For reviews and commentary related to the “extra stuff” not included elsewhere, including room treatments and audio racks, and yes, all the fun tweako bits, too.
[Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it a far more […]
Over the years, we’ve tried endless numbers of tweaks to get the most out of our components. Some work, others don’t, and some behave as un-wanted tone controls. It’s a puzzle that every audiophile loves […]
The GamuT Lobster Chair (chair $4,995, optional matching footstool $2,590) is a billed as “the world’s first audiophile chair.” I will respectfully defer — “firsts” don’t really matter to me as much as “awesomeness”, and […]
If there is one major question that I get all the time is how to improve the Raspberry Pi streamer performance. The most obvious choice is to upgrade the power supply. What the RaspberryPi.org suggests […]
Brand new Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched! […]
By Roger Skoff You know what Internet Trolls are; they’re the kind of folks who lurk on Facebook or the audiophile forums, waiting for some poor innocent to post anything at all that’s in any […]
I blame Barry Diament for getting me started on this approach to isolation. I’m not exactly sure which of his posts on Computer Audiophile that caught my eye originally, as there were a lot of […]
“Power, like sex or air, is only important when you’re not getting any.” I think this a pretty common feeling amongst cash-strapped audiophiles. The reasons are pretty (psychologically) obvious — if you don’t know, you […]
I have some Symposium gear in for evaluation and review, and while talking with Peter Bizlewicz, I started wondering about my carpet. It’s Berber, with a pad, over concrete. “Basement standard decor”. Because of this, […]
I’ll admit that I’m a creature of the moment. That’s a nice way of saying I’m a little ADD. Whatever. What’s here, and in my face, takes precedence. And what’s in my face these days […]
Well, the last of the shelves for my AudiAV Zirconia rack showed up today. Now all my stuff is nicely separated and protected from the evil of vibration, subsonics, EMF, RFI and the scourge of […]
My aftermarket stands for the Magneplanar 3.7 arrived yesterday, courtesy of Grant VanderMye of Mye Sound. Okay, ignoring the clutter on the floor (yep, still waiting on AudiAV to deliver on the last few parts […]
Ok, ordered some Dueland resistors (two 2R 10w, wound together, per speaker) — or rather, re-ordered some Duelands. The problem? The leads were too short to simply insert them into the tweeter attenuation port. D’oh! […]
Had a bit of luck with scheduling yesterday, so I was able to slip out and pick up my newest toy, Shunyata’s (currently) top-of-the-line Hydra Triton. I’ve owned Hydras in the past and have been […]
Well, here I am. Only between 4 and 438 weeks to go before my Magnepan 3.7 speakers are ready and shipped. Which means I’ve had (and will still have) plenty of time to start sweating […]
Stole this form from a diyAudio thread. It’s an interesting checklist for deriding discussing random audio tweaks with some of their more obnoxious enthusiastic supporters. Enjoy and feel free to use the next time you […]
As I mentioned, I started noodling around the Audio Sensibility website following the Stereophile profile they did during the Montreal SSI show. I found a cable maker that’s doing some really interesting things with wire, […]
Evil Vibrations I think there was a time, long ago and far away, when audiophiles didn’t obsess about things like equipment isolation. I don’t really know. It’s hard to focus past my own OCD. The […]
You’ll hear it from just about anyone you care to solicit feedback from that “the room” is the most important thing when it comes to sound quality. Ok, maybe not the most, but it will […]
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