My dear friends here, i must say something very clearly: i dont know HOW exactly my main devices work in function of precise law of physics...
And anyway many engineers, which applied the laws they know, sometimes dont know either...
The majority of people read reviews, about the new technical design of the day, for example the Berning ZOTL technology that interest me very much, but majority of people cannot understand the way the ZOTL technology function in contrast with many other tubes technology.... They bought with confidence in the designer and in the reviews and they pay....
I am like all these people, except for one point, i could not afford what i really want to upgrade to at these times, then i have only one last choice to upgrade my audio system without buying anything, and this was improvise my own solutions with low cost materials and homemade devices, very simple one...For these trying set of experiments with some unorthodox materials sometimes ,one thing was very important: listening experiments... No reviewer was necessary, only my ears and trust in them to reach my heaven and finally erasing my unsatisfaction...
The fact is that i have succeed to my satisfaction with many experiments, some crazy, that are described in my thread about "miracles in audio"...My real journey begins 7 years ago to choose the right electronic components for me.... It takes 5 years of trials and errors.... I succeed partally.... I was not completely pleased with the end result, even if i have known and even if i knew after my thousand hours of reading that my audio system was indeed very well choosen: Sansui Au 7700, Mission Cyrus 781 speakers, Dac NOS Starting point systems TDA 1943, but anyway something was missing in the sound, in fact many aspect of the sound were missing or lacking...WHY ? These components were very good i knew that.... Then WHY?
In the last 2 years i discover that the main KEY factor in the audio life in not only and mainly the wise necessary choice of some electronic components, and there exist plenty good one to choose if your inform ourselves anyway... Then it was not the choice of the electronic component the main factor of satisfaction after all..
The key thing was HOW to EMBED the choosen audio system in all the mechanical dimension.... In this dimension all vibrate and are resonant... How to control that in some measure? It was particularly important for me because my speakers are on my desk with the amp and the dac....It takes me 3 steps to solve that to my satisfaction : the multi layered sandwiches of different materials, the damping loading of my speakers, and the righful use of fine tuned compression of springs....
I realize after studying that the electrical grid not only of the audio system, not only of the room but also of the house produce a too high noise floor, and then the S.Q. was evidently attacked by noise pollution...How to care of that without money? I succeed by devising my "golden plates"...
I realized by trials and errors the impact the room acoustic has on my impression of the sound, i realized that the acoustic of a room is more important that even the design of most speakers if they are well designed already to begins with....No affordable speakers can sound good in a bad room....No speakers beat the room....
To be understood clearly i called these 3 dimensions where any audio system is immersed, worked through, and sing, the EMBEDDINGS of the audio system...
I devise step by step my listening experiments, in these 3 dimensions, the simplest one was the mechanical dimension... The electrical grid dimension was more difficult but by a stream of luck i devise the right product to do partially but successfully the right thing... This was my "golden plates"...
For the acoustic dimension the experiments were longer and more complex.... I use passive materials and active devices, interconnected together, step by step, the main active devices was the modified cheap chinese S.G.all interconnected with a resonators grid...I will not go to all details here it is in my thread....
At the end after the 3 embeddings of my audio system were partially solved at my satisfaction, i say partially because i dont doubt that there exist better solutions than mine, but not cheaper one tough, i was flabbergasted by the final results.... There was no comparison between the same audio system before my embeddings controls implementation and after...
I then concluded with my audiophile law: Dont upgrade anything before everything is rightfully embedded in the mechanical, electrical,and acoustical dimensions where the audio system is living, is immersed and interconnected also....
Like i said a bunch of costly " tweaks" is not a method of listening experiments....Then i created the expression "embeddings controls devices" to be clearly understood about my point and distance myself of the disparate costly products called "tweaks"... Some are good but i cannot afford them anyway...My goal was to create myself my own products and give to others the motivation to do so, it is simple, fun and takes only time no big money and they worked for me then why not....
Then before judging , experiment and try.... Dont wait for scientific explanation they dont always exist and if they exist they are not always known by most anyway....
When you own the right electronic component after a well done study of all reviews the only guide are no more the electronic engineer or the marketting, it is your own ears with which you will reach the destination...
My best to all....
