I have been away from audio for quite a while and while getting back into it I see that subject evaluation has almost disappeared, I understand that the DIY forum was never exactly the hub of subjective evaluation but I was hoping we could bring a little of that back so with only friendly judgment and no harsh criticism, would any of you like to share your favorite mods or tweaks that may not be 100% grounded in engineering facts or at least not currently measured by standard engineering?
I will go first, My three biggest tweaks :
1: I have a 100 year house, I wired a direct line to the breaker box , this greatly improved the sound quality, way " blacker " background, inner detail, the stage got more 3D especially in front to back depth.
2. I introduced a silver rock, silver wound TVC into my system as a passive preamp, the was the most significant improvement I have ever had in any system with any piece of gear, It transformed the sound quality into something different, detail level soundstage, low-level detail high frequency overall clarity it was like three veils were lifted I can't say enough about using this piece of equipment it's truly amazing a friend of mine also got one with the same results.
3. Okay I might break people's head here but yes capacitors do make a difference especially in loudspeaker design, I personally found that copper foil and oil capacitors are amazing, I added these to my crossover circuit and again three dimensionality front to back depth inner detail we're all greatly improved what's interesting is I tried many different types of inductors with basically no Sonic difference The only one I thought may have improved things a little, and I mean a little, was a litz wound inductor from Solon, during these tests we were only changing the inductors of the mid-range not the tweeter but again zero difference in inductors at least for me.
I will go first, My three biggest tweaks :
1: I have a 100 year house, I wired a direct line to the breaker box , this greatly improved the sound quality, way " blacker " background, inner detail, the stage got more 3D especially in front to back depth.
2. I introduced a silver rock, silver wound TVC into my system as a passive preamp, the was the most significant improvement I have ever had in any system with any piece of gear, It transformed the sound quality into something different, detail level soundstage, low-level detail high frequency overall clarity it was like three veils were lifted I can't say enough about using this piece of equipment it's truly amazing a friend of mine also got one with the same results.
3. Okay I might break people's head here but yes capacitors do make a difference especially in loudspeaker design, I personally found that copper foil and oil capacitors are amazing, I added these to my crossover circuit and again three dimensionality front to back depth inner detail we're all greatly improved what's interesting is I tried many different types of inductors with basically no Sonic difference The only one I thought may have improved things a little, and I mean a little, was a litz wound inductor from Solon, during these tests we were only changing the inductors of the mid-range not the tweeter but again zero difference in inductors at least for me.
Hi, probably you put the crossover out of the box to make the changes. That's a big improvement. Not only capacitors but coils suffer ( and consequently...) from staying inside the ( speaker's) box.
In that specific case, I used a huge copper foil and oil cap by Audio Note and had to cram into small small cavity so no, it wasn't outside and I still got huge benefits But out board crossovers may have benefits, some caps and coils can be microphonic and placing any coil near another coil or speaker motor or anything metal can create cross talk and actually change its value and worst, change its value depending on how loud you play them . I once had some so called " good" caps that would " sing" which means that they also worked like a microphone. But yes, generally speaking , it's probably a good idea to place you crossovers outboard and coils away from each other.