Bought both Adam A5 and Adam A7 on same day - what to do? - Page 3

I just asked my underage girlfriend if she wants to get married this week, she said yes. Her mother will sign the documents so it is ok. Should I wait with the ERS Paper tweak until we are married or do it now?

Also, I don't have a ring, I will build a ring from Valhalla cable?

Ok, I couldn't wait with the ERS Paper, my scissor hand was itching to tweak!

I put ERS Paper foam tubes around the dual filament Valhalla interconnect. I also put ERS Paper around the mouse cable (it is hidden under a wooden board). Now I also have Feet of Silence + Magix under my Adam A5 speakers (I added Magix). I also put the stock extension strip on top of Feet of Silence (was on table before).

Impressions: I hear a new world of low-level detail. Bass is crazy HUGE and tight! There is a lot more resolution, it sounds completely different now! My previous upgrades were subtle compared to this. It's because of the ERS Paper.

I have tried many amps and I didn't hear an improvement, only a side step into another flavor. I also tried dCS Elgar Plus DAC and dCS Verdi Encore SACD transport, they made my audio worse because of higher wattage (more noise). I get better sound with EMU0404 USB, but that's only because of the tweaks. Without any tweaks the dCS is better. But when both are tweaked to the max, the EMU is the best because of shorter signal path and lower wattage.

I made a long thread about the dCS Verdi Encore noise problem over Firewire, I couldn't fix it. There was noise running through the Firewire cable and I could reduce the problem by fine tuning the amount of RGC-24 Ground Conditioners on each side of the cable.

I tweaked further by mass dampening the speakers. I found that the mass dampening made a far greater improvement than adding Magix between Feet of Silence and speakers. I got loads more resolution and depth in the music.

I was using books to mass dampen the speakers but I didn't manage to make it look pretty enough, even if I did, the tweaking would never stop. I have much more ERS Paper tweaks to do as well as room treatments. Some day my wife will come home and see egg crates taped to the walls among other things, but it won't stop there, I will continue until the tweaks will be so extreme that there will be lethal injuries. So I decided to stop and removed the Magix under the speakers as well as the ERS Paper around the Valhalla interconnect. It sounded very white end edgy with lack of resoluton. Then I put the Magix back and I heard smooth whiteness which came from RFI/EMI + Magix veil.

I discovered that in an overly bright and edgy system, using Magix will smoothen out the brightness which will give fake realism similar to a nude, short and fat Valhalla power cord (link). However, the Magix doesn't reduce resolution like the Valhalla power cord does, it increases it. The Magix doesn't add fake bass size either, but that I have compensated for with Synapses2 power cables (Synapses2 is like Valhalla on steroids!).

Ever since I tried Magix for the first time I have heard a similar sound as tubes, it was very silky but it didn't reduce the resolution like tubes do. Magix veils the sound and makes it smoother while increasing a little bit of resolution, when adding weight on top you get more sharpness and depth while doubling the resolution, the improvement is crazy! Magix without mass dampening is only useful as a tone control for overly bright systems.

Traveling with underage girl in airplane requires two adults to be present so I won't be able to take her to Nordost factory. However, the rules might be different when she is my wife. If the customs at USA won't let me through, I will go to Canada to Virtual Dynamics factory.