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post #1 of 179
10/26/06 at 6:48am
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Part1a (no audio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHPYjJs7GMk
Part1b (no audio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1edo6Wg8C8

Part2 (audio and subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgsR4TiBwug


Pictures of part1 (stills from video)






















I used a few dozen sheets of ERS Paper and a roll of scotch tape to cover the whole system. When using too little tape it comes loose after a few days, especially if the paper is bent. Many small pieces is the way to go.
The paper can't be touching anything, otherwise it sounds muddy. See pictures, you see paper is hanging with scotch tape, only the tape is touching Valhalla, nothing else.
You also need to cover the edges of the ERS paper to reduce the risk of short-circuits if you put inside the chassis.

The improvement for Valhalla power cable was deeper bass and blacker background, it has the bass of PS Audio xStream Statement cable while keeping the speed! The improvement in resolution was crazy. It sounds like a cable that would cost 10 times more, it has no weaknesses at all. You only need 5 sheets per 2 meter cable to do it, a hundred bucks!
A video guide on how to tweak the Valhalla is coming soon...


Here are higher quality videos if you want to save: Part1 and Part2
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post #2 of 179
10/26/06 at 8:45am
I may not be a psychiatrist but I know insanity when I see it.
post #3 of 179
10/26/06 at 8:47am
the Borat of audio is what we have here.
post #4 of 179
10/26/06 at 8:51am
I'm not into the audio side enough to know so forgive me. Is this the sort of things audiophiles usually do to get the performance they are looking for ?

Art
post #5 of 179
10/26/06 at 8:54am
I'm glad you don't post in surgery websites.
post #6 of 179
10/26/06 at 9:22am
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Originally Posted by Art Sonneborn View Post

I'm not into the audio side enough to know so forgive me. Is this the sort of things audiophiles usually do to get the performance they are looking for ?

Art

Art,

I have seen similar overkill with Shakti stones. What ValhallaPC/Patrick's tweaks are doing is very, very equivalent.

Patrick's hifi setup is now starting to resemble Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain

As an engineer, I'm trying to determine how one would actually measure RF/EMI radiation around these points, before and after tweaks.

- Steve O.
post #7 of 179
10/26/06 at 9:41am
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Originally Posted by Art Sonneborn View Post

I'm not into the audio side enough to know so forgive me. Is this the sort of things audiophiles usually do to get the performance they are looking for ?

Art

If they do, then I am the farthest possible from that definition of audiophile.
post #8 of 179
10/26/06 at 10:11am
Well what type of tape are you using to hold it together? Surely that too must have a great effect on the sonics as well.
post #9 of 179
10/26/06 at 10:20am
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Originally Posted by ValhallaPC View Post

You only need 5 sheets per 2 meter cable to do it, a hundred bucks!

$20 per sheet? Of paper?

Sanjay
post #10 of 179
10/26/06 at 10:25am
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$20 per sheet? Of paper?

Sanjay

Maybe the paper is the kind the U.S. Mint uses
post #11 of 179
10/26/06 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by sdurani View Post

$20 per sheet? Of paper?

Sanjay

I just had to google it.

http://www.stillpoints.us/Pages/ers_cloth.htm

http://www.tnt-audio.com/accessories/ers_cloth_e.html

post #12 of 179
10/26/06 at 11:02am
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$20 per sheet? Of paper?

If they sell you only 500 at a time, you'd be reamed literally and figuratively, too.

--Andre
post #13 of 179
10/26/06 at 11:35am
You just know some company is going to be selling audiophile approved 'shielding' in 200 sq/ft rolls for the bargain price of only $75 each......

Audiophile approved shielding.....

Shawn
post #14 of 179
10/26/06 at 11:37am
glad my kids aren't around all that paper....
post #15 of 179
10/26/06 at 11:50am
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You just know some company is going to be selling audiophile approved 'shielding' in 200 sq/ft rolls for the bargain price of only $75 each......

Audiophile approved shielding.....

Shawn

I understand that if you make a hat from it you can't hear the voices that tell you your stereo sounds bad.
post #16 of 179
10/26/06 at 12:06pm
Objective testing that the hats work....

Shawn
post #17 of 179
10/26/06 at 12:51pm
^^^ leave it to the MIT boyz..... lol
post #18 of 179
10/26/06 at 2:36pm
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If they sell you only 500 at a time, you'd be reamed literally and figuratively, too.

Ream. Paper. You're so punny Andre.

I wish I knew origami. I'd buy some of that $20 paper and fold it into cable elevators.

Sanjay
post #19 of 179
10/26/06 at 3:04pm
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Objective testing that the hats work....

Shawn

post #20 of 179
10/26/06 at 4:02pm
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^^^ leave it to the MIT boyz..... lol

You'll probably like the JIR if you like the MIT paper.
post #21 of 179
10/26/06 at 5:28pm
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I understand that if you make a hat from it you can't hear the voices that tell you your stereo sounds bad.

Already tried it.



I didn't hear a difference so I removed it.
post #22 of 179
10/27/06 at 4:56am
This is just too much!
post #23 of 179
10/27/06 at 5:12am
Good news for Blu r. . . I mean HD DV . . . . . ummm

Good GOD!! Valhalla! ARE YOU INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
post #24 of 179
10/27/06 at 7:51am
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Nice WAF project
post #25 of 179
10/27/06 at 10:00am
A sucker born every...... WOW this guy lost money not only to the paper, but PSAudio as well. I am sure the cables he uses are just as snake oily
post #26 of 179
10/27/06 at 11:08am
What?
LL
post #27 of 179
10/27/06 at 11:14am
All I have to say is "HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!"
post #28 of 179
10/27/06 at 11:26am
Does this tie in somehow to the high end toilet paper discussion on the other thread?
post #29 of 179
10/27/06 at 11:41am
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Does this tie in somehow to the high end toilet paper discussion on the other thread?

Please don't tell me that costs $20 a sheet too?

Sanjay
post #30 of 179
10/27/06 at 12:08pm
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