Hello everyone, these are the links for items in my list: 5. Ferrite core (check the diameter of the aperture) www.amazon.co.uk/Dreamtop-Clip-Ferrite-Suppressor-Diameter/dp/B01MG8GQ1F/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=Ferrite+cores&qid=1589902212&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzTTZEQkQzUkdWWEFVJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjQ3MzgxMjFVS0FBWko1WkdOWSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNjM0OTczR1ZOQzhMWVFZWFFFJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ== 4. Anti-vibration feet (silicon ones work as well as the Sorbothane) www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07MPC5HM3/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A19VGPGME3DXWF&psc=1 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B079SV39KW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2K5KKYERQOFGB&psc=1 3. Tacima mains conditioner strip www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UB0G4DQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?smid=A2OMTXKFADW0PO&psc=1 2. Parallel mains conditioners www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BGDC61K/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07835J8XF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=AUDZDCNEQ3WOO&psc=1 1. DIY mains power lead sets www.mcru.co.uk/product-category/diy-componants/diy-mains-power-lead-sets/

My washing machine's low frequencies are now much tighter and the low mid resonance in the room disappeared with those rubber feet, I can now listen to a full synthetics cycle at 60º C without any ear fatigue. Thank you!

Hi, recently bought the Tacima 6 way mains conditioner after watching your review and Amazon were the cheapest at £39.95..Yes I can tell the difference in my system..it's now so smooth but still detailed & more open on my Monitor Audio bronze 2 speakers..Thankyou & keep up the good work..👍

Good tips but reminder sponsor your local hifi shop instead of amazon who don’t pay tax and have no passion about hifi remember support your local hifi shop will make your main brand to survive 👌🏻

At the end of the day I found the best tactic that improved my Hifi system and it really works for me is I go out in the backyard and I dig about a 3 m x 2 m hole and I put my turntable in there along with my speakers and then cover it back up with concrete. I've been doing this for several years now and it's quite literally changed my perception of what's possible with pre-recorded music.

So glad to have happened upon your channel. I am a Yank from Kansas who happens to be an audiophile and an anglophile. What a perfect channel for me!

This is my first video of yours that I have watched, very interesting and thought provoking many thanks for explaining things in a understandable way.

Talks a lot of sense, nice to see and hear somebody talking objectively about audio tweaks.

I took your anti-vibration pad advice one step further and replaced my speakers with two top-ported washing machines. My system has never sounded cleaner.

Excellent and to the point advice, makes a refreshing change from some 'experts' that like the sound of their own voice.

My most effective and inexpensive tweak is to have my ears syringed. Outstanding!

This is the first video I've ever watched from you and I subscribed right away. Thank you for a sensible explanation of all the stuff I was wondering about!

Sensible audio advice delivered in a measured manner. Have now subscribed. Plan to tackle the mains and anti vibration issues first with my vinyl sourced system. Many thanks for the pointers.

Good Morning Taran. Just wanted to thank you for another very informative video. I appreciate your easy-to-understand style. I am learning much and I tried the reduction in vibration for speakers. It worked! To be honest, my enjoyment of music increased after I got my hearing aids so it’s a treat to hear recordings as they were meant to be. Thanks again. Have a good evening!

Thanks for the videos. An audiophile with common sense and not just deep pockets, someone who speaks my language!

As always,great advice Tarun. Thanks again Sir!👍😊

Excellently informative. Lots of little things to consider that I hadn't really thought about. Thanks for your work.

Great to see Hifi tweaks! Thank you Tarun! I am 70 years young and have experienced VPI Magic Bricks from VPI and Tip Toe component feet invented by the Mod Squad that did help my system sound better. I discovered many tweaks that work from Yamamoto Sound Craft in Japan. They have Cherry and Ebony wood head shells for phono carts. I found their PB-19 beveled pure Ceramic spacer that is 12mm in diameter and 2.2mm high very useful under speakers/componets and on top of glass turntable platters in order to decouple the vinyl record from the felt platter mat. The ceramic spacers reduce static electricity in the vinyl during playback. You might have to adjust tonearm VTA when using the spacers. Rega now has a Ceramic platter for one of it's turntables. All the Best to you! Happy Listening!

Thank You for your intelligent, scientific insightful down-to-earth common sense commentary that will bring harmony.. I can now enjoy a Mains conditioner I can afford... No more Snake Oil.. you are my friend !!! Blues from Chicago, IL

Thank you for a common sense, reasonable approach to taking care of the basics. I am now a subscriber and look forward to checking out your other videos.

very good tarun - you are very good at explaining using simple and direct language, and being sensible, all in a nice down to earth way - more of this is needed in the 'audiophile' world

First time I watch one of your videos, dope tips and great explanation man. Keep it up!

Just wanted to say thank you for this vid (and your one on speaker placement). I thought why not? After recently buying new speakers (B&W 603's) and finding the bass dominating (room is 4.2 x 4.8 x 3) I got some Anti Vibration Feet per the link. Boom! Bass no longer unruly and a rock solid improvement. I'll be following your channel! Cheers!

Great sensible approach to Hi Fi. Listening to you for the first time having just bought a Hegel 190 second hand from my own hi Fi dealer. Unpretentious sound advice. Thanks!

Got a couple of the ferrite cores and put one on each of the negative (-) side of the speaker cables and was very surprised at the loss of background noise I hadn't realized was there. The silence, while not jaw droppingly incredible, it was quite um, audible. Thanks for the tip! Cambridge AXR85, ELAC Debut 2.0 B5.2 Speakers, RT82 Turntable (upgraded acrylic platter), Sony BDP-S590 3D Blu-Ray Disc Player, MD deck and double cassette deck. Thanks again!

Great video Tarun! Specially the tip regarding the spikes and how they work in different floor types was awesome. Thanks again!!

Hooray! At last a reviewer who understands that spikes COUPLE. It's mind boggling how many times you hear about using spikes to decouple. Spikes don't decouple. Well done.

Thanks for the education. In the past, my impression on the power cables conditioner were expensive items. Now I know they are affordable and the local fancy audio shop isn't the only place to buy them! Will watch your video on speakers and interconnect cables. Cheers from Singapore.

Love to hear this practical and truthful advice from someone who has the funds to spend a lot but is wise enough to use something that works and avoids "snake oil" so that money can be put to best use!!!

Hi Tarun. Some very simple yet useful tweaks here. I tried the Tacima power strip. The anti-vibration appliance pads repaced the spikes on my speaker stands and, together with rubber door stops de-coupling the speakers from the stands, have all had a remarkable result. Tighter bass, better imaging and vastly improved width and depth in soundstage have been achieved with these inexpensive mods. Who'd have thunk it? Thanks a lot. Solutions don't have to be complicated eh? By the way, I also have zero options for speaker positioning (wall proximity) so got a pair of foam bungs for the L/F ports which has dramatically reduced room boom.

Thanks for the tips Tarun. I see you're diving fearlessly into the area some find contentious, but I for one agree with your views. In fact, I've been making my own Lapp cables recently to replace the horrible standard cables on some of my vintage gear. This has included fitting IEC sockets to the backplane of amps and also using rhodium plated connection throughout. Only slightly more expensive but less prone to oxidation. Saves on deoxit later. By the way, I agree with Mr Hall's comment and I only connect the shield to the plug end of the cable.

Hi Tarun, just watched this video again...some great tips, really useful. Stay well and keep up the great videos!

Extremely concise well presented and knowledgable presentation. I can see why your subscribers are growing. This is deffo the best cheap way to get into tweaks. I’d say you’d get 40 percent of what the more expensive solutions provide and I’ve tried most of them bar the washing machine pucks which I’m going to have to play around with as right now I can’t afford the iso acoustics ones under my speakers. I used to be an anti expensive tweaker and anti expensive cable guy but I ended up demoing a lot of still points and Entreq cabling and it showed me that it wasn’t snake oil.. Although I’ve easily spent a component level amount on my cables and isolaters in my system I would say the accumulative effect far outweighs any component upgrade of the same price. In fact component upgrades have sometimes resulted in sideways moves and not always improvements.

I made all these changes at once. Made a massive difference to clarity and soundstage. Have no idea which of the changes had the biggest difference but am very happy with the result

Thank you for the suggestion of using washing machine supports for speakers on a wooden floor. I was a little sceptical but am trying this today with a pair of KEF 104/2s that stand on granite plinths that are in turn on a well past its best bouncy Victorian wooden floor. Initial impressions are of less congestion in the bass and lower mids; clearer tom and bass drum patterns, maybe slightly improved imagery too, time will tell. Definitely worth trying and if I decide against well at least I can use one pack under the washing machine 😄

Thank you so much for these tips! After A- B - ing with ferrite beads & without, I liked the sound with. Having suggested them to my brother(who's in Camden by the way) who was having weird sound interference with his guitar amplifier, he tried them out and fixed the issue! I did get a power conditioner to try, and liked it but after upgrading my amp's power cord, I no longer need it. Now I have weights on my amp and dac and the sound has increased ten fold! Microphonics and microvibrations are 'real pests' and must be soundly addressed which I'm so glad you mention here. "You never hear your stereo system sound better than the weakest link in your audio chain." ~ Steve Deckert AMEN!🙏🏾

Great video. Congrats. As far as I can see you are a perfectionist, not because of only your audio system but general appearance (the details of your home, painting of the doors etc). prove my observation

Nice video! I was expecting to have to suggest sorbathane feet, but you had it covered of course! Microphany has a big effect on small signals so isolating signal sources from tiny movements pays big dividends.

Another great video from Tarun, thanks for that! Some of these little tweaks I already implemented, and today I've ordered better power cable for my amp as well as power distributor/filter. Price wise I went a bit further that than Tarun recommends, but even if these upgrades will have neglible effect, I as audiophile will be able to sleep better, knowing that I done everything in this area :)

You are definitely my favourite Hifi channel. Total common sense and honest look at this subject. I have implemented exactly the same items as you have listed. I attended the Bristol hifi show this year and sat in on (won't say the manufacturer) demo of their mains filters/ conditioners. He held up the Tacima 6 way mains conditioner and said they have tested this and it introduces noise and degrades the sound of the audio. I nearly fell off my chair. They did not use it as a comparison between their kit either, just decided to bad mouth the Tacima. I have one, nice bit of kit. Great video sir👍

Thanks for another great informative video. Your brave going down this route. I use most of the items but the washing machine isolation feet might solve a problem I've had for a long time. Thanks again and please keep them coming.

Good advice! In my past hifi systems I had fairly decent equipment with components such as Linn Sondek/Ittok/K9, Naim Nait (early model) and AE floor standing speakers etc. However my more modest current setup which uses a decent spec PC (for streaming and KZfaq, etc), Marantz PM6006 amp and Elac B6.2 speakers and has a far better quality sound with is far more engaging and enjoyable to listen to. The big difference between the two systems is the fact that I use some of the tweaks you mentioned in my current system, whereas in the past, although I had better components, all the cabling was the basic stuff that came with the components, apart from using thicker speaker cables. When I first became interested in hifi audio, interconnects were never talked about only components and how they measured. The current trend that places more emphasis on decent cabling is a relatively recent development and is to be welcomed as it encourages the audio enthusiast to pay more attention to addressing these important details in order to extract the maximum performance from what they already own rather than simply upgrading components in their search of a better quality sound.

I wanna be like you when I grow up..:>).. I'm 63 and still growing.. seriously a kick ass system in every room in your house... dude you are bad ass!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You are a really funny guy. Always enjoy to watch people talking about things without any knowledge. I had a good laugh. Thanks 👍

Thank you Tarun. Thanks to this tweaks video, I just purchased the Tacima CS947. Tacima owe you a beer :P

For what it's worth, I found the Tacima mains strip made the biggest difference to equipment using wall wart power supplies, but I can offer no guesses why (though I've since improved on that by eliminating all warts). Also, Richer Sounds has them for a good price, and I prefer them over Amazon on ethical grounds.

Isn’t it amazing, I know a chap with a PhD in physics, who did his dissertation on Audio, having spent years at the BBC and produced some excellent valve amps. He loves dispelling all this mumbo jumbo. Companies spend a fortune on R&D and along come snake oil salesmen, that take you all in with carbon suppressors for RF, 3p pieces of plastic sold for £70, and cables rolled on the thighs of virgins around a campfire on a full moon, filled with oxygen free copper... duh! Unless it’s an oxide, it is all oxygen free.

hi Tarun another great video from you .just love your approach to hi fi .ive watched.all you videos .my favourite.channel now .best Archie 😎😎😎

Some really good and sensible tips - thank you. I have just ordered the rubber washing machine feet to place under my Atacama stands, which are currently on spikes and then placed on 2p coins, going to place the 2p coin inside each of the rubber feet so that the spikes dont go through the rubber moulding.

C'mon guys, let's get the British Audiophile up to 20K subscribers, and then upwards and beyond...thoroughly merited IMHO! :-)

Now these are the kind of videos that I wish more Hi-Fi content creators could get behind. Great video. I have most of these options at home but have never tried the Ferrite cores on speaker wire, so will no doubt have a play later. Will have to try the washing machine pucks as well. But this for me is definitely the more fun for trying. After watching a video yesterday on KZfaq by a different subscribed channel where the presenter has gone from modest improvements that I have learnt from over the years and still have a lot of time for and is now posting about a £1500 power supply for a £3K pc and £7K for a pack of four over designed door stops! I feel he is losing my interest. This video is reflected of the fact that the hobby is for everyone and you don't need an 8 figure salary to enjoy Hi-Fi. I thank you. Keep up the great content, it's a very welcome breath of fresh air.

Your clear explanation is appreciated. Subbed.

Some great tips here; thank you! If I might share something with you about your magical Celestions, unless Celestion has done something about this problem, you'll want to tighten the driver mounting plates periodically, as the bolts get loose over time. Incredible difference after you do it!

One of my cost-effective tweaks is drum dampener gel silicon that I double stack and place under each corner of bookshelfs. The bass becomes weightier, more articulate and a bit more "bouncy." I think they are the best decoupler, better than springs (like Nobsound spring) which, in my listening test, softens the bass.

Honestly love some of the "HiFi Tweaks", but!; "isolation" pads WILL allow the cabinet to move and dampen and/or resonate with the woofer, best to put the speaker on a platform with substantial mass (concrete/marble/granite, etc) then use the isolation pads underneath as to not pass vibrations to a wooden floor. If you have carpet you may not need the isolation pads. Placed on cement floor the spikes (if too pointy) will also allow the cabinet to move and resonate/dampen the sound as well. A very simple test is to place something heavy on top of the speaker, if the bass sounds tighter and cleaner than you have a floating cabinet issue. If you want to clean up and condition the electrical signal buy a isolation transformer, completely reforms the electricity and is used for servers and medical equipment to guarantee a solid clean 110v/230v without noise. You can buy the best power plug, but that means nothing if you have a bad outlet or electrical in your wall or even faulty transformer outside your house. These cost about $150 and will eliminate any need for any other gizmos. Another inexpensive tweak is a clean contact. Tarn-X and a Q-tip is your friend ;-) Side note, you have tiny bones in your ear that adjust for different sounds that WILL physically effect the sound. Even tilting your head back will mute the sound a bit. Point being if you feel it sounds better after certain changes you might be literally opening up your ears and are hearing it better inside your ears but may not be getting any real changes to the audio it self. And obviously cleaning out your ears lol

Hi Tarun. Great video's. 5 very good advices. Just continue 👍

Nice setup! Your monitors in the intro remind me of my Ushers S520 II :D Very nice looking.

I’ve never subscribed on first viewing before, but in this video at least, you talk so much sense that I’m compelled to. I look forward to many more. By the way, I use felt pads for equipment isolation - they work really well too.

The Tacima is an amazing tweak. I had no complaints with my system, no buzz, no hum, even on full volume on pause play. But the Tacima definitely improved the TV picture and brought additional detail in the music. Moving speakers a bit further from the wall helped improve the sound. Much enjoyed this and other videos for the clarity and fluency. No plans to replace my 20+ year old Linn system.

Routing my cables separately and neatly made one of the biggest free improvements I've made

I love your channel! You’re a realist in a sea of kooks. Thanks for another great video.

I just paused the video at the 6th second, and have to write this to you Buddy. I am drooling at the Epos ES14s!!!! Okay, let me unpause it and continue watching now✌😄👌!!!

You are brave my friend going into the lion's den here with these items. I use versions of all classes of tweets you mention. I only deal with cheap ones, based on some common sense and affordable. Basically try them and see if make a difference( usally 2-5 % change).

Hi Tarun, great bit of information you have supplied very useful 👍

Great advice. The washing machine pads work for me under almost all of my hifi. My Linn dealer advised not to use anything under my LP12 trampoline baseboard though as you can have too much isolation. I will be giving one of those extension leads a try next.

Good advice and great explanations. #6 - I like to use a rack for the electronics so that the power lines get routed horizontally to the sides and then down (using a cable trough or they could also be bundled). This gives space in the middle to run the interconnects and speaker cables with sufficient distance to the power cables to prevent 60 hz. (guessing it would be 50 hz. in Europe ) hum from passing into the interconnects and speaker wires. Having a rack on wheels (some audiophiles may shudder) makes this easier. If you have a lot of gear it is almost essential.

Speaker placement and moving speakers 2-3 feet or more from the wall is free and one of the biggest sonic improvements you can make (unless your speakers are meant to be close to the wall). Not to mention experimenting with toe-in angle for the best soundstage and center image. Moving the listening position away from the wall is super helpful as well. Room treatments, from putting down a rug on the hardwood floor, to treating the first reflection points, putting up diffusers, treating the back wall behind the listening position, and bass traps in the corners to tame and smooth room modes/peaks and nulls/dips can make massive differences as well.

Thanks again. Great videos. Keep them up.

Hey Tarun. Just wanted to say thank you. I have just started building the system of my 2000s dreams (using modern speakers and TMC amps and AV32) and have now reached the cables and power part. Thanks to your videos I got Lapp Kabel (I like how it looks) with some fat IEC connectors (purely for the look). I also got the Tacima conditioner. £600 mains conditioners never really interested me. I really don't believe in snake oil. For RCA cables I went with Audioquest Tower, which tbh? is about as far as I like to go with RCA cables on price. So yes, I just wanted to convey my thanks. I really don't need some guy telling me that I need cables coated in the nipples of 1000 otters that sound better than anything else. I also enjoyed your AE review comparing to the LS35A. I worked at Rogers with Andy Whittle between '96 and the closure in '97. It was a wonderful company to work for. So if you have ever listened to a pair from that timeframe there's a good chance it was all my soldering on the XOs. Thanks again, and take care. Andrew.

Great advice!. I've had some fairly expensive mains conditioning and cabling in my system (on loan from a friend) and I can't say if I've really heard much, if any difference. The placebo factor is too present when listening to these tweaks. You really need to blind A/B and that's just not possible in most situations. I've had the Tacima for a few years and I think it's a great bit of gear for the money. All these tweaks are a great idea and well worth trying!. 👍

I agree with you on mains conditioners and their expensive empty promises. For the same price of $600 I had a license electrician wire two 12 gauge dedicated circuits to the service box. One for digital and one for Analog. The difference in dynamics was night and day. Also noise floor was greatly reduced from the previous 1960s mains wiring.. In humble opinion I'd recommend scrapping the power conditional for dedicated runs to the circuit breaker bus.

My Top Five KZfaq Audiophile list has had two entries the past couple of years. Now, it has three. Thanks for your efforts. I consider myself an extreme tweaker. While I go for much of the stuff you address I am also an inside man. I started with upgrading speaker crossovers and eventually began ripping into most equipment in search of improvements. Mostly it works, and only rarely is it a total waste of time. Overall, it's big fun.

Absolutely fantastic, thanks T !

I'm going to be trying a few of these tips Tarun, thank you. So far I've tried the passive Tacima mains conditioner, but it went straight back to Amazon the same day it arrived. It seriously dulled the higher frequencies on my system, and sucked a lot of the fun out of listening to my hi-fi. I've never heard a mains conditioner before so wasn't sure what to expect, and I appreciate that I might have gotten used to the sound when electrical noise is present. However, I felt it removed sounds that are supposed to be in the recording as well, and that's why it went back (and I notice this is in stark contrast to how you described its effect). I'm sure mileage varies, so for comparison, my system is Audiolab 8000S and 8000SX amps (from the late 90's), an Audiolab 8200CDQ, and a HiFiBerry Digi+ HAT board on a Raspberry Pi. Speakers are Mission 761's (the original design from 1989, recently rewired and recapped).

Are you sure about connecting the shielding at both ends? I thought you only connected it at the wall plug end.

Great insights as usual 👏, I try to screen my mains power supply before it gets into my property

A very informative video which is seldom discussed in a terse fashion commonly seen among audiophile videos. Kudos to your commitment to inclusivity of new or budding audiophiles. Stay blessed.

A good honest representation of the various tweeks. I do have a question about the power cable shielding though. You make a point of saying the shield should be grounded at both ends. I had always been told that cable shields should only be grounded at the source end to avoid ground loops (I believe this is common industry practice for sensitive instrumentation). When I looked this up on line it appears that the is a lot of controversy over the ground loop issue. My limited understanding of the ground loop issue is that when two pieces of equipment (each with separate grounds) are connected together with a shielded cable connected to the chassis of both pieces of equipment (that is essentially grounded at both ends) there is a possibility that each cassis is grounded to sinks which are not exactly at the same potential (one may have a very slightly higher voltage compared to the other). As a result there will be a current flow through the shield wire which could create magnet interference in any sensitive signal wire in close proximity to it. There are a lot of if’s of course and likely most of the time there will not be a significant ground loop current or it will not generate a magnetic field strong enough to be a problem. I have run into ground loop problems in an industrial setting with sensitive vibration monitoring instrumentation and grounding the shield at one end only did resolve the issue. In the case of the power cable ground loop current would likely produce a much weaker magnetic field than the power cable itself produces so I don’t think I hurts to ground its shield at both ends. More sensitive signal wires on the other hand should likely be grounded on one end only in my opinion. Sorry for the long winded comment but I do enjoy you videos and reading the comments from others.

You gotta love audiophiles: listen to the opening of this video. “I would rather upgrade my equipment than buy gizmos” If you were really like that you would be spending your money on music, CDs etc rather than neurotically worrying about bass frequencies, speaker isolation, power conditioning and cables. A high proportion of audiophiles possess limited knowledge and appreciation of music. I thought that’s is the primary purpose of a sound system at home.

Thanks! Great tips! Well done.

Another solid video! Thank you.

Great video. I love hi fi, but I am sure I am not alone in thinking that everything seems to cost a lot of money in this space. You can spend a fortune on a set of speakers or a power amp based on the positive feedback of a few YT reviewers, only to be totally underwhelmed by the results when you get it home. Big problem if you have paid the big bucks. This is an alternative take on things. All these hacks are worth looking in to given they are relatively inexpensive to try out. You are not risking much in the grand scheme of things. Thanks for sharing.

Where is your data to prove that the generic cable is worst in terms of ‘performance’ than the cable that appears to be made from ‘better’ components?

I always used rubber feet under my turntable but the biggest effect on a regular priced turntable is getting rid of the rubber mat if it has groves and getting a polymer cork mat and a cheap record clamp . The quiet background is amazing

Very Interesting. A couple of points that may be of interest. I made my own Mains cables several years ago from CY cable, Indentical to the Lapp cable you use but a fraction of the price. Regarding Mains filters, I got one many years ago and had the same problems with a 'strangled' sound. I found a solution in plugging the low current components (Pre Amp, CDP, TT etc) into the conditioner and the Power Amp directly into the wall socket. Great set of video's, keep up the good work,

As an acoustician and audiologist I can tell you the most important thing is the room acoustics with the speakers and placement. Spend your money in your room acoustics with an professional acoustician and you will be able to enjoy the system like never before. The things you mentionedxin the video makes no difference. Greetings from Germany

Shields only get terminated at the source not both ends on power cables.

Very informative video guy i'm so glad i came across your channel you got my sub mate!.

Great content, will definitely try these tweaks.

You present an articulate lecture which I believe would be persuasive to many audiophiles. However I consider all of these recommendations to be the snake oil of the present day hi-fi industry. I believe these suggestions at best would make such an infinitesimal improvement if any, that any perceived improvement would really be imaginary. I look forward to someday seeing such benefits proven by double-blind testing. (I am a retired electronics engineer and long time audiophile).

I have isoAcoustic stands under my book shelve speakers. It's one of the greatest in-expensive changes I've made.

I recently installed ifi DC blockers to my CD transport, DAC and amps and they made a noticeable and worthwhile improvement to the sound.

Great advice. Merry Christmas 👍🎅🏼

Tip 6 - Keeping your home quite cold will stiffen your driver surrounds, tightening your bass and providing greater texture. Of course, you will need to wear a jacket within your home, but small price to pay.

2:00 a ferrite core around one lead does nothing. It is my understanding that you put the ferrite core around both leads. Reason being that distortion is picked up by both leads, in contrast to the original signal, which is the difference between the leads. It’s called a common mode choke. Quote: “The magnetic flux induced by differential signals (on symmetric transmission lines) compensates each other, so that the signal is not influenced. On common mode signals (travelling over both wires in the same direction) it operates as a choke, because the resulting induced magnetic flux is non-zero.”

Super information to a novice like myself. thank you for a super series of videos they are truly educational and informative.

I know you did this video 3 years ago. I have 25 year old audio equipment that is in prestine condition. I took it out of storage. I haven't listened to hifi at home for over 20 years. I recently retired and I want to get back in the hobby. Adding a DAC and building new speakers. I'm watch videos to catch up with the hobby. I love your content. You added a loyal subscriber when you recommended the washing machine pads! Thank you

the boxes you showed are mainly. only one capacitor over the power wires. All electrical appliances you have already have a capacitor on the power input! There is a requirement or something everyone must have inside electronic devices. so I don't think those boxes help anything! haven't heard so much good about them either! Placebo effect, if you think it works then they do. The active you show up there is a lot of fake off that is being sold. open it to see inside to share it with youtube viewers

Music always sounds better after a nice cold glass of beer 🍺

Brilliant as always! Thanks.