This is a good tip. That's what I use on my amp and speaker enclosures, good electrical connection, cheap, and if your cables do have banana plugs they can lie flat on the surface instead of sticking into a wall.
There is no need to get fussed - those who base their understanding of the world on what the Authority Figures say will continue to do so no matter what, but those who are genuinely interested in furthering progress in audio may be tempted to tinker, and thereby learn something - the latter are the only ones that matter ...
I don't think you are furthering progress in audio. Everyone on this forum knows what you are talking about and tinker with their systems. What people want are answers,
It obviously didn't quite click that I was referring to different systems I deal with, or come across - most setups have the 'smell' of these problems when you hear them, it's the characteristic that instantly tells you that it's only a hifi rig, even if the sound is relatively indirect. And knowing that such is fixable provides strong motivation to do something ...
Tinkering is good, but it has to be strongly focused - just thinking, "I want the system to be better!", is not good enough - you need to define in what way it should be better.
Purely from experience, for me the best answer is to grab a particularly 'poor' recording, as it sounds on one's own system and listen to it carefully, very carefully. In what way is it sounding poor? Is it because there's lots of silibance, grey and flat, glaringly bright, confused and messy, or what? If you then dismiss it as just a bad recording, then you've neatly glitched over a good opportunity to get somewhere - what you've effectively just 'measured' was a level of subjectively significant distortion contributed by the playback system, which you should aim to reduce.
You have a funny idea of what tinkering is.
Yeah annoying sound, now tell me how you got rid of it. My AM radio makes all recordings sound good.
Understanding of the world is irrelevant to this discussion.
Understanding science is based on fact, and 99.9% of what is necessary in hifi has been known for decades. The fact you are clearly incapable of studying and understanding it may vex you, but to learn a little and think you've learnt more than others, only a fool would allow such an opinion to be heard of himself.
I can only conclude that you have convinced yourself of your great intelligence and understanding, to the extent that you decide your very opinion must be fact and that anyone who disagrees with you must have failed to think as cleverly as you do.
Unfortunately there are many who have a firm grasp of what is relevant in hifi, in terms of science, which means fact.
Empirical evidence is king, the 'facts' follow from that, not the other way around - if one is obsessed with the need to have the earth as the centre of the universe, then one will build up an ever more intricate 'scientific' theory, to explain the empirical data, until it collapses under the weight of the needed complexity.
My thinking all follows from personal experience and curiousity, "cleverness" has nothing to do with it - I spent many years trying to track down parallel experiences, explanations, relevant thinking - the obvious conclusion was, that since it takes considerable effort and focus to achieve it's largely been missed, or dismissed as a transient behaviour, an anomaly.
My thinking all follows from personal experience and curiousity, "cleverness" has nothing to do with it - I spent many years trying to track down parallel experiences, explanations, relevant thinking - the obvious conclusion was, that since it takes considerable effort and focus to achieve it's largely been missed, or dismissed as a transient behaviour, an anomaly.
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I worked in the warehouse for an electrical mechanical contractor back in high school and something like this was part of the tool kit for all the electricians.
I worked in the warehouse for an electrical mechanical contractor back in high school and something like this was part of the tool kit for all the electricians.
Thank you very much for showing everyone in this forum how little you know about speaker/room interface and the importance of such. Claiming that the electrical is more important is proof that you have learned very little in the past 30 years.
In fact placement of a real piano is important, just ask any recording engineer. It's called "acoustics", you know, how sound actually gets to your ear and the quality thereof.
Okay I've had enough fun talking to you Frank, go back to tinkering, maybe in another 30 years you just might discover that you wasted your time.🙄
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Bumped into a retired audio salon salesperson at the supermarket a few years ago: she maintains that the amp plays the source, and the system plays the room.
She says one should treat the wall behind the speakers to absorb mid and treble reflections, and has even gone so far as putting open cell foam on the front baffles of her speakers.
I tried some stick on open cell above and below some Swan 7 1/2" planars.
Surprisingly a small improvement in imaging from a very small 7" x 10" baffle.
So without getting enough foam for a 14' by 8' wall , what are some good treatments?
Of course, I'm referring to placing a piano in the room of a person's home, for him and his family's pleasure - last time I checked, such a piano doesn't turn into a honky tonk electric when it's 6" too close to a wall. Real instruments sound like real instruments, whether you're standing on your head - or off in the bathroom.
That's the aim of the exercise ...
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