"System Matching" and cables. Read and understand the spec sheets. Consider all matching cables like Mogami Gold. Know the differences between cables - analog, and digital 75 or 110 ohms. Use something like DeOx-It Gold to clean and treat sound and power cable connections.
Listen to the individual musicians' cadences carefully when setting up and balancing a system. When tuning a sub, turn the sub up higher than the Main's to better hear and match the rhythms and cadences together for high/low passes, phase, and roll-off "orders", or, number of octives.
When you add 6dB's, it doubles the sound pressure level. Reducing the distance 50% between a speaker and the listener, the sound pressure doubles, too (obvious, but good review).
Musical octives simply double (or split in half) the hertz or frequency points. That means a 550Hz signal or musical note, has harmonic octives at 225Hz and 1100 Hz and so on, up or down the musical range. If 550Hz is a A note, the others are harmonic octives.
Consider a certified audiogram and adjust your system to your ears if you have any age or noise related hearing loss. Use a analog sound level meter occassionally when adjusting your volume controller. That "resets" my ears to a standard.
To warm up speakers, tune in "smooth static" on a FM tuner and turn it up to about 90 dB's a couple minutes. It should still sound "soft" yet warm up all but the lowest frequency limitations on your tuner. Pink noise disks work better. I found the tuners' pink noise between stations works great, too.
Listen to the individual musicians' cadences carefully when setting up and balancing a system. When tuning a sub, turn the sub up higher than the Main's to better hear and match the rhythms and cadences together for high/low passes, phase, and roll-off "orders", or, number of octives.
When you add 6dB's, it doubles the sound pressure level. Reducing the distance 50% between a speaker and the listener, the sound pressure doubles, too (obvious, but good review).
Musical octives simply double (or split in half) the hertz or frequency points. That means a 550Hz signal or musical note, has harmonic octives at 225Hz and 1100 Hz and so on, up or down the musical range. If 550Hz is a A note, the others are harmonic octives.
Consider a certified audiogram and adjust your system to your ears if you have any age or noise related hearing loss. Use a analog sound level meter occassionally when adjusting your volume controller. That "resets" my ears to a standard.
To warm up speakers, tune in "smooth static" on a FM tuner and turn it up to about 90 dB's a couple minutes. It should still sound "soft" yet warm up all but the lowest frequency limitations on your tuner. Pink noise disks work better. I found the tuners' pink noise between stations works great, too.