Chapter 58: The Uses and Mysteries of the Super Brain

Since receiving permission to modify kitchen equipment, Henry implicitly extended this allowance to all areas.

Except for the building's structure, whenever anything could be added or replaced, Henry would handle it himself if needed—no need to hire workers; just buy the materials and do it all himself.

Landlord Gary often sent over meals in storage containers. He turned a blind eye to Henry's actions—as long as the house didn't explode and was restored to its original state upon lease termination, everything was negotiable.

So after Henry saw books about audio speakers in the library, he couldn't resist plunging headfirst down this reckless spending path.

After all, this stuff has no era restrictions—it only depends on materials and intelligence.

How to plan the usage environment to minimize interference between sound waves, and where the optimal listening position lies—the focal point after limited reflections.

These principles have remained unchanged for a hundred years, and will remain unchanged for another hundred. The fundamental design principles of concert halls have never changed.

Advances in materials science have made little progress in signal transmission; alloy materials simply haven't performed better than those expensive pure metals.

The difficulty in use lies in processing, aging, and oxidation issues—so a sufficiently excellent coating material is needed to extend the lifespan of wiring and slow down performance degradation.

With his super brain, Henry quickly devised an affordable solution for himself.

After all, there's no such thing as the "best" in this field, nor any consumption ceiling—only the depth of one's wallet determines the limit.

Thanks to his Kryptonian heat vision and steel body as a foundation for manual processing, Henry bypassed all IQ taxes and patent fees, directly buying raw materials and processing them himself.

For instance, for the core material, Henry directly chose silver—superior in conductivity—instead of the more common copper. Silver wire's drawbacks, besides its higher raw material cost, include greater processing difficulty, making ordinary silver wire impossible to compare with top-tier copper wire.

But processing difficulties meant nothing to Henry; he processed the silver wire to laboratory-grade copper wire standards. This involved not just purity issues, but also differences in crystal structure and density.

Here, "density" does not refer to physical density, but to the material "gaps" that appear in the wire when pulled into micrometer-to-nanometer dimensions in commercial products.

This problem is widespread in metal products, which is why ancient metalworkers constantly hammered metals with iron hammers—to reduce carbon content and increase steel hardness, but also to eliminate bubbles in molten metal.

After resolving the core, there remained the braided layer surrounding it—designed to reduce external interference with the core's signal transmission.

As for the outermost rubber layer, it affects the sound quality less than it protects the wire; this part of processing involves chemistry.

To handle possible odors and residual waste, Henry gave his self-designed kitchen exhaust system an overspec upgrade.

Electrostatic treatment was child's play—he built a laboratory-grade multi-purpose ion processing system.

In short, to complete his self-designed audio system, Henry applied knowledge across electronics, materials science, chemistry, and multiple other fields.

Many of these were merely speculative ideas in university papers—let alone commercial products, even whether labs had produced the same was questionable.

Don't assume Henry is squandering his super brain or wasting time doing this.

It's like a martial arts master who masters hundreds of styles—he must test them through real combat or similar challenges to integrate them into his own style, and even further, create a new martial art.

Without any practical use, what Henry gained from the library were merely the knowledge of one book or the content of one paper—each isolated, even if he could recite them backward.

But to build an audio system that satisfied him, Henry had to consider the house layout and available materials, and think through what he could achieve within his own abilities and financial limits.

Those books and papers merged together through hands-on practice, ultimately embodied in what Henry built.

Even during the process, Henry constantly asked himself: Is there a better way? Can I achieve better results? These questions pushed him to break beyond existing knowledge, experiment into unknown territory, and obtain better—or worse—outcomes.

No wonder people say desire is the driving force of scientific progress—without need or problems, humans never think about the unknown.

Remember, compared to Superman, he has no Arctic Fortress storing Kryptonian tech. If he doesn't read or think, even with a super brain, he'll still be outmatched by today's Earth scientists.

Moreover, for this audio system, Henry experienced for the first time a mode of thinking he'd never had before his transmigration.

Before his transmigration, his life had always been that of an end-user—he never needed to innovate; even "solving problems" meant merely finding similar templates from existing examples and applying them.

But with sufficient knowledge as a foundation, when facing a problem, he now could not only directly offer a solution using known methods, but also generate extra "inspiration."

This inspiration could guide him to better methods or better results—and these ideas weren't wild fantasies without feasibility, but practical, actionable possibilities with real potential for success.

He had never before experienced what inspiration meant—he simply relied on formulas and templates to solve one problem after another.

His low-end job ensured he never encountered problems without solutions; even if he did, his job allowed him to give any answer, leaving it to the boss whether to accept it.

If the boss rejected it, he'd just get it sent back for revision—then, before the deadline, pick one acceptable option from among the terrible and the less terrible.

Striving for perfection wasn't impossible—it just took time to polish, or hiring someone better. Either way, he himself couldn't do it.

But inspiration is a strange thing—when you have a solid foundation and powerful logical reasoning, inspiration emerges as naturally as water flowing down a channel.

It's not applying any single formula or template, yet it seems to apply countless formulas and templates.

This indescribable feeling was what truly made Henry feel he was no longer the same person as before his transmigration.

…So, were those memories from before his transmigration real—or just illusions created by this Kryptonian super brain?

For a moment, Henry couldn't tell.

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