What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?

The evidence for directionality is in the listening. Empirical evidence, after all, is one of the corner stones of the scientific method. The easiest way to proceed IMHO is to reverse interconnects and see if one way sounds better than the other. Then, if so inclined, you can do the same with speaker cables and fuses. As Bob Dylan says at the end of all his songs, good luck to you.

It would be nice if people were a little more open minded around here. 😀 Now, I’m not saying be so open minded that your brain 🧠 falls out onto the floor. Then we’d have to drag out the squeegees and mop it up.

azbrd91
Directional wire, wire break-in devices and overpriced aftermarket power cords.

>>>>That makes it kind of rough since all wire is directional.

cd318
I’d say 99% of all tweaks are useless and hence likely to be both ridiculous and overpriced at the same time.

>>>That means you believe 1% are not useless. Well, that’s a start. Confucius say trip of thousand miles start with one tweak.

Thanks for reading! More on information fields here, short YouTube video, how writing different kinds of messages affect the formation of ice crystals,

https://youtu.be/tAvzsjcBtx8

The whole story how the Teleportation Tweak works can finally be told. 

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina43.htm

I wouldn’t dismiss tachyons so quickly. Any more than, say, artificial atoms or quantum teleportation. 

from somewhere in cyberspace. OK, Wikipedia, you got me!

“The possibility of particles moving faster-than-light was first proposed by Robert Ehrilch and Arnold Sommerfeld, independently of each other. In the 1967 paper that coined the term,[3]Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be quanta of a quantum field with imaginary mass. However, it was soon realized that excitations of such imaginary mass fieldsdo not under any circumstances propagate faster than light,[4] and instead the imaginary mass gives rise to an instability known as tachyon condensation.[1] Nevertheless, in modern physics the term "tachyon" often[1][5] refers to imaginary mass fields rather than to faster-than-light particles. Such fields have come to play a significant role in modern physics.

The term comes from the Greek: ταχύ, tachy, meaning "rapid". The complementary particle types are called luxons (which always move at the speed of light) and bradyons (which always move slower than light); both of these particle types are known to exist.”

Statue of Liberty souvenirs from NYC make excellent cable lifters. 🔝

But what if you use cardboard toilet paper cylinders like Elizabeth?

Here are some examples of preposterous-sounding tweaks that are either free (hel-loo!) or don’t cost an arm and a leg. 💪 🦵

Silver Rainbow Foil, the Green Pen, Mpingo Disc (OK, so the price has gone up a lot in the last twenty years but the used price is not too bad), freezing things at home for two days, getting rid of all magazines, newspapers, extraneous trash, Black Pen on inner edge of CD, storing all CDs vertically, tying adjacent cables and cords into a square knot, removing all cell phones from the room.

I just realized nobody mentioned freezing things in the home freezer. What’s up with that? You guys are slipping. I will be standing by for someone to point out to me that temperatures in the home freezer aren’t low enough to do anything. 😬

I see. You treat yourself. 🤗

I sense your angst and trepidation. Geez, No wonder the Red Pen didn’t work for you. Assuming you actually did, which I doubt. You shouldn’t get so hung up on a manufacturer’s description of the device’s operation. 😬 Faint heart ne’er won fair maiden. So, you were too scared to try the Red Pen after reading the description? Anyway, the underlying idea behind PWB device’s, generally speaking, and the Red Pen in particular, is that the effects do not (rpt not) occur at the conscious level. They occur at the subconscious level.

“This tweak wouldn’t work for me at all.”

>>>>You must be the exception that proves the rule. The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades. 😎 itvcan be mathematical proved there is no Present Time. By the time it gets here it’s already The Past.

If the Red Pen wouldn’t work for you it might be because your system isn’t resolving enough.

stereo5
Magical rocks you spread around the listening room.
Red and blue crystals that are put on your tonearm.
Fairy dust.

>>>>>Geez, speaking of spreading it....

A sufficiently advanced idea is indistinguishable from magic. - audiophile axiom

The Clever Little Clock is much crazier than the Tice Clock ever thought of being. The Clever Little Clock doesn’t have to be plugged into the wall outlet. I mean, come on!

No, you guys are way off. Check out this one.

http://pwbelectronics.co.uk/product/redxpen/rxp.html

Someone briefly mentioned the Photos in the Freezer Tweak. Now, I know a thing or two about outrageous tweaks and I humbly submit the Photos in the Freezer Tweak for somewhere near the top of the list, but I’m not talking about the list of useless tweaks or the list of expensive tweaks. 🤗

Decoupling the printed circuit boards from the chassis, including removing screws, is a way better idea than using special screws. For example, use cork squares to decouple the circuit boards from the chassis, and remove all or most screws. This is especially important if there’s a large transformer inside the chassis.

No, actually the SHM CDs from Japan employ a significantly more transparent plastic material than the usual polycarbonate, which only about 91% transparent. Better transparency, better signal. Like you know!

There seems to be a new strain of tweakaphobia going around.

I hate to judge before all the facts are in but it appears the Shun Mook Record Clamp has not been available for many years. Could this be related to climate change?

I’ve been designing and selling audiophile products based on piezoelectric crystals for a wide range of audio applications, including but not limited to power plugs, walls, windows, room acoustics, for more than 15 years. I also designed and have been selling a wall outlet that acts like a resonator for around ten years but who’s counting?  No big deal. Maybe for someone living in a cave.

People would generally be much better off if they believed in too much rather than too little. - PT Barnum

Every crowd has a silver lining. - PT Barnum

imf421
Power cords. No question there. If you think a fancy power cord will make the difference, when the remainder of your house wiring is barely equal to a cheap power cord, you are deluding yourself.

>>>>>Actually, now that you mention it, I don’t mind deluding myself as long as I get good results. Heck, I don’t even care if it’s only a placebo effect. I’ll take it! 🤗

You guys are slipping. Nobody mentioned the Teleportation Tweak. Hel-loo! 

Excellent attempt spelling Furutech. Not many can spell the name correctly. You were very close.

cd318
Great posts Dr Glupson, if I may say so. Unfortunately your patient may be beyond the words of reason. Still, I’m sure many of us here would wish you the very best of luck in your endeavours.

Anyway, back to the subject in hand, how about audiophile fuses?

Reports of some being sold at £130 a pop reveal the depths that some will sink to.

Welcome to the world of the audiophile. It can be great fun but do watch out for the sharks and vultures.

>>>And look out for the robins and starlings, all you worms out there. 🐛 I’m giving serious consideration to letting glubson win one of these times just to keep him in the game. Oh, and it’s nice to see newbies support each other.

Are posting drunk again, glumpy?

Calm down, Glumpy. They’re all isolation devices and they all touch. Springs, roller bearings, bungee cords, air springs, inner tubes, magnetic levitation, the giant slip plates under the new Apple 🍏 HQ building, you know, the one that’s a mile around the circumference. Oh, and string. 

Isolation 101, not for the squeamish...

LIGO uses glass threads to isolate the mirrors. 🤭

See LIGO video,

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA/video/ligo20170216v

Lol 😝  Looking on the bright side, you get used to it.  🤗

Gee, all someone needs to do is say queen-loser and look who shows up! Coincidence? 😬

If anyone is unconvinced that a fishing line is an isolator feel free to attach a rubber band to one end of the fishing line. Voila! If you’re still an unconvinced fuddy duddy, use bungee cords. 🤗 LIGO employs sapphire threads for isolation so there ain’t nothin wrong with using thread or fishing line for isolation. It’s a beginner mistake to think otherwise. Thread or line cannot physically support low frequency vibration. You don’t want to break any laws of science, do you?  

Eat the shark before he eats you. 

Obviously, since the electrical signal in cables is subject to distortion from vibration and electric static fields all cables and power cords would benefit from being suspended from the ceiling using eye 👁 hooks and fishing line. 🐟 The fishing line acts as an isolator in case you’re worried about vibrations coming down from the ceiling.

glupson
geoffkait

"...I just gave you the answer two posts ago. 😛"

………………

geoffkait

">>>>I trust you, jitter. As long as you know it. You win! "

??????????????😛

>>>>And you want to be my latex salesman. 😬

You’re in luck. I don’t give negative grades for bad guesses. 🤗

The answer may shock you. RF enters the house via windows. Thus, windows are the first line of defense against the sea of RF. And RF has no difficulty travel through a solid wood door. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or by opposing end them. The second line of defense is Flying Saucers for unused wall outlets in the house. All circuits are connected so any noise on one circuit in the house will migrate to guess where?

Mahgister, I’m sending enough so you can try them on windows in other rooms, too. Ideally, all windows should have one foil.

elizabeth
Reminds me of certain foils and logos....

Oh, you mean the ones that are on Stereophile’s Recommended Components List? The ones you can get free samples of? 🤗 The ones that make skeptic dudes and dudettes cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs? 🤪

Mahgister, you gave the closest answer to my pop quiz so you just won a set of Flying Saucers for Windows. 🤗 PM me your address. 

Power to the Pebble! ✊ Maybe you should try two Schumann frequency devices. 😬

elizabeth
Remember that giant antenna they to built in Wisconsin. for LOW 76 Hz freq to contact ships on the ocean? ELF? Ahhh what wavelength? half the Earths diameter...?

>>>>That’s very good! Of course, if you don’t mind my saying so, I just gave you the answer two posts ago. 😛

jetter
I know the answer but can’t remember it. Is this pop quiz scaled?

>>>>I trust you, jitter. As long as you know it. You win!

🙄

Anti-audiophiles and tweakaphobes see hyperbole behind every rock. 

Rule no. 1: It’s never a bad time to promote the products one uh, promotes. Smooth, Frank, very smooth. I especially liked the way you worked in the 90 day guarantee. A true professional!

“What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?”

>>>>>Look at it like a Venn diagram. 🥨 The three criteria you name are mutually exclusive except in rare cases. You got your ridiculous tweaks, which may or may not be overpriced OR useless. By the same token an overpriced tweak might not (rpt not) be ridiculous OR useless. And a useless tweak might not be ridiculous OR overpriced. A ridiculous tweak could be FREE, so it could a useless tweak. There may be many tweaks meet two out of three criteria. But, gentle readers, the universe in which all three criteria are met - the center area of the Venn diagram 🥨 - is probably quite small. Maybe there should be three separate threads. 😬