Mitigating the Bubble


Today after many years of trials and tribulations I have mitigated a sonic aberration a horizontal phase anomaly in my center stage.  While the center image was always stable and outlined it seemed narrow and bubble like and I would need to shift my body angle to really lock in the image. This was obvious on many CDs and LPs .

I have many man made fixes that helped the situation but never a total cure. Some of these are now permanent fixtures on the ceiling in 2 different locations. I made my own acoustic panels filled with long hair sheep's wool and 3 Argent Room Lenses.  I have laminar flow lenses that focus and stabilize the image across the front stage. I have built and treated an acoustic fan that overcomes the  boundaries with in my room by reducing interference. I have loaded my speaker cabinets 3 times with new drivers and now an outboard crossover. This was after my Essence 30s speakers and my Dunlavy SC4s.  ..All my components are hard mounted and direct coupled to the floor...on rock solid racks and speaker stands, custom mono bloc amps each on their own stand. All of these devices and angles and positions made the image wider and more focused but I still had that little  bubble and shift before me. Always less annoying with each new device and tweak.

So, your probably saying to yourself hurry up and get to the end. The end finally arrived today after having applied a contact enhancer 7 days ago to just 6 RCA ends out of many connections in my system.  Today with a friend who has been here a hundred times sitting in the Chair playing the same music as usual he said there was a wider sweet spot. I despise that term but he said it and not me.What we both heard was a super stable center image that was a few feet wide and not just one. The bubble was gone. The head in the vise was gone.  Off came the straight jacket and helmet. What I have now in this space intime is a glorious fully extended soundstage with all the meat on the bones and the features of talking heads on a real live performance stage. 

I have probably used eight different contact enhancers over five decades but this one blows my mind. This product  Nano Flo is the ultimate in transparency. 

Tom 

 

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100% organic squaline oil (Amazon) is supposed to be a good base. I think Walker Audio used it in his Super Silver Treatment.

I actually have some left, but it's somewhat died out. I will order squaline to mix

hth

@steakster 

The sample I received came from HFC in Texas with zero information. It looks like a graphene product. Considering the date of receipt, quite likely it is NPS1260, which I just searched: it got a great review in Enjoy the Music 08/2021

I never said the Furutech product came from the same source, just that I did a search for Nano, the the Furutech video was one of the results

 

Im late to this party, but, I had a sample of the PPT from High Fidelity Cables that I received some 6 months ago, but never got around to applying it, until Thursday, or Friday past. As it is only a sample I proceeded with closest to the source (Audiolab CDT6000 and pre/dac Audio Alchemy DDP-1) connected via Pangea Coax Premier XL. Immediately, it did not disappoint. In fact, for the most part revelatory. The following day I planned to treat my Wire World Series 7 XLRs between amp and pre. It occurred to me that I neglected to apply PPT to the coax RCA jacks as well, so since the amp and pre were going to be turned off anyway, I removed the coax and was taken aback as all the graphene on the barrels had been pushed back due to the tight contact inside the female RCAs. No Bueno!

In the meantime a friend mentioned Nano. I found a YTVideo from Furutech that made a lot of sense to me. Is it a different product than what is being discussed here?

 

I am confused by which sample product I have (it came from High Fidelity Cables in TX). The one thing I know for sure is that my enjoyment has gotten better over just one week (and I only applied to one Coax cable and a pair of XLRs), it's BIG TIME improvement. Typical digital edge is mostly gone, tonal tilt lowered to where everything sounds tactile/real, noise floor greatly improved, blacker blacks, more holographic, better bass, and imaging.

hth

I found 2 cable Rxs both are 10+ years old. One is a paint-like Silver treatment SST from Walker Audio, the other Carbon Diatonic Setten #1 is more liquid similar to the NP 45, both to treat cable connections and jumpers from the outboard power supplies

The Setten is Chinese, or at least Asian, but no English translation
 
This is similar but could be a improved version of the SST
 

Anybody have experience with either?

I bought 10ml Graphene Contact Enhancer from Mad Scientist for $79

 

He has US distribution so, said it will come fast

Since my previous post about the Graphene Contact Enhancer from Mad Scientist Audio ($79/10ml!) I started with just one coax cable. The improvement was immediate, so over the next couple days I treated all my contacts, including one fuse that I had access to. Fast forward to my cars brake light. Over the years I have had to replace the right side bulb about every 6 months. I spoke with my Saab mechanic yesterday who replaced it about 9 months ago, as it was showing up in my radio screen as needing to be replaced (in hindsight, don't know that he needed to replace either). He had no answer, so I opened the tail light assembly, the bulb looked fine, so I cleaned the 2 contacts and applied a thin coat of GCE, turned the engine on the annoying ’brake light failure’ notification was gone

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