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| What is the Best Sounding Stand Mount Speaker in the world? Price no object? The most precious commodity is time. So, build your own. The materials can be exotic as you want, usually better than manufacturers use. Thus, it is possible to build a speaker better than anything you have heard. | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones That is indeed a worthwhile goal and achievement. For me total room insulation resulted in removing the room, but no improvement in the system, still desirable. The greatest difference was cabling. After much study I resolved to building my own... | |
| Acoustic Curtain for listening area Prepping a room is no small expense. I haven't seen any spectral absorption curves on any of these sites. That is what it's all about isn't it? Curtains face a tough challenge for room effects midbass and below. Solid panels need to be suspend... | |
| Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet? Actually a good cabinet shouldn't be conducting sound in the first place, but anyway....Spikes are as effecient at sound conduction as other feet. They are simply a contact allowing vibrations to pass. Sonic conduction does not care that they lo... | |
| Silver Speaker Cables I get it. Good one. | |
| I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters Omg this has to be the best test for psychosomatic response | |
| What Power Cords for Rel S510 Subs? For that frequency, power cables do not matter much. For higher frequencies though, the lower inductance, the better. Call the manufacturer before purchasing. They measure that. They will know what you are getting at. But nobody publishes it. | |
| OK...here's another tweak that really works "The human brain is an incredible pattern matching machine" - Jeff Bezos That is the problem. Cable break in does not exist. Audio is AC, so degaussing residual DC in a dielectric would be nullified in a couple of milliseconds of play. However ... | |
| Setup Speakers Along Long Wall? Answer to long versus short wall. More important is room symmetry and acoustic insulation. Then you mentioned the feedback due to standing wave room residence on your turntable. That is hit and miss and I'm afraid you're on your own with trial an... | |
| Setup Speakers Along Long Wall? Answer to long versus short interconnects versus speaker cables. Long interconnects are okay if you have high impedance system. Balanced helps but is a desperate measure And, you don't have a high impedance system. Consumer cables are 3x interconn... | |
| Bybee Technologies Crystal Series Plug-in Speaker Bullets. The less loss firewall purifier appears to work via skin effect, filtering generally 200 kilohertz and above. Referencing Nelson pass' article "speaker cables science or snake oil" using his spectrum analyzer we can see the standing waves on the s... | |
| Looking for wider soundstage You will require perfect symmetry in your listening room. If that cannot be obtained, the first reflected surfaces will require insulation. | |
| What do you use to keep high gloss speakers clean? The Meguirars is quite good. Pledge, which I also use on my racing car, is easiest. Pure carnuba airplane wax if your speakers are exposed to UV light from a window. Zaino wax gives the deepest breathtaking 3D liquid-like gloss I have ever seen... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? That speculation cannot be disproved, but with my line source speakers there is no height with the sound stage. The stage expands laterally from both speakers due to phase interactions. This also might explain the sound source coming from behind ... | |
| Sharing my experience with cables Your scientific skepticism toward cables was justified, as few still understand them. First, electrons do not travel at light speed. While the EM wave travels at 50-80% c, after Feynman and applying the index of refraction for skin depth effect a... |