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In Reply to: RE: Speaker driver screws, too. Especially woofers and subwoofers. (Nt.) posted by SgreenP@MSN.com on May 23, 2015 at 17:31:32
I read some of these tweaks and wonder if the posters really understand what they're suggesting.
All kinds of mounting systems, all kinds of gaskets. Speaker drivers are not wheels on your car!
If you buy decent speakers, they should not EVER require tightening anything unless the manufacturer recommends it. But go ahead and wreck your expensive toys and claim that they sound better because of overly tightened brass screws. After all, you're probably smarter (and have better hearing) than any engineer who's been designing speakers for 20 years.
And be sure to wrap driver magnets in layers of metal and cork, just in case the magnet acts as a heatsink. Restricting heat dissipation can only improve performance, right up until the voice coil fries.
I believe there are loose screws here, but they're not in any speakers. Oh well, at least it's fun.
Peace,
Tom E
Follow Ups:
Tom,
The advantage of testing a multitude of tweaks over time is that ignorance is little by little replaced with a small but growing body of experiential knowledge based on the reality of a particular system in a specific environment. The disadvantage with ego-pontifications based on borrowed opinions and intellectual assumptions is that, while they may initially sound impressive, there's a lack of direct knowledge about the tweaks themselves and associated background information. All that readers will remember is that an hysterically risk-averse individual once again used the safety issue to ridicule the tweaks of another and thereby unconsciously advertise the presence of MDF between the ears and an unacceptable habit of stalking.
DG
I intentionally avoided your thread, yet you seek me out and post insults here in response to a casual reference in an unrelated thread. Please stop stalking me.
Yes, I make "pontifications" based on "borrowed opinions and intellectual assumptions," otherwise known as science. You should try learning some. I am well aware that it cannot explain everything, especially related to human perception, but I don't need to mix bleach and ammonia in my kitchen sink to know that it can kill me.
Excess heat kills voice coils. Enclosing a large mass of metal that typically helps dissipate that heat might cause failure. If warning people about that is risk-averse, it is hardly hysterical. The value of a tweak does not depend on how much risk is involved in implementing it, although, based on some of your statements, it might seem so. If people want to risk destroying their speakers in order to put their stereo "on steroids," as you described it, I pity them. I thought they at least deserved a warning because you again neglected to inform them of any possible negative consequences of your "experiment."
I never wrote that your tweak isn't effective. Whether or not it actually improves the sound is another issue. Did you know that a driver is designed to have a certain amount of magnetic dissipation, a certain motor strength, and has a particular efficiency as a result? If, in fact, your tweak does have any real effect other than psychological, it is probably altering the efficiency of your drivers and changing their response in relation to one another, possibly altering the harmonious balance implemented in their crossover by a knowledgeable designer. But don't let anyone's knowledge interfere with your tweak fest.
Regards,
Tom E
Madisonears,
Such is the gall of the ankle-biter, who never tests a single tweak with goodwill and involuntarily descends into anxiety attacks, sarcasm and 'loose-screw' jeering under the pretension of scientific knowledge. Turning around with neither self-awareness nor embarrassment to accuse the ankle of biting him!
Do you seriously imagine that audiophiles here need you to protect them from their own judgment in evaluating a tweak? Mistaking your role for that of a part-time guard protecting children on their way to school at a pedestrian crossing perhaps? Stop wallowing in zebra-negativity and start tweaking, old son! The positive is so much more productive and satisfying than the negative...
DG
"Do you seriously imagine that audiophiles here need you to protect them from their own judgment in evaluating a tweak?"
No, they need to be protected from YOUR judgment, or lack of it.
When you want to address anything related to audio instead of making personal attacks, I will rejoin the discussion.
Tom E
No disrespect, but: "and thereby unconsciously advertise the presence of MDF between the ear"LoL......That right there is funny!
~D
Wherever you go there you are.
Edits: 05/26/15 05/26/15
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