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In Reply to: How often do you take something apart, put it back together? posted by Quiet Earth on March 24, 2007 at 09:19:19:
... but then I checked out your system :-)
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I try not to veer too far off course when I try something new. I also try to keep my mind open to all of the possibilities. That's why I keep hanging out here. I'm willing to take a chance every now and then on a wild tweak, but taking the screws out of something and putting them back in every six months sounds more destructive than constructive to me. I think I'll pass on that one. I'll be the first guy to strip the threads out of anything, wood or metal!I've also learned the hard way that sometimes when you tweak something, it's hard to get it back to where you started. Sometimes all you're really doing is hearing change, but not making any real improvements. It's taken me a while to realize that some of the suggestions that we read on the Asylum come from people who have no desire other than to keep changing the sound of their system.
There's nothing wrong with that either, as long as you know it up front.
Btw, I checked your system too. Love those reel to reel machines. Nice set up. I would like to make or buy a bigger rack like that some day. Very cool.
screws out and putting them back in.the only screws that i have found that did not require retightening were screws that were --locked-- in place with a dab of paint or glue on the screw head/basket.
whether 40yr old altec/jbl/telefunken/ev/coral/etc if they didnt have some kind of locking mechanism the woofers always and sometimes the midranges but hardly ever the tweeters needed to have the mounting screws tightened.
and i regularly find tweeter faceplate screws that need tightening.
not the screws that mount the faceplate to the baffle but the screws that mount the motor to the faceplate.
im not talking about full turns of the screws but maybe anywhere from 1 turn to 1/8th.
I used to that to my Thiels often enough, but then again I changed so many midrange drivers in those speakers I have no credit as a tweako nut since the only way I found to do that was, in fact, to take the screws out and put them back in!I like the Quiet man's approach and think his system is cool and anyone who has a music first approach is more that all right in my book.
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