Changing sound!

Posted by: zep on 08 October 2006

hi,

usually, when going away at weekends etc, i power down and unplug the cables. but, when plugging everything in place again, i never get the same sound again. sometimes more bass, less treble. sometimes more harshness etcetera. i do not know how this can be? the sound is good, but never the same sound!

please help - why?

cheers zep.
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by paul_g
quote:
Originally posted by The Chap:
A message from the asylum.

JUST TRY IT !


Peter Belt has been saying this for 20 years but thankfully most sensible people ignore him. Sadly, I believe that there are still some folk buying his ridiculously priced crocodile clips, sheets of tinfoil & electret cream. P.T. Barnum was undoubtedly right.

Anyway, you seem to have missed my point, which is that you can hear a difference because you are predisposed to do so.
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by paul_g
quote:
Originally posted by Michael_B.:
My impression is that TC is talking about the mains socket, which holds its plug pretty firmly and is normally screwed securely into the wall.


Which is exactly as it should be.

quote:
... but if my mains socket wasn't hidden behind a bookcase, I'd give a try ...


Come, come Mike. After all of Peter's recent labours to improve your system, you surely aren't going to allow a simple bookcase to prevent you from extracting that final ounce of performance ... Winker
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by oxgangs
my wife often refers to me as the epitome of cynicism

however

at my age crawling about the floor without the certainty of somone to help me up is risky

but i did it yes got up but also tryed the plug thing

and b*gger me there was a change it sounded compressed when i tightened it and more open when loosened it

which is how it was . as id left it loose when i wall papered the room

so im going tp leave it alone

call me mad or hallucinatory but there was a difference

double blind study to follow when my friend gets back from holiday

if my wife new about this shed have me sectioned

maybe she would have a point

mike
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by Goldstar
The Chap may indeed deserve a hearing. He does after all join the illustrius band of men and women, who since the days when the Royal Society was founded, have been ridiculed for their findings, Merely because they were not understood.

Besides, I have nothing to lose, my wife already thinks I am crazy.

Bob
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by rackkit
quote:
Originally posted by The Chap:
Hi

Not an unexpected response , this tweak was shown to me by my dealer who is very well respected within the mad people community.


Regards

T.C
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by The Chap
Chaps back!

When my highly respected, level headed, rational, sane, intelligent and financially draining dealer showed me this tweak, he did it as a blind listening test. In other words I had no idea what he was doing. I heard the change, I was not hypnotised or tortured, mentally or otherwise.

Well done Mike! ....Next?
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by paul_g
quote:
Originally posted by oxgangs:
call me mad or hallucinatory but there was a difference


OK, you are mad and/or hallucinatory ....

quote:
if my wife new about this shed have me sectioned .... maybe she would have a point


She would certainly have a point but I'm not sure how your new sectional shed is relevant ... Confused
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by The Chap
Of course not.

Allow me to introduce my next tweak. It involves a bucket of bulls blood and some jos sticks. What you do is take the bucket.......


Regards

T.C
Posted on: 19 October 2006 by paul_g
quote:
Originally posted by The Chap:
Chaps back!


Welcome back my dear Chap !
Posted on: 20 October 2006 by oxgangs
paul you wrote


quote:
The well-known tendency to hear what one expects to hear.


does that apply to a cd 555 Winker

mike

back in the shed

i prefer it there
Posted on: 20 October 2006 by The Chap
Nice perceptive comment from you Mike.

I wonder if those of you who are dismissive of this tweak, are frightened to try it, in case you are proven wrong?

In medicine clinical evidence often comes before scientific evidence. In other words if it works it works. You can find out how later. If everything was based on percieved wisdom according to the status quo, Naim Hi-Fi would not exist.

Regards

T.C