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In Reply to: Followup questions posted by Dawnrazor on December 30, 2023 at 09:54:03:
1) I have mentioned many times that the more of the junctions are treated the better the performance. What I have found is that treating a junction on another circuit at the furthest end of the home can be heard at the system. We know all circuits intersect at the main junction panel. From my testing and experimenting when coming up with this tweak, that EMI/EMF accumulated on the other circuits in the home bleed into or is picked up by the circuit that the audio system is on. This I believe is happening at the main panel. How you will know or also realize this is by treating a circuit other than the one the audio system is on. You will hear the effect.
By the way if you do not hear a obvious effect by treating a junction, it could be a lot of reasons. But what I would be looking/listening for is that I use enough Rochelle salt to be able to hear a change without going overboard (1.5 grams max). Trust me, treating the other junctions will have a accumulative effect. Now if you do not tune at each junction will be hard to keep control the under use of the Rochelle salt and over damping. If you tune at each junction the system becomes more and more resolving as you treat more and more junctions.
Tuning at each junction is to ensure that after each junction treated that it does not unbalance the system tonally. What I am listening for when tuning is that sonic reproduction is not degraded. Meaning no loss of detail retrieval. I am also listening for tonal balance or imbalance. There are specific tracks I listen to that I am listening for specific ultra fine detail with different instruments. I am also listening to the vocals for warmth, tonality and detail retrieval. As the system becomes more resolving by removing the EMI/EMF from the AC wiring, tiny changes will become apparent. You will start to hear more ultra fine detail.
For example when a guitar string is plucked, within the note there is the attack, body and decay of the note. During each stage of this note more information slowly becomes more audible in each stage. Attack will get more aggressive, quicker. With each stage more nuances and layering of detail become audible. Cymbals go from a tang to a ting, and eventually to tinnggggg. I can go on and on, but you get the drift. All instrument will exhibit this new level of detail retrieval if you tune and do not overdamp...
1a) You know you overdamped by using too much Rochelle salt when you start to lose some of the detail retrieval.
2 and 2a) Yes to a point. I prefer to have the salt loose (just squeeze and un-clump inside baggy before rolling up and installing). I do not want the bags too big/long. I do not bother with how tight, just roll baggy up and make sure it is not flopping around.
3) You have to experiment at the panel. 40 grams in a bag laid over a couple of breakers and see or hear what it does if anything. Oddly enough treating the different junctions in my experience yield a more profound effect than at the panel itself. Not sure why this is. Some members in the Head-Fi thread have treated water pipes, outside panels, outside wiring, etc. with excellent results but I have not personally done this so cannot comment.
4) No LOL
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Follow Ups
- Answers to your questions and Important details regarding tuning... - cdc 21:26:48 12/30/23 (2)
- RE: Answers to your questions and Important details regarding tuning... - Dryginger2 18:31:18 01/02/24 (1)
- RE: Answers to your questions and Important details regarding tuning... - cdc 19:03:41 01/02/24 (0)
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