Question How are you getting the best sound from your system?

[Fandango Andy]

What do you do? Please select all that apply to you:

 

[record_spot]

Messed up my vote. Missed the speaker positioning option, which is what I do.

 

[Al ears]

Pour a large glass of a nice red wine to imbibe whilst listening..... 🙂

 

[Fandango Andy]

Pour a large glass of a nice red wine to imbibe whilst listening..... 🙂

Never a bad idea! 🍷

 

[Shrek]

A nice cold beer and sit back 🍺 the more you have the better it sounds 🤪

 

[RoA]

Real problem room here but that’ll change this year. Difficult to make the speaker system sound as good as it did previously but I kind of got used to compromise somewhat. Used most days but my headphone system is coming up trumps.

 

[Jasonovich]

Room is the limiting factor, obviously there are things you can do to address this. Headphones are impervious to room acoustics but have to some sort of parity with speakers, you need to invest in a quality headphone amp and headphones (preferable planers 🙂 )

I do believe simple cost effective tweaks can also improve the sound, such as mains purifiers and noise filters. The claims I make are subjective because I have no way to measure this. It isn't the same with cables where you either except the merits of it or dismiss it entirely. Cleaner mains is rooted in common sense or science, and the results are audibly noticible.

 

[PieterG]

I know the room is where it all starts, and where the biggest gains are to be made. Unfortunately, other people live there... so i fiddle with speaker positioning and some cushions, blankets, etc. I wish i had a proper listening room.

One of the reasons i chose KEF at the time was the Uni-Q tweeter that isn't fussy. It lets me keep the towers facing (almost) straight so the staging remains wide and doesn't lose center focus. It seems to work well, but i change the distance and angle from time to time. I should probably look into ways to measure/correct/optimize.