I try to get the best bang for my buck just for the sound, not the looks or to impress anyone but me. I used to think $25K for a stereo was a lot of money, now I think I am a beginner after 40+ years with a low 5 figure (barely) investment. Some are spending 6 figures without a second thought. It must be nice.....7 years ago i begins my search for audiophile experience...
At this time i was impressed by gear of very costly price....
Now after all my peanuts costs experiments for 2 years, i smile and dont look at any of them, with envy at all; for sure they are better than mine...
But like i said if the harpsichord or the orchestra fill the room, all that for 500 bucks and my homemade controls device, I dont need anything more....
The law in audiophile experience is this one: Dont upgrade anything but instead embed everything rightfully in his three working dimensions...
An Helmholtz grid cost nothing to make and is more powerful than any upgrade...And it is pure known acoustic science... Unlike the S.G. grid which work but who knows why... And the Helmholtz grid is way more powerful in his own way...With Helmholtz grid the room is ACTIVATED and is no more a set of passive bouncing walls for the sound coming from the speakers...The room is active now and transform the speakers sound, no more only passively, by absorbtion, reflection or diffusion on his surface but by acting like a complex heterogenuous set of pressurized engines....
No reviewers call for that.... No reviewers has ever explain that.... At best they want to sell costly "secondary addition" to a system called "tweaks"...My embeddings controls are NOT secondary addition at all, they transform any system and make it able to give his best....
Acoustic science says it , speakers cannot beat their room....
I look now to refine my actual results not to spend more money....I listen my music not so more the sound....
But anyway i know first hand that most people have no idea how to work with their room and gear....And sometimes dont have a room to play with like mine.... I have no clues myself like most few years ago reading all audio magazines about upgrades for me...It was my desire for a good sound without the money that drived me here... Thanks to my limited purse, i was in the obligation to be crazily creative... 😊
It is simple...
I am only here to motivate a few.... If i can help..... Others with money dont need my inconvenient and blasphemous "truth"....
My deepest respect and regards....