... or in your undies?

"...then remove the piece of paper and see if you can listen to the same music with the same pleasure!"

Those "ideas" are nothing more than classic cognitive psychology coaching. Notice how each and every suggestion is followed by undoing the tweak and the phrase "and see if you can listen to the same music with the same pleasure!" Of course anyone reading that has that little suggestion planted in the brain. This kind of phrasing is far more powerful than any audio review or statement like "and notice the increased clarity and sense of pacing" because it goes right to the irrational, emotional section of the brain.

Audio reviews, even audio advertising, is often pretty dry because of it's attempt to walk the line of objectivity. Not so with the Belt pages! Go right to that primitive child-like level and bang! you've got your own little cult started!

This whole thread will likely bring out their wrath soon enough. Let the zealots flame war begin!

Sounds a little "Monkish" to me.

Yeah- but these guys go places the Shin Mook dudes never dreamed of, even when stoned.

"Freezing using a domestic deep freezer.

Try the freezing experiment using a CD first - they are usually the easiest object to hand. If you have two identical CDs all the better as you can keep one CD as the control (no treatment) and put the other CD through the freezing/slow defrost process.

Place one CD in a plain plastic bag and place this bag in the domestic deep freezer overnight. When you remove the CD from the freezer, allow it to return to room temperature very, very slowly. You can achieve a slow defrost quite easily by wrapping it in a towel or blanket. Listen to the CD which has been through the freezing process first and then see if you can listen to the other (unfrozen) CD with the same pleasure !! Putting the previously frozen CD through the freezing/slow defrost process a second time gives you a further improvement in the sound."

This also works for your ears! Put your head in a domestic freezer overnight, be sure to wrap a plastic bag around it to prevent freezer burn (larger is better for those with asthma). Slowly defrost your head by wraping it in a blanket, then see if you can listen to your CDs with the same pleasure.

I know you're skeptical. This works by freezing bones in and around the inner ear, making the bones more britle, thereby reducing low level resonances.