Any tweaks I'm missing?

"everything affects everything else"

On this and other audio forums we need to keep in mind that there are many camps (including the grumpy old folks home). We have happy listeners out there who have the capability to enjoy and learn their own personal path as they go. Other folks plug & play but don't really explore the variables. Why they have time to voice their mean-spirit-ness is not a function of audio but a function of unsuccessful listening more than likely (misery loves company).

As far as tweaks I recommend getting rid of the system's mass and get as close to the audio signal pathway as you can without blockage caused by interference instead of interacting. The first few go arounds guys usually fall into the camp of "over do" till they find that they are not able to play a large selection of music. This isn't and never has been the recordings fault but the playback system itself.

Guys who have successful systems are able to play any recording they wish at will. Now that the industry has been in the change of the guard mode, it's a good idea to find a group of listeners you identify with and see where you can take each other. This is not a money thing but more turning your system into a listening tool.

Another thing Jerry, take a look at the amount of posts someone makes and on what type of thread. Some people have simply been here too long. They've become internet audio forum institutionalized. Once you've been a few rounds with those folks you either learn how to smile, understanding their stay is not about audio or music, or you get pulled into the drama only taking away from your own personal listening.

One last thing, don't be shy about taking a breather from this place to shake off the bad vibes. I can usually stand it here about a month then a break is a welcome sight and sound.

enjoy your system Jerry

mg

The more exploring someone does on their own the better. If you look at the Tunees you will see we start with the signal itself. We either get designs already bare bones or we strip stock products to their bare bones and begin our tuning from there.

With today’s designs from around the world, doing this is very inexpensive and it doesn’t take long to discover the performance increases by getting rid of mass. How big of a performance difference thanks to the internet is being told and is jaw dropping.

I have guys for example who have recently gone from $70,000.00 systems down to around $8000.00 that sound several times as good as the expensive ones. Imagine going from a $45,000.00 reference amp, pre and CDP to a $450.00 amp CDP combo with a huge musical performance increase. That’s what is taking place right now and has been proven many times over.

pretty cool time to be a hi performance listener

Michael

Hi Jerry

In the past the industry press chose not to talk about Low Mass tuning after the original reviews were made on the systems we were converting (even for reviewers). It was a matter of economics for the magazines, ads = press. The best sounding systems were not the expensive ones at all, but instead were the carefully tuned ones.

The technical reasons for the performance gains confused high end audio because they (HEA) had built a premise that didn't work, but they were already in up to their bank accounts. Even though some of us warned of chassis interference the high end jumped onboard bigger is better and went the opposite direction from what they should have.

Now that innovation is back in the driver seat the hobby is literally changing before our ears.

mg

Hi uberwaltz, happy holidays

I enjoy putting myself in the middle of the soundstage. There’s so much more to look at. Plus the feeling you get when the stage rolls over and through you from front to back.

mg