magiccarpetride;678826 Wrote: > There is always room for improvement. I'm sure there will be new, never > before thought of ways to squeeze even more music out of the Touch. The > age of endless tweaking had just begun, and you want to close the > chapter on it already? > > I've been doing a lot of critical listening myself, especially with the > recent mods that ensued when TT3.0 got released. I've concluded that, on > my system, all the improvements are first and foremost detectable in > terms of resolution, separation, lowering the noise floor, eliminating > the digital artifacts such as glare and grit. However, no matter how > polished these tweaks may be, the fact still remains that the resulting > sound is unmistakably digital. I wanted to see if I could cheat mother > nature and approximate the illusion of playing a high end analog source > while streaming to the Touch. Here is what I did: > > There is an ultra high-end audio store a few blocks away from my house. > I've spent a few days in there, doing my pre-Christmas shopping > (basically, doing a LOT of auditioning and chatting with the owner as > well as with the unavoidable onlookers. The end result -- I've brought > home three Shakti stones and a Shunyata power cable. > > OK, so this sounds like I've gone mental and succumbed to the worst > case of audiophilia nervosa and all that voodoo. But hear me out. I > place Shakti stones on my DAC, and on the preamp and power amp (it's > important to place them above the transformers in each component). Then > I replace my Nordost power cable with the Shunyata power cable and, lo > and behold, the CHARACTER of the sound, as if by magic, radically > changed. > > The best way to describe the change is to say that the sound became > much 'wetter'. Wet as in luscious wet oil paint. So yes, wet, greasy, > oily, juicy, in short -- organic and very much analog-like. Removing > the Shakti stones and the Shunyata power cable brought back the old > familiar dry, analytical, clinical sound. Put the Shakti stones on > again and connect the power amp with Shunyata, and voila! the wet, > greasy sound is back again. It feels as if the sound has been > amplified, even though the volume level hasn't changed. But the > subjective impression is that now I'm listening to a louder, more > present sound. The effect is similar to loading a photo into the > Photoshop and then cranking up the color saturation. > > I highly recommend this tweak. It'll revitalize your system, especially > if you have it all modded to its gills with Soundcheck's TT3.0. Shakti > stones are marvelous in reducing the EMI and the RFI glare, and > Shunyata power cables are world renowned for their exquisite 'liquid' > sound. Believe me, it's worth a try, because it will get your system > sounding like a high-end vinyl rig.
Everyone is at a different point of implementation / installation and therefore its dangerous to call. And then the amount of earwax building in each ear versus the moon phase...yah de yah yah de yah.. Merry Xmas Everyone. Mark -- pandasharka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pandasharka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
