free or semi-free tuning advice...
Natural diffraction, Diffusion, absorbtion go a long way..a lived in room will often out perform a dedicated sterile room..
precision counts...get a Leica Disto and use it to locate your speakers, your chair and precision measure ear height
use the golden ratio, if ya can, it is just math....
Audiotools makes a fine ipad hosted RTA, add a good mic and some adapter cables and get into science and math based help..
faith based stuff also works....when you are ready for the last .5... read point five %
understand your power panel and what leg your audio gear is on - get it away from furnace motors, AC, refrigerator, hash generators.
dedicated lines on opposite leg work
get all the digital junk wall warts, computer chips, etc plugged into a dedicated conditioning device...Furman makes affordable stuff. start w DAC plugged in there, unless it has a faraday cage or competent RF management ( I used to build satellites.....few few audio engineers appreciate RF....and the havok it does to low power analog...
float grounds w cheaters with caution
ciao
Natural diffraction, Diffusion, absorbtion go a long way..a lived in room will often out perform a dedicated sterile room..
precision counts...get a Leica Disto and use it to locate your speakers, your chair and precision measure ear height
use the golden ratio, if ya can, it is just math....
Audiotools makes a fine ipad hosted RTA, add a good mic and some adapter cables and get into science and math based help..
faith based stuff also works....when you are ready for the last .5... read point five %
understand your power panel and what leg your audio gear is on - get it away from furnace motors, AC, refrigerator, hash generators.
dedicated lines on opposite leg work
get all the digital junk wall warts, computer chips, etc plugged into a dedicated conditioning device...Furman makes affordable stuff. start w DAC plugged in there, unless it has a faraday cage or competent RF management ( I used to build satellites.....few few audio engineers appreciate RF....and the havok it does to low power analog...
float grounds w cheaters with caution
ciao