Another new sound system

Block Appeal?

Your Pretty Block Is Going To Hell? (probably not that one).

Brick Trip ?

Or aiming for a slightly older demographic - "Block Around The Clock" ?

I'll stop there. Before we get to "I'm Dreaming Of A Block Christmas"

Or it could be something topical like "Indulge your Block Privilege"
 
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Michael W said:
Block in my Pocket
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Beautiful!!!

That's it. That's the winner. A photo of Iggy cruisin' down the ol' highway in a Cadillac Coupe De Ville convertible with a big grin on his face, and a huge STB Block shoving up through his pants. That's gold!
Forget the photo, make it a full length video with Iggy singing "Block In My Pocket" and Williamson in the passenger seat with his axe.
Do you think they'd be interested, for a lifetime supply of STB Blocks?
 
Here's what I did with the Big P5S sheet just now - I dropped it temporarily behind the wooden sideboard where the stereo is. You can see it if you look closely under the sideboard at the back. The bricks have met their match, haha!

This shows me just how much further STB can still go. It is truly infinite. The wooden sideboard now sounds like it is jumping 3 feet in the air when the kick drum sounds on certain recordings. STB just works relentlessly on the foundation of the sound - the bass, and everything else follows. Not more bass, just better bass. Still the right balance, but totally awesome. The airiness and higher frequency images go floor to ceiling and beyond.

also notice I have removed the highly treated ugly power cords and replaced them with lightly treated Chinese $10 power cables. With this much STB, you don't even need good cables. It's actually probably true that all cables sound the same. Once the dirty electricity problem is gone, you don't need to solve the same problem twice. STB could potentially put high end cable manufacturers out of business. Certainly high end power cables, and probably interconnects as well. Not sure about speaker cables, but probably them as well.

Possibly amplifiers and preamplifiers as well. "All amplifiers (with the same power ratings) sound the same" - may turn out to be true after all. At least mostly true, I think vibration control will always play a small part.

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Just an update - I'm making a ton of P5S for the bricks. As I make the big sheets, I just drape them over the stool under the stairs in the breaker box room. I have 3 draped there now. The sound quality just keeps drastically improving, every time. Currently the SQ is the highest ever achieved on earth. I know that for certain. The volume keeps increasing. I now set the volume digital readout at 74 instead of 81.
 
I have moved the massive sheets around the house. It hardly seems to matter where they are. The SQ stays roughly the same no matter where you put them. They don't even have to be in the same room. They are slightly better under the stairs near the breaker box, but not all that much different from putting them in the hall or kitchen.

This effect only happens when you have a MASSIVE amount of STB. I think a huge brick would probably be the same only more so. You could just have a huge brick built into the house somewhere (preferably near the breaker box) and, dirty electricity problem solved. I estimate the brick would have to be about as big as a shoebox. It would cost about $400 in materials to make (about $200 in magnetic sheeting, and $200 in ingredients, plus a lot of work).

Maybe 4 smaller bricks would work better. I don't know (yet). I'm also very suspicious that the sheets work best straight after I bring them in from drying in the sun. Or late at night. Last night at 12 midnight was just unbelievable.
 
Ooops I wrote $2500 in ingredients - I meant $200. $2500 worth of ingredients would be serious sized brick! :boggle:

When you get your brick, you'll be able to walk into a hi-fi shop with your "Block In Your Pocket" , and all the stereos in the store will sound better. And when you leave, they'll all sound worse again. :lol: And you'll get invited to parties just so you can stand there and improve the sound.
 
Okay , some observations from my session with the now obsolete early STB covering the breaker box and the wall outlet for my system . As I expected the definition of the soundstage and tightness of each instrument went up a couple of notches , what surprised me was the amount of ambience that was added especially to the cruder recordings . The Fourth Amendment was a great example , it sounded like I was in their rehearsal room . My absolute fave - I was working the "F" box - was the Five Of A Kind - I Don't Want To Find Another Girl . The notes seemed to keep lingering in the air for a few extra seconds in the studio . I'm really looking forward to what the new STB will be able to reveal....
 
With massive levels of STB, it's the bass that you will notice first, until you also notice the treble and everything else. But somehow it's the bass that seems most radically improved to me each time. And you keep having to turn down the volume.

What I have realised is this - I am slowly but surely upgrading all my electronic equipment and cables to the best in the world. Only better. Basically, the amplifiers and cables are approaching "perfect", because the electricity is approaching perfect. This is what massive STB does.
 
bosshoss said:
Ooops I wrote $2500 in ingredients - I meant $200. $2500 worth of ingredients would be serious sized brick! :boggle:

When you get your brick, you'll be able to walk into a hi-fi shop with your "Block In Your Pocket" , and all the stereos in the store will sound better. And when you leave, they'll all sound worse again. :lol: And you'll get invited to parties just so you can stand there and improve the sound.
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WILL I SCORE SOME CHICKS ONCE AGAIN?
 
I upgraded my iPhone 6 for an iPhone 10 recently (yes, I depend on hand-me-downs). The other day, I finally got around to transferring my stuff to the new phone and, as I often used to do with my iPhone 6, plugged it into my car stereo to listen to music. I wasn't expecting any difference as I use the digital output, and my car stereo does the ad/c, so I was surprised to clearly hear an improvement in the sound quality. This reminded me of Mark's comment about different MacBooks having different digital sound quality - also unexpected as we've long been told "digital is digital"; but obviously that's not the case at all. I'm now wondering if a patch of SBT stuck on the back of my iPhone 10 will boost the fidelity to a new level.
 
This is what has to happen if you are interested in getting audio quality directly from the sonic gods

You need about 6 hi-B STB Cass-Blocks. You need to get an electrician to open the breaker/fuse box panel and mount 5 of the Cass-Blocks inside the panel, at strategic and safe places, near or better still touching the mains wires using double sided Nanotape (Alien Tape or whatever it's called). Or screwed to the wall or supporting beams using brackets etc.

Mount the 6th Cass-Block on the wall outlet feeding your stereo.

I'm not saying that's even possible. But that's how to do it. I have done it, except change the words "strategic", "safe" and "mount", to "random", "dangerous" and "toss".

Even doing it the crazy way, the results are insane.
 
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