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RE: Actually, there has been a notable shift in 'tweak talk' in this regard.

Posted by May Belt (M) on August 8, 2009 at 11:33:42

In Reply to: Actually, there has been a notable shift in 'tweak talk' in this regard. posted by Enophile on August 8, 2009 at 10:04:08:

The problem with this 'remedial' approach to the effect of 'tweaks' ( some people need them, some people don't) is that it is just as narrow as the other approach i.e "it must be EITHER affecting the audio signal OR it must be affecting the acoustic air pressure waves".

The "some people need them, some people don't" approach surely cannot explain ALL the so called 'tweaks' which have been reported as 'improving sound' over these past 30 years or more.
To name but a few :-

P.W.B. Foils and Creams etc.
Cryogenic freezing.
Colouring the edge of CDs.
Directionality in wires.
Dieter Ennemoser's C37 lacquer.
Shun Mook devices.
Harmonic Discs.
Shakti Stone.
The lacquer which Sonus Faber use on their speaker cabinets (which they claim is 'friendly to audio').
Nordost ECO 3 liquid.
Applying a demagnetiser to LPs and CDs.
(Small size !!) Room resonance devices.
Crystals and/or Brilliant pebbles.
Clever clocks.
Aiming a hair dryer containing Tourmaline balls at a CD.
The Schumann Resonance device.

And, attached to that list, Enophile, are all the 'professionals in audio' who have 'heard' one, more or all of those things listed give an improvement in the sound. Are you therefore suggesting that ALL those people, plus the 'non professionals' who have reported practically identical experiences MUST all be needing those 'tweaks' as a 'remedial' ?

That is what I mean by narrow. Even if it was a hypothetical 50/50 (50% needing the 'tweaks' as remedial' but 50% not), that would still leave 50% of all the people reporting improvements, over a 30 year period, to be awarded some other explanation. What other explanation ? The other common explanations put forward ? "Autosuggestion"., "the placebo effect"., "imagination"., "audio faith healing"., "effective marketing" and your own previously suggested ones "potions"., "elixirs"., "props"., "talismen"., "rituals" ???

The very latest report by Teresa Goodwin - "The Greening of SACDs, (gulp) CDs and other digital madness." in the current "Positive Feedback Online" Internet magazine has the re-emergence - in 2009 - of the subject of applying a specific colour to CDs - but this time by Sony engineers !! Would this ALSO still come under your 'the Sony engineers need this to be remediating some 'defect' their perception/state' which allows them to hear 'better' ?

Regards,
May Belt.

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