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RE: Tangram Le' Journey Continues...

Posted by el34eh@yahoo.com (A) on March 9, 2024 at 17:03:07

In Reply to: RE: Tangram Le' Journey Continues... posted by Tangram on March 8, 2024 at 09:50:25:

O'kay then.

It's time to share my findings on using a silver plated copper iec plug connected into the inlet on my Puritan Audio Labs PSM-136 PLC as requested by Tangram, and awaiting 3 hours for it to settle in while I was busy adding once again more music files on the MacBook Air, while chilling in our bedroom for a change, whicb is a first for me, as it's generally kept in the living room.

Yet as I laid down to listen around 3:07PM, from the very first note is was as if everything had become tidier | like the artist were in fact standing side by side or in a semicircular location shoulder to shoulder if you'll, as if they were getting ready for a rehearsal of sort, but when the vocalist or instruments came in, if was if the extra sense of spacing was more expanded beyond the outermost corners of the speakers cabinets | could be both heard and felt as if they had made the way to the rear wall of our living room and walking about in real time..., while I've long known many here | as well as other audio forums have always been fond of using either gold | rhodium or raw copper primarily on the IEC female side of their cords as means of sound tuning their respective systems, yet it wasn't until I actually exchanged emails with three companies which make power plugs means as audiophile graded wares, where I was told that several of them actually preferred the sound of silver plated copper connectors, and also while doing more research into said matter, came across quite a few consumers offering reviews on said plating type on several overseas audio parts ( accessory ) type shops, where at least 5 of them had written they felt the consumers had bought into the whole concept behind rhodium plated plugs, yet never really took the time to compare them against anything else, especially as gold plated plugs started being criticized for lacking speed | detailing and rolling off the highs, which caused me many times in the past to buy and sell them off without even giving them a spin, until last month that is.

As my aging hearing allows, I know that in my system, based upon how I tend to focus on things which reside within the music itself, like truth of timbre | tonality | neutrality | pitch are all important factors to me, which I simply refuse to live without.

So when I'm able to hear further into the recordings and pick upon little hidden nuances or underpinning passages of which I hadn't heard before..., it's then that I begin to pay attention to how often we've all been mislead on the importance of voicing our systems by ear, as if one really needs to go out and buy themselves a new audiophile approved, forget that shit about WAF, which I'll never buy into, I just don't believe in asking for permission to do shit with the money I've earned, as home is priority, yet after that, dammit if I can't treat myself to something, happy wife, happy life my ass, we both have to be happy, life in itself is compromised enough, why settle?, my method is " there's the door, next ". My usual rant as expected, otherwise it just wouldn't be me, would it?.

Back on point now, the type of presentation I'm currently hearing has in fact eluded me for my entire 45 years of being a music lover first type of audiophile, as my love grew from trying to better assemble a system which allowed for a more intimate playback experience from my music collection from day zero, and having over the course of the last two years, my main system has been downsized from what was essentially a $25.000 system, down to one which cost $8.000 including source | integrated amp | speakers | cabling loom | isolation footers and platforms | stands ( both audio | speakers ) and guess what?, via synergistically having matched each component as opposed to just randomly wasting funds on other than some expensive to me, $5700 integrated amps | $5000 little Italian speakers just didn't hold my attention for more than 2-4 hours at a time, whereas I'm able to unknowingly look up, and have spent 10-13 hours listening to me out front, before I force myself to go lay beside my dearest wife, and calm it a wrap.

I can only add, for the small investment one can spend on plugs, I'm just surprised others haven't reported on said tandems which actually perform much much much better than others, if one is more into hearing music?, versus one's collection of audio gear that is?, more often than not, many simply focus their attention on what's coming from the gear, yet very seldom find themselves connected to the essence within the musical notes themselves, I guess I figured it out without having to spend tens or hundreds of thousands, or worse yet, having to pay some so-called guru upwards of $6000, to come to my home and move shit around, as if it's an act!, when Al, one must do is get off that flat ass ( this doesn't apply to the Brothers ) and relocate the speakers | rack(s) according to where each doesn't interfere with the others as far as standing sound waves, and pay added detail to isolation devices, as everything in audio reproduction cost, even attaching a few quarters around one's space chances the sound, pitch wise, try it, of all the different cultures I've been exposed since my days stationed in Japan, the most avid tweaker's of their systems have always been the Taiwanese, followed by the Japanese, where if one seriously thinks about this for a moment, whereas Western were placing their components on tall ass centrally located rack(s) between their speakers, that interfered with sound, the Japanese gear was always placed as close as possible to the floor ( and actually cut outs in their listening room showing bare earth ) because they knew long before many, the lower the stand ( rack | component ) is to the floor, causes less internal resonance | vibrations from the gear, which is always present while listening, it's only picked upon when one uses little devices like harmonic resonators like the NordOst | Furutech | iFi | Pulson types which minimizes the dirt traveling along our homes AC lines, which brings about a certain stillness | silence where one never wishing to go back to how things were before.

Home..., the final frontier, until the Creator calls us home that is, treat it as such, move things around, mix it up a little, ask the little lady to stand aside, and hold down the noise, and maybe you'll stumble upon a place where each component seemingly locks in!.

As the saying goes " it's all in the listening ", naysayers be damned.

Edits: 03/11/24

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