Steinmusic E-pads

Steinmusic E-pads are self-adhesive elements of 8mm by15mm size, which have a radical impact on the reproduction of music if placed at the right position. They work at the level of interaction of molecules and thus produce profound and measurable changes of the material properties.

This may be related to the spectrum of resonances as well as the torsion force, the elastic modulus and the conductivity. So it is kind of resonance control, but working by the capacitive influence on the level of interaction between molecules.

Such kind of intervention is reaching far beyond what would be achievable with a normal damping.

Thus the applications are widely spread since mechanical and electrical properties are influenced similarly.

What happens wherever you use them is that music becomes more intense and detailed.

During the development well known techniques have been merged with completely new approaches. The result is a component of the most recent generation with always positive and reproducible impact on the sound.

In contradiction to similar products at Steinmusic E-pads the process is completed and locked after production.

This means exterior influences may not further change their properties.

Even after 20 years an efficiency of more than 90% of the initial value is guaranteed.

Since they are small-sized but very effective E-pads are easy to apply and achieve a permanent improvement of the sound quality without interfering with your living environment.

Application

In the following we describe proven examples for using Steinmusic E-pads. This should not distract you from own experiments:

The results are always easily audible and maybe you find an application which is optimal for your own equipment. Some of the described applications on its own will have a more pronounced impact than others.

But especially good equipment will always extend playing off its excellence when using a larger amount of E-Pads. 

E-pads are self-adhesive and are simply glued to the surface to be treated.

Just remove the protective foil and bond.

Just in case you want to find the optimal position first do not remove the pink protective foil, but use a stripe of normal sticky tape to temporary fix the E-Pad.

The impact will only reach around 30% in comparison to a tight bonding with the pads own glue, but mostly this will be sufficient to locate the optimal placing.

By the way, Steinmusic E-Pads will reach their full efficiency in the course of a week.

Please do keep it away from strong magnetic fields like from transformers and just use it within a temperature interval of -30°C  up to +80°C.

CD- players

Stick the E-pad into the tray namely into the normally existing recess for

placing Mini-CDs. If you own a top-loading player, please process similarly

and bond the E-pad at an appropriate place with an orientation parallel to

the CD. That may be at the bottom or at the top cover.

Amplifier

At amplifiers the back plate suggests itself for fixing one or more E-Pads:

It is exactly the place where all inputs and outputs meet.

The first trail should be one pad close to the mains input but placing close to

input or output connectors will benefit, too.

Record Players

The base of the tone arm is a good position in that case.

Loudspeakers

At a loudspeaker electrical and mechanical optimisation are employed:

One E-pad at the terminal area is effective with loudspeakers which do carry

their crossover here. Additionally it has been proven to place one E-pad at the

front exactly between the individual speaker-chassis in the case of multi-path

speakers. If you use horn-speakers it is worth a trial to place one E-pad each

at the mid- and high-frequency horn. Further E-pads at the enclosure help to minimize unwanted resonances. Trial and error is the way to find the correct place here.

Headphones

One E-pad fixed at each ear cup at the upper side close to the yoke

considerably improves the fidelity of reproduction.

Electrical current

Steinmusic E-pads do find application in a variety of cases.

To describe the mode of operation of Steinmusic E-pads in a sense of radio-interference suppression alone would not meet the reachable results.

Electric meter / electric distribution

One or two E-pads sticked from outside onto the electric panel work wonders.

Further applications are directly at the electric meter, at the

ground-fault circuit interrupter and at the fuses.

Of course, a good place is directly at the power supply socket which is feeding

the whole variety of audio equipment, or at the mains plug board where the

power supply cable is fed in.

At components like CD-players and amplifiers the area where the mains are

supplied is a good position for the application of E-pads.

Windows and Glass-doors                                                                                                         

Windows do create extremely undesirable reflections which do distract from

the pleasure of listening to music. One E-pad placed unobtrusively at a corner

of the window-glass will repair a lot.

The same is valid for glassy picture frames, glassy tables and mirrors.

Screens

are to be treated the same way as other areas made of glass concerning their

acoustic properties. The positive effects onto the acoustics are obvious.

Furthermore one E-pad sticked into one corner often causes a more quiet,

more stable and more colour-intensive picture. This is valid for computer

monitors as well as for TV-sets of all kind. Please try.

Very obvious improvements concerning sharpness and intensity of colour can

be reached with just one E-pad at the plug of the video-recorder or the HDMI-cable at the monitor or projector.

Steinmusic Harmonizer

Even there a reproducible improvement will occur if you stick one E-pad to the

bottom side of the Harmonizer.

Floor heating

A Floor heating may produce disturbances which become easily noticeable.

Glue on E-pad each at the inlet and outlet.

Automotive

In that case a placement at one corner of the back window has proven optimal whereas the placement at the front window sometimes frees too much energy in the sound impression.

This application hints are based on experiences of different users. We would be glad to receive your personal experiences and are open for any hints which serve the subject.