So I decided to try one of my two ESD mats https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255800802056793.html under my laptop, monitor and cables today. The difference is monumental. I was trying to counterbalance a bit of thin-ness due to a few other system changes, and boy let me tell you! It did all that and more!!! The bass has a purity and heft I may have never experienced before, the highs manage to be even more detailed without being bright, soundstage is overall better. ABsolutely no joke: my heart actually skipped a beat when I heard it at first, and it's like I'm listening to every song for the first time. This combined with countless dozens of other tweaks has taken my system to a very spiritual groove, and I can't help but start to dancing all the time!
Interestingly I had already thought I reached a plateau of performance with the other ESD mat which still rests under my power conditioner, then realizing how these mats sucked the life out of the sound under my desktop rig (amp, DDC, etc.) I just shelved the other one. But I am very lucky I happened to try the other one under my computer. Do note these work best with all associated cabling resting on top of it as well, and for me I put the aligator clamp around a spare bit of silver faraday tape I have around my HDMI cable which certainly didn't hurt the sound. I also placed 50 duro sorbothane sheet cutouts under all 4 corners of my laptop for an even more refined sound.
Interestingly I had already thought I reached a plateau of performance with the other ESD mat which still rests under my power conditioner, then realizing how these mats sucked the life out of the sound under my desktop rig (amp, DDC, etc.) I just shelved the other one. But I am very lucky I happened to try the other one under my computer. Do note these work best with all associated cabling resting on top of it as well, and for me I put the aligator clamp around a spare bit of silver faraday tape I have around my HDMI cable which certainly didn't hurt the sound. I also placed 50 duro sorbothane sheet cutouts under all 4 corners of my laptop for an even more refined sound.
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