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| The "most foolish" loudspeaker tweak/upgrade ... is FWIW, I dont really care how mucfh a person spends on speaker wire, which seems to be the most answers, to the OP's question, so I'll give my humble opinion. I would totally forgo any cable upgrade until my ROOM was at its absolute best configura... | |
| The next step to a better system Room treatment/taming should rank high on list of obtaining a better system. By comparison to the cost of equipment these days it is a cheap and valuable way to improve any system. In my humble opinion of course. | |
| How did you choose your equipment? Audition, Audition, Audition! No more said. | |
| Retired audiophile? Ha, Yes there are lots of senior audiophiles with deteriorated hearing and assorted ailments out there along with you and me. For the past 40 or so years I, myself have been striving for audio nirvana with a reasonable amount of success. Spend a f... | |
| Volume imbalance Have you tried using a SPL Meter? | |
| The next step to a better system IMO the most value for improvement comes from taming your room via room treatment. All the wood and furniture, etc will not tame the rooms sound wave interactions. Its a lesson I learned from years of experience. After many, many upgrades to new ... | |
| where's the best difference? FWIW the single largest improvement in definition and resolution I made was taking care of the room interactions using room treatments. Those improvements alone took me to a whole new level. Just saying! | |
| Room Acoustic treatment suggestions, ideas & recommendations Contacted GIK and their suggestions have already made a difference, No cost! Seems my listening position was too closed to the room node. Moved position back 1.5ft and wholla a improvement. Now we work on other issues, quite challenging as my room... | |
| Room Acoustic treatment suggestions, ideas & recommendations Thanks for the recommends. Will contact GIK tomorrow, I got time on my side. | |
| Room Acoustic treatment suggestions, ideas & recommendations Don't know where the & came from in title, please disregard that part! | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good Savoy Brown -Street corner talking | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables Having contacted my favorite manufacturer their recommendations still leave the decision to me. Although making suggestions on which cable is in their opinion most "synergetic" with their brand it is also made known that the final word has to come... | |
| Speaker cable lengths doe it matter they are not equal??? Speaking from personal experience using BJ10 in length of 12 and 6 ft respective I noticed a distinct coloration/distortion of the high frequencies on the speaker with the 12ft run. This distortion/coloration disappeared when using equal length of... | |
| Looking for IC and speaker cable suggestion IC's are all BJ XLR and digital and Speaker is JW Audio Cryo Nova for now. Looking into Kimber, Audioquest Oak, Alpha core and Nordost. Transparents I'd like but are way out of my league and budget. I'd have to hock my house to afford them. | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables I do not mean to convince anyone of anything, just stating my experience so far.I am looking to refine my knowledge of the subject and everyone in this hobby has valuable information to share. Just like you cousinbilly, I appreciate any and all in... |