All I can tell is that their effect is not unlike that of Bybee purifiers although they happily coexist and support each other. Given the applications, I think it has most likely to do with RFI/EMI suppression although my guess is as good as anybody's |
Rja, Looking forward to what you think. For sure try the fuse chips and be prepared to shake your head in disbelief.
Geoffkait,I hear ya, it is a mystery to me. |
One can't help wondering: what exactly are the WA Chips doing? Any ideas? Since the various sizes/types of chips appear to be formulated for specific applications and while there might be some coincidental interchangeability of some chips, they appear to address something unique to each application - fuse, speaker, transformer, musical instrument, etc. Are the chips interacting with voltage? Charge? Voltage? Vibration? Electromagnetic field? Something else? |
1. Because of this discussion I'm thinking of trying some of these.
2. As far as placement, sounds like experimentation is the order of the day. |
Thanks guys for the info.
It is odd that different places on the speakers change the chips sonics. |
I run Duevel Bella Lunas and put them on the treble portion of the diffusor. after trying first near the cross- over resulting in a dulling of the sound and near the woofers resulting in a warbling bass |
Ozzy,
Please see my comments about magnets in another thread. I'll be interested in hearing from you about this. |
On my powercell , I found that the best place to put a chip is on the Synergistic Gallo mini coupler. Big improvement all around, for now I am using a cable chip there, but perhaps a smaller one would suffice. I also have a cable chip on the Powercell 32A plug at the powercell.
I also have the large and small Cap chips on all of my Amps caps. In addition to these, I have the Transformer chips on all of my Transformers, 5 of the cable chips and the speaker chips on my speakers.
On the speakers, placing the chip higher up the speaker provides more air, and placed lower more bass. I seemed to find the best overall placement by putting them over the crossover. This placement surprised me, because the crossover is to the right of the speaker binding posts.
The others, Transformers and Cap chips, increased dynamics still further, and has a postive effect, a no brainer.
At this time, I am still playing around with the cable chips. I have a set at the end of my speaker cables but the others still haven't found a "best place" |
Flashunlock,
Are you sticking the fuse chips to the chassis of components? I'll also be interested in hearing from you regarding the SR Power Cell SE MK2 which I also have. |
Ozzy.. I felt like a fool when I was sticking the chips to my fuses thinking to myself, I have been conned out of some money for these stupid stickers but the reality proved me very wrong. I've stick the fuse chips to my consumer unit fuses and to my clock fuse. Lft them in there over night and this morning played my usual reference CD's and my jaw dropped thinking WTF just happened here. Everything seem louder, clearer, more detail and the dynamics also improved. Next up to stick 2 fuse chips to my dual mono pre amp again thinking how can this get any better.... WRONG again. The music got even louder from my usual listening level and more dynamics. The bass took a deeper dive yet having more definition. I'm now really scratching my head as to how these small " stickers" work but you know what, it doesn't matter because I'm loving the sound and chilling :)
More fuse chips on the way but not sure am willing to go crazy on other more expensive chips.
I too own a SR Powercell 10SE-Mk2 so maybe that's where I'll attack next. |
Antigrunge, where did you place the speaker chips? |
As I experiment with all the different types of chips, I have noticed that putting a fuse chip on my Oyadide outlet covers provided a pretty substantial improvement in dynamics. |
Just recieved all of the different chips.
First (temporary) place was on my Pass Labs Transformer... Wow! |
Antigrunge, On my speakers, my plan is to blue tack the edges of the sticker to my speaker to find the right spot before I use the stickers adhesive.
Does it matter where I place the chips on the Transformer? |
I started with speaker and cable chips and later added transformer and fuse chips. While I yet have to come acrossva sensible technical explanation for these widgets, they work amazingly well. The beatvway of describing their effect is akin tomremoving jitter on a digital replay system: better spacial and time allignment against blacker backgrounds. |
Thanks for the information Ozzy. Very interesting. Keep us posted.
As you probably know these kinds of tweaks are causing controversy. But I am looking forward to trying some.
I am a believer in trying these things out rather than ranting about how it cannot work with no experience. Too much of that these days... |
Thanks for posting everyone.
Chadeffect, I thought that my current system was soundng pretty good. But when I installed the fuse chips the improvement that I hear is the sound becomes calmer, rounder, with more depth. Voices take on a more natural sound. The bass seemed to get a little louder so I re-tweaked the settings on my JL subs. Really all positive and no negatives with this inexpensive tweak.
The other chips that are designed to work with speakers, cables, transformers are pricier so I have big expectations as to thier contribution.
I'll post more once I receive them and have them installed.
But if anyone else has had some experience with these chips I would like to hear your impressions. |
Ozzy,
I am using the fuse chips, one actually since I only have one piece of equipment with a fuse. John Pharo at The Cable Company recommended it to me.
The fuse chip takes about 1-1.5 hours to settle in and show you it's stuff. The soundstage will widen, especially at the rear of the soundstage. The individual performers become something much better than before, I don't know exactly how to describe it though.
That's what it did in my system anyway.
Chuck |
Hi Ozzy,
How would you describe the change in sound? |
