Having just had a very interesting visit from Pete (Zanash), I have to report on my experience with the blue light. Although, now I think about it, I wonder if Bobs' theory is correct about Pete having to be there.

    So, to sum up my blue light experiences aside from the other tweakery that abounded yesterday when Pete brought his boxes,  about which I will post later;

    Following a good get-to-know your system day-long session, Petes' time of departure beckoned, and he produced the aluminium 'thing'. I would not describe myself as gullible in any way, although I do profess to have been surprised by how my system was flattened by a slightly off-song power cord (more of that in t'other thread).

  My room is somewhat open, having 4 doorways off it, only one with a curtain, the rest door-less. Therefore whatever 'filling', 'rearranging', 'charging' or ... could conceivably take time to happen. we shut the windows and doors in the rest of the house, to minimise airflow. Tension building? It wasn't for me, as I just wanted to appease Pete and let him say he had shown it again. I was prepared to nod wisely and politely smile, then explain to my wife about the very polite odd man that had been visiting.

 

  We played a track with the machine switched off, paused the music and switched it on, positioned 'correctly'. To give it chance, it had 5 minutes of warmup in silence, then the track was replayed. Initially there was a definite change, which got more emphasised over the next couple of minutes.

 

   Just as I was about to explain what I had heard, my 12 year old daughter, who knew nothing of my days events, walked up to the front door. We shut off the music and the blue light and I asked her to sit next to me on the sofa for an experiment. She is used to being tested by her eccentric father; her mother long having given up on it. So, she knew nothing of any blue devices, or what we were doing. As far as I am aware, she does not read hifi fora at all, or converse on MSN with older men who have odd hobbies  

   So we had an innocent victim; now to work. She was played a track, and sat patiently but attentively listening. Pete then switched on the alloy thing, gave it a couple of minutes and replayed the track, all other parameters unchanged.

  The results - she immediately asked if I had turned up the volume; it appeared quite a bit louder. After listening to the track she described more bass and a clearer, more followable sound, with detail she had not heard before. These are the exact changes I was about to relate to Pete when she turned up.

   It has convinced me; my daughter describes it as Alien technology (too much Dr Who methinks), and my wife thinks we are mad (she would take no part in it). There is something happening, but I know not how. It is a very obvious change for the better, in my system, as it stands, in my room, on that day etc etc. I am certainly not going to spend £750 on one, but were it in a pretty component sized box and plugged into the sound-chain, then it would appear to be a very good value upgrade for an already expensive system.

  I'm not sure where that leaves my credibility; I was certainly a little dubious of Petes' sanity just from reading the threads. Whilst I may not still be fully convinced of his mental state  (only kidding Pete), I am won over by the device. I hope to have it repeated on a return visit when I have sorted the rest of my system, but i see no reason why the effect should not be heard by everyone.

  And no, I have never put special little pieces of paper in strategic places around the room or on components. That is going too far, or is it, Mr Belt? Who can be sure of anything any more?

Ian