How acoustic and some simple tweaks can cure audiophile disease for small pocket budget


My surprize came after installing a 4 inches M-Audio AV 40 i bought 12 years ago and which i used all these times as speakers but for computer use only not music... I disliked them for music BEFORE i connected them in a dedicated small acoustic corner dedicated for them and BEFORE i connected them to a synergetical good dac : Nos tda 1543 French battery dac of Christophe Mariac...
 
My surprize was , with no deep bass for sure , but the bass being good i can live with that, a very accurate timbre and clear 3-d imaging soundfield with some depth and extension out of the speakers , it is recording dependant ...😊
 
My surprize was that i was thinking i am a fool to enjoy so cheap gear component...😁
 
I secure all interconnected with my homemade "golden plate " : shungite +copper tape....Sometimes i added a piece of quartz for increasing "clarity" ... it is my homemade cure against EMI and RFI ...
 
My surprize was rediscovering after loosing my dedicated Mission Cyrus 781 big boxes /dedicated acoustic room , it was discovering i could enjoy, modulo a simplest acoustic disposition because the M-Audio speakers are way smaller , a relatively "real audiophile " experience with speakers again...
 
My new small acoustic corner is created with diffusive surface and 2 foldable screens , one in wood that reflect more , and one in thick paper and wooden grid that absorb a bit some frequencies and reflect some other , i place them to create a corner , the rest is very diffusive enclosure ... The results is astounding so much i could live with it...No deep bass but a decent bass and clarity with no distortion... M-Audio MV 40 is called "studiophile" and well reviewed by steve Guttenberg...But beware, the version with the bass button is mine and necessary, if not the bass lack punch...
 
With my first acoustic dedicated room and now with my little acoustic corner i proved for myself that audiophile experience is based on ACOUSTIC not on the price of gear at all...
 
Now i will not be confined either as i tought to headphone only listening, with my AKG K340 driven by the microzotl as headphone amplifier or from the headphone out from the Sansui Au 7700 as amplifier +the microzotl2 as pre-amp.... My end game audiophile true system is now headphone for sure...But i will be in heaven listening casually music from speakers again....
 
Acoustic is the sleeping princess in audio and the kissing prince is your ears/brain, the 7 working dwarves are only the gear working pieces...
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@mahgister I was not being sarcastic whatsoever. Acoustic amplification and tuning audio quality by reflecting soundwaves is what you are doing. As I pointed out in my comment, it reminds me of the ear devices. In fact, I experimented with homemade ones myself. The image was the only one I could find to illustrate the devices.

Unfortunately, you have reacted in a most spectacular and bizarre manner to both my and @hilde45 posts.

I reacted to Hilde45 post, because he does this correction about my english minimalistic use repeatedly for more than two years now... He even apologize to me by mail for this in 20021...but to no avail... He goes on and on... Anybody can correct me and i will thank him... But harassment is not helping hand in my book...

But he came back many times instead of discussing my post , criticizing anew the number of words and the bad english etc... In a word he never end patronizing...

He did it few weeks ago again in my "immersiveness" thread.. He stay polite for sure,... But a polite reoccurring correction persisting from april 2021 till today is not politeness anymore... It is pushing on a button ...

He never discussed in good faith the content of my thread... Put yourself in my shoes and think about a patronizing correction which reoccured for more than two years ...

Then after this ChatGPT "helping hand " correction , as he did over and over, i asked him why he did so ... He call me "pathetic"... 😊

Then when i did read your post with a cartoon i reacted perhaps misinterpreting your intention , but after the many corrections by Hilde45 i was less patient with cartoon ...

I apologize to you, if i read you now i see that i misinterpreted your post and you could not have know the harassment of Hilde45 for the last 2 years...

Because repeating many , many times always the same criticism even if he is right (my english is not very good for sure) especially in the last two of my threads, he dis do as opening posts, in a month interval, this is harassment...he never adressed the content of my thread but take fun to patronizing... I dont mock people here , i discussed and i gave ARGUMENTS ... And i dont entertain grudges i spoke my mind ON THE SPOT .

I apologize to you because you post your image at the wrong time without knowing the context of my "twisted" relation with hilde45 ...He is supposed to correct everybody syntax being a corrector ... I believe him , but did he constantly repeat to his customers that their english id bad , their text too long etc repeating this without end? I am not one of his customer that is the point..

My best to you... And my sincere excuse for my insulting post , you do not deserved it... I see it...

 

@mahgister I was not being sarcastic whatsoever. Acoustic amplification and tuning audio quality by reflecting soundwaves is what you are doing. As I pointed out in my comment, it reminds me of the ear devices. In fact, I experimented with homemade ones myself. The image was the only one I could find to illustrate the devices.

Unfortunately, you have reacted in a most spectacular and bizarre manner to both my and @hilde45 posts.

 

 

 

i just listened in awe to the cheap speakers M-Audio MV40 typing this...

An album with Charlie Mariano and Sadao Watanabe in duet ...

I never liked these speakers for the last 12 years i owned them ...

i only love them now because , having no more my Mission Cyrus , i created an acoustic corner around them because i had no other speakers and no other choice ..😊

I had my biases , and i never listen to good cheap speakers...

Before this acoustic settlement around them and a few tweaks i thought that Steve Guttenberg exagerated giving them 8 on 10 in his review long time ago...But Guttenbergt was right ...

I was wrong simply because i listened to them with the wrong component in the wrong room... A four inches bass driver cannot be put anywhere without any acoustic devices...

This made me doubt my sanity in ordering the microzotl headphone amplifier or pre-amp for my Sansui power amp headphone out...

I will not say this to my wife who asked me why i ordered the costlier piece of gear i ever bought ...😁

I doubt myself sanity... i hope the microzotl2 will be damn good ...Tomorrow after Fedex delivery  😁