Spatial AudioVelocity Bridge VB1newSpatial Audio Velocity Bridge VB1 - speaker interface stabilizerSpatial is now shipping a new invention by Clayton Shaw that mounts across your speaker terminals and offers dramatic sonic improvements in most systems. The Velocity Bridge yields clear improvemen...195.00

Spatial Audio Velocity Bridge VB1 - speaker interface stabilizer

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Spatial is now shipping a new invention by Clayton Shaw that mounts across your speaker terminals and offers dramatic sonic improvements in most systems. The Velocity Bridge yields clear improvements over the entire spectrum including firmer, more detailed bass, more air around instruments, a more open soundstage and improved clarity across the board. The biggest improvement you have ever heard for $100 each - guaranteed. Order with your choice of spades, bananas or alligator terminations. Hand built here in Park City with precision components.

Most of our customers have reported significant improvements:

Hi Clayton,

Some thoughts on the Velocity Bridge in my system:

I have put in some good time with the Velocity Bridge and to say that I am impressed would be somewhat of an understatement. These little boxes have brought an improvement across the board to the sound of my system. To my ear, they have rendered the sound more ''musical.'' I think this is due to the fact the VB1s have enabled my system to reproduce the sound of instruments more accurately. Instruments just seem more like themselves.

This effect seems to be a function of improved timbres and harmonics. I can better hear the hollow body of wooden plucked and/or bowed instruments. Violins have more of that ''zing'' that violins should have. I am not implying graininess by any means. I am talking about that hollow ringing sound that a note played on a stringed instrument makes as it is dying/decaying. It is the sound that continues to vibrate in the body of the instrument after the string itself has stopped vibrating. All acoustic instruments have this to a greater or lesser degree. It is most easily heard in the piano because the piano's large soundboard holds on longer than that of other instruments.

With the Velocity Bridge attached, I can much more easily hear this effect and thus the music sounds more ''real'' because the instruments sound more ''real'' and since ''real'' and ''authentic'' is what we are all looking for if I had to say only one thing VB1s have brought to the equation, this is the most important.

But this is not the only improvement.

When I ended up preferring your Spatial Quantum Field cables over the Tellurium Q Ultra Blacks I told you that one of the things the SQFs did better than the TQs was ''sort out'' the sound stage. By this I meant that not only did they present a slightly wider, deeper sound stage than the TQs, but that they effected a better placement of the musical elements within that sound stage with each instrument having just a little better placement and more ''personal space'' within that sound stage (perhaps this is what is meant by ''more air'').

As a result the presentation was just that much more 3 dimensional. The VB1s go even a step further in achieving this. The sound stage is wider, deeper and the instrument's placement even better within the sound stage. This means for me that the music, no matter how complicated it gets, never becomes congested or crammed up in the middle. It remains spread out before me as it would in a live performance. This renders everything much more ''listenable.''

The bass of my system as a result of the VB1s ''doing it's thing'' is very, very nice. As a matter of fact it is what I have been looking for. It is not more bass or bigger bass. Rather, it is tighter, more tuneful, more real (due to the timbral/overtone improvements discussed above) sounding bass, which, due to improved transitions/attacks, really punches out at me more than before.

(I forgot to mention transitions above: Transitions are better across the whole frequency range, which is another reason all instruments sound more authentic).

Drums and percussion: Anything percussive sounds startlingly alive... bells, clangs, strikes on wood, drums of all types, cymbals etc. The improvements in timbre, harmonics and leading edges has removed the fuzz and thus rendered drums incredibly crisp sounding, while remaining full and tuneful. I am really impressed with what the Velocity Bridge has done for drums in my system.

Voices too have much improved... so much so that lyrics which were previously hard for me to decipher have become much clearer and I can easily understand lyrics that prior were problematic.

For Bluray and SACD multichannel play back I also have a 5.0 surround system. I also use this for watching films. In films, dialogue is handled by the center channel and I have found that dialogue on many many DVDs is poorly recorded and often hard to understand (I have not experienced this problem with Bluray). One day, when watching a DVD film whose dialogue was particularly bad to the point that I was understanding very little of the dialogue, I tried putting a Velocity Bridge on my center channel speaker, and after that, I could understand practically everything that was being said. It didn't make it perfect... nothing could have done that. But it did make in very intelligible.

I first began my Spatial Computer journey to enhance performance when I had you program and configure Spatial HD room correction on my system (easily one of the best things I ever did). The next step was going to the Spatial Quantum Field speaker cables and interconnects. And now, it is the Velocity Bridge. As most of us do, I have a lot of tracks that, even though I like the music, I was not listening to because the sound quality was not acceptable, being very bright sounding (especially a classical music)... not grainy, just too bright.

And now, the Velocity Bridge has brought the vast majority of them into the the ''very listenable'' category. I don't feel that this is because they are necessarily less bright. The VB1s do not colour the sound and so these tracks are still bright... especially the violins.

But I think that the reason they are more listenable is due to the more authentic timbres, coupled with the fact that in the yet wider sound stage the instruments are more separate and less ''on top'' of each other.

So, to sum up: Better transients; better decay; better timbre and harmonic reproduction; wider, deeper sound stage with better ambience retrieval (almost forgot to mention that); punchy, tuneful and authentic sounding bass; crisp, full sounding timbrally accurate drums... and all of this while maintaining the musical integration of my system... that is, while not becoming even remotely analytical. What more could I want from two diminutive black black boxes that attach to my speakers? They have also improved listening at lower volume levels.

What I like about your products is that they do not add anything to the system. They are, rather, geared to removing the blocks to a system's full expression. They allow you to hear what your system is truly capable of. This is what happened to me every step along the way and it is what the Velocity Bridge have brought to an even finer level.

The other night, my girlfriend sat down to listen to some music with me for the first time since I added the Velocity Bridge boxes to my system. I put on a song for her and she was blown away by what she was hearing. But she said, ''I've never heard this song before.'' I replied that she had indeed heard it before as it is a track on an album which we had listened to in its entirety together. To which she replied, ''Well, If I've heard it, then I've never heard it like this!'' She also kept commenting on the bass in track after track.

Peter Borelli
Cortona Italy
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Hi Clayton,

The Velocity Bridges have been plugged in now for about a week, so I did some listening tests. Play a track, then remove them and replay the track.

The improvement in clarity with them in place is very noticeable. The system sounds more transparent across the board. Was also repeatable with various types of music. Very happy with the results, particularly in light of how inexpensive they are - Brilliant product!

Scott C. Raleigh N.C.
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Greetings Clayton,

Thanks for turning me on to these things. They made a surprising large improvement in the sound of my current system (now with the Maggie 1.7s). I have no idea how these critters work, but I don’t care – they work!!

James H. NYC NY
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Clayton,

You were right (I was skeptical ☺). The Velocity Bridges immediately improved the sound right out of the box. You said they need at least a week break in, so I am excited to see what happens in the coming days. The sound field is much less cluttered sounding and more transparent. On orchestral tracks, there is a lot more intelligibility, if makes sense? Everything sounds more sorted out and clearer. Pretty amazing little devices.

Victor A. Dubai UAE
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Hey Clayton,

I just mounted the VB1s, so they are not broken in yet. Massive difference in clarity and bass detail already. Now my soundstage breathes! What do you think will change as they break in?

Frederick W. Colombus GA
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The Spatial Velocity Bridges sell for $195 per pair and come with a 45 day money-back guarantee that they improve your system. Visit our site for more information.

Thank you,
Clayton Shaw

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