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I'm curious, just how small can a tweak or device be and still be effective. In other words, how small is too small?
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and one Eve.
"Suppose an ant is sitting on a particular edge of a rock, and if suppose from that edge it moves even one inch from east to the west and due to this if the rocks gets shaken, it may cause a big earthquake – because of this tiny ant."
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
One day, he couldn't resist his impulses any longer and ran up the elephant's back leg as she strolled by...then he mounted her, making sweet mouse love to her glorious female parts.
As she continues walking, she stepped on a large thorn and said, "Ouch!"
The male redoubled his efforts, and said, "Take it, bitch."
I suppose that ant may congratulate himself for having had such a large impact on his surroundings. He'd certainly qualify as a tweak manufacturer, for sure!
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Has a much longer story- the elephant gets a thorn stuck, offers the mouse anything to pull it, he pulls it and tells the elephant his wish is to bang her, she agrees, a monkey sees this and starts laughing so hard he shakes a coconut loose which bonks the elephant's head. The rest you can figure out.
Not sure which I prefer- the laughing monkey adds something but jokes are best when the story's short.
Bass is supposed to sound big. 6.5" is not a woofer size.
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Tony was addressing 'The Butterfly Effect' which is something else altogether....
Too much is never enough
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Actually, the smallest tweak is both massless and invisible.
Just be in a better or more receptive.....mood.
Everything sounds better when you are in a receptive state.
Too much is never enough
it works on a molecular level and effects the standard tweak-dom attribute list; more air, more space, and of course....deeper bass.
And no, I am not paying you any 'royalties' for use of your essences. You have to get a DNA test like everyone else.
Besides, not sure we can count aroma therapy as an actual audio tweak.
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As tiny as a resistor or transistor.
As thin as the gossamer diameter of an electrostatic speaker.
Perhaps some of the controversial tweaks affect no more than a few micrograms worth of neurons! No matter how you 'believe' they work, or not.
Maybe if you pose the question in terms of room acoustics, psychology, system based tweaks, etc....
20 micrograms of lysergide placed in the proper location might have a huge impact on one's perceived perception of his system.
1/2,2679,618 of a pound!
Well, I was kind of hoping to focus on tweaks - since this IS Tweakers" Asylum and all - and avoid stylus tips, tiny screws that hold the cartridge to the headshell, ultrathin tonearm cables, the CD laser, the photons from the laser, the electrons moving around in cables, things of that nature.
Geoff, there are aftermarket cartridge screws, upgraded cartridge wires, etc....that are certainly worthy of being considered tweaks.
There are those who claim some tweaks can affect how CD laser photons get from point A to point B, as well. CD mats, pen tweaks for the edges of a CD - that would be almost a nanometer thickness tweak, if you think it is a tweak.
Not sure why the chauvinism about what meets your criteria to be considered a "tweak."
Google a product you don't seem to be aware of called "Stylast" and tell us if it qualifies for your tweak question and how you would rate it according to your size qualifications.
Tweaks are more than something some so-called manufacturer may buy and repackage as a "tweak," you know.
What is the thickness of mu metal foil? Does it meet your criteria?
If we are on one of your secret "Let's talk about me, Geoff, without me actually saying it's about that" threads, let us know up front.
Otherwise, there are many small 'tweaks' that can make relatively large sonic differences!
I haven't noticed a significant benefit (and it may be bacause I tend to freshen up my connections) but as small a thing as a contact enhancing compound that makes for better maintenance of electrical connections may operate at the micrometer or smaller level, as well.
Proper grounding is a pet tweak of mine, and there is no specific size requirement, but that may also be an example of a 'small' tweak that works with a micrometer range of contact, as well.
Microfiber carbon brushing may work at the level of individual LP grooves to have a sonic benefit. An LP groove can be 5 microns in width at the lowest tracking point.
A D'Stat gun can tweak an LP at the level of free electrons. Pretty damn small!
I would think that in some cases there are tweaks which may, on their own, be too small/slight to have an audible effect but which in combination with other small/slight tweaks are sufficient to cause a just noticeable difference to the listener.
We are discussing this in terms of an average or ideal listener because I would also think that due to individual differences there are going to be listeners who notice a difference and those who do not because of hearing acuity/sensitivity differences.
And finally, not to put too fine a point on the matter, there's the whole area of when is different better and when is it just another set of trade-offs which may appeal to some listeners but not to others?
or possibly something even smaller.How small is the Teleportation Tweak, for example, since on the user's end it apparently takes up no room or space?
To answer your question, an effective tweak is as big as it needs to be and as small as it can be to work.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
Edits: 08/18/11
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