Hey, I hate misaligned "eddy currents" as much as the next audiophool. At $549 for four, I'm not sure that this even qualifies for "snake oil." I guess that it does, since it smells like total BS and it is one of those rare vials of snake oil that a reviewer from Stereophile didn't crap in his pants about. Now you know that if a reviewer doesn't fawn all over the latest trend in snake oil as the most magnificent thing you can buy for your system since the invention of electricity, there is a problem. But I think that I know what the problem is . . . The snake oil is TOO CHEAP! Had the cost of realigning those pesky eddy currents been in the snake oil "sweetspot" . . . say $2500 to $5000, no doubt the reviewer would have been "blown away" by the amazing increase in soundstage and "sparkle" now that his eddy currents were aligned.
But of course, maybe I'm just a skeptic. Maybe @rcprince is right . . .it was the fault of the transistors in the reviewer's preamp! I once again, as I have in another thread, call for scientific double-blind testing before some reviewer supports (or discredits) the latest snake oil.
But of course, maybe I'm just a skeptic. Maybe @rcprince is right . . .it was the fault of the transistors in the reviewer's preamp! I once again, as I have in another thread, call for scientific double-blind testing before some reviewer supports (or discredits) the latest snake oil.