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Review: Xtreme AV LLC Liquid Resolution Tweak

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Liquid Resolution is an aptly named CD treatment product that extracts more fidelity and thus greater enjoyment from your discs. Treated discs exhibit an improved realism that delivers a listening experience more interesting than any you would have previously believed possible. It could be likened to the difference between an average performance given by a performer one night as compared with an inspired, virtuoso performance given the next.

Application is relatively quick and painless, a minute or less of light buffing being the only effort necessary. It is much easier to use than paste based products. The payback for this minimal effort and expense is hard to put into a few short words so I am going to elaborate more in this review than I am typically inclined to.

To start off, notable HF extension is observed along with improved definition in the treble region; I have never noticed this effect result from any previous tweaking effort. Midrange and bass definition are also notably increased; bass definition in particular is impressive. Nuanced harmonic detail and lovely sonority are pulled out from those pits.

Greater clarity and intensity are observed. Lyrics are more readily discerned. The presentation is crisper, snappier, and livelier. The added vitality and dynamic contrast LR delivers is probably the thing I appreciate the most. Venue cues and decay information are more apparent. Individual images exhibit sharper delineation resulting in a more realistic portrayal. The soundstage as a whole fills out and is more pleasing. This dimensional, holographic, quality is what I consider to be the hallmark of good vinyl reproduction.

The overall transparency produced by Liquid Resolution treatment is simply astounding. More open, less congested, unbound, unfettered are words that come to mind when trying to describe this aspect of improvement.

As you can tell from my description, this product has a universal effect on system performance. Without a doubt this is the Swiss pocketknife of tweaks. Discs treated with LR just have a more fully developed feel to them. Disc after disc produces a profound sense that real, live performers are doing their thing right in front of you. Of course there is always room for improvement. I’m guessing that Last Tweak Syndrome accounts for the magnitude of the performance gain experienced in my system, LR simply building on the foundation already laid by my other efforts. It’s all good.

If you are an Xtreme AV QuickSilver GOLD contact paste user you are already familiar with its excellence, the Liquid Resolution effect is equal to, and probably even greater than that of QS GOLD IME. Consider this product essential in extracting the utmost performance from your digital playback system.

These comments were originally posted at Audio Asylum.

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I can't agree more about the said two products especially the Quicksilver Gold contact enhancer. Big improvement in clarity, and open and higher soundstage after pasting just PC's and SC's using the Quicksilver. Same can be said about the Liquid Resolution cd cleaner. It is far superior to the pastes out there and even the Walker products and Jena Labs INMHO.(I have those other cleaners collecting dust in my storage closet) The Liquid Resolution makes a significant improvement in HF and LF and clarity of vocals. I did an A and B comparison using an untreated cd and the other treated with Liquid Resolution. I just so happened to have in my cd collection 2 copies of Joni Mitchell " Court and Spark" and "Chicago V" to use as the comparison. On the untreated Joni Mitchell cd on most of her songs her vocals sounded dull and words were not very distinguishable and this was on the Gold cd master!Mastered by Steve Hoffman. I tried the other Gold master cd of the same Court and Spark treated with Liquid Resolution and there was no comparison. The LR treated cd sounded far superior, clearer and velvet vocals now the lyrics were much more distinguishable. On the Chicago V untreated cd the horn section sounded distant and the famous horn section sounded honky and somewhat constricted.I thought it might have been the poor recording of this cd. Was I wrong, playing the LR treated Chicago cd now all the horns had life and air around them, it just sounded like real brass and not at all being constricted. I was sold right after that and I believe that these two products are worth every penny spent... Buy either one of these products and you will not regret it...
By the way after contacting Brian Kyle at Xtreme cables he suggested I paste the IC's and fuses after doing this it made everything in my audio system that much higher in performance...
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