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Originally Posted by Skye /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I would be very interested to hear how the same cable-modded amp without the quartz resonators compares to the stock amp. I was just reading a review on the QR-8 resonators, and I smell snake oil. What do you think?
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Ahhh-----hahahahaha! wait a minute...hahahahaha!
Ahem... ok... I'm done..
It's been really important for me, as a dealer, not to delve too much into "tweaks" for that very reason. I don't want for things to appear that I'm bordering on "stake oil"... My words, not yours and why your concern hits me the way that it does.
I gotta tell you... The importer that I get these things from has a representative in San Diego and I'm just a little too accessible to him.
He'd bring over the very power cable that I mentioned or the Acoustic Revive RD-3 disc demagnetizer or these quartz resonators and we'd press them into use. Look, I hate spending money like the next guy but if I can hear a difference, flags go up and I have to ask if it's an improvement or a negative. Of course, what follows is "should I carry it?"
At some point last year, I had to ask Neil (my rep), not to darken my doorway for a while (I was half-kidding) because I can't keep buying goofy little tweaks when I need to spend that money towards real electronics (amps, preamps, speakers, etc.)
but this stuff works... and it does so every time.
Very recently, I showed a customer of mine the ACOUSTIC REVIVE RR-77 and explained what it is supposed to do (it's a low frequency generator). He looked at me and told me that had he known we were going to go down such a path, that he'd have brought along his bong. Hence my concern.
There is a point where people are going to look at you cross eyed and wonder what in the world you're thinking. The deal is, I had the disc demagnetizer here to play with for a week. When Neil came by to pick up his sample from me the following Friday, not only did I have an order for a dealer demo but I also gave him an order for 5 more units for customers that had come by and I showed them what it did. They each ordered one on the spot.
These quartz tuning dots really do work too. There are reviews of all these things on 6moons.com and Positive Feedback online. I'm sure there are others too.
I see them as a great way to move noise and/or glare out of your room and equipment for a fraction of the price of a new component (that would also likely benefit from using them also, anyway).
Sorry for the laughter at the beginning of this post. It's just that I played right into your concern by showing those photos - and realized my fear as a dealer-gone-too-far.