READER William Bowden points us to adverts which offer hi-fi buffs the opportunity to pay $2400 for some bits of wood to put under their audio equipment. Not just any old wood, of course, but unspecified special wood for a Harmonix “Tuning System Board” that makes things sound better.
Intrigued, we wondered how this could work, and found some words of wisdom on the wood in “Positive Feedback Online – a Creative Forum for the Audio Arts”. After putting hi-fi amplifiers on the boards, a reviewer declares: “Yikes! By golly, those ninety heads in the Mahler Symphony 2 were suddenly…
