Spare change on a speaker cabinet

This reminds me of the Totem Beak if any one recalls. Totem speakers had an option call the "beak" which was a machined aluminum cone that had a center cavity in the base. They swore that if you placed on top of the speaker cabinet it did some "magic" and made the speaker image better of something. A dealer freind always offered it to me to take home and play with, but I think he was hopeful I wouldn't bring it back. But i do own Revels and now I must start trying this out. I actually hope it doesn't work or I will upset my cashflow tremendously.

This is Sam Tellig's old tweak from back in the time of the Combac dots that people (yeah, me too) put on their speakers to change the resonant frequency of the cabinet. I think that Sam felt that the dots did work, but they were expensive (he was the Audio Anarchist or Audio Cheapskate at the time), so he theorized that you might be able to get the same effect if you taped coins to the speaker. I've forgotten what he concluded, except that I seem to recall that he did say that by using nickels, dimes and quarters instead of the dots he would be saving a hell of a lot of money if the tweak didn't work! And I also recall a bunch of letters to the editor claiming the tweak worked.

This has been around for a long, long time. Check the archives.

Here's my two cents, try it.

I had to use paper money on my Gallo Ref 3s because the coins kept rolling off.