I have built a pretty good-sounding system which has eighty to eighty-five percent of the “magic” sound I have been craving for most of my life.
I wanted to live with this setup for a while, reveling in its musicality, before pursuing the next level. Where would I go to get to the next level? Interconnects maybe, since what I have are still leftover from my DIY days. Room treatments? Another area to consider. No, I decided to leave it alone and just listen.
A couple of years ago a fellow member of the DC HiFi Group, Bruce Schuettinger started asking me about acoustic feedback problems he is having in his turn of the century home halfway up a mountain in Thurmont, MD. He has top-of-the-line Spatial Audio speakers with servo sub-woofers that were giving him problems when he played an LP. Lots of discussions about isolation, mass loading, constrained layer dampening, and adsorption persued. Being a master craftsman furniture designer, builder, sought-after vintage furniture restoration master, Bruce came up with the Quieten Audiophile equipment cabinet. See the review by clicking here…..