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Feeling Tweaky

I recently tried my first system tweak, purchasing IsoAcoustic Orea isolation footers for my Luxman 507uX Mk2 integrated amp, Marantz Ruby CD/SACD player, and Shunyate Hydra Denali 6000S power conditioner. I liked the improvement in sound quality so much I’ve gone ahead and ordered IsoAcoustic Gaia feet for my VPI Classic 2 turntable and Magico A3 speakers. I never expected a tweak to make such an improvement, not just a change, in sound quality. By the way, my cables are Audioquest Rocket 88 speaker cables, Audioquest Colorado cables from the CD/SACD player, and VPI phono cables. The Shunyata Hydra Denali has a Venom power cable. All the other power cords are what came with each component.

Acoustic room treatments that would affect room decor are unfortunately out of the equation and I’ve already tried my best to design component shelving to be a vibration free as I could. I’ve thought about are redoing the house wiring to create a dedicated circuit, and making an ultrasonic record cleaner.

So my question to you all is, what tweaks have had the most positive impact on your own system, that you could you recommend for the above described system? There seems to be a lot of tweaks out there that range from the sublime to the ridiculous in both performance and price. I’d like to know what tweaks of the many out there have worked best for you so I can make a list and prioritize each in terms of performance and budget. Please share your favorites and I’d appreciate your advice. Thanks,


Mike



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geoffkait
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Don’t have an aneurism. Ask your Mommy if you can help with taking out the trash.
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isochronism
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I did just take out the trash. Helloooo
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Your Mommy lets you watch too much TV, dude. It must’ve shrunk your brain.
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Audioguy, that book thing was some sort of joke. I think. I’m sure you’re right this hobby can earn you a divorce. Honestly if I wasn’t a widower in here, I’d never have this fancy system, much any tweaks at all. The cost of the IsoAcoustic footers alone would have have gotten me my head handed to me, much less providing fodder on the list as one of the things I’d done wrong since we were married. There were a few of those trotted out any time we argued. I don’t understand why someone my redecorate their home as a tweak to get better sound. But what the hey, it’s better that than many other far worse things you could be up to.

Millercarbon, I glanced at the content of your link. The article references Ernst Haeckl, an early, but probably by now obscure, Darwinian, a vintage copy of one of whose books is in my library. I did enjoy that reference. That volume will remain in my listening room/library doing whatever good or harm it may to the room acoustics, morphic or otherwise, along with the rest of my stuff. Audioguy would certainly approve.

(As an aside, Haeckl was famous for the "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" observation, re: fetuses having gills and the like during a portion of their development). I’ve always enjoyed Natural History and being in a room filled with everything you like, to include a nice stereo system, is the best.

Mike
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