested. |
They're very likely like the Intelligent Chip, specifically "programmed" to produce photons with specific wavelengths depending on where they're placed. Intelligent chips, not the Orange ones, but ones programmed differently, can be used on cables just like WA chips. That's the beauty of quantum physics, the active ingredient in chips are grown in the lab according a specification, what output you wish. |
Heheh that presumes of course there's electrons in there ;-) Me too in not knowing how they work tho there's too many credible positive posts and reviews to nay-say em off-the-cuff. That said I'm also a little skeptical there's really any element of 'programming' going on. I'll be the first to admit I could be wrong but I suspect huge sheets of this are offset printed, screen-printed, laminated and then die-cut or CAD cut via a plotter for a specific application.
I'm definitely gonna try em in an A/B test against 5mm fuse-specific chips at least punched from a comparatively HUGE speaker size chip. I doubt using a single hole punch one time in each of the speaker chips will affect that speakers performance in any way I can hear. But I'm sure I'll be able to notice any difference on a 5mm 'dot' as I was able to determine SUCH a difference initially two ways, ie; when they were oriented at leading/trailing fuse ends. I get two shots at determining their efficacy on fuses which was the biggest difference I could hear of all the chips I installed, ie; fuses, cables & speakers. |
My two cents worth. I tried the fuse chips 2 in my amp and one in my dac, both are W4S products. I felt the chips definitely made things clearer and w/ more detail, but at a cost.There seemed to be a frequency boost, which made the system kinda holler. If you speak and than speak w/ a megaphone you certainly hear more of everything, but do you want to listen to it all day. I applied the chips to my SR black fuses, and it is obvious the chips are designed to be used w/ the Hifi fuses. Both HIFI fuses and WA are owned by the same company. Perhaps, the chips work well w/ the Hifi fuse, but I found the sound grading to my ears. Perhaps they would sound better in a system that needs a high end boost. Just my opinion. |
Just for the record, I had excellent results using the WA chip on my Audio Magic nano liquid fuse. I also had good results on headphones near the transducers with the inductor WA chips, on the breaker box with cable WA chips, and on various other things. Ironically the cable WA chip did not work for my cables. The secret ingredient is obviously mixed in with the adhesive backing of the chips, which leads me to still think it’s another application of ye olde quantum dots. What else could it be? I actually don’t believe the WA Quantum Chip maker is HIFI Tuning, but another German company, hence the relationship between HiFi Tuning and WA Quantum Chip. I also seriously doubt WA would interfere with Black fuse operation, as long as the chip did not cover the little black dot of you know what on the body of the Black fuse. And even if it did, so what. It's only a small number of atoms in there. Hel-loo!
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No result for me with some of them, but...SR Blue Fuse= Just Wow ! |
Its amazing how we can change our minds about a product. I haven't used these stickers for years.
ozzy
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So, just after I last posted, I went ahead and reapplied the WA speaker chips and son of a gun, there does seem to be better sound staging.
ozzy
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I know this post is now 10 years old (155,000+ views) and many of the users have moved on. But I have got to say that after reapplying the stickers (Speaker, Power) I can definitely hear the original attraction. There is a more solid bass and more presence.
Still hard to believe that these stickers do something.
Any others out there still have these?
ozzy
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I only had one cable chip sticker and I wanted to try them on my speaker cables. VH Audio still has them for sale, so I ordered one more. Just received it today! Very fast shipping VH Audio seems to be a quality company that I will have to remember when I need some more stuff.
BTW, the cable chips are just as impressive as the speaker and power chips.
ozzy
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Totally agree. i have had good results from the signal and power cabples as well as fuse and capacitor stickers. Particularly usefull in the fusebox
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Hi ozzy: The "more presence " that you're referring to translates into a more aggressive and in your face presentaion in my audio system. I've removed all of them. Initially, there was a WOW factor when these chips are installed, but listening fatigue eventually became obvious. Tnank you for all the audio tweakery you've done over the years. You've been a great inspiration for me to expermient with new ideas. Good listening. Jeff
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yoby,
I hear ya, and that may be the end results too. But for now, I'm really enjoying them.
ozzy
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