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In Reply to: The ultimate CD tweak is Machina Dynamica's Codename Turquoise... posted by Wellfed on April 17, 2007 at 11:04:17:
tried it for a couple weeks and realized that whereas at first the music sounded somewhat more "focused" and, in a sense, coherent, too much of the life and vitality was drained from it, the highs somewhat diminished and the air pretty much ...evaporated. I left this tweak in for a good two weeks, played many familiar (and some new) CDs to make sure it wasn't my imagination, and when I removed it things resorted to a previous level of satisfaction: the life had returned!Didn't add or subtract anything else or otherwise tweak or alter my system during the two weeks the Turquoise was in.
Tried it, didn't like it. I was rather surprised by this, as I think the concept is pretty solid and I really expected diferent results. Such is life...
This, of course won't prevent me from trying different tweaks in future.
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Follow Ups:
Did you try experimenting with using a little less of this product? Perhaps it is a matter of fine-tuning your system with this tweak. I'd be curious what maybe half of the amount applied would do. Like dampening a room, one can actually over-dampen a room's acoustics to make for a dull sound.
That's a mighty fine point there! I may try that with the Turquoise tweak...A few years back, when I dampend the inside of my Jolida, I initially over did it and and it sucked the life out of the music/machine. Took a while to de-dampen to the proper amount...
Good idea, thanks!
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
You're welcome. Please keep us posted on your results if you do further experimenting. I look forward to hearing from you as I also am considering this tweak for my McCormack UDP-1 Universal player. Sometimes a little goes a long way.
several years ago when it first came out. Outstanding player. And would you believe McCormack is located just a mile down the road?
...it's always something, isn't it?Did you experience a gain in resolution? I occasionally find that some resolution gains result in a too distant perspective for my tastes. I usually, but not always, leave those tweaks in place and find that a tweak here or there ends up alleviating that condition.
For more "casual" listening, or filling our small apartment with wonderful music, the Turquoise tweak seemed to present a noticible improvement.For more "critical" listening, or seated in the sweetest spot, I actually heard less resolution and presentation of more subtle aspects of sound delivery, such as the artist's breathing (Starker, Jordi Savall) on solo cello or viola de gamba recordings, less of the resiny tinge of the bow, less of the lip smack from Buddy Guy on his Blues Singer recording, less of the ambience of the chirping crickets on Santana's "Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation"...
These are subtle things and possibly I should be more concerned with the music than of extraneous... recorded sounds...that make up the overall presentation of the recording, but these things added up to my missing them when noticing they had essentially disappeared. Seems the recording studio brought into my room lost a little of its liveliness and detail. I just wasn't enjoying listening to music quite as much.
It IS always something, and it's those little things (and sounds) in life that make a difference. I'm glad I tried the tweak, was very pleased to deal with Geof at MD (he runs a very professional operation) and happy you're enjoying this tweak.
It just didn't do it for my system or ears...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
In my system it simply provided more of just about everything. I don't recall a single drawback. In fact, it was in the top half dozen system upgrades I've ever experienced. Not quite in the class of my recent Zu subwoofer experience, but relatively close.
they have served me well in the many years I played bass in bands (and for fun!), took music lessons, edited tapes for a former radio program I co-produced, use to play-grade records, use when walking a busy city street or identifying the birds in the yard, at the Symphony the other day, etc.The ears that, in fact, I chose my system to please!
I may try the tweak again with Sherod's suggestion of using less material. We'll see, or hear, I guess...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Something didn't turn out right for you in yours. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, Sherod's suggestion nets you.
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"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
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