Man you're killin it Mike ! had a very good laugh thanks to your hilarious analogies and rants.

"Teleportation Tweak"!! Too muckin' futch. Thanks for the laugh. Still rollin' on the floor. GREAT VID!!

one of your best videos mikey. since 30 years i‘m in this highend game and you are right! at least what you can sum up in one video. and its seems you are a really funny guy!

Mike, this has been one of your best videos, I have laughed a lot with your stupid tweeks anecdotes, the teleported phone and the epic fuse

One of the best «sum it all up» I have seen. I feel lucky to reached my personal endgame, and moved on to other hobbys. My rig is based on quality gear, and a dedicaded room… and I feel you on the «high blood preassure when reading hifi online/magazines». Yesterday, I saw pictures of someone unpack a pre/power set… owner was very happy… (200.000usd almost). Rig put up against to wall, in a small livingroom. Jezzzzz… Keep up the good work!

I used rose quartz, but i find the sound softer or more feminine than when i used black granite. Polished marble has a much brighter tone though then unpolished but granite was much more engaging and detailed.. In fact, I found quartz or granite has a sweet spot when sanded to 600-800 grit.

I appreciate the tripod stationary camera videos from this channel. I used to have to look away from the handheld videos because they'd make me dizzy. I like the content and now that the video is stable I really enjoy watching the videos without reservations.

Thanks Mikey, love your style and attitude for us to learn more and more!🙃🙃🙃

Great video Mike. Reading about tweaks, cables, gear, etc. will drive a person crazy. There are endless options and glowing/exaggerated/fake reviews of most all of them. Lots of $$$ is wasted going down the tweak rabbit hole. It is best to buy something expensive/high quality to begin with and not end up spending more in the long run: buy once, cry once.

I love your sense of humour bro, especially the dog part and your wife will divorce you 🤣🤣🤣

"And if you take all those 500 dollarses..." Let me know when you take your stand-up on tour. Please.

I like you are definitely out of the box…., love it…. Keep up the audio rebel view

Hey Mike, great stuff as always! Saw an idiot supposedly telling people how to buy hi-fi last week who said buy your speakers first, “because they make the biggest difference.” Jeez! I politely pointed out the same as you said, source first is the only way to go. Loved every tweak and I totally agree on the isolation point. I went to a hi-fi show where they were peddling spring load isolation feet for speakers. Unconvinced, but willing to be proven wrong, I put squidgy stuff under my floor standers an lo, the bass turned to mush. Spikes back on and normal service is restored. If I lived on your side of the pond I’d make a trip for sure. Good luck and stay well.

Rofl!! Preach on Mikey!! This is the Mikey I was waiting for!!!

Mike - In reference to your speech on speaker cables, I recently replaced my 16 gauge CCA wire with Southwire (USA Made) 14 gauge CL3 pure copper speaker cables, and the improvement in sound was significant, in fact, outstanding - connected to my Sansui 5050 and Klipsch Heresy III's. I would be shocked if any other cable out there, at any price, would provide any audible improvement in sound quality. The 50 feet of cable cost me less than $20.00.

My favorite video of yours that first got my attention was when you added your I think two? Very thick gauge copper ground rods from you house to the outside using the also heavy gauge electrical conduit. +1 on the Puritan conditioner, great value. Bass traps, anyone can make home made ones with just a little imagination. Hopefully I will get a chance to check you out this summer, in Smyrna. PS: What is your favorite bourbon or whiskey? Hint, the more expensive the better...I don't even know if you partake or not in spirits?

Very good analyze. I would have placed the treatment of the room in number one !

I always suspected you were a cyborg! LOL can’t wait to see the tribal body painting.

I love your speaker cables Mikey. Thank you

A refreshing overview of what matters and what does not! Also I smile more watching your perforrnances that anything Saturday Night Live can come up with. :) ps> Not sure about the higher level MSB Dacs, but the base model MSB Dacs sound too warm and rounded to my ears, it's the dCS and Esoteric which are over analytical.

lol, teleportation tweak? That's hilarious!

what's your $1K dac recommend? what do you think about border control dacs? what do you think about the transparent powerbank?

You were rollin’ today brother!

Weed ( drops preferably) are the single best upgrade you can ever do to your system. Period

You hit the nail on the head Mikey 👍

👍👍👍 say it Mike you are so right I will definitely buy them from you Mikey

tribal body painting! you're a very funny guy! ;-)

So appreciate your truth!

If I get a Puritan PSM156, any benefit to install a dedicated line on top of it? tks for the great advices!

I'll second the rose quartz hack. Made my highs airier, mids warmer and bass fuller, deeper and tighter. Everything was cleaner and more well-defined.

Also don’t forget if your put on your right shoe on first then the left it will change your sound system 😁.

Poor chap….it makes him feel aggravated….really…..happy new year !

I think it was Needle Doctor that used to sell the Tice Clock. They also used to sell Zip ties that you put near the ends of your cables to improve sound.

I always heard JESUS was the answer for Tweeker's! Mikey you just confirmed it! Lol 🤣 Too Real!

One the best videos you've done? Pocket protector wearing nerds 😂! Love it and I agree,

Here's another cheap tweek: surround toslink terminals with bluetack. Block outside light.

Goes to wife side of the bathroom looks for space rocks to put on the rig : p

I do belive that that tweak website was supposed to be satirical.

I agree with Source being important. I have heard poor speakers sound really decent driven from a high quality source. I have heard great speakers sound horrible from poor quality source. Good information here, going to be getting in contact probably!

As a materials scientist by trade, hifi audio is both the most exciting and the most depressing industry. Some tweaks light my brain up and some make me lose faith in humanity 😂

The only brand that had a tape spd controller as accurate as quartz on their tape machines was Studer/ Revox & Nagra. TEAC, Akai, Pioneer, Sony, etc. were all mickey mouse R2R decks.

I only see 2 DACs up, are you going to update the other price brackets?

Mike, what's your knowledge & thoughts on Stromtank & EQUITECH Balanced power panels?

If people spent more money on their room treatments and less on tweeks would be money well spent in my opinion. I crinch we I see rooms with concreate walls tiled floors and large glass doors/windows and a $150K + sound system.

Hey man i really appreciate your work. I would really get your support to setup my rig and buy everything off you but i'm based in Italy. I strongly recommend anyone in US to use your services. Hope to talk to u some day

I love this vid more than I love love.

No Mikey your covid hair get me aggravated!! 🤠😆👍 Is a beer considered a tweek? Well maybe a few??

Great KZfaq channel and please update your website

I seen one channel who loves to talk about tweaks saying that it is important which way you put the fuse in lol wow.

If your amps and sources are built properly, or have properly built high end active studio monitors, you don't need mains filtering. My room doesn't need the bass traps, the only thing I use is the wall where I'm seated against is treated with with different densities of memory foam. My room is only 3.5 by 4 metres, and I don't suffer bass boom, although I am using an appropriate sized rig for the size of my room, and I don't suffer from any room bass nodes. I have a laser machine that will melt that piece of quartz you were holding, 🤣. I've been at this audio game for well over 30 years as well.

Henry Rollins Yo! Going to see The Dead Kennedys soon! Any opinion on the Weiss Dac? Just curious.

Spewage! Poop it out! Lube it up!..LOL Don''t know if the quartz will really influence anything, but some awesome points. Btw, for power filtering, you suggested something without a transformer, but the Puritan filter you mentioned actually has toroidal transformers. Did you mean something with a step-down circuit?

Yeah brother that's why I need some direction I'm trying to figure out what amp to get from watching your videos it seems to be a Jeff Roelands

I have a vintage hifi system from the 70s and early 80s that cost like peanuts parts of it from a charity store that sound better than my 2012 $20,000 system. It is all hit and miss and subjective.

The Tice Clock

TY! Mikey!

Will the Puritan not kill the dynamics with amplifaction?

But don’t you have some weird looking big round brass looking thing in your system?

Can you get me the Demon app for my phone, I don't need it, but I REALLY WANT IT!

Uhh, everything vibrates.

Agree

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤mikey for kind............

The new snake oil.

Which transformer do you put the quartz on?

Why no transformer it's the only way to totally decouple or isolate your plug from all the crap on the AC, which even with a dedicated circuit is still connected to every house in you neighborhood that on the same utility transformer. Guy two houses away turns on skill saw, that noise is still on your dedicated circuit, unless decoupled by a transformer. Which is what the transformer in you piece of equipment does.

Dyna fm3 nice my first tuner and a 70 and pas 3 cost 50 bucks.

Damn, you dont have an heart attack every day?? Agree to most of your Statements, you would surprise a lot of so called HighEnd Hifi retailers here in Germany :-) hifi industry is mostly epic fail!! I go to our German Hifi forum, where they help from a real life listening aspect and not take-the-most-expensive-brand-and-shutup ! Also many audio engineers here in Germany complain about the development in HiFi (yeahhh, we love complaining, you know;-)

Yes. After everything above, tweaks last. High Fidelity Cables Q45T Nano contact enhancer on every metal connector and power prong is amongst the best "tweaks" I've ever heard. .

24k on a a DAC is absolutely mental 😂 ..the way your preaching not to spend more than $24,000 on a DAC as if its useful advice that affects more than 0.00001% of people, like seriously, 99% of people don't even know what a DAC is! 😅

GIGO, it's a real thing? Lol. Plus, the lowest level signal is the easiest to screw up.

I see the Wadia X32! 👍

Sup with dat hat homie 🤣

You shouldn’t hide your awesome hair with a cap. It is a nice cap though

Coke and dagger so what are the names of the dacs you like?

Vid starts at 12:45 😅👍

The best tweak for any system starts with an "E" and you dont know what "music" is until you have experienced it! lol

Whenever I step into snake oil level audio, your my guy for sure 😆..

Source first is the Linn moto for decades. Yet you never listen to their products.

GET OUT OF HIFI SO WE CAN HANGOUT AND LISTEN TO MUSSSSSIIIC!🤘🤘🤘🤘

Oh my God I want the demon in my room🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👹👹👹👹👺👺👺👺👿👿👿 How much was that again?

Upper limit for cables is $10,000?… what??? …. I used to make and sell RCA, XLR, and PC cables. You shouldn’t buy any cable that’s more than $ 150/ Meter. A bit higher for XLR. And mine were 18 AWG solid core silver, no shielding!

👍🏾👌🏾👈🏾AND☕️

Funny Mike but everything you said are real especially the source part. Your buddy Jay all he talks about are here most expensive amp and there speakers in the world not much source. One question though: what's your thought on streamer part? When people talks about 30k plus dac why no mentioning on streamers? We know a simple apple mini is not going to cut it? Thanks man!

That was like speed reading only listening on speed !!!

Hey man, any ETA on when the Maggie fuse replacement kits will be back in stock?

How about the Shun Mook Mpingo wood?

Skip the old guy rant. Start the video at 12:45

before upgrade anything. spend some time upgrade your ears.

YET THERE IS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER BETWEEN THE PINK ROCK AND REAL BASEBALL (and that REDford move is just that an old movie)...WITH OR WITHOUT ITALIAN SIGNS, MIND YOU...Me ho capisco? Ciao.

Malle Pietje.

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Sounds like you're screaming......lol

The amount of BS in this video is unbelievable