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Read this infomercial years back. (long)

Hi.

Pardon me being brunt: this is another sales pitch promoting a self-claimed cure-all sonic product. What else is new next?

Any tweaking changes the sonics of an audio gears, period. I heard so many succesful claims that lining the inner surface of the housing of a CD player improves its sound dramatically. I don't disagree.

Likewise, I put ALL my audio components each one on acoustical tip-toes or steel spikes resting on heavy-weight support base, many years back. I find this improves the sound bigtime in term of imaging, soundstaging & details.

My elder son, John is a 24-year veteran hobby classical pianist, offically graduated from my city's Royal Conersvatory of Music with
first class honour. Believe it or not, he never owns any HiFi, & plays his music from his PC & out of home, he listens to his discman I gave him as X'mas gift many yeara back.

Yet he acquired some razer-sharp sense of musical pitch. He can size up in split seconds what pitch the music is being played live or reproduced by any HiFi. I wanted to catch him unprepared many times, but I fail. One time I ask him to pitch my HiFi music was playing. He took him a quite a few split seconds to tell me it was C-sharp minor. He explained the pitching of the music was just changing that delayed his comment.

He admits he is somewhat gifted on his pitch sensing. He suggested the Steinway grant piano used for practical examination in the Music
Conservatory to be re-tuned as he heard it sounded out of tune one time he visited there.

By the same token, I could make a big fuzs on his gift & promote his
intelligibility in music tones to the audio market as a equipment sonics adjustor**. He could have made some handsome spare money as a free-lance audio consultant.

I would never even suggested this to him otherwise I would be insulting him considering his successful careeer as a pension actuary ** in a leading insurance company.

Although Albert Einstein onces quoted: "Imagination is more important than knowledge", applying the same tweaking of a violin on an audio equipment can be physically an imagination stretched to far.

c-J



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