http://www.positive-feedback.com/pfbackissues/0705/vansevers.7n5.html
A friend of mine swears this dude is completely legit. I'm not trying to be biased but so far I'm not a believer. This guy sold/gave him this wooden clamp with some copper in/on it. He swears if you clamp it to the power chord of your amp and move it up and down (to and from the tranny basically) you can hear an audible difference in quality and that it can improve the sound big enough that average joes can hear it.
Also, simply tightening or loosening certain screws in a headshell - even the wood used to make the headshell - can make an audible difference to even an average listener.
I'm currently trying to convince my friend to do a mic'ed test so I can make it a blind comparison as I'm extremely curious, but not sold. Didn't find anything through the search about this guy so I wanted to see if anyone here has heard of him or his claims. There is an article he wrote some time ago regarding his theories. It is explained quite well and he has a couple of tests he thinks people should try and apparently that will show you he's not a nutjob. Haven't tried them yet.
He also claimed, on his now shut down website www.vansevers.com, that audio can sound way better or way worse depending on which way you orient the cable. For example, a guitar cable has two ends, END A and END B. Take your guitar and plug END A into it, END B into the amp. Sounds normal, like a guitar into an amp, right? He claims, basically, that if you take END A and put it in the amp and END B into the guitar that it will have a better or worse sound than before. And all cables perform this way.
Those that can't be arsed to read the article above, I'll give you a quick glimpse here. He says that if you take something like a component audio system, the kind that are big and you have like a big thing for the FM receiver and a big unit for tapes and a big unit for CDs, you know - old school audiophile style? If you take that and listen to some audio you are familiar with and then put keys, jewel cases, coins, etc. on the CD player it will make an audible difference. More exact, make it more bright and such. Take them off and it'll be normal, which is "dull" in comparison.
I dunno.. I'm curious to see what you guys think/say haha.
A friend of mine swears this dude is completely legit. I'm not trying to be biased but so far I'm not a believer. This guy sold/gave him this wooden clamp with some copper in/on it. He swears if you clamp it to the power chord of your amp and move it up and down (to and from the tranny basically) you can hear an audible difference in quality and that it can improve the sound big enough that average joes can hear it.
Also, simply tightening or loosening certain screws in a headshell - even the wood used to make the headshell - can make an audible difference to even an average listener.
I'm currently trying to convince my friend to do a mic'ed test so I can make it a blind comparison as I'm extremely curious, but not sold. Didn't find anything through the search about this guy so I wanted to see if anyone here has heard of him or his claims. There is an article he wrote some time ago regarding his theories. It is explained quite well and he has a couple of tests he thinks people should try and apparently that will show you he's not a nutjob. Haven't tried them yet.
He also claimed, on his now shut down website www.vansevers.com, that audio can sound way better or way worse depending on which way you orient the cable. For example, a guitar cable has two ends, END A and END B. Take your guitar and plug END A into it, END B into the amp. Sounds normal, like a guitar into an amp, right? He claims, basically, that if you take END A and put it in the amp and END B into the guitar that it will have a better or worse sound than before. And all cables perform this way.
Those that can't be arsed to read the article above, I'll give you a quick glimpse here. He says that if you take something like a component audio system, the kind that are big and you have like a big thing for the FM receiver and a big unit for tapes and a big unit for CDs, you know - old school audiophile style? If you take that and listen to some audio you are familiar with and then put keys, jewel cases, coins, etc. on the CD player it will make an audible difference. More exact, make it more bright and such. Take them off and it'll be normal, which is "dull" in comparison.
I dunno.. I'm curious to see what you guys think/say haha.
