Any tweaks I'm missing?

Thanks Michael Green for wise words and advices....
It is a pleasure to read your opinions.

I just want to say to some that my homemade tweaks cannot be snake oil because I create them myself at the cheapest cost...And after the creation of these homemade tweaks I can listen to ANY and all and EACH one of my cd files with musical enthusiasm...Without these tweaks I would be in the necessity to buy costly upgrade , and be in a constant state of unsatisfaction like I was upgrading…...Because it is impossible to makes a speakers sound right without room treatment, tuning, or cleaning the house noise level for example, and without controlling the vibration resonances phenomenon...(Samething for any piece of electronic gear but more evident with speakers by the way)


Then speaking about upgrading electronics is at least half of the times be influenced by marketing engineering and more than that throwing his money to the wind, it is paying too much, more of the times... An audio system, a mass of electronics if you wanted, exist at his own true OPTIMAL potential capabilities ONLY in the controlled embeddings of a room and of a house, and of the audio grid, call these necessary means of controls  : "tweaks", tuning, controls, treatment, cleaning, or " snake oil", that’s is the way it is and it must be, except for non-thinking mind...No controls-cleaning-tuning-tweaks etc , equals no optimal sound, for most of us most of the times... The exception is the 100,000 dollars system with dedicated room treatment included and even that, I does not like necessarily all of them sonically speaking...It is always better to makes that happen one step at a time for our own ears by ourself... 

Before the installation of my "tweaking" methods many of my files sounded way less listenable, the lived concert for example... Now I prefer lived concert because my stereo system gives me the exact atmosphere of the site where they recorded the piece...

My best to all and to you in particular...

georgehifi

And the one who will decide which is snake oil and which is not

All the brilliant electronic design engineers that designed every piece of your equipment that you have, that’s who.

In my system, I’m the one who decides what is effective, and what is not. Why should any audiophile cede that decision to anyone else?

... the ones that make and sell the "snake oil" ... won’t come onto forums like this to discuss their snake oil products.

Why should anyone be obligated to defend their products here? Very few manufacturers contribute to these forums.

This kind of voodoo BS needs to be eradicated from this hobby

If it’s "voodoo," why don’t you sue to "eradicate" the "BS?" You’d stand better chances in court than you will here, where there’s no shortage of advocates for the products that are causing you such grave concern.

Nicely said Cleeds......

Mahgister
Then speaking about upgrading electronics is at least half of the times be influenced by marketing engineering and more than that throwing his money to the wind, it is paying too much, more of the times... An audio system, a mass of electronics if you wanted, exist at his own true OPTIMAL potential capabilities ONLY in the controlled embeddings of a room and of a house, and of the audio grid, call these necessary means of controls : "tweaks", tuning, controls, treatment, cleaning, or " snake oil", that’s is the way it is and it must be, except for non-thinking mind...No controls-cleaning-tuning-tweaks etc , equals no optimal sound, for most of us most of the times... The exception is the 100,000 dollars system with dedicated room treatment included and even that, I does not like necessarily all of them sonically speaking...It is always better to makes that happen one step at a time for our own ears by ourself...

>>>>Wow, Wow, Wow!! You have accidentally stumbled onto one of the biggest secrets in all of audio - the Hierarchy of Sound. This is very hush hush 🤫 so please don’t spread this around. Loose 👄 sink 🚢

The Hierarchy of Sound proposes that relatively inexpensive, I.e., cheap, systems can outperform moderately expensive systems (plug and play) with attention to technical issues that exist in all audio systems. By the same token, tweaked moderately expensive systems can usually outperform expensive high end systems 💰💰 Since there is no such thing as the 🔜Absolute Sound🔚 - the curve of performance is hyperbolic - owners of expensive high end systems can get in on the action and tweak their systems to unheard of heights, as it were. Obviously high end manufacturers definitely don’t want anyone to discover the secret of the Hierarchy of Sound. That’s why this is very hush hush. 🤫

I think you are right Geoffkait… Hat raising ...


It is the simple alternative: You takes the matters in your own hands, the more you can handle the better it is, or others will handle it for you...

It is not good engineer versus snake oil, it is free choices for ourself and our own ears or total dependence...


No debate here, it is simple, and it is precisely the reason the society of audio lovers exist, partaking freely their experiences, and experiments and not only impressions after the purchase of something...

Between the "Do-it-yourself entirely" and the" ready- made- out of the box and ready-to-use", the space of creativity is vast...