How I learned some vital lessons about digital playback with a few small blobs of BluTack.

Using A Subwoofer. Its important to talk about the right and wrong way to go about good bass.

Continuing on from our previous system optimisation blogs about mains, it is always important to consider one particular type of mains...

Right here we go. Time for some experimentation with isolation and coupling.  Let's presume you are at the stage in your system building...

Okay, although I've started a listening optimisation series on coupling and isolation, I though I would jump across to room acoustics as...

I’ve already touched on mains issues in some of my blogs – about RFI and also the Quiescent balanced mains supply. But the topic for...

Vertical Phase Accuracy. Back in Feb/March '24, I wrote a series of blogs about speaker setup and ended up talking about phase rendering....

In my last blog about listening optimisation I started on the topic of supports and microphony. I got up to the point of discussing how...

I’ve put off tackling this topic for a while now. But it’s incredibly important and a major part of listening optimisation. So here goes....

Having just published the new section on this site for Quiescent, I though I'd write a blog about balanced mains power. Quiescent...

Fine Tuning Phase Accuracy. In part 2 of my speaker setup series, I discussed setting up the accurate triangle for stereo reproduction,...

Increasing Accuracy. In part one of this speaker setup series I covered basic system symmetry. In essence making sure the left and right...

Basic Symmetry. Listening optimisation always includes a certain amount of debate and experimentation with room layout and speaker...

Part 1 – what is really on the mains? We often hear clients say "if the mains power has come all the way down tens of miles of HT power...

Don’t neglect your router! I have been to a few people’s places where a nice digital-based system is set up, only to then notice a rather...

Building knowledge and skill This is the first blog in what will probably become a long series. I thought for quite a while about the...