Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...

Thanks for your interest...I am very happy to make you happy....

People are in general very proud of the "appearence" of their gear... if you put some stones, and homemade tweaks on top of your gear that is already stocked tightly on your desk, amp+dac+speakers+computer screen, that dont make pretty and easy pictures...For me only count the final sound quality...I dont give a damn for the look...My audio system was my experiment in the making for the last years...I own the same dac for almost 2 years now, the same amplifier for the last 4 years, the speakers for the last 2 years, only the headphones (8) has been regularly "upgraded" without complete satisfaction, except for the last 2 :  particularly the orthodynamic Fostex T10...


Then the change I have gained with installing these many controls means, tweaks and methods, were way more impactful than changing an already good piece of gear if carefully choosen... This is the reason I started this thread... To partake ideas....To demystify the  conditioned reflex urging us to upgrade at all cost before even thinking to make our already good gear better with low cost tweaks... 

One of my big surprize looking at photos of reviewers using many different gear, or just audiophiles, was the few indications in the photo about the care to isolate, damp, and controls, vibrations and resonance...More than that the carelessness about the electrical embedding of the audio grid, and the more evident carelessness about the acoustical embedding in the room, that is more important sometimes than the choice between 2 trademark speakers...And the absence of tweaks to improve sound is the last worry for these crowds...On many forum almost all discussion is about the merit of different trademark products...

My advice is : You already owned good gear most of the times, think about low cost methods to improve it ...

Agree. It’s called mass hypnosis. 😳 😳 😳 😳 Just check out any thread currently running on interconnects, fuses, directionality, isolation - anything that is more than one Sigma away from the what the average dude accepts as his belief system. Please, no agree emails, I’m not talking about religion. Deprogrammers are standing by.

I was like that 7 years ago, desesperate to accomplish my dream of an audio system at least very good if not more than that...

I wander trough many audio forums where posters of fanboy of all kind of trademark new products or vintage one sometimes helped me, many times not really...I was desesperate because the unconscious programs were new hi-fi products only are necessary and sufficient by themselves to accomplish that dream...


But after many deceiving results with new products, and broken promises, and the impossibility to accomplish my dream with only the money I lacked (I dont have this luxury) I begin to think and read about tweaks, vibrations controls, room design, EMI and RFI cleaning, and stones and crystals also and about many exotic product, expansive one with crystals for example promising the audio moonshine...I decide to replicate some results homemade at low costs because it was the only possibility without purchase money to begins with...


It takes me some years of experiments, not too complicate, one at a times, each result constructed with the preceding one, and at the end my dream was there for the last months... A very good audio system (Very good without being pricey) for the first time of my life...


I start this thread only to inspire some people because when I begins I was desesperate to look for sound and inspiring advices other than "buy this miraculous trademark that will solve all problem" or other than only necessary but straight "technical informations about impedance etc"...


Nevermind what you owns, probably good or very good products already, the only road to audio heaven is linked to the cleaning of negative resonance, decreasing the noise level of the audio system grid but also of the house electrical grid, and linked to the acoustic treatment of your room... I dont even speak about special tweaks like Helmholtz bottles or Schumann Generator for example and other minor remarkable tweaks...

Even if your audio system is worth 100,000 bucks, without that 3 ways necessary working roads and some of these other tweaks, you dont know what your audio system optimal potential is... That is my only discovery...

It does not seems that there exist many people here to confirm or concur with "my only discovery"...

People seems more busy in their audiophile life to look for buying new stuff than to pause and think: Is my actual audio system sound at his potential level sound quality? is it useful to buy any new gear before pushing my actual system to his true limit ?


Except the ubiquitous and " generally" useful Geoffkait, it seems that my thread will die by my own hands.... I hope some other guys with experience and experiments already in a road going toward the same conclusion as mine will lead this thread...