OK - I'm letting it go.
Last night a visiting audiophile from the planet Tharg dropped by and
installed a Faraday cage around my house. The immediate reduction in
background hash was dramatic and obvious. Apparently on Tharg these are
all the rage and the best ones are rhodium plated. However, they are a
touch expensive. Fortunately the Thargian had managed to pick up an
ex-dem model which was luckily the right size for my humble abode.
After many hours of careful a/b'ing we agreed that the cage was pretty
much staying. We also tried some solar panels but the central
wavelength of light of the Tharg sun is different to ours and results
were inconclusive. Also it transpires that sunspot activity can cause
spikes in the panels that create an effect called "solar jitter". The
Thargian Audiophile Society (TAS) are considering erecting a wall of
solar damping foam between their sun and Tharg in order to counteract
this effect. These guys are certainly dedicated.
He's taken an SB3 back to Tharg - apparently they're quite keen on the
whole "disk based server" concept but there are concerns about
intergalactic product return policies.
Anyway, as a parting gift he left behind a small vial of Edge Shaper
nanobots. You pour these onto your digital cable and they burrow
inside, travel along the cable to the SPDIF DAC connector and wait for
the analogue waveform carrying the digital data to arrive. If they
detect any malformed ("leaning edges" according to the accompanying
brochure) edge transitions, they prop them up so they are perfectly
straight, ensuring perfect edge transition detection in the DAC. Oh,
and also any edges that are early or late get corrected too. it's too
early to say if they make a difference but I noticed a funny smell
coming from my DAC today so I opened it up and instead of a bunch of
components there's now a blob of purple goo...anyway, still sounds
pretty good. So good in fact that I can finally put my trusty 8-track
on Ebay...
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Phil Leigh
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