Okay, this is from a year ago :
Re: Quantum Heaven.
So, for Paul anyway, this is the post where our "bet" started and which causes you to sip that whisky by (finally) now.
You can read that first post I linked to in order to understand my situation of back then. Same as you are in today. Don't know where to go with it and such. But anyway, you can read further through that topic to observe my own judgement. Nothing much more to add here. It has all been said - including the end result : I got mad of it.
For you fun, this is where it finishes :
Yesterday I took the tweak out ande measured again. Different at all spots and the margin is 4dB in general, 6dB max.
Still measured with normal music playing, so maybe this is not reliable. Or maybe it just is.
But now the big surprise maybe :
I took out the tweak because I wanted to take it out.
Eh ...
The major problem I have with it is that I keep on thinking something is faked. Like the L/R fast crossing would be that.
Or maybe the major problem I have with it is that it seems I can't stand it.
Possibly the major problem I have with it is that I'm fairly sure the accuracy is debeted. Or that the sound isn't "my sound" anymore.
The whole room seems to be full with "standing waves". This is how it feels, this is how it hears. No change per spot, but a sort of "zooming" everywhere. An energy which doesn't belong. An amp which ain't right.
Maybe, just maybe the real problem is that the tweak has too many settings. Call it an infinite number of them. This, while without the real knowledge you could keep on changing settings forever, always thinking there might be a good one, while in the mean time you know things are - or feel wrong.
I am not like that. No time for it either.
In the mean time it must be so that I have lost the bet Paul. Now, are you going to give me a brand, or shall we select on the alcohol percentage (I recall that whisky can be up to close to 70%).
Sorry for the rumble,
Peter
PS: Maybe in a year's time I know how to deal with this.
December 20 that was, last year. 16 days I could last with it.
And the very last post in the topic, immediately following the text from me avove :
Hey Peter,
Phew!!!!! - glad I did not send the Bybee's back.
I think we are talking a nice Single Malt perhaps one with peaty overtones ha ha.
Actually its the first time I have ever not wanted to win a "bet" hopefully you can prove me wrong in a year's time !!!!!!!!! who knows.
But your posts got me thinking about room pressurisation and I made an interesting discovery about speaker positioning I will make a separate post later.
All the best
Paul
Fun eh ?
While back then all was in secrecy BUT it was actually unvealed by means of another topic (but nobody noticed *that*) today I really have to tell that it was out user Bigear AKA Quint. He, at some stage, obtained them from a respected company overhere in The Netherlands which sort of experimented with these "feet" which are by no means made for a DAC. Quint came from there, passed along here and tried them under my NOS1 while his own NOS1 was waiting for him at his house for those "feet" he bought for himself as a trial. As far as I know he still uses them, while my own later bought ones were given up upon and are now in Paul's pocession.
For again some further fun I still won't tell what it is exactly (I might later though) but they are based upon Chinese wisdom. It is creazy what you can do with them, and it IS true that they are not even allowed to be in the room (or close to it) and are not designed as feet or something.
It is "noteworthy" that this year ago I ordered a boatload of them for all who wanted them and with the idea that from then on they would ship with the NOS1 (against an additional fee), the latter since (still) no official good feet come with the NOS1, just because I can't find the ones who do all jobs. This by itself is a phenomenon which is only here and there talked about, but for the NOS1 feet of any kind will create any kind of DAC. Possibly this is so with all DACs to some extend, but because the NOS1 is so accurate you will perceive anything (for materials and (de)coupling) which goes under it.
But this was the same reason I cancelled that order : the accuracy goes away with it. Interesting as it is, it can't be right.
A few weeks back, and really after this almost a year of trying them before, I tried them again. Again I was as enthusiast as can be, and within 10 minutes I replaced the order. But 45 minutes after that I cancelled it again. Yep, this really happened. This is how I sent them to Paul, him being the other main subject in that topic of the link.
Coherent, fine. Full sound, great. Super wide stage, OK. Being in a real chrurge suddenly (really unheard this is), super. All over the room the exact same SPL, strange. But it can't be. I like Chinese food better. I'm into accuracy.
And I don't like be stoned just from a couple of strange "feet" with holes in them. Yes, that too happened. Completely upside down from one small beer.
But the major reason I took them out is because of the infinite number of combined positions which can be applied - all producing a different sound.
Once you know what this is, you will also know about a full day of reading into it, and you will "know" that this is nothing for you. You *have* to understand first, and I could not. The day of reading only makes you believe, but understand nothing.
I still can order that boatload. I forgot about the price, but think in the direction of 30 euros for the three of them (but four can also be obtained of course). I need to order a couple of 100 though. Btw, the coating does nothing. The wood does though. I am sure the amound will kill nobody, and I only didn't go ahead with it because I myself think it is a wrong application. Nevertheless you will get something which amazes you, gives you an infinite tweak, *does* give the better sound at least in the beginning (if not forever) and indeed it gives the impression of all over better. But I won't be cheating you because I am not like that.
If someone knows what this is about, apart from those knowing it form me, please go ahead and link to that dozens of pages telling about it. Otherwise it remains a bit in secrecy as long as it lasts.
Peter (not checked for typos)
