Another new sound system

[Outside_Lookin_in]

You'll also need equipment for measuring and mixing

 

[Michael W]

Surely the obvious next step is t

I've never used MS Teams before. Has anyone here used it? Does it work well on a Mac laptop?

I use Teams every day on a Mac & it works fine. It's basically cloud versions of Word, Excel etc. I've only used the meeting app once, it is their version of Zoom.

 

[bosshoss]

Surely the obvious next step is t.

Thanks Michael. What is "t" ? does it stand for "top secret"?

 

[bosshoss]

You'll also need equipment for measuring and mixing

I already have plastic spoons and honey pots. Do you think that's good enough?

 

[bosshoss]

Exciting news. I have made major improvements with the shockingly great STB Platinum I made today. All just hanging in front of the breaker box and all 4 Dimmer/Relay boxes. The good news is - despite what I said about STB being unable to ward off bad electricity from THE GRID at certain hours of the day, I was wrong.

There is a tipping point in the STB vs. THE GRID battle, where STB wins. I have found it today. 4:30, 5:30 and now 6:30 pm, and the system sounds like midnight. I'm not sure what will happen at midnight tonight, but the fact remains, I am not longing for more fidelity than I currently have at 6:30 pm. That's never happened before.


Notice in the pic below - no wands. I haven't even got round to setting them up. Currently the STB Platinum strips are just hanging by a piece of GAF tape. As soon as I get a chance, I will stick them to the insides of the breaker/dimmer box doors. Then I will close the doors and hang the wands in front of the closed doors.

All the "B" component is gone now. Come on China!

 

[bosshoss]

 

[Michael W]

What is "t" ?

That would be a post I started ages ago & then didn't bother with, but forum software keeps it & then adds to the next post. But in answer I would say the obvious next step is to listen to Next Step 'Rivers of Hate'.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse

https://7news.com.au/business/natio...qGXoOFxOgBUJYQ6_YMjtojW-Ylb27joGeGO1ptH971kAs

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Be careful boss - at midnight you may experience transfiguration. It could be the start of a new D.C. series.

Have you been listening to your FLACS on the Kii Three or just Spotify?

 

[bosshoss]

Be careful boss - at midnight you may experience transfiguration. It could be the start of a new D.C. series.

Have you been listening to your FLACS on the Kii Three or just Spotify?

Mostly I have been listening to Spotify. It's awesome with STB. I played B86a and BHQX flacs, but they are sorely lacking, The FLACS I posted in this thread (such as Jesters "Wrong Ticket" etc.) are as good as the best Spotify mastertapes. I won't say better (yet). The bass on "Wrong Ticket" goes down to minus infinity.
It's easy to hear the difference between the FLACs I made with and without STB. Without STB in your own system, you just can't hear it.

I made a pile of FLACS (not trimmed or declicked yet) about 10 days ago, but I got caught up in STB research, and I have not posted them yet. It seems a bit pointless after the recent advances. I did all the recent requests.

 

[bosshoss]

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse

https://7news.com.au/business/natio...qGXoOFxOgBUJYQ6_YMjtojW-Ylb27joGeGO1ptH971kAs

Oh No! That will affect my Component "B" delivery from China. It's coming by courier, due for dispatch in about a week.

 

[bosshoss]

A while ago in this topic, I made a remark about the Kingsmen, and how great their sound quality was. I said that "Louie Louie" was not one of the ones that sounds particularly great. Well, I was wrong about that, my apologies. It's one of the best.

One of the strange aspects of SBT improvements, is that some recordings lie "dormant" and unchanged while several sonic improvements are made to the system, seemingly having reached the end of their run. Then suddenly one small further improvement pushes them over the edge, revealing a previously hidden aspect of sonic greatness. That's what happened to me with Louie Louie. I thought it was flat without much depth compared to other Kingsmen tracks, but there's a lot going on in the fine detail.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

I wonder what happened at midnight last night - is the boss still with us, or was he taken up to Olympus where he now sits as the new god of sound?

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

I’m sure everyone following this thread would still love to hear those flacs with or without the STB effect.

There's quite a bit of work involved with preparing flacs for release. Bosshoss doesn't just run a declicker on them, but manually processes each one to preserve the sonic integrity. I'm sure he'll do it when he has the time and motivation. But yes, I can hear the difference the SBT makes on my merely TFT'd system.

 

[sanjuro73]

There's quite a bit of work involved with preparing flacs for release. Bosshoss doesn't just run a declicker on them, but manually processes each one to preserve the sonic integrity. I'm sure he'll do it when he has the time and motivation. But yes, I can hear the difference the SBT makes on my merely TFT'd system.

Completely understood, I just wanted to let Bosshoss know how much his time and efforts in preparing them are appreciated. I’m beyond excited to receive my sample pack as well, I know it’ll be amazing!

 

[bosshoss]

I listened at midnight, and was suitably impressed. The main difference with a ton of STB Platinum is the rock solid presentation of the soundstage. And the Volume! The system just plays a lot louder at the same volume setting. As I mentioned earlier, the volume becomes a factor in the overall impression of reality. The depth is fixed by the recording, so there's no point pretending the instruments and voices are further away (or closer) than they were in the studio. Turning down the volume below realistic level, just shrinks each instrument to dwarf size and realism is shot to pieces. The same goes for too much volume. Volume distortion is just as destructive as any other form of distortion.

If you don't care about reality, it doesn't matter, obviously.

 

[bosshoss]

Completely understood, I just wanted to let Bosshoss know how much his time and efforts in preparing them are appreciated. I’m beyond excited to receive my sample pack as well, I know it’ll be amazing!

Thanks SJ!
I'll just take a paragraph to explain how STB works (subjectively) as more STB pieces are added.

If you've never experienced STB enhanced sound before, it goes like this : the first couple of pieces you use usually sort of "waft" a vague promise of freedom in the high frequencies. You wonder if it's real. It's so subtle - maybe it's just your imagination, you ponder. Then you add a couple more pieces. At this stage you start to believe it may be a temporary phenomenon. You get a little panicky. Is this a trick being played on your mind? Will it disappear in the next 5 minutes? So you add a really big piece thinking "this'll show if it's real or not!". That's when it hits you - your first flash of STB euphoria. Because a central wormhole has opened up in the stereo image that is perhaps very small, but very intense. You start to lust after more STB madness, and grab the instruction pack to actually read it this time. What else can you do with this stuff? So you try something new. It works just as well..or better! Now you start questioning your sanity, because the wormhole is expanding. It's a foot wide now, and getting more intense. Different records reveal different intensity levels. Sometimes the magic fades. Then it's back, goading you to spend yet another slice from your ever-dwindling sample pack. It goes on like this. By the time the sample pack lies crumpled and depleted on the floor, you have a sonic wormhole 2 feet wide, perhaps a little hazy...and it still does fade sometimes. Is there an answer? Is there a cure for this madness? Yes. More STB sample packs. More and more andmoreagain.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Those following this thread might be forgiven for thinking that the now obsolete alchemical mixtures were nothing to write home about; but that is not the case at all as these reposts below from an old thread will reveal. If SBT is indeed so much better than TFT - and none of us here have yet had the opportunity to bear witness to the phenomenon - then bosshoss' words, no matter how eloquent or magniloquent, can do it justice.

LISTENING SESSIONS ON MY OWN HI-FI
"I applied some of the composites developed by Taylorgraphite Inc. to the power cables of my sound system. About two hours elapsed in the time it took me to remove the cables and apply pieces of composite using the rather belligerent nanotape, and replace them; therefore it is scarcely an A/B test. Nevertheless - and I stress it could be my imagination - I thought I heard improvements in every aspect of the music, most notably:

* extended lows and highs
* improved clarity and separation of instruments
* expanded sound stage front to back
* better definition, particularly on the percussion instruments
* more natural sounding vocals
* increased dynamism
* more accurate transient reproduction
* a desire to keep listening to songs for longer than is prudent

I decided to play some modern digital recordings from about 9:00pm, and within 2 seconds of hearing the first song I knew something was up. It couldn't be my imagination, because the improvement was so obvious, nay, jaw-dropping! And I've only covered about 10% of the power cords - primarily the terminations. The thought of what a comprehensive application of composites to my sound system might do scares the living daylights out of me!"

"Today I accoutrementised * the first two inches of the wiring behind the powerpoint feeding my DAC and integrated amplifier using blue, pink and green composites. The subsequent listening session revealed greater detail and separation. Decay was also given full prominence, even poignancy. For the first time I realised that No Reason to Complain is sung "no reasons to complain". * copyright 2019"

"I have in the last few days applied the mysterious alchemical substances to the integrated amplifier and source deck in a reasonably haphazard manner. (see photos - note, I didn't treat what I took to be the video card)

Listening Sessions
I noticed an improvement in high-end detail. Bass was better defined and extended with better delivery. Air was improved as was clarity. The end result was a heightened enjoyment of the music which sounded fresh and full of vitality. It was difficult to stop listening."

"Further applications of TFT on my sound system; this time to the subwoofer as well as the integrated amp have resulted in further increases in fidelity as well as an increase in power. It's as if TFT boosts the current flow."

LISTENING SESSIONS IN THE BUNKER
"TFT4 - The Swamp Thing Emerges
Bosshoss and I had a listening session last weekend and applied TFT4 to various critical areas during the first half of the evening and beyond. You don't know that you're missing detail and realism until it's added, and it was added. Mind-boggling detail, and further removal of colouration and lowering of the sound floor, which allowed for an across the board improvement, but most noticeable was the extension and accentuation of decay. Thanks to the generosity of bosshoss, I stole away in the dead of night with samples of TFT3 & 4."

"I was fortunate enough to be graced with another listening session in the bunker last night. But what else can be said after previous accolades which I've bestowed upon the Lunar System in other reviews? A tough one, except that after a good 2 hours of being blasted with '60s punk, somehow I can see what I'm typing without glasses this morning. It occurred to me at some point while analysing the sound, that sound stage had ceased to be relevant, and was in fact an artefact of inferior hi-fi's. Dimentionality has replaced sound stage. Every instrument (and vocal) fills the room, yet each one occupies a separate space. It's not so much as if the band is playing in the room (although with some recordings it's a very small stretch of the imagination to place them there), but as if you're inside the engineer's console. TFT3 is extremely revealing, and perhaps only 40% of what I'm hearing is making it into the FLACS. The full texture of every string, and of every percussive strike is manifest, along with the finest nuances, not only from the playing but also from the equipment. I was hearing 2nd and 3rd harmonics as well. Death Is a Dream had now lost its mystique - its complexity finally unravelled - but was still intensely beautiful. I asked bosshoss to play Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice, and I knew it was wild, but it took me completely by surprise nonetheless. What TFT3 does for that song is impossible to adequately convey in words, but it was as if someone had 'strike a match, blast my face, burn off my hair'. Easily the highlight of the evening. Bosshoss and I were compelled to rate it 14 out of 10."

 

[bosshoss]

Good analysis Daniel.
I'm surprised your STB samples haven't arrived yet. I sent them via post on Sept 29.
STB and TFT are the same thing really, just the potency is much higher with STB, thereby making it more useful for cables etc. because you can actually thinly wrap them with excellent results. I would say STB is at least 5 times more powerful than TFT per gram (conservative estimate).

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Good analysis Daniel.
I'm surprised your STB samples haven't arrived yet. I sent them via post on Sept 29.
STB and TFT are the same thing really, just the potency is much higher with STB, thereby making it more useful for cables etc. because you can actually thinly wrap them with excellent results. I would say STB is at least 5 times more powerful than TFT per gram (conservative estimate).

Do you have a tracking number? The courier will take a photo as proof of delivery if the item is tracked. I didn't know you had sent them, as you said you would notify us the tracking numbers when you did.