Arny Krueger wrote:

"Fella" wrote in message




Here goes, this is what I heard: With the shakti there is more body,
definition, intensity, sincerity, clarity, more of everything that's
good _*across the board*_ !!!


Yawn. Yet another example of placebo effects.



Ok, since you were not personally insulting, or offensive, in a way, I
will answer this one. Here is why, in my *opinion* the effects could not
have been placebo: I could not have even *imagined* the changes that
actually happened to the sound. One puts the changes onto words, or
rather translates them, but they have to be experienced to find out what
they really are.

With placebo you take a sugar pill thinking it is aspirin and your
headache goes away, for example. You are anticipating that effect, so it
happens. But with this thing you wouldn't *dare* to anticipate such a
difference! It is that significant.

While I was opening the package I was thinking to myself that, damn, I
must be nuts. While I was trying to explaining the stuff to my grinning
wife I was anticipating embarrasment in front of her, as nothing would
happen. I had no idea, nor could I dare to anticipate what was to come.

The wife, btw, said briefly that the sound was "more like in waves" with
the shakti, as compared to it having "sharp edges" before. She thinks
that the high-end sound of my "stereo" is "pompous". She does sometimes
accept the beauty of it all, but she thinks the whole hobby is not worth
it, it wouldn't matter if the same sounds came out of the TV set, it
would still be music. So being so much *out* of the picture even she
noticed the difference.