It’s been said that everything matters.
When I walked into the home my wife wanted, I walked into each room and clapped my hands together. The lounge room was about as inviting acoustically as the bathroom, just terrible.
I put what I had in the best sounding room, even had my wife’s blessing.
So I’ve been here on Agon, and read from many of you on where to go and perhaps change my assumptions and thinking. It’s certainly paid off, really has made an improvement over the last couple of years.
Filtering the quality of my AC power, cleaning up the sinusoidal waveform, was quite a revelation. I had already known about isolation of speakers, I invested in some experiments of my own, discovering a spring technology that I had not been aware of, along with spikes for my stands - marvelous.
The latest and not surprising was my admittedly novice journey into room treatment. Indeed just a couple of quadratic diffusers made quite a substantial difference.
Some of us (two thumbs pointed right at myself) have a limited budget, and as such, heed to advice from others in here. Now that some fundamentals are in order, the room itself appears to be my next best investment for a more beautiful presentation of my music.
I would guess, that identifying good value for money items that play well together, and finding the right synergy to get basics sorted out, like clean power, relatively good in room frequency response (loudspeakers must reproduce the entire audible spectrum of sound faithfully) and taming the room can trump the sound of a system where something is simply lacking in the basics (irrespective of cost).
90%++ of the time, knowledge not money will yield superior results, knowing where and on what to invest that money/time, now that’s the real art. Whether you are paying for someone else’s knowledge or not, I think my statement has merit.
