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Mostly nonsense

Sorry, Mr Ginger, but this is mostly nonsense. Good that you are able to realize mistakes and change course, but progress does not depend on contradictions. Progress is made by objective evaluation of experimental data which should include careful observation (listening) as well as measurements. I am not trying to make peace here, but trying to clarify things for people who may be impressionable enough to believe some of the stuff you and your tweaky buddy post here.

When you recommend something as drastic as covering the front baffle of your speakers with caulk and then realize how ineffective that really was, you should at least have the decency and guts to come back here and tell people you gave them bad advice.

Now you've removed a metal cover from the enclosure of your budget DVD player and replaced it with plastic and claim it improves the sound, as does completely uncovering your integrated amp. I can't dispute that, but what seems even more important from your description of these "improvements" is that you now have "easy access" to the inside so you can endlessly fiddle with stuff that probably doesn't need to be fiddled with. The greater definition you think you're hearing could be high frequency noise or microphonic capacitors vibrating.

How long before you post pics of your system with thick metal covers on the enclosures, advising everyone about the new found clarity and pristine highs and lifting of obstructive morning mists from your system with solid aluminum covers on everything? Some of your tweaks are about as reliably effective as the wind direction in March. Others make sense and might actually be useful. Try to discern the difference before posting here.

Replacing metal screws in an enclosure with plastic ones to remove a "heavy curtain of EMI distortion" is hogwash and could even be dangerous. What you might be doing is breaking the path of safety ground (and screening from EMI) from one panel of the enclosure to another, endangering yourself and anyone else who touches your system while plugged in. If you want to do such stupid things and believe they're effective, that's fine, but please don't advise other people to do it without warning them.

After flipping many expensive components within my system over a long time, I built my own monoblock amplifiers, power cords, IC's, speaker cables, three-way speakers and subwoofer, and their passive and active crossovers, which took years of research and experimentation. I may have spent as much money just on trying different capacitors as you have on your speakers. My system possesses a level of clarity that many people will never know exists. There are no heavy curtains to be removed by using plastic screws.

Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9

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