Last night was by far, the finest hour ever from my room, I was delighted to bag it. With the new batch of tone woods in place, it's a game changer. Two at side wall and six at the back wall, I had created an envelope of sound through front-back wall symmetry. The acoustic tides smash my back wall. Side wall placement is a bit tricky, overbearing at some spot; too much of even order harmonic distortion for my taste. Yes, they introduce an even order harmonic distortion, a good thing for a full solid-state system. Sound has new depth and layering landing me an inviting sound. This is not a blind box because I have had a taste of it from my last tuning. Knowing exactly what's coming but I'm still excited.
Symmetry is an essential element. Let me iterate, these tone woods are placement sensitive. As such, your preference will dictate where you want them. Despite all that, fundamentally, working on a certain principle and therefore the result will not be far off. But if you nitpick like me, precise placement is unnegotiable. Flexibility and immediate result, no burning in time. I played the same music library days before to build a legit comparison. Placebo effect, as much as I can, check. Self-deceiving is often a form of cowardice, I'm wise enough to shut it out. Life is too short playing game, what more with your own self. The popular saying, "Only sound direct from speakers and nothing else", headphone rationale applicable to home audio is so wrong. Mind you, skin is also a sensor.
I'm grateful for no timbre shift with the tone woods, perhaps not substantial to rock my boat. I do gather a tad more refinement. The OMG sense of immersion struck me dumb. Every cubic inch of the room, all the way to the backwall, is teeming with particles. It's a lifelike sound replica. The unmistakable breath of music, particularly on a grand piano. Piano playback is the acid test, period. How could you not feel the chill with the long steely sustain and grandiose? Tone woods are a coloration alright because this is an add on and how some audio enthusiasts despise it. Hey! So is your linear power supply, your voltage, your frequency and what not. Given they are not constant, the more you mess around with them the more impairments you will impose. Dynamic compression being the worst-case scenario. Tone woods is a welcoming coloration. At this point you need to decide between the two, a decorated sound (music) or technical realization sound (sound). This is an old audiophile conundrum. The latter is the devotees' fervor pursuant of the theoretical approach to sound, enjoyment is secondary.
Black out the room, I hear more. All attention goes to the music. Tone woods add the dire reverberation energy and spaciousness within the confines of the room. Live recording renders a spectacular visual illusion. Hard to resist this expansiveness.
What caught me off guard is the undistinguished low-level details come to light, only on the premise my system is demagnetized. They were vague if not. Phew... My horn-loaded compression tweeters have no right to sound this good. They do not affiliate with refinement and often carry a bad name for a gaping maw with zero toe in speaker placement, let alone the silkiness and extension of the exotic tweeter. But the gap is narrowed, my violin playback is more than acceptable, no edginess but I heard better, almost unrealistically.
Strangely, my bass is tenacious than before. Lesser drag and with a sense of wholeness. This, I didn't expect. My new sound resonates with me. Thought the diminishing returns kick in, it still worths every penny. If you still with me, thank you. Remember to demagnetize your system periodically.
