A Big DIY Bang for Your Buck?


I believe in getting the biggest bang out of my audio buck that I can. I don't know about you but my audio budget is actually limited. I find it interesting when I hear about folks spending a zillion on the best magnetic cables and then someone comes along with some new cable technology like new liquid-infused cables that equal or best the magnetic cables at a fraction of the price. Some makers of magnetic and other cables may want you to believe that a patent pending means there must be something there that ordinary Joe Audio could never make himself. My experience leads me to say -- don't believe it.

I have been using neodymium magnets for years in my cables and around my system to improve SQ -- at a fraction of the cost that makers of magnet-containing products charge. OK, mine may not be at the very top of the performance chain when compared to those expensive products, but who cares? I have managed to get stunning returns for a pittance. It would have cost thousands, or tens of thousands, to obtain similar results from various makers.

The same applies to audio makers with a patent pending (or an actual patent) who market little aluminum audio resonators the size of pimples. I make my own resonator pimples for about a buck apiece -- with stunning results. I saved over $4,000 making 70 of my own. Maybe they are not at the very top of the performance chain compared to those expensive products, but who cares? I am very happy with results that are far beyond what I expected when I started out.

I am having a lot of fun doing DIY projects at home that reap wonderful results at a small fraction of the cost charged by audio makers for their similar products. Have others had similar experiences making their own audio products at home? Can you share your DIY experiences with us?
sabai
Sabai, you are right. The posts are purely for entertainment value since they can't possibly be based on anything factual  

All you need is plain old tap water. Everyone should be familiar with the relationship of heat and sound, that sound travels faster through warm air than it does through cold air. So you can easily control how sound waves travel through the air in your room by placing bowls of very cold water out in front of the speakers in a row, let's say 3 or 4 bowls depending on how big the room is and how big the bowls are. Thus when you listen to your favorite track you'll notice it's clearer, more open and more realistic. Because the sound waves are bending downwards due to the slowing up of the waves close to the bowls of cold water more sound reaches the listener's ears.
What if the speakers are lower than the listener's ear? How can you possibly assume that the sound waves "are bending downwards.?"

 Why else would I go to the trouble of putting up 40 copper bowls since I do not have a conventional speaker system, only the headphone system?

So Geoff claims that the bowls he is using clean up the sound of speakers but he doesn't have any speakers. This guy has been , as you suggest, an endless source of amusement. However, since as I see it, the forum is a means to help all of us reach the goal of audiophile nirvana, the baseless, idiotic, suppositions that we often get here just serve to muddy the waters and the only useful purpose is to entertain the trolls and possibly enrich them as they sell magic pebbles, flowers, clocks, and ................


herman,

Muddy waters and magic pebbles. I think you’re onto something. Maybe all I really need is a clock.
herman,

Maybe that will get my system ticking.

You see, I am already lightening up and I'm feeling a lot better for it.
More tongues wagging here than at a little old ladies quilting convention.

geoffkait,

"Little old ladies quilting." I love it. Keep it coming. This makes lightening up so much easier -- and so much more fun.