Audio System Enhancer
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For me it means I completely forgot about them after the first few weeks. I also have not been listening to my main rig much lately and really enjoying an all SS system I put together in another room.
Thanks for the reminder, I think I will put the pucks in my secondary system and play with them there for a while.
Spending most free time after work in the garden with outdoor speakers and a 3rd system too.
gvalent
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the update.
I don't have any music outdoors. Working in the yard with tunes sounds like a great idea. :thmbsp:
Well for myself it means that i didn't check the default home address on my paypal acc' and my order was shipped to an old address, so they are gone and I need to wait and order some more in the future at some point.
Such is life *sigh*
manookjs
The Duck Taxi
I ordered and received them in about a week. They are smaller than the "real ones", as mentioned.
I put them on the + speaker terminals and threw on some LP's. I think I heard a slight difference but I was looking for the "Effects" that were listed in the printed matter. "Voices become clear, Hall ambience is easier to hear, stereo image is better defined, Sibilants more realistic, Instruments sound more lifelike, Music is easier to follow and makes more sense and Better bass". Again, I don't know if my mind was looking for these differences or if I really heard them. Time will tell. Personally, I don't think I can hear all of the changes these types of "tweeks" make but I am having fun playing around.
I put them on the + speaker terminals and threw on some LP's. I think I heard a slight difference but I was looking for the "Effects" that were listed in the printed matter. "Voices become clear, Hall ambience is easier to hear, stereo image is better defined, Sibilants more realistic, Instruments sound more lifelike, Music is easier to follow and makes more sense and Better bass". Again, I don't know if my mind was looking for these differences or if I really heard them. Time will tell. Personally, I don't think I can hear all of the changes these types of "tweeks" make but I am having fun playing around.
It's Kurt Vonnegut's 'Euphiophone' from "Welcome To The Monkey House"!
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
Ok....These tweaks work!
I've had these for a while now....about two months I'd say. After they arrived after a second request, I stuck them on the + post on my power amp and didn't really notice a change. But I must admit, I wasn't really paying attention as I before hand wrote them off as mere snake oil. (sorry JoeESP90) After they had been in place for a few days, I removed them from the post as I was doing some moving around. Afterwards I took a weeks vacation, so I was visiting in anther state. Upon return, the Black Discus never entered my mind, until a few days ago. So as music was playing on the rig, I stuck them on the + post of power amp and sat in the sweet spot...playing on the iPad...not really expecting, nor looking for any effect. After about a minute, I noticed something in the sound of the music. I heard the music changing! The normal flow of the sound was like being interrupted...some sort of disturbance to the flow of the song...as subtle as it was. I kidd you not...it was faint and sort of mysterious to me....but it was subtle in effect as it was doing something right before my hearing. I continued to listen and noticed there was a suck out. Before this, my system sounded fantastic, but a system can always be improved upon. The suck out I heard was noise I never even knew was there! How do I know???? Because all of a sudden I had a blacker back ground! I was like....Dang! What the heck just happened! I continued to listen and started noticing things like rig has better focus....better detail....bass has greater punch....mids became richer and pronounced ....and overall staging and depth was also stronger. I assume because of the blacker back ground, it seemed to enhance everything else.
Now If some of you have not experienced this, I have no explanation why not. I've read through these posting and a lot of you are on record at least as saying its doing something. I dont know if how resolving a system has to be, has anything to do with it. Every thing I mentioned above, my system was doing already, but I do feel the blacker back ground from the Black Discus has enhanced what was already there.
Call me crazy...say its all in my head, but if so, what is in my head has me on cloud 9! It's my conclusion.....the "Mad Scientist" have hit a home run! If you believe you have a good resolving system, and have a trained audio hobbyist ear, go for the free samples and sit and listen.
From the experience I've had over the past few day with this "free tweak" I will be ordering the paid tweak they offer.
Happy listening fellas!
...Slippers---
I've had these for a while now....about two months I'd say. After they arrived after a second request, I stuck them on the + post on my power amp and didn't really notice a change. But I must admit, I wasn't really paying attention as I before hand wrote them off as mere snake oil. (sorry JoeESP90) After they had been in place for a few days, I removed them from the post as I was doing some moving around. Afterwards I took a weeks vacation, so I was visiting in anther state. Upon return, the Black Discus never entered my mind, until a few days ago. So as music was playing on the rig, I stuck them on the + post of power amp and sat in the sweet spot...playing on the iPad...not really expecting, nor looking for any effect. After about a minute, I noticed something in the sound of the music. I heard the music changing! The normal flow of the sound was like being interrupted...some sort of disturbance to the flow of the song...as subtle as it was. I kidd you not...it was faint and sort of mysterious to me....but it was subtle in effect as it was doing something right before my hearing. I continued to listen and noticed there was a suck out. Before this, my system sounded fantastic, but a system can always be improved upon. The suck out I heard was noise I never even knew was there! How do I know???? Because all of a sudden I had a blacker back ground! I was like....Dang! What the heck just happened! I continued to listen and started noticing things like rig has better focus....better detail....bass has greater punch....mids became richer and pronounced ....and overall staging and depth was also stronger. I assume because of the blacker back ground, it seemed to enhance everything else.
Now If some of you have not experienced this, I have no explanation why not. I've read through these posting and a lot of you are on record at least as saying its doing something. I dont know if how resolving a system has to be, has anything to do with it. Every thing I mentioned above, my system was doing already, but I do feel the blacker back ground from the Black Discus has enhanced what was already there.
Call me crazy...say its all in my head, but if so, what is in my head has me on cloud 9! It's my conclusion.....the "Mad Scientist" have hit a home run! If you believe you have a good resolving system, and have a trained audio hobbyist ear, go for the free samples and sit and listen.
From the experience I've had over the past few day with this "free tweak" I will be ordering the paid tweak they offer.
Happy listening fellas!
...Slippers---
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
Cubdog...did you notice a blacker back ground?
Some people are color blind
I have never moved mine from the + taps on the Counterpoint. Keep forgetting about them but as I spin disks I have not spun in ages, I am hearing new things. I can't say for sure what it is and I now have to remember to remove them and play around again.
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
Hyfi....leave them off for a few days....then in the middle of a song still playing, insert the BD and listen. I heard things happening as I listened. I suggest making sure there is no ambient noise, so as you may hear the changes better. You should hear a suck out that brings a better back ground which leads to better focus.
I am pretty sure that describes the initial observations I had, but you explain it a bit better. I will monkey around with them more.
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
You have good gear, a hybrid amp, with synergistic cables....I know they are good, I've had them....you should hear the changes as well as better focus.
cubdog
banging through drywall
I didn't notice any change. I'll play around with them again though. I tried them initially with a tube amp. I'll give them a try with SS.
cubdog
Patch-Cord
Active Member
If you scoll to the bottom of this page
http://www.madscientist-audio.com/blackdiscus/
you get a plausable explantion, within the explanations they give... but its coded.
Sometime in the future when the aliens come through a wormhole, anyone who has these devices in their home is marked for assimilation into a collective consciousness. The device contains a tracking chip that locates where you live.
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
That's cool.
Hyfi, old sport. I've been knowing you for a fairly long time now....we've been on a few boards now and have been in some heated discussion in the past, so I know you are a great thinker and are very opinionated. So let me ask you a question?
IF I heard the changes it made in my rig, and heard the distinctive's...and if the composition of the Black Discus is the same in each and every disc, Then what would be the factors of every one not hearing the changes? I know one factor could be some of us don't hear as good as others. What would other factors be? The ability to resolve?
Hyfi, old sport. I've been knowing you for a fairly long time now....we've been on a few boards now and have been in some heated discussion in the past, so I know you are a great thinker and are very opinionated. So let me ask you a question?
IF I heard the changes it made in my rig, and heard the distinctive's...and if the composition of the Black Discus is the same in each and every disc, Then what would be the factors of every one not hearing the changes? I know one factor could be some of us don't hear as good as others. What would other factors be? The ability to resolve?
Great question and maybe several answers.
Some people do not want to believe that they might be able to hear things that are not documented in a DBT so therefore it does not exist.
Some people's gear may not be resolving enough detail to hear the differences.
Some people may have decent gear but don't believe in better cables and could be robbing themselves of the detail and resolution the system could possibly provide.
Maybe the music that some people like is not recorded as well as what you and I listen to so it won't show as an improvement
Room acoustics and ambient noise could be a factor too.
Don't you wish we could all just visit each others listening rooms thru the Holideck in seconds? I would love to change some minds, even with my 20+ y/o gear that still rivals much of today's.