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I just got an email about these with a very good coupon offer. The $49 product is free if you pay the $5 shipping. These are a passive device you attach to the usual places: interconnects, AC cables, speaker wire, transformers etc.
Anyone try them yet? Anyone have an idea what they consist of?
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I just installed these tubes in my system as directed...on the interconnects on the amp side. After only a few minutes, the benefits were quite clear. At least SOME of the hash between instruments was removed which revealed a clarity ...an openness, that wasn't there before. Recommended.
Hey, Magic Tube! That's what my ex-wife used to call it. Alas, much of the magic is gone, and my system needs some enhancement.
Here's just the thing. Don't know what they're made from, but it appears it could be some type of oil filling. I wonder where they would obtain the proper type of oil to deflect, damp, and absorb extraneous EMF radiation and general bad vibrations?
Peace,
Tom E
No, there's no oil in them. It's a mixture of several powders. Also nothing to do with mechanical damping as far as I can tell.
When the word magic is cited with very little other in info all I can think of is medicine oil salesmen in B westerns. Gordon Holt got it right in his article on how to write an audio ad. The less there is to a product the more you claim for it. Intelligent people will, of course, see through it. But they'd never buy it any way. The more gullible will fall for it.
The only sad thing here is the rare piece of magic that actually works. And we just haven't figured out how it does yet. I'll probably miss on that.
especially when the company is called Mad Scientist Audio.
But that's just me.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Magic Marker, Magic Soap, Masala Magic, Magic Mix, Magic Stix, Aroma Magic, Magic Mop, Egyptian Magic, Blue Magic, Magic Eraser, Magic Tap, Magic Mazaa, Magic Slicer, Magic Spray, Magic the Gathering, Magic Heat, Magic Flame, Magic Software, Magic Shoot, Magic Johnson, etc, etc.
Snake Oil must be commoner than we thought.
I suspect someone added a couple drops to her hip joints!YEA!
Oh, to be that butterfly....
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
Edits: 08/21/15
Only get concerned when there is no explanation of how it works, although, if I get a good price, I would by a VPI Magic Brick for nostalgia's sake. I am a vintage guy. I also find the word Quantum in a products name to raise my suspension. In both cases, I wouldn't write the product off. It just makes me wary when it concerns audio.
Dave
I recently asked VPI for a Magic Brick....they would check around to see if they could find one. Nope....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-VPI-DB-5-Magic-Brick-/351482490219?hash=item51d5fd2d6b
They do come up from time to time. That seems to be the going price. However, I am lazy and want it for cheap! That's more than I paid for form my Linn LP-12!
Dave
Just look at what you get for $49 !
-reub
w/coupon code Mr. Naysayer. So now lets here your next useless smart-alec-y remark. I'm sure you have a follow up.
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Edits: 08/14/15 08/14/15
LOL, yes. $5 is not the real price. That $5 probably covers only the manufacturing and shipping costs.
-reub
LOL, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. One thing for sure is you don't know.
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Nice work by Radio Wonder on trying different placement locations.
I have ordered my trial 2 pack. Has any one bought the 12 pack yet?
unclestu made this post on the grounding thread...http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=tweaks&m=198926
Quote: "I have done some experimentation , a la Purist audio, and filled a tube around a ground buss bar with ferrofluid EMF field. Wrapping a copper wire around that tube to cope with the E field imparts a remarkable quality to the sound of an audio component. Deeper bass, more dynamics and a quieter background."
So I installed a Magic Tube in the Circuit Breaker Panel on the main Ground Cable that connects to the Ground Buss Terminal...
I am getting very positive results on all three of my different systems...
Warning... This should only be done by a qualified person... Hire an electrician if you are not qualified...
Note: Ground is identified by Green Tape on red cable cable...
It passed inspection...
Edits: 08/13/15
Because the Magic Tube worked so well on the Circuit Breaker Panel Ground Cable I decided to continue the Magic Tube placement on another Ground application...
This time on my Star Grounding Block adjacent to the Synergistic Research Frequency Equalizer (FEQ), that is also tied into the Star Grounding System...
Note all Ground leads are #10 gauge wire...
....the Blu-tak vibration control device. :--}
It is holding down all those components in the photo and the DIY Power Strip with three MSA Kegs that supplies power to the S.R. FEQ...
Also using 10 Mad Scientist Audio Kegs (Regular Model)in four different locations... See unclestu's review of these wonderful small gems...
http://www.audiodirectionltd.com/kegs-by-msa.html
I purchased the Blu Tack 12 Pack #801103 from a UK seller on Amazon...
$23.52... Theses are the larger packs, 60g...
A car audio grounding block.....
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I see in the pic you still have alan maher's cbfs...
they are good too!
Lucky You Live Hawaii
I don't know if you are in contact with Alan, but hos work has moved into a different dimension.
I was totally blown away with the Magic Tubes!!!!
Amazing transparency and lowered noise floor...
I swear, I could almost see the dust floating in the recording studio...
Very expansive soundstage with excellent placement of instruments and singers...
Wonderful micro & macro dynamics...
Very easy to tell the difference in quality of the original studio recording...
My Magic Tubes are sitting on top of sample BlackDiscus on the positive side of my speaker cable at my Marantz PM-11S3...
I biamp so I'll be putting mine of the L/R out from my DAC
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It's an off shoot of Jack Bybee's C13 ideas
Been using it fpr quite some time now
I have to state that Magic Tubes are substantially different to what Stu thinks.
I imagine that's all you'll have to say on the subject. Please prove me wrong : )
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Anyone try them yet?
I've tried them. First, on the speaker cables. Made no difference I could hear so I moved them to the amp end of the passive pre-amp > amp interconnects. Made a positive difference there, hard to describe beyond "better". I'll be ordering some shortly.
Anyone have an idea what they consist of?
Yeah. A short glass tube with some sandy-looking stuff inside. They feel slightly warm, glow faintly in the dark, look cute.
Disclaimer. That last bit's a joke. They don't get warm and, no, they don't glow in the dark. That they do have a benefical effect in my system (subject to placement) is true.
Hopefully, this thread will be more civilised than prior ones on MSA products.
here's a better (more informative) link that STILL doesn't answer your questions. Linky below.
Degrades on contact with air? Peaks my interest.
Unfortunately I haven't been financially able to try any Mad Scientist tweaks yet (and misplaced
the BD samples they sent me way back - *(%g$&NXX$!!!!).
When I'm able to drop some dough on tweaks again I'm looking forward to experimenting with theirs.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Not you , musetap, I know you know better!
I hope you would do the same for me.
Small world! Just received an email from MSA with an offer for two free Magic Tubes, shipping charge only!
Need to follow up, and try to NOT misplace them. Nice offer (and a blessing) from them!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I sent for my two free tubes. Pay shipping of $5
I use some of there power chords in my system. Very good
Alan
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