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Posted by Dominy Clements on November 10, 2005, 2:27 pm, in reply to "Re: That infuriating effective PWB Foil" We had a fairly antiquated LP system in the basement at Farringdons, but the sound was decent enough. I don't remember hearing much difference with or without the foils, but I remember asking myself (and others) how (for instance) sticking a foil under my electronic watch would make a difference, when at the same time the basement shop was being bombarded with all kinds of radiation and interference from neon lamps, air conditioning and goodness knows what else. My problem is a question of proportion. It's like insisting we all fit our cars with filters and cat. converters, while new runways are being built for jet aircraft which burn gazillions of gallons of government subsidised high-octane kerosene. Without removing the one, how can you tell the difference by improving the other. Yes, you have to start somewhere, but - like minidisc compression - surely the big one masks the little. I have an open mind, and would love to 'believe'. I too have been known to smear my CDs lovingly with treated cloths and green felt-tip, have poked little squares of paper (one corner carefully shamfered) under the feet of my separates, and the rest. I'm afraid life is now too short, and I can hear my ears becoming less sensitive every year, so I fear I have succumbed to the raging fields of harmfulness coming from TV, computer, fridge, lighting, radio, mobile phone, passing mopeds, passing water..... wee little foils are too puny I fear - like treating a roadside accident victim with homeopathy.
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I worked at Farringdon records on Cheapside in the late '80s, and Jimmy Hughes would regularly drive 'Tony' our Italian boss up the wall by sticking PWB foils over everything which might affect sound quality. I walked around for years with one stuck under my watch.
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