Friend of mine told me quite interesting story. He was born in Austria in the early 1930's and as a little boy he used to watch his father at work. Man was manufacturing the violins. For years whole family was in contact with music and musicians but before war's end, they emigrated to USA. Here his father continued the work on instruments and my friend decided to go that way as well. This was rather side job nevertheless he learnt some "tricks" to make violin, especially the new one to sound "right". After the violin was made and ready to go, they put it inside the cardboard or thin walled wooden box by hanging the instrument on the line or the rope on both ends so it did not touch anything. Next they placed speaker very close to the instrument and for a long time played...violin music. That took place when electric equipment for music reproduction was available, way before they simply played real violin for hours to freshly made ones. Of course this smells like audiophool snake oil so intrigued and very doubtful I did ask about secret? He simply answered that this techniques helps the new wood to learn how to properly resonate and be more musical.
Now, in my opinion man deserves huge respect since he played those instruments since he was 5 and spent countless hours manufacturing them. Nowadays he's over 80 and still has damn good ear. Not sure what to think .... -- gizek 1st : Transporter > Adcom GFP-750 > Citation tube monoblocks > Proac Response D2; Cardas Neutral Reference 2nd: SB Touch > TA2020 > Fostex FE207E; Cardas Crosslink 3rd: Ipod Touch with PlugPLayer > Grado SR225 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gizek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86236 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
