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For those who have used the Teflon you might wish to give the Silk a try; it only runs a dollar or two a roll so it's about as cheap to try out as the Teflon. I won't comment on any effect I'll just let those who are interested see what they think of the sound.
One can source true silk cloth tape from medical supply houses but be sure it's the natural silk product and not the synthetic substitute surgical tape often labeled silk like or paper based. I believe the AMD brand still sells the natural silk tape version.
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what about the duct tape tweak?
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away,,,
raw silk ribbons without adhesives and use the Teflon tape over the silk to hold it in place. If you do not want to mix silk and Teflon tape; one can use a small dot of resin, just use a toothpick to apply and glue the ends of the raw silk in place.
Regarding sources for silk surgical tape; I believe the McKesson and AMD Ritmed brands are still real silk. However, 3M is not it's rayon acetate now. Strangely many of the no name generics out of China still use silk cloth.
Silk Cloth Surgical Tape 1/2" x 10 yds. by McKesson 16-47105 (12 Rolls)
AMD Ritmed A5205 Silk Surgical Tape
Now if I could only get Teflon/silk tape imbedded with crystals
So it goes.........
than more processed materials. For example, one would use silk and cotton, wood, cork, bamboo, stone, copper, brass and silver before using plastics, Teflon, Sorbothane, resins, aluminum or stainless steel.
One might look at the natural group of materials as presenting even order harmonics such as vacuum tube amps do, while the other group represents the odd order harmonics like unto solid state.
Thought maybe, but not reason.
By the way, brass isn't "natural". Shit, urine and drool are and thus bound to be better sounding substances. Why not start there?
WARNING: Do not piss on your equipment when it is plugged in.
"One might look at the natural group of materials as presenting even order harmonics such as vacuum tube amps do, while the other group represents the odd order harmonics like unto solid state."
One might also look at telephone poles and claim that they are a species of tree evolved to bear wires. (from Charles Schulz, can't claim credit but I like it).
Have an organic day...
Rick
for example they publish their schematics but state that the execution of the design along with the use of very specific materials has as much of an effect on the final sound as the circuit does. The systems that follow what one may call the feng shui of audio system design do seem to produce very natural sounding audio systems. Furthermore, of course brass being an alloy is about as natural a material as stainless steel but I think the intent here is in materials that naturally lend themselves to their use in musical instruments. Such as the brass or woodwind section in an orchestra. Whereas, there is not thankfully, a stainless steel section in an orchestra. You may recall the late Enid Lumley writing for the Absolute Sound back in the 1980s advocated the use of copper, brass, and silver over aluminum, nickel or stainless steel in the use of casework near audio circuits. I believe the Asian audiophile groups have pursued this line of tweaking more than their American counterparts have.
All material, natural or not have a resonance frequency, that is the nature of the material world. Drop an aluminum pot cover: compare the sound to a brass plate, or to a stainless steel plate: they all sound different. Different woods themselves sound different as musical instrument makers will well attest.
Rick M has the correct interpretation. Different metals have different electrical properties and that of course affects the circuits adjacent to the casework. Woods have the least effect electrically. In my experimentation, and judging from the the work of the original Klyne preamps, a plexiglass cover is far preferable than a metal cover. The covers effectively create a large ground plane and the resulting capacitance rolls off the extreme highs. replacing the top and bottom covers of my CJ preamps was a revelation: not only more extension in the highs, but better detail and greater microdynamics.
Stu
"replacing the top and bottom covers of my CJ preamps was a revelation..."
But weren't you replacing metal ones with plastic Stu?
Plastic or wood may affect mechanical vibrations but they are both essentially transparent (if dry) to EM signals anywhere near audio frequencies. Using metal boxes for shielding isn't as straight forward as one would hope and avoiding them may well be better if you can get by with it. But that's a pretty big if...
Funny about real systems, they are loaded with ifs.
Regards, Rick
"[Enid] advocated the use of copper, brass, and silver over aluminum, nickel or stainless steel in the use of casework near audio circuits."
Now we're talking! It's not the "naturalness" of the material it's the effective XL/R, the loss tangent, of the material vs F and the intercept angle that determines the magnitude and phase of the reflected signal. If you stir in ferromagnetism from iron or nickel then you really have an 'interesting' situation where the phase can circle through the audio bandwidth.
In musical instruments surely it's the mechanical vibration characteristics that hold sway so I like the idea of stainless steel instruments, bet they sound hot and the band really cooks...
Regards, Rick
I too suspect that silk would work fine as a damping material especially if not too tight, I think it has to scrunch up when the plug is inserted.
Regards, Rick
!!!!
Duct tape works so much better.
Your contributions to this forum are always so helpful.
From the audiophile school of tweaking that gave us the (bow and arrow) so labeled tuning to Magnepans. That tweak consists of a bamboo stick and silk thread applying a pressure point to the magnet panel but that is not the silk tape tweak.
The silk tape can be used just like the Teflon tape is; i.e. on AC plugs but also on interconnects at the RCA plug or on speaker cables wrapping the spade lugs and for the turntable crowd using the silk in place of the rubber belt on belt drive turntables. Also, very carefully wrapping the pins at the cartridge body.
I'll wait and see if any are interested before I describe what one does to a CD player and transport in Silk Tape part 2.
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