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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: The sonic difference is night and dayPosted by manisandher on: 4/10/2011

Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music, with no recording chain involved? If this is indeed the case, then what you've done here is astonishing - a clear indication (to me at least) that what we're calling 'good/bad electricity days' are a bigger determining factor in the final sound than probably the hardware itself.

Surely the root cause must now be explored. You've mentioned before that these differences exist even when the PP2000 is in battery mode (i.e. totally isolated from the AC mains). So can we confidenty eliminate electricity from the equation?

Although I don't want to propose a strong hypothesis right now, can I just say that I seem to experience a similiar (although somewhat smaller, I think) effect by using a 'Schumann Resonator'. Maybe I should repeat your experiment with the SR on and off - I suspect the results might bear a striking resemblance to yours...

Mani.

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