Guest " " Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 http://www.audiotweaks.com/collection_ascend.htm 2 4 Build yourself a component rack 3 5 Stuff dacron pillow batting into the ports on your ported speaker to tune the bass response 4 1 Get the Digital Gear away from your tuner 5 Cheap tube damper for input and driver tubes 6 3 Ground your metal rack, reduce noise 7 3 Pluse transformer for Digital 8 Component isolation device 9 1 CD spinner and magnetic field source used in combination with a tape demagnetizer 10 Isolation device 11 Contact cleaner and preservative 12 1 Fill freezer type Ziplock sandwich storage bags with sand and sandwich between two pieces of MDF 16 Fill gallon bags with play sand, place on top of CD players, amplifiers (away from heat-dispersion fins!) 17 1 Granite plate 18 1 These are little metal cones, put them under your speakers and you will have midrange galore, esp, guitars and vocals 19 Coil spring mounting of speaker enclosures 20 2 10 pair telephone wire as speaker cable 22 Improved contact 23 2 2 inch thick poly foam tubing placed around speaker cables 24 Marble slab subwoofer platform 25 Large bubble wrap isolation for CDP 26 Cheap tonearm wrap 28 Item is a clear plastic-like material in the form of a washer. It has a tacky surface 29 Nothing to upgrade? Then upgrade your AC cord to this 30 1 Damping feet for CD players 31 Change the capacitors and resistors in the cross-over in your speakers to better types 32 1 Mount these to your speakers and low frequencies are enhanced. 33 Separate dedicated AC lines for amp and digital components 35 Damping for equipment racks and speaker stands 37 3 Use plumber’s teflon tape on your small input tubes for vibration control 38 Reduce resonance of wood component racks 39 Close doors to listening area 41 Construct Maple sand Box for equipment support 45 Different soundimage in surroundsystems 48 Poor man's seismic sink 49 1 OHP covers 50 1 Black Diamond Racing cones, The Things and The Pits… 55 1 Inexpensive, but effective acoustic panels 58 Putting marble/granite slabs of different thickness underneath the spikes of the amplifier improves soundstaging 59 1 Securing bookshelf speakers with "Blue-tac" on stands 61 Foam mattress pads on your wall 62 2 Wooden boxes filled with #8 lead shot 65 Lift chokes off pc-board 66 1 Use plastic 35mm film containers on power cords, interconnects and speaker cable to cut RFI 67 Use spiral cable wrap to damp resonances of tonearm 68 Use to damp vibrations 70 Remove your grill cloths 71 Clean up your home's AC line 72 1 Remove the damping from reflex speakers and insert a V shaped brace running top to bottom (2"x2" approx.)to break up standing waves and add speed to bass 77 1 Slate under the spikes of the speaker stand 79 Cones 84 The best tube damping rings 86 Rewiring from the terminals to the diaphragm. Taking out the inner screen 87 1 Replacing the 12 volts DC power supply with two car battery 88 Throwing away the OP amps at the output of the dacs. replacing them with tube 90 Phono cable dressing for suspended t.tables 91 Glass panel tweak 92 4 Half racquetballs to dampen components 93 2 My tweak is about equipment damping, instead of buying Shakti Stones or Bright Stars, I put block of marble at the top of each of my component so vibrations are damped and somewhat minimized 94 Outboard power supply 97 Damping vibration in lower priced cd players to improve performance 98 3 Improve your imaging in spite of having a TV between your speakers 100 1 Adding a 3/4" glass panel to the top of the CD player 101 Do-it-yourself RFI detection 103 Separate Digital and analogue Supplies to regulators and run digital (5V) regulators from Nicad Batteries 104 Cones made of Aluminum outercone in which steal inlay is shrinked. space is filled with bitumen-like material 105 10kg Steal block for use with acoustic balance cones 106 Rope platform for audio components 107 1 In addition to painting the CD edges green, painting the CD tray and the inside of the chassis cover would also benefit from the green paint effect 108 Installed two cooling fans in an entertainment unit to reduce heat generated by six components. 109 Outboard Power Supply/ transformer 110 1 The ultimate no-cost speaker stand 113 Connecting two identical conductors in a single path 114 DeoxIt and Pro-Gold are contact cleaners which also improve the conductivity of all the (electrical)contacts in your hifi setup 115 Using Belden coax cable as speaker wire 116 A platform to reduce the vibration of a CD player or source 117 1 Coins on top of speakers do wonders 119 1 Solid core, house hold industry, mains cable as your power cords 120 1 Coins placed under the spikes of speakers or stands 121 Tighten the screws on the units of your speakers from time to time 122 Use shorter runs of speaker cables 123 Eliminating first reflections in listening room 125 Speaker setup 126 Remove build up of static charges on the surface of any cable as well as CD's 127 Tweeter anti-diffraction rings 129 Tracking weight 130 2 in. thick square concrete slabs on top of my subwoofer 131 Small metal cones under front edge of proac tablettes 132 Suspending your speaker wires off the floor 134 Near field monitoring 136 Changing power cord connections to mains 137 2 Erosion of the edge of CD 138 1 MDF sand Box 139 1 Hospital grade power outlets 140 Setting up speakers with string 141 2 Correct Polarity using a Digital Multi Meter 142 MDF Speaker Stand 143 Blue tacky puddy like substance provides great damping and coupling to speakers 147 Speaker cones or spikes DRAMATICALLY increase not only BASS response but soundstage and imaging! 148 Got my speakers "off the ground" and moved the horn tweeter to ear level made a WORLD of difference! 149 Use a sound pressure meter to help place speakers (and integrate a sub-woofer) by balancing all of the frequencies. 151 Switch components from left to right channel. 155 1 Ferrite rings 156 1 Rec-out preamp connection 157 Basic reinforced Aluminum cone 158 Shortcut the unused INPUTS to the preamplifier (No, not OUTPUTS, please, unless you want to make some damage!) 159 Mounting bypass capacitors in your speakers network. 160 Position cd-player and preamp away from power amplifier. 161 Home made power cords. Amazing! 162 Short-out unused inputs of your preamp 163 Replacing rectifiers of power supply. Incredible! 164 1 Marble support table. Wonderful!! 165 Replace your current speaker wire with Home Depot 6 gauge stranded electrical wire. 166 An improvised RoomLens 167 Using 3 natural quart crystal balls inserted into wood base for the equipment support. 168 Use between pre-amp and subwoofer to eliminate bad effects of long interconnects on sound quality 169 1 Using this interconnect between transport and d/a converter 170 A cylindrical open-cell foam piece of tubing used for insulation of water pipes 171 1 A sheet of .125" damping material with a viscoelastic adhesive backing 172 A polymer damping sheet with a concentric circle design on one side-supposed to eliminate internal standing waves 173 Poster hanging putty 174 A static discharge device, similar in effect to Versa Labs' "Zap", which retails for $40.00. 177 Homemade speaker and component support. 178 1 Damp amplifier cooling fins 179 Short the unused inputs on your pre-amp. 180 Upgrade the mains supply 183 Big do-it-yourself ferrite rings for eliminating EFI in power/speaker cables. 184 3 Heavy felt tweeter rings for smoother detailed treble 186 Purchased stanley door stoppers from WallMart and placed under amp and turntable for isolation. 187 3 Amp on-top of cd 189 Quad els on target stands. 190 Equalize audio to match your hearing! 192 1 Use inflated rubber tubes as seismic sink of CD or turntable players. 194 4 Isolating Stones 195 Put a bag of shot on your amp, if possible (don't block air holes) and especially on your CD player. 197 Shelves can be improved upon by a sandwich of plywood and cork. 198 Look in the ads in hi-fi mags and design your own speaker and equipment stands 199 1 Adding new connectors to your amp. 200 Replace all the ceramic capacitors with WIMA red ones (No MKS). or Siemens styroflex 201 Play Densen : DeMAGIC CD 202 Install a special power group only for your audio installation 203 A demp the chassis with MDF blocks 2 inch square 205 Place all cabling off of the floor using styrofoam cups. 209 Speaker/IC line supports...cones/rounds/polys/squares/trap'zds 210 Cones/Trap'zd's/bullet shaped anti-resonant weights for speakers/electronics 211 Compound Bias for tube power amplifiers. Not just fixed OR auto Bias, but both. 212 Vitalizing most tube amps by modernizing the driving-section. 213 1 BI-Amping your system...eliminate the crossover in the speaker 214 Ohm that unused digital output! 215 1 Very cheap, very good sounding homebrew speaker cable 219 2 Elevate your listening position to get your ears at the same level as your tweeters. 220 2 Use an isolation transformer without plugging your equipment into it 223 Foam ring around tweeters. 224 Put eggboxes of commercial damping panels in critical areas to cut reflected energy at listening position. 225 1 Damping(especially metal- and ceramic dome) tweeter's high-freq. Resonance 226 Use a sheet of EAR ISODAMP, about 30 per. and cover the top and bottom of the chassis with it. 227 Some use tennis balls, but for those of us with limited space "squash balls" work better for component isolation. 228 Use nylon bolts instead of spikes on hardwood floors. 229 Terminal and contact cleaner with electro-magnetic properties to enhance electrical connectivity on gold surfaces 230 Vibrapods are great but can't be used with spikes unless you have some kind of cover for them. 231 Economically challenged tube traps 232 Gold connector cleaner and conditioner-sealer 234 Keeps speaker cables from touching the ground. 235 Damping of CD transport mechanism 236 Bitumen damping of CD cabinet 237 Lifting speakercables off the floor 238 1 Bike tube under CD player/amp 239 Back wall resonance deadening. 240 1 Digital equipment in separate a/c zone. 243 Switch cycling 244 2 The Nordost Eco 3 Antistatic Spray prevents static charges to build up on your equipment, your cables and even your records and CD's! 245 Vibration isolation platform. 247 Skipping CD's 248 Speaker setup 253 Air dampening/isolation device 254 An isolation platform placed on top of components to reduce EFI interference and better the effectiveness of isolation platforms. 260 Replace speaker terminals and wires to crossover with some decent (solderable) speaker cable soldered directly to crossover, spades to amp 261 Speaker damping without fibreglass,etc. 262 "Spikes" for speakers, racks, et al 263 Replacing cheap wire with higher quality copper.More punch,and higher definition 264 Positioning spikes for optimum sonics 267 Best Solid Silver loudspeaker cable on Earth 269 3 Biamp and biwire your loudspeakers if possible. 270 Place layers of bubble wrap under component shelves to achieve air based isolation. 271 Perfect sound staging 272 1 Cheap CD Mat 273 Neoprene washer substitute. 274 2 Amazing roller ball isolation device for CD players 275 Component isolation 276 3 If your Television is between your speakers, throw a blanket over it when listening to music. 277 To extend the IC's life and dampen created HF 278 Oak drawer knobs from DIY shop used as equipment feet. 280 Low jitter, high accuracy replacement CD clock module 281 Solder wire ends to prevent fraying + improve connections 282 An isolation platform for your turntable. Probably works well on CD players too. 284 Reduce front baffle loudspeaker diffraction losses 285 1 Put ball bearings in three Vibrapods and place turntable on it. 286 1 Remove stock (hard plastic) feet from your CD player 287 Laser alinging your speakers, perfect alingment! 288 Home made, non-shielded (Not needed and only degrades the sound), low capacitance solid silver interconnects. 290 Flour in ziploc bags rather than sand. 291 Vinyl flooring as great panel damping. 292 Zerostat to render cd's static free. 314 Inexpensive high quality interconnect wire for thoes that make their own interconnects 315 Air Isolation of components! 316 Rollerblocks 317 1 Tennis Balls for Excellent Dampning and Better Air Circulation 318 BassLine, an acoustic enhancement invention for improving sound from bass reflex speakers. 319 4 Three evenly spaced PVC tubes behind speakers to tune them 320 Solid-Tech 322 Place thin piece of mortite strategically on cd transport tray so that it doesn't interfere with the opening and closing function. 323 Resonance damping of bass and midrange steel baskets with car repair "steel plastics" 324 1 Short circuit the digital out from your cd-player when not onnected to a separate d/a converter 326 1 Apply FunTack to caps, ICs and transistors. 328 Speaker/speaker stand isolation platform 329 2 Use pieces of a thick neoprene mousepad to decouple speakers on stands 332 Better alternative to expensive HiFi stands. 333 4 Make your own awesome solid silver interconnects and cables 334 Superior version of MDF (medium density fiberboard). 335 Improved stability, vibration damping, focuses speakers 337 Neat dampeners 338 Stand speakers on a cutout piece of 1-2 cm thick polystyrene, the same size as the base of each speaker. 339 1 Clean all copper contacts like equipment plugs,valve pins,fuses.More current to your system. 340 1 Cd cleaner that really improves the sound quality of budget cd players. 341 1 Stabilize the voltage supply on IC in CD player, DAC, OPAmp etc. to improve leading edge of music pulses. 342 5 Use Brasso polish to make scratchy CD's like new again. 345 Pirelli bi-wire cables, strands not solid-core, as speaker cables. 346 6 Aluminium honeycomb footers. 347 Driver dampening on speaker cabinets. 348 Upgrade caps resistors in speaker crossovers. 351 Clean Your Clock - quick tweak to improve the clock performance in your CD player. 352 1 Vibration control platform. 354 3 AC outlet 355 4 AC plugs 356 Subwoofer tweak 358 3 Video and Audio improvements in Home Theatre System 359 Turntable Tweak 360 Hockey Pucks (as equipment feet) 362 1 Twist your interconnect cables into "twisted pair" 363 Cheap AC line noise filter 364 Component isolation (substutite for graphite blocks) 365 Buckwheat Pillow Vibration Fix 366 Vibration control for components, $15 rollerblocks 367 Wall panels - Effective and cheap 369 3 Silicone resin used inside cabinet for maximum clarity 372 2 Mass Load Device 373 1 The speaker attachment to improve sound 374 Acorn nuts under speaker spikes 376 1 Twin inner tube damping device 377 3 Put ferrite beads on your speaker cables 378 1 Checking AC field around your cables 379 1 Audio Spectrum analysis, home theater room optimizer 382 Anti-Resonance Platform for audio components 383 AC Line Noise 384 CD Base 385 7 Amazing speaker tweak 387 1 Zobel network calculator 388 Inky black contact enhancer liquid 390 1 Focus Rings 391 8 Bass Tune your room 392 1 Reducing "digititis" glare of CD 393 Styrene foam cylinders [as cable separators] 394 Make ground plan for DAC chip, easy way to improove S/N 395 Voltage regulation 396 Cheaper Supplier of Lead/Steel Shot 397 Dampning inside CD player 398 Dampening CD player chassis/housing 399 CD player platform 400 Replacing spikes on stands 401 1 Cheap mains conditioner 402 Stylus replacement shure m75, m91 etc 403 1 Turntable isolation via holographic setup principles 404 Leaving your equipment switched on 405 1 Isolation platform 407 1 Clean up bass response on sub-woofer 408 Contact treatment 410 1 Concrete blocks above AND below the sub! 411 FM performance 428 The Space Harmonizer, a new unique resonant platform 429 Digital to Analog Sound...the Easy Way!!! 431 Speakers setup on carpet 433 Effective, cheap, very affordable and easy to install. 434 1 Tighten the screws on your speakers in the speaker cabinets. 435 Damping Material 438 MDF Shelf Treatment 439 Change your existing basic outlet with a commercial grade outlet 440 MiHorn/Focus Ring Alternatives. 441 AC outlet 442 Anyone use Quietcoat? 443 The wonders of blu-tac on my Rotel rcd-1070 cd player 444 Equipment Isolation 445 Dedicated mains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete H Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 446 Turn it up louder and you won't notice some of the other things on the list. 447 Get your alcohol balance correct prior to turning any of your equipment on. 448 Have a really bad system that you listen to for 15 minutes prior to listenting to your main system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 449 Twist a fattie before listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted February 24, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2012 # 447 and #449 can be substituted, or combined depending on the mood, or even doubled depending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest " " Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I don't see the rotate your woofers 90 degrees every 6 months mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniper8 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I like this stuff, thanks for the post, made me think of one, for the use of something cheese-y I saw on TV. How about flexsseal on metal horns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted February 25, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 25, 2012 How about flexsseal on metal horns? That's funny, but it would probably work. [Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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