Anyone hear of the Black Cable Tie tweak?


Black Cable Tie Tweak. Just in time for Christmas!

Here's a fun little project. Count the number of drain spouts on your house or apt building - drain spouts are the long, 6" diameter vertical metal pipes that run from the roof gutters to the ground. You might know them better as waterspouts, downspouts, roof drain pipes or some other arcane word or terminology so don't bust my chops.

Obtain enough 14" black cable ties from Home Depot so you'll have one black cable tie for each drain spout. IIRC 14" black cable ties come in a pack of 10 which should be plenty unless you live in Buckingham Palace. If you encounter a drain spout that's too wide for the 14" cable tie, use two cable ties per drain spout. First, freeze the cable ties.

Place all cable ties in the freezer overnight (about 12 hours). Remove them the next day and allow to thaw to room temperature. Secure one black cable tie snugly around each drain spout at a point approximately one foot up from the bottom opening of the pipe near the ground.

After all cable ties are in place go listen to some favorite recordings.

Cheers, Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Advanced Audio Concepts
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OK so a plastic non-conductive device placed around a non-related, non-electrical object is an audio tweak?
I find that if I open the ashtray in my car that is stored 17 miles from my house with one folded gum wrapper (must be folded 3 times lengthwise) placed perpendicular to the travel direction of the ashtray and then reducing the right rear tire of the same vehicle to be 2.75PSI less than the other four, but adding the same 2.75PSI to thye spare tire, along with taking a 27" brown round shoe string tied in a double bow leaving a loop of 3.45" and hang it off a 8d nail driven into a open stud in your basement leaving 1.033 inches exposed, and hang the shoestring with the bow down, all this coupled with a slice of dried toast floating in a 8" saucer with 18 ounces of tepid water with once corner of the toast pointing directly at the handle of the saucer and if you have a cat, place small pieces of adhesive tape to his paws and place him on a counter top covered in aluminum foil and room temperature set to exactly 71.25 degrees F or 27 degrees C and an ambient humidity of 36% that by the time you accomplish all these things you will be ready to sit and enjoy some good analog music...But if you want to listen to digital then use a black 32" shoestring on a 10d nail with 2.1" exposed on a rafter in your attic and add celophane to the countertop under the alumimnum and rasie the temperature 2.7 deg F and .09 Degrees C but maintain all else. Wow what a graet sound you will experience.Now everyone have a Merry Christmas and I recommend you don't tell anyone what you are doing.