Best Tweaks.....
Since you started with non-electrical components tweaks keepers, may not be cost effective in some......; 1. Auralex's acoustic panels & Realtrap's Minitrap are on top of my list. They have "transformed" my smallish listening room into a concert hall. 2. Roomlens Helmholtz resonator units for damping out unwanted room resonances. 3. Symposium acoustic products. I 'm using their platforms under all my equipment except for the speakers & they are brillant in bringing focus & clarity to the musical experience. I 'm using their Rollerblock Series 2 Double Stack with the top Grade 3 Superball under my CDP as well, another winner. 4. Herbie's Audio Lab products; CD Mats, IC Dampers & Hal-O damping instruments for vacuum tubes. 4. DIY Cable lifters made out of wooden disposable chopsticks. Cheers.......... |
Try putting weights on top of your components and speakers. I have two five pound weights on my sony receiver and one five pound weight on my satellite receiver and three sand ceramic tiles on each speaker. You have to move the weights around in different spots to get the sound to your liking and this takes some time to get it right but when you do... your never go back!................. |
I'll also recommend Herbies tweaks. Another tweak with dramatic results is Walker's SST silver electrical contact enhancer. A freebie is to freeze your cables over night - done three times - and there will be an audible improvement in clarity, imaging and soundstaging - it is not subtle and improves after about 10 hours of use. I know it sonds crazy. And, I don;t understand how it works, but it does. A simple experiment on your onw will demonstrate it to you first hand. |
Walker Audio EXTREME SST Walker Audio Valid Points and Resonance Discs Walker Audio Ultimate Motor Drive (motor controller) Walker Audio Reference High Definition Links Disc Doctor Record Miracle Cleaner - the original "yes, you need to rinse" formula All are fundamental components for our system here... . |
1- Neuance platforms 2- Quality powercords. I'm only using Shunyata Diamondbacks and Copperheads, far from the most expensive, and still the improvement was stunning! 3- Balanced power supply for CDP and turntable. Keep them on separate filtered outlets though so the CDP doesn't pollute the TT. 4- separate dedicated homerun electrical lines with quality outlets (FIM, Furutech, many others). |
Stop by your local granite shop (could be to the gravestone maker himself)and ask for 3cm thick remnants, which are usually no to little charge. Purchase simple rubber / soft plastic, self-stick bumpers at your local or big box hardware store (the kind of bumpers often used on kitchen cabinetry doors). Apply the bumpers to an appropriately sized granite slab and place atop and beneath your speakers, atop and beneath your equipment. Experiment with this simple idea and you may be surprised how much this helps isolate components and clean up the sound for basically no cost. And if you find the right remnants they will look killer with your gear. |
Sit Roller balls ,a steel or tungsten carbite ball that is placed between two concave metal trays.It is an isolation device that works by changing the energy of vibration into heat as the roller rolls on the horizontal axis into it's sockets.Guys is it not how the bearings work?Help out here. Now the sanding stone is a soft stone made for removing calluses from under the feet.Dr Scholl and other brands carry them, in the drug stores.But I did not know that they can be used as a tweek,I should try them myself some time. George |
The foot sanding stone looks like a porous piece of ceramic. Extremely light weight but hard as stone. The porousity eliminates any resonances. You may want to start with 3. Put them 22% in from the edges of your component which is the approximate point of minimum resonant amplitude. stone blocks positioning of cones |
