....and throw away the key

you could argue that if the purpose of the dots is to damp the cabinet or drive units, then the weight of a cow pat may make it more effective at damping.

Of course, you may need to smear it on the actual drive unit surrounds to put it in the same place.

I don't have any cows, but my neighbours cat leaves me plenty of parcels if anyone wants to buy them..

 

Of course, it would have to be a fresh cow pat, so that it had sufficient softness, not one of these dried-out ones. This would necessitate a constant upgrading (possibly a supply contract?). One could visualise the keeping of high-grade audiophile herds to maintain the appropriate quality.

 

Could you not simply spray them with sheep urine to keep the right level of moisture content?

 

You mean, use a hydraulic ram?

 

indeed, yew could

 

Yew mean ewe, do yew? Yew is tree and not at all sheepish, in which case you're out on a limb rather than on the lamb.

 

Taxus Baccata, my mistake:shame:

 

Baaaaaaaaaa humbug! You're just trying to get my goat.

 

Yes, i am trying to persuade it to get off the top of my speaker!

 

But if you had horn speakers, it would be absolutely perfect! Perhaps I could sell you a matched pair (along with matching cow pats for them to sit (sic) in).

 

Damn, got me there, I'll take a dozen, and one for the wife!

 

Certainly, sir, if sir would like to sign the supply agreement for the cow pats here and here and here. And may we recommend our audiophile quality Angora goats, for no other reason than it gets the goats of audiophiles and they tear out their hair. From mohair comes no hair, as it were.

 

:rds2: I.......mmmmm..... don't know know to laugh or cry....

 

Ahh, THOSE microdots

Now those would have an effect on sound quality, especially if you took 2!

ho hum, happy days.

 

Hi,

Thou speakest my naim?

DO NOT SPEAK THE NAIM OF HIM WHO SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED..... :JOEL:

Folks, my personal notes on the subject of "dots" (and other more or less far out stuff) is found here:

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0602/freakazoid.htm

On the german "VinylLebt" Yahoo Group the the same topic was discussed.

It made the "Cable" discussions look tame by comparison. I'll leave the record as it stands. If you want to try it, go for it, cheap and easy to do.

BTW, the felt dots WHERE REMOVED on my better halves insistence. They are back on HER request. Go figger.

I KNOW that according to prevailing acoustic theories these little felt dots are not allowed to make any audible difference, shame these felt dot's never studied acoustic theory, I am sure they would be ashamed of having called into the question the completeness and absolute correctness of the theories of so many eminent acousticians if they had.....

Do your own experiments and draw your own conclusions.

Ciao T

 

You would think so, but the fact that he has been able to peddle this mumbo-jumbo for at least the last 25 years does show that there are enough of them(gullible tweakers) out there.

 

I haven’t read all of that link you just gave but are your dots not meant to work on the principals of Feng Shui, not resonance damping? I think only one type of these dots needs to be aware of acoustic theory

On the note of Feng Shui, complementary colours are supposed to create balance of the energy in a room. Red on the left and green on the right supposedly, so if you try colouring the dots on the left of your room red and the ones on the right side green you may get improved sound! That’s assuming a more balanced energy is good for the sound…

 

Hi,

No. There are other items that follow the Feng Shui principle in my place, not the least crystals, mirrors and statuettes plus windchimes, BaGua's and the full assortment (I really need to tidy up though ) and still others are merely there to annoy the technocrates.

But the Felt Dots together with the Harmonica Plates fall under micrrolevel acoustic menagement, with one principle aim in mind, to enjoy music more and not to pay silly money.

Oh and as for Feng Shui, any true Master will tell you that common sense is even more important in Feng Shui than following the rules....

Ciao T

 

Hi,

Funny thing you know.

I still have a pair of "Le CD-Flop", one "belted" and one "not belted". With some CD players these two make different differences, with some neither makes a difference with yet others they both make identical differences.

I also till have a belted cartridge and the "belt device" does appear to do something.

I really hate it when I happen to notice such stuff make differences, as it adds to list of poorely (or not at all) explained things.

But I'm mercenary enough to leave such devices in place if taking them away makes me miss the result after a few hours/days.

I find it always interesting to review over time what has been constant in terms of tweaks to the system and what has come and gone.

Constants and or regular repeats of "crazy tweaks":

C37 Laquer, especially speakers but also PCB based electronics

Wooden (Tone Wood) equipment support platforms (quite resonant usually!), preferably C37 laquered.

Michell Tenderfeet

Steinmusic Mains Conditioners (frontend)

Steinmusic & UBYTE-M Mains Cables

Isolating Suspensions (right now magnetic & string based, also have used various air based system over time, but anything airbased that is not self leveling drifts over time)

Crystals

Chinese Chess Pieces

Belt Devices

Harmonica Plates

Felt Dots around the room

In some cases I have workable and coherent theories what MAY cause the differences, but in most I do not and it annoys me no little when I think about it.

Can we now draw the curtain on discussing really crazy tweaks and return to something nice and mainstream like Cables? At least there I am on somid ground and do not have face my ignorance and cluelessness on a regular basis, it makes me feel insecure if TOO MUCH stuff collides with my upbringing in dialectic, materialist, scientific communism....

Ciao T

 

Peter Belt and Feng Shui, mmmm. I think I'd better retire gracefully from this one