The additional ferrite was just a 'it popped into my head'.
I was reading about tweaks over at Audio Asylum, and the big thing was quartz Crystals. Other folks had complicated 'treatments' to make them work better. i saw the treatments basically were coating the surface with a non-conductive material. So i went to my junk and found Ford Silicone high temp brake grease. Perfect. Used up two tubes of it on my many pounds of crystal bits now deposited insinde and all around my stuff.
In that site, I also saw a mention of a nearly forgotten tweak of wrapping the prongs of all A/C plugs with Plumbers' Teflon tape. Wrap them and then push the teflon down off the mating part of the prongs. i tried it, and yes it worked. I measured the wattage and discovered that the tweak also reduced the wattage by a tiny amount 2% average. I treated every wall plug in my place!
So then the pigtail. Well I was on a roll with tweaks, and tried it. The result was "I can really hear this! 100% no guesssing 'maybe?' stuff".
This was only the second 'tweaky' sort of thing i could say I can hear a definite real change 100% no question. (the first was the use of a Pangea Power cord on my Forte' 4a amp)
So I read more about the pigtail tweak, and there is a battery ground tweak that is somewhat aiming for the same thing. Then the EVS product. And I noted the original tweak was just a bit of wire. Then it got 'thicker, or more stuff off the end of the wire. And i thought that is the key, a big thing off the end of the wire. So I had the ferrites at hand and added them. WOW. big improvement. Probelm is it does not last. a full day and the added sound quality faded.'So something is working, but not lasting. So then I thought what would the ferrite need to keep the ?? electron count? who knows? up, I tried to add the 9volt battery tweak, but is was like 'double ground tweak' in a bad way, too much.
So I glommed on to the idea of adding a 'bush; of wire allowing the ferrite to interact with the natural air ions more quickly to 'refresh' the ferrite 'whatever' that made the sound better. So I stripped piles of wire and added trees of wire clound from the ferrite up above it.
Two possible things can allow the ferrite to recover: One is to turn off the mp at night (I usually leave on 24/7) then i get a refreshed ferrite. ??
Or the added wire cloud.
So far i have been increasing the wire cloud, going from copper to silver plated copper (no problem with tarnish on bare wire.)
I just fulfilled this all in the last week. And I am very happy with the results.
My system had tremendous clarity, and it was at the expense of a slight diminishing of that pleasant lower midrange bloom. With powerline conditioners on everything to gain the maximum clarity, i accepted the slight loss.
But this pigtail tweak brought MORE clarity, AND the midrange natural bloom was back!!! plus better Low Frequency response.
A WINNER!!
So I really want to find the permanent solution to why the ferrite loses to 'magic' after a full day of use.
The added wie is new these past few days. and the idea to turn off the amp just came to me a day ago. So it is up in the air a bit.
But the added beauty is just wonderful.
And I think the cumulative effect of various tweaks adds up. So the pigtail tweak may not work for some folks. I myself had tried it a bit a long time ago, and it did nothing. Where now it moved the whole thing fundamentally.
It is an amazing mystery.
I used to really scoff at this crap. But i have seen the light. to some degree. (I can STILL call it crap)
I still am against expensive tweaky things that are just someones idea using cheap stuff but charging a fortune for the 'idea'. And i back that up with: try this, it works, nearly free, and who cares about 'paying' me for it. What goes around comes around.. i got part of the ideas from others, and just stuck in some new bit. maybe someone else will take it further.
So this is in answer to Corazon about his interest in this, and my development of what i am doing.
I was reading about tweaks over at Audio Asylum, and the big thing was quartz Crystals. Other folks had complicated 'treatments' to make them work better. i saw the treatments basically were coating the surface with a non-conductive material. So i went to my junk and found Ford Silicone high temp brake grease. Perfect. Used up two tubes of it on my many pounds of crystal bits now deposited insinde and all around my stuff.
In that site, I also saw a mention of a nearly forgotten tweak of wrapping the prongs of all A/C plugs with Plumbers' Teflon tape. Wrap them and then push the teflon down off the mating part of the prongs. i tried it, and yes it worked. I measured the wattage and discovered that the tweak also reduced the wattage by a tiny amount 2% average. I treated every wall plug in my place!
So then the pigtail. Well I was on a roll with tweaks, and tried it. The result was "I can really hear this! 100% no guesssing 'maybe?' stuff".
This was only the second 'tweaky' sort of thing i could say I can hear a definite real change 100% no question. (the first was the use of a Pangea Power cord on my Forte' 4a amp)
So I read more about the pigtail tweak, and there is a battery ground tweak that is somewhat aiming for the same thing. Then the EVS product. And I noted the original tweak was just a bit of wire. Then it got 'thicker, or more stuff off the end of the wire. And i thought that is the key, a big thing off the end of the wire. So I had the ferrites at hand and added them. WOW. big improvement. Probelm is it does not last. a full day and the added sound quality faded.'So something is working, but not lasting. So then I thought what would the ferrite need to keep the ?? electron count? who knows? up, I tried to add the 9volt battery tweak, but is was like 'double ground tweak' in a bad way, too much.
So I glommed on to the idea of adding a 'bush; of wire allowing the ferrite to interact with the natural air ions more quickly to 'refresh' the ferrite 'whatever' that made the sound better. So I stripped piles of wire and added trees of wire clound from the ferrite up above it.
Two possible things can allow the ferrite to recover: One is to turn off the mp at night (I usually leave on 24/7) then i get a refreshed ferrite. ??
Or the added wire cloud.
So far i have been increasing the wire cloud, going from copper to silver plated copper (no problem with tarnish on bare wire.)
I just fulfilled this all in the last week. And I am very happy with the results.
My system had tremendous clarity, and it was at the expense of a slight diminishing of that pleasant lower midrange bloom. With powerline conditioners on everything to gain the maximum clarity, i accepted the slight loss.
But this pigtail tweak brought MORE clarity, AND the midrange natural bloom was back!!! plus better Low Frequency response.
A WINNER!!
So I really want to find the permanent solution to why the ferrite loses to 'magic' after a full day of use.
The added wie is new these past few days. and the idea to turn off the amp just came to me a day ago. So it is up in the air a bit.
But the added beauty is just wonderful.
And I think the cumulative effect of various tweaks adds up. So the pigtail tweak may not work for some folks. I myself had tried it a bit a long time ago, and it did nothing. Where now it moved the whole thing fundamentally.
It is an amazing mystery.
I used to really scoff at this crap. But i have seen the light. to some degree. (I can STILL call it crap)
I still am against expensive tweaky things that are just someones idea using cheap stuff but charging a fortune for the 'idea'. And i back that up with: try this, it works, nearly free, and who cares about 'paying' me for it. What goes around comes around.. i got part of the ideas from others, and just stuck in some new bit. maybe someone else will take it further.
So this is in answer to Corazon about his interest in this, and my development of what i am doing.