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In Reply to: RE: If you've got a cheap system you probably won't hear any difference. posted by Paul_A on April 03, 2011 at 11:04:50
"If you've got a decent setup the difference can be substantial. "
Or not at all...............
I do have a very well thought out system updated and/or upgraded mostly by myself. Every piece was researched and obtained with a purpose in mind to work together as a whole.
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... then spending about $10 on a bag of crystals, and trying them in your well-researched system?
And then posting something actually based on experience?
of the crystal shipment your sending me.
...if I knew then what I know now, because I've really spent more than I can afford on this beast, but that's water over the dam. I have a highly resolving system which reveals a great deal about the character of my cabling, my power, its interaction with the room, and many other things. If my speakers hadn't been so resolving, I doubt that I would have sunk all of the money that I did into the electronics, cabling, and everything else. But I could hear so much distortion through them that I improved the rest of the system to make the speakers even listenable. After putting together a system that registers very small changes and makes them painfully obvious, I discovered Acoustic Revive QR8 quartz resonators. Boy what a difference they made. After placing eight of them in strategic positions, my soundstage probably doubled in size. After a year of fooling around with other crystals, the quality of sound I was getting was unbelievable--a huge improvement from what it had been before.Then I tried some crystals on my second system. It's a nice sounding rig that plays music pleasantly--a little attenuated in the upper frequencies and not terribly precise, but all in all a good system. I heard absolutely no differences with power cords, interconnects or crystals. Well maybe some slight changes, but too subtle to be sure of. The speaker cables in my main system cost $1800 and they really made a big difference, but they would have been a waste of money in system #2.
Edits: 04/03/11
Besides the explanation I posted below, your example is another possibility, as to why some do not hear any differences. A system needs to be resolving enough, to hear the influence of vibration and EMI/RFI absorption. I've been going through enough material since I added some crystals to my breaker panel, and the difference is quite startling. Subtle details buried in the noise floor, a noise floor I didn't know existed, vanished, revealing a wealth of new found information. The expansion I'm hearing in the soundstage is undeniable. An increase in height, width, and deeper more layered soundstage, are laid out before me, every time I pop in another cd. The fact that all these improvements came about from a $30 bag of crystals, is the icing on the cake.
The placebo effect. You didn't expect to hear anything, and you didn't.
And you are presumptuous to assume that.
I didn't assume anything. That is why I said "possible".
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