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Major improvement SQ of your system with zero investments. Tips, tricks, advices.

stony said:
That's me ;). I have got a reclining mesh garden chair concealed behind my sofa to minimalize the chair effect when I occupy a sweet point.
But reading what you are saying I might need to find a shorter one.

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Or get your neck extended.
 
1) Try your CD player through the tuner input
2) Move your system out of an alcove, away from a wall by a few inches
3) Unless you have a specialist main block, experiment with what you have in the house - one may sound better than another
4) Lean forward
5) Avoid interconnects touching the wall
 
Paul Mc said:
1) Try your CD player through the tuner input
2) Move your system out of an alcove, away from a wall by a few inches
3) Unless you have a specialist main block, experiment with what you have in the house - one may sound better than another
4) Lean forward
5) Avoid interconnects touching the wall
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Plus, take your LP12, or similar, out of the system and then listen to the CD player.
Take your hifi off heavy furniture.
 
andriirad said:
Definitely it can be done in your local surgery. Did it about 3 weeks ago for my grandmother. In her case, she need to take olive oil ear drops few times a day for 2 weeks - to softener the ear wax, but after that she got her ears syringed.
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My GP won’t do it anymore.
They refer you to a private clinic.
 
single greatest leap forward in vinyl replay quality: turntable rack made of massive slabs of wood (as opposed to metal, etc).
 
kernow said:
coats on back of door
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Interesting point -

My door in the listening room is in a corner of the room, behind the listening position.
I hang headphones, cables, bags and a few coats on the door.
What it does is act as a (placebo) ‘bass trap’ - I think the term is.
All the corners in my hifi room have stuff in them, pretty much floor to ceiling.
Irrespective of any actual effectiveness in terms of lessening the rooms involvement in the sound reproduction, I am using empty hanging space or wall space. I don’t like bare walls in the music room.

Two cats with one stone, so to speak.

no cats were harmed in the posting of this dribble.*
 
Another thing - Try removing that coffee table, whatever twixt you and the speakers.

Or indeed, your pouffe.






Rug is all you need.
 
Big Tabs said:
Another thing - Try removing that coffee table, whatever twixt you and the speakers.

Or indeed, your pouffe.






Rug is all you need.
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Quite, particularly with a wooden suspended floor. Also remove mobile phones from the room. They chime in!
 
Tweaks that definitely work:

* Moving speakers about a bit
* Bottle of wine
* Dusting and cleaning
* Listening to your system after a long break and then remembering why you've gone through the hassle and expense
 
eksiil said:
turntable rack made of massive slabs of wood (as opposed to metal, etc).
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My Dais is on 18mm ply (stained/polished/edged) on rubber grommets on h/d Target tripod table. I needed a bigger than usual platform to house the massive perspex lid plus odds 'n' sods (62 x 51 cms). I agree with wood under a t/t; never glass and the jury is out re. plastic etc. LP12s and the like had light wooden shelves recommended, if I recall; nothing too solid.
 
Too lazy to read the thread, the biggest improvement for no cost or effort (mostly) is to sit closer to the speakers. Never, ever fails (unless you get too close).
 
I'm sure I'm well into snake oil territory here, but I seem to be getting the best response from oak (very old oak even). I'd like to think there's continuity here with Tom Fletcher's choice of timber for his Omega .3 & .5 turntables, a closely guarded secret (said to be baltic birch though, if memory serves). surely something to do with vibration management.

I've also come to the conclusion that valve amps, too, sound "better" sitting on wood.

Mike Reed said:
My Dais is on 18mm ply (stained/polished/edged) on rubber grommets on h/d Target tripod table. I needed a bigger than usual platform to house the massive perspex lid plus odds 'n' sods (62 x 51 cms). I agree with wood under a t/t; never glass and the jury is out re. plastic etc. LP12s and the like had light wooden shelves recommended, if I recall; nothing too solid.
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not meaning to start another long switch thread but i think @TheFlash might have been on to something re switch position. A major change in hifi means my EE8 that was 5m away from my streamer is now connected by 0.5m cable, and blow me it does sound better!
 
hifi-dog said:
not meaning to start another long switch thread but i think @TheFlash might have been on to something re switch position. A major change in hifi means my EE8 that was 5m away from my streamer is now connected by 0.5m cable, and blow me it does sound better!
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Nice one! That's simply because your 5m cable was picking up noise between the switch in its original position and your streamer; in new position, you only have one tenth of the noise aerial.

Huge thanks for sharing.
 
One of the big optician chains (Vision Express or Spec Savers) does ear cleaning. I think they call it micro-suction.

Kevin
 
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