Favorite Budget Tweaks

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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2011
    From a different thread I started on adding in the foam plugs on bookshelf speaker ports as a budget tweak to act as a low cut-off aid for integrating speakers to sub:
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118022

    The Sub-Dude was another relatively low budget 'tweak' that helped decouple my sub from the floor to tighten up bass response.

    And - as odd as this sounds - got a tip from a Mapleshade catalog for NOT pointing my sub directly at my listening spot - instead angling it away seemed to help bass accuracy.

    fwiw...ymmv....imho....:tongue:

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,081
    edited November 2011
    Zero wrote: »
    - Lastly, if you're running a stereo set-up, try not to put anything in between your speakers. Big entertainment centers, closets, shelves, even large equipment racks, really do skew the sound of your system. Ideally, there should be no large item in-between the speakers, as it'll allow the sound wave to travel without being un-evenly distorted right from the get go.

    That is sooooo true. What a big improvement to remove all items from in between your speakers. Huge upgrade/tweak.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2011
    Big/tall entertainment centers (especially with enclosures) are the worst bewteen speakers. They act like a large resonating object, producing all sorts of nasty mid-bass distortion/howling. I noticed a big difference when I bought my low-profile Salamander triple-20 rack, which is also "open" (screened sides/doors) so resonance can't build up.
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