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

Update:

I now have successfully place 39 copper Alaskan cones 3/8 inch...

The sound in near listening at 3 feet of my speakers is more 3-d layered than ever...

At regular listening position on my seat at almost 8 feet from the speakers that are on my desk with 5 feet between the center of each other, the room is totally full of the sound with no more relation to the speakers at all, even if the position of the speakers is not symmetrical in relation with the wall...
One of my speakers has two of his side inserted a few inches against the wall...I succeed annihilating mainly the distortion of the soundstage....

For 30 bucks these 45 brass Alaskan cones were one of my most precious and powerful tools to modify the acoustical field of my room...I stole the idea from a tweaks company that sell something resembling that 7 for 400 bucks ( I forgot the company name)...Imagine if I had bought them instead of replicating them.... I dont think that acoustic sound waves act better because they are more costly.... :) Some customers of this comnpany even says beware to not use too much of them because of sound degradation.... It seems my cheap cones ignore sound degradation they are more light and I can increase the S.Q. by balancing them with some Herkimer nano diamonds...Inside each  there is a hole that I fill with copper tape....

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Tomorrow or in a few days I will put the 4 last one behind me...And two others will be added to the 2 already glued on my computer screens between the speakers....

To be continued...………...


For all those who read this thread my hope are the best for all.... music is a great help in confinement....Stay well and be cautious in these perilous times....

Update:


I had put 41 Alaskans brass cones... 4 left to be use...The last 2 were put on my computer screen between speakers ( I now have 4 at the 4 corners)...


Organ dont lie!

With Helmuth Walcha Bach interpretation, never listened to with this wave of tonal details in a more precise imaging and a more vast soundstage I go upper into heaven than the day before...


Without asking the permission of my wife for this stupendous cash investment in audio, I bought another set of 15...

At the end I will put 60 cones in my room...40 $ all in all....


The next ignorant that call anything "snake oil" will be put to death by me... Because this " ignorabimus" will spread for the X’th times the tale that these speakers, or this dac, or this amplifier, are so good out of the box that is all we need to know nothing else....Marketing ploy are the real snake oil, because selling products without explaining how to embed them is near fraud... But I must be less harsh, because these engineers and vendors dont know themselves most of the times what to do....Read any audio magazine, they dont explain simply the problem....90% of people dont have a clue about the real S.Q. of their actual system because they are even not  rightfully embed at all in the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical fields, ......

Why people bought anything without experimenting first with low cost materials is out of me.... But if I remember I was like that myself most part of my audio life. Nobody ever insist on the importance of this, they speak mostly and exclusively about the quality of their favorite electronical components.    :)

I understand only now (the last 2 years), and I should say like said Christ in his last audio meeting: " Forgive them, they dont know what they do"


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The world I has known ended in my conscious experience the 12 March 2020, but finally I will at least listen music like I never heard before dying....


to be continued

A new tool for acoustical field of my room:


The " Bell of bells"...

I just create it ...

I use a brass little bell that I attach and hang to a rope in the center of my room...

Around this bell I glued 16 little bells (Alaskan brass cones3/8 inch) with half of them with an Herkimer micro diamond glued in them...It is very important to balance half the cones with diamond (half of them)…This balancing compensate the bass frequencies and high frequencies with one another...The result is a better tone accuracy....


This device makes my ears spirals( by some internal Fourier analysis by the brain) able to decode from the feedback waves and reconstruct more easily, in spite of the room intricacies, an optimal tone and imaging ....I am not a scientist tough, I just want to transmit my impressions and communicate my own understanding....


The results (for 10 bucks) are ASTOUNDING....


More accuracy for tone and better imaging...


All my solutions cost nothing or are chap and very effective....This one takes the cake....

My goal is top Hi-Fi for the poor....Trust me it is possible.... If you are newcomers, try, experiment, and step by step, create your own heaven with the only master there is: your ears....No money needed....No upgrade advice here.... Start with what you already owned if this is good basic gear....

An amplifier that was top of the world gear in 1978 is even today a good amplifier, mine is.... Same thing for the speakers.... My only contemporary electronic component is a dac…. A very good one (Starting Point Systems Nos tda 1543) I will never upgrade it because of his minimalistic design and cost....


Remember that I can hear very subtle changes in my audio room because all my embeddings (mechanical, electrical and acoustical) are already very controlled...Go with yours step by steps....


I will post a photo in the next days in my "virtual system" section....

My best to you....

UPDATE :

"Bell of bells" and new nano brass cones...

I add twelve 7mm 9/32 inch cones(instead of the 3/8 inch one)
On my computer screen between the speakers...
And another set of 12 around the upper circumference part of the "Bell of bells" where there is already in the downward part of the circumference the bigger Alaskan cones...

These micro bells are so little that I cannot put in some of them my nano Herkimer diamonds... :) But it is not necessary with them like with the Alaskan bigger one...I must confess here that this experiment with this smaller cones bells is an accident.... I dont order them in the first place.... :) It is an happy mishap... But ttey complement perfectly well the regular plain Alaskan cones or the one with the H.D. inside them...


Results:

The difference in size plays all along the frequencies, more definite and accurate frequencies , especially in the higher frequencies, cleaner, more refined, and also with the bass....

The imaging is better....The piano tone accuracy cannot lie.... :)

I am flabbergasted another time, I think I could not add to the last days results, I was dead wrong...

Most of us DONT know at all what our Audio system is able to do in the right acoustical space...

Reading all these posts about audio on all threads only confirm my experience:

Most people dont know first hand that the embeddings of any Audio System is the ONLY key to Hi Fi....Not a more costly dac or amplifier, or even better speakers most of the times...The cost in relation to the improving S.Q. decrease swiftly... Simple cheap homemade solutions on the other hand has a ratio cost/ S.Q. over the roof....

Mostly the acoustical embeddings controls count for around 60 % of the S.Q.
15 % for mechanical resonance controls, and 25 % for electrical grid controls...It is an approximation of my actual increasing experience...

The reason is simple: the acoustical field of the room is TOTALLY integrated to our hearing brain, they are ONE and the same sensible system, amplifying the other 2 embeddings field modifications if you try them or any upgrade of electronic components (most of the times unnecessary)… :)

I just ordered 80 little Herkimer diamonds, smaller than the one I already own, to balance my new micro cones... :) ( around 10 bucks)

All is perfect like it is now but something say in me that I will increase the S.Q. with some of the new cones if I add in them H.D. of the require size... Less than 0.1 gram each....


Balancing the effects is one of the KEY to tone accuracy....And I must try because of the improving results when I added some H.D. inside some of the Alaskan regular cones.... Some of these empty little cones screams to me.... :)