Clean Contacts.

[Heavyrocker]

I just used sand paper on the bottom spring of my Vamo and light buffed the battery contacts and wiped them clean with alcohol and i kid you not,i notice a difference in the quality of the vapour right away.

 

[bazmonkey]

I just used sand paper on the bottom spring of my Vamo and light buffed the battery contacts and wiped them clean with alcohol and i kid you not,i notice a difference in the quality of the vapour right away.

...Ok, I'll bite.

Baloney. How could that be true?

Sounds just like audiophiles who think digital signals sound better if they run through gold cables. It's like saying a book has different words if it's printed on prettier paper.

 

[Butters78]

...Ok, I'll bite.

Baloney. How could that be true?

Sounds just like audiophiles who think digital signals sound better if they run through gold cables. It's like saying a book has different words if it's printed on prettier paper.

My dad was an audiophile. Pre amps, amps, super duper turntable. Good times.

I remember there was a CD player back in the day that actually had tubes for "better sound". I think Carver made it.

 

[Butters78]

Here we go. My dad didn't have the CD player but whenever I see carver equipment it makes me think of him.

 

[ImThatGuy]

Woah...in this digital age...that Carver is to be considered vintage...

 

[Discord]

vacuum tubes or optic bridges in audio equipment, if set up right, allows sound to saturate without clipping, which is where that "warmer" aspect comes from, this generates more pleasing upper harmonics instead of just crapping out (which most digital things will do if clipping), that's the reason you see tubes in expensive gear... sorta... the problem that makes it mostly "Baloney" is that the audio output of anything digital shouldn't reach that saturation point anyway, and if it does, it's only because someone is deliberately pre-amping it into the clipping range. So what that means is someone goes out of their way to make the sound worse, but in the slightly more pleasing way ...


back to the OP: if there are better contacts, I could understand getting better performance out of the battery, but since it's all going through a regulated circuit, I have a little trouble understanding how that'd be the case. All I can imagine is perhaps getting a bit more battery life.