Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW

Another part of this is to have the pigtail off the neutral side of the A/C line. This is slightly more 'advanced' as having the pigtail off the hot instead of the neutral is a really bad idea. and the wire should be carefully implemented anyway, with the bare end covered with a cap of some type. (I use heavy duty plumbers' Teflon tape.)
Again it is only on the neutral line (In none USA if both sides are hot do NOT do this tweak)

Copied from my post over at Audio Asylum. It is quoting myself so I am certain it is OK. Due to request for exact discription of make the pigtail here it is:
AA posted last week:
The idea is to add a 'pig tail of wire to the wiring, generally on the negative pole.
This is to improve the sound.
The places to do this are on A/C wiring at the receptical on the 'neutral side (and never on the 'hot' 120V side.)
Or at the amplifer five way binding posts. (It can also be put on the ground side of interconnects)
Various forms are for sale commercially for $30 a pair.
From reading about those, I decided to add the ferrite as a 'load' at the end of the wire. The original idea was just the wire was all, hanging in space going nowhere. Then the first adaptation made the wire into a bit more substantial blob. My further take on this puts a ferrite blob on the end of the wire.
Appearance:
The wire is any wire. I use a 12 gauge teflon insulated silver plated wire because i have a lot of it. And am actually using up scrap from a 700 ft spool of it.
The ferrites are 1 inch long, cylindrical shaped 1/2 inch diameter ferrite tubes. (these i have because they are a perfect fit over A/C 14 gauge three wire power cords)
I take 11" of wire, and peel off 5 inches of the insulation from one end.
I place the wire in the hole on the ferrite up to 1/4 inch from the end of the stripped portion. So about 6" of shilded wire, and 1/4 inch of bare wire is out one end of the ferrite, and the remaining bare wire out the other end of the ferrite barrel. I bend the bare wire back up and around the outside of the ferrite back to the top of the ferrite where it meets the shielded wire. I wrap the bare wire to the 1/4 inch bare portion at the top, pulling VERY tightly on the wire as I wrap it around together (using the needlenose pliers leverage to tension the wire) so the wire is now very tightly holding the ferrite. I wrap the bare end around the shielded wire about three turns, then cut off the rest of the bare wire.
So now i have a single shielded wire, six inches long with the ferrite at the end connected to the wire and the ferrite is electrically bonded to the wire. (I use the pliers to smooth the remaining bare end to the area the wires are twisted together.
Then I take some Teflon plumbers tape (blue thicker teflon) And I wrap up the ferrite, and the bare wire holding it. So the teflon completey covers the bare metal. both wire and ferrite.
The result is a (smokers pipe shaped) device. The end tip of the shielded wire is striped for about 1/2 inch.
Now my tweak is ready to use.
You need at least two. One for each negative speaker terminal on the amp. Most amps have five way binding posts, and use the one that is not on the speaker wires. So my wires use the screw down, and leave the banana free, so I stuck the tweak in a banana connector and just plugged it in.
I have added six more, so the positive at the amp also has one, and at the speaker the low input, and the mid/high input(biwired) each have one. This is just me playing around. As the first pair really do the magic. and the added ones just are minor, but they do NOT degrade the sound. (like so many tweaks where a little is good, but a lot is bad)
i also have one on each of the four dedicated A/C lines.
(On interconnects did not do much good, Only made sound fuzzy)

All I can say is it does help.

Hi Elizabeth,

Wondering what prompted you to do this? Reading about a tweak and what it helped alleviate motivating you to come up with a DIY solution?

A specific anomaly and the tweaks benefit?

I will investigate EVS product to get a better idea of what it is about.

I am interested in your response. Thanks in advance.

Best,

Dave

This should be harmless but some iterations use a loop or coil. This is similar to an inductor or choke. This may pick up stray alternating magnetic fields from transformers and from the speaker voice coils and possibly the speaker wires themselves. This could quite likely introduce some form of very mild distortion due to the magnetic field created by the device itself, as this device is close to the negative wire and there is nothing the positive side to cancel it out.

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.