EASY HiFi and Home Theater HACKS - 8 CHEAP Hacks You Can Do Right NOW!
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- EASY HiFi and Home Theater HACKS - 8 CHEAP Hacks You Can Do Right NOW!
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Here are 8 cheap and easy Hi-Fi/audiophile and home theater hacks you can do to your system that make a real difference without breaking the bank.
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Hack 9. Clean your ears with warm water or wax remover.
This is actually the biggest hack of all with the most instant result.
So true. Even just rinse gently with one of those plastic bulbs.
Yes,
Hack 9: Take good care of your ears.
I. Avoid loud noise or sound, be it impulsive or continuous.
- Always train your ears to being comfortable with low volume listening, especially over headphones or earphones.
- Avoid using ear canal earphones as pushing them into the ears damages the ears.
- Avoid thunderstorm lightning impulses from reaching your eardums without serious damping.
- Careful of loud impulsive sounds like hammering, fire crackers etc or continuous sounds from automatic saw tools, marble or tile cutting tools, loud cars or bikes etc.
- Vibration of air tight cars or buses as they move on the road can damage ears as well, but people over 25 years of age may not be able to perceive a difference as their ears have already degraded enough upon aging.
- Closed though not air tight AC trains are also very bad.
- Use aviation class noise cancelling headphones while flying.
II. Get ears professionally cleaned periodically, once every year.
III. Do not ever underestimate the degrading power or any of the above-mentioned stuff, as that will be a mistake.
Drip a few drops of olive oil into you ear leave it for 5 mins then gently squirt in warm water using a rubber squirter. Blobs of wax will fall out and suddenly you'll hear a pin drop. You can actually get a kit at your pharmacy for a couple of €'s.
@@NickRobbMusic be careful, I tried that & I felt my head was on fire. Turned out I had scarred eardrums & an infection & warm olive oil gave me immense pain. Much fun had by my family when I was dancing around in pain.
What I like most about Andrews channel is... it is there is a lot of helpful people who comment... Very little negative commenting... kudos to everyone including Andrew for keeping it real in that respect. Manners and etiquette should never go out of style Imo. And thanks to everyone who replied to my questions...
Best comment of 2020 so far. Love that about this community. Thank you Mark for recognizing everyone who contributes.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews you are quite welcome sir...!!!!
Instead of washing machine puck I use the anti-vibration pads for air compressors. The good thing about them is that you can get them from any Lowes or Home Depot.
this guy is refreshing and clear and mostly right. cheap/free tweaks few do that will make a huge difference: experiment with speaker placement/toe in; room treatment esp for bass nodes and high end reflections; improved/phase checked grounding; improve your source quality before any other system changes.
Great video!
It’s extremely rare to find an audiophile channel - that isn’t full of BS and and a pusher of fairy dust. Everything talked about here is true and about products which are genuinely useful.
With regards to the stylus brush - although perfectly fine, I prefer to use a Vinyl Passion Dust Buster. A quick google search should bring up all of the info. It’s kinda mid priced, I’ve had mine for about 5 years and it’s still doing a great job of keeping my stylus clean.
This is what separates you from the other guys/girls on RUclips. Instead of asking audiophiles to go out and spend hundreds of dollars, you break it down into simple, cost effective choices. Nicely done!
Really liked it. Thanks! Glad to see someone talking about practical things to do with your set up.
After all, “perfect is the enemy of the good.” Or “good enough.”
I've seen a huge amount of audiophile BS over the years, this was a refreshing change
Nice job, I agreed with all of them. The UPS on a projector is actually really smart, I'm going to incorporate that into upcoming project designs.
Thanks for highlighting washing machine anti-vibration. searching Amazon brings back a whole bunch of good stuff, like anti-vibration mats!
I followed pretty much all of these recommendations and they really upgraded my stereo for cheap. Thanks a lot.
Glad I could help!
Yes I install dedicated circuit and ballanced mains systems . This makes a big difference to clean and better sound
Thats got to be the best advice on power conditioners/power cables/audio cables I have heard in years, spot on!
Thank you!
Brilliant.. Thank you Andrew, for your concern and cares.
A few years back the romain lettuce i bought at the grocers store came wrapped with a 12-15" very flexible green "velcro" strip.These are great to bind cables (cut to whatever length you need) and they also work great to tie up tomato's.
Best of all they are FREE.
100% thumbs up... Thoroughly enjoyed video...!!!!!..... it was short and concise and full of useful information... Thoroughly enjoyed it... coming up with content might be an issue... But even if you could only come up with one hack on a very short video it would be well appreciated... I thoroughly enjoy your RUclips channel...
Great advice. Love the practicality and lack of pretention.
Brushing the stylius, always brush from rear to front so as not to damage it and be GENTLE. Also, a cartridge overhang gauge is handy if using a universal headshell.
Great video channel! 90 degree rca and power cord adapters can work wonders for cable management in tight spaces.
Nice going, Andrew. Some "tech tips" are commonly covered in other channels, many others mentioned, fresh and helpful!
I've been in the electrical industry for a little over 22 years now and power quality analysis has definitely been one of my areas of experience and training. I can 100% vouch for what you're saying regarding power quality conditioners. Regarding a dedicated circuit, this isn't necessarily for power quality more than it is an issue of not wanting to put your home audio equipment on a circuit with other appliances, due to overloading the circuit and tripping it. All the power quality anomalies that are created by your HVAC system starting and stopping or your wife or daughters running a hair dryer, nonlinear loads placed on the system like fluorescent lighting or computer equipment, other home audio equipment; these all lead to transients and slight fluctuations in the power system, and with all your breakers closed they're essentially connected to the main which is connected to your transformer feeding your house as well as more than likely several other houses and everything within that distribution network is affected by anything within that distribution network. My point is here, just because you have a dedicated circuit does not mean that it has a better power quality it is only to negate nuisance tripping and overloading of the circuit or having another appliance that has a ground fault or a short tripping the circuit if it's common to your audio equipment. I'm not implying here that is what was insinuated by advocating for having a dedicated circuit because you definitely should for this application. I'm just mentioning this because I can see where one may assume that it is a method to provide better power quality. And like he mentioned having surge suppression is a must because of those transients I spoke about that can be created within the system that could actually be created from your neighbor's house that could damage your equipment even if it's on a dedicated individual circuit for reasons that I mentioned. It also protects you from lightning strikes in an area that could affect that electrical distribution system I painted earlier. I'd like to add here that if you are in a home that has what they call a 2-wire branch circuit (without an equipment grounding conductor) and someone has installed a ground fault circuit interrupter that has a ground prong on it, that is definitely better than just snipping the ground prong off of your equipment cable because you only have a 2-wire receptacle or even if someone put a three-wire receptacle in and the internal ground is just not connected to anything, The GFCI method would still be better than that but, if you are installing home audio equipment and you're spending some coin on that equipment and you happen to be in this situation with your house I would definitely advise running a new cable and circuit to the main panel of your house that includes the equipment grounding conductor.
Just wanted to say that I have nothing but respect and admiration for your channel and the knowledge and time that you share with us. I definitely have a love and affinity for audio equipment and its technology and the more important experience that you can get from it as a lifetime lover of music and playing instruments myself. I wish I could have made a prolific career in this genre but it wasn't in my deck of cards. If you were able to do that and make a wonderful standard of living for yourself and your family and, it's what you love, then consider yourself extremely blessed! Especially if you can make a RUclips channel sharing that love because there is some serious money nowadays in that if one is successful but is definitely a full-time job doing it! Damn I wish I had a neighbor like you! (Even if I could hear everything emanating from your household...😆)
Finally someone not dropping the BS on us about cables and stuff but good practical advice. Thanks Andrew!
No problem 👍
I've been dealing with Subwoofer move as I have a downward firing sub on a hardwood floor.
Tip one was EXACTLY what I've been looking for. TY!!
Glad this was helpful!
I have been randomly binge-watching audiophile stuff to have myself a laugh, but you sir surprised me with a great little video! There was no BS and i really think that if more of the comunity was this pragmatic more people would join:)) Great job!
I forgot to say one thing, about the cables. If you have the oportunity to start a brand new system, and the price permits it, buy good quality cables. Not for the tripple layer extra mega unicorn sprinkle shielding or something, just because a low quality connector is bound to break in time; i use Cordial for everything; they are a bit expensive, at about 7-10 bucks a pop for the standard versions, but absolutely great quality to price ratio. Cheers!
Excellent tips! I would love to see a "pro" like yourself clear up your typical cable jungle in a real proactively setting! Just a thought. Thanks!
I just watched this video after one of your recent ones aaaand...the quality improvement is incremental! Not that tje old ones are bad, but when I went back a year and some - I noticed how much you improved. Congrats!
Thank you!
New to your channel Andrew- great job keeping it real. Still enjoying my 1982 Cornwalls.
Great idea on the isolation pucks. Always wanted to try the ones from SVS but this seems as if it would work just as well.
I bought one of those 5 gram (10 if you include an extra step) scales a few years ago. Price including shipping was about $13.
Absolutely one of the best values for the money in an audio accessory.
The Shure SFG-2 (of which I have 2 or 3) is probably better for some reasons, but it is much more fiddly to use,
limited to 3 grams capacity, and no longer cheap --- it now costs about three times as much as the electronic gadget.
Excellent advice Andrew. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
This is my first time to your channel. Lot's of good hacks and tips, here. I can probably use all the ones you talked about. Thanks.
I've had the thin RCA cables allow much more interference into signals in the form of static, feedback and signal dostortion, even in short runs. It's important to use better cables to insulation against those kinds of signal problems. They don't have to cost a fortune, but if they're too thin, they're going to be susceptible to problems.
Great tips, thank you for posting.
Some good stuff here: Yes if you run video cables from projector down to your audio system... also run a extension cord. Power conditioners are good if they have a 2000joule or more protection, and surge protect your coax and LAN inputs.
Awesome tips Andrew!!!!! Keep them coming. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This was a wonderful video with great ideas! Thanks so much.
You can buy velcro on a roll, cut them to length yourself. Used mainly in datacenters so super cheap.
Thanks for the affordable tips! I was shocked this week to learn (yeah, puns are a thing) that my new carbon fiber antistatic record brush from Hudson Sound did not work nearly as well in picking off dust specks and sweeping them off records while reducing static charge as my 25 year old Decca carbon fiber antistatic record brush, the difference was very obvious. Who would have thought it would matter? The Hudson left about 1\2 the dust on the record, the Decca swept nearly all of the dust off. Sheesh!
Hi Andrew, I recently bought a Isotek Evo 3 Sirius Power Bar and the High Fidelity Cables MC-0.5 conditioner, both working 2gether. I have to say on digital music, it seems to have made a positive impact on the sound. I wouldn't say it was dramatic but overall the cd's sound richer and deeper and the bass sounds a bit deeper too. Maybe it's all in my head but I have been noticing it with tracks I am pretty familiar with.
I'm from down under. Bought hack number 2 (stylus down force gauge). It's the same as yours but branded differently. It cost me about $11.00 AU. I compared it to a $300.00 gauge and guess what; they both measure the same!
One of the most helpful videos I've seen on YT. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
With regards to power conditioners, dirty power can cause lifespan issues. If you can use a power treatment/iso-bar, it's a pretty good idea.
Here’s a cheapish, bookshelf speaker stand hack a la IKEA. Check out the Lauters lamp, the pedestal sits at 32” and even includes an attractive “cable management system”. Cut off the lamp part at the pedestal with the adjustable post either high or low, stain as desired or not. Probably add a friction element to the top? Might stick a Denton 85 on top with Velcro, or are there bookshelfs that can make me cry, a La Scala? Thanks!
Also Rip Ties are a great alternative to the Velcro cables ties, you a huge roll for like ten bucks.
Practical and cheap is GOOD....I'm not into home theater but a lot of the hacks apply to just stereo...Shure cartridges used to include a stylus brush inc with the cartrirdge as well as a very accurate stylus setup rig..now if I can just find a rreplacement stylus for the V15type V MR I'm GOOD..thanks!
Excellent Andrew, thanks!
The battery backup recommendation for a projector is a great safety suggestion.
I still have my original Discwasher record and stylus brush. :)
Thanks Andrew, great tips
I took your advice, added some of the pads under my Emotiva T1s. While much of the effect may be psychosomatic, I do think I have noticed a difference, a good deal of which my be attributed to the fact the ribbon tweeter now sits more at my ear level. Thank you for all the time you take to provide us with these videos and tips.
Glad to hear you’re happy with the improvement. Happy to help. Be well.
It is more of an improvment when it's for a subwoofer that shake everything in the room and you can ear that, like the picture, my clock, my door frame. After putting special feet under my sub, 50% of those rumble disapeared, and i solved the rest 1 by 1. Door rumble was solved with rubber for winter.
Turntable - Cartridge Protractor. I use a classic " Cart-a-lign " Protractor. There are many available online to properly set your cartridge angle.
Hello 😊
I'm wondering , what are the hifi amplifiers or radio , on the image of your youtube vidéo??
Sorry for my english I come from france :))
Bye and thanks for the video 👍👍👍
getting better speaker cable made a difference to me it was not very expensive but had bell wire before.
the gauge of the wire is probably the most important thing
Ever try a square of one of those piece together soft mats ? Their about 18"x18"
And are 1/4 " or more thick .
You can find them in varying stiffness. Their the puzzle type edge easy to trim a pro look
Andrew nice video, you have some good, basic tips here. When it comes to power protectors/conditioners some spend WAY to much IMHO. I think a good way to go is with what many musicians use during live shows, and almost ever amp/rack/whatever is plugged into a Furman. They aren't that expensive, they do a good job, and they are pretty much bomb proof (sounds like you might be talking about something along these lines in this video). I use two Furman M-8X2 in my listening room, they are professional quality, and they cost all of $70.
I'm glad you've had good luck with the Furman pieces, but unfortunately they're really nothing more than a rack mounted plug strip.
They are a nice piece of gear, but I don't believe they offer any conditioning or protection. They're just a handy rack mounted plug strip for live or studio use, and priced appropriately affordable.
The market segment including power conditioning and power strips is fraught with BS.
Addressing quality power delivery to audio gear can be expensive.
The projector idea is pure brilliant.
The book with mine does state it must go through a cool down cycle
3:08 you can also just use any digital scale that cost around 15 dollars. I use the one I used to weigh weed out on... LOL. (I use a brand new sticky note paper before I set my stylus on it so it's perfectly clean).
Maybe a hack I used on my old DUAL 1928 turntable with a hollow frame and a suspended plate.
I put in a sandbag (little pillow filled with quatz sand) and it helped a lot with stability an I even think it sounds a little more clean. It took out some of the vibrations.. hope that helps
Cladding the inside with some rubber using dual sided tape (or glue) also works quite nice; works just as nice as the rubber on the backside of many turntable platters.
Da Qoraxxx doesn’t that unbalance the plattern or did I get this wrong?
@@timvonr2802 Well, factories that put rubber on the platter do it with precision (if done correctly) so the rubber is equally thick everywhere under the platter. Additional platter finetuning/balancing is done individually for every platter at the end of the platter production, if it's a high end platter.
Luckily this isn't a concern when you clad the inside of the plinth.
Ecellent review. More of these. Not why did this recommendation appear this late in my youtube?
Noted!
thank you for this one !
I learned about the projector bulb explosion issue the hard way, about 15 days after the expiration of the 2 year warranty on the projector. DOH! Honestly seems like a design flaw on the part of the manufacturers though. Should have a small battery/capacitor backup on the fan that would let them carry on for 30 seconds or so. That's really all you need.
Click like before I even watch the video ;) Thank u for the hard work Andrew.
Appreciate it!
Wow what a great great awesome video, I’ve learned a lot👍
New subscriber here. Subscribed after watching your vid on Martin Logans (I own large reQuests and Arius)...and as you said you were a big fan, here's a "hack" I found--eventually if the panels get worn, one can buy brand new ones and easily install from the company rather than contemplate a new speaker (and associated cost). Of course, they are not "cheap" per se, but much more so than replacing the speakers. I'm still using the originals and sound great (low use for many years), but glad I have this option if necessary. Passing along as many on that vid claimed to also have ML's. Fwiw--I am enjoying your very candid videos, and glad you take more of a hobbyist approach than the usual snobbery on these "audiophile" based videos. Excellent YT audio channel, sir!
Have that exact same pressure gauge it's brilliant. & I lost my stylus brush like yours & replaced with a very fine bristle carbon brush for under £9 in English. Gonna try shorter connections at back of rack for tidyness though as have many old hifi leads.
If you use the velcro wraps to coil up the cable that st least keeps it packed away at the least
I think that projector thing depends on the projector/bulb. My projector turns off it’s fans as soon as it’s off, so I think it has enough passive cooling to not blow up.
I've been using a carbon brush for 30 years. they really DO add to the life of your records
Owesome possum “ thanks for the grea tips, n hello from San Francisco
Just found your channel and Im really enjoying it!
Welcome aboard!
Wiping debris from the tip of my stylus is how I got kicked out of college.
This took me a few seconds and some head scratching.... Now I'm cracking up. Well done sir.
I learned to avoid longer runs of RCA interconnect. It can be surprisingly easy to pick up loud RF interference. And if your cables are too long, don’t loop them-it becomes an even more sensitive antenna. Nowadays I prefer gear with balanced interconnects-the pros use that for good reason.
Good job, thank you
Another "hack" I'd like to point out is avoiding buying "specific-to-product" items whenever possible. Take a rubber puck, for example. You could go to a specialty store and buy rubber feet specifically sold for speakers and pay $20-30 for them, or you could find some generic rubber pucks somewhere that have nothing to do with speakers necessarily, but are essentially the same thing, but these cost a fraction of the price, because in reality, those rubber pucks cost pennies to manufacture. By the way, this applies to basically everything. Half the stuff on Amazon is just rebranded Alibaba wholesale merch bought in China for dirt cheap and being resold to you with a 200% mark-up.
MrGallbladder so funny - your example is Andrew’s first tip in the video! 😀
Those were great. Thanks
Great tips! Thanks so much 😎
Thank you!
Very HELPFULL TIP..
At the moment they sell RCA cables in "dollar stores" that have no coaxial cable but parallel. The pins in the middle of the plugs are not made of metal, but made of plastic with a thin layer of alu-foil. No need to explain what happens if you remove them out of a machine. So there is a minimum quality you can go below.
At first reading the title a little bit too fast, I thought this was going to be about 8 Tracks.... Honestly, I love 8 Tracks just because of the oddness of them :)
Hi Andrew. What is your opinion using heavy gauge extension cord for speaker wire? I have heard that the copper inside is restrictive. I was told it was a bad idea however I use it and happy with it.
Never tried it so I cannot comment good or bad.
Some great ideas here Andrew. I’ve been mulling isolating my sub from a timber floor so the hack #1 rubber feet may well do the job!
Highly recommend it. Watch my video on subwoofer placement too so you have it (your sub)optimally placed first.
Brilliant and smart ideas.
On the back of your rack try to have 3 groups of cables: AC Power, Speaker Wires, Interconnects. I tend to put my amp/receiver on the bottom shelf so speaker wires flow out away from the other wires.
My only comment is on power conditioners I've heard studio types saying a case of being aware of what is coming out of the wall; if you constantly run vintage gear, it might prefer 220V and last longer than running it at 240V. Plus you can mitigate fluctuations in the supply etc...
A whole house surge protector is a worthwhile investment to protect audio and other sensitive electronic equipment.
Fairly simple to add to the house.
Wow Great to know about a Projector power loss
Great video.
I have my home theater on a large UPS. The TV, AVR and HTPC are on the UPS because one stormy night the power blinked on and off (rapidly) for about 30 seconds. It looked like a frankenstein monster film and freaked me out with concern about my electronics. Cheers
I have a strange question but I have a onkyo receiver a tx-sr607, and has Audyssey on it and the for the front speakers I can set it on bi-wiring, now I'm using audio pro image as frond speakers. For the bass I have a selfmade sub with 2 12" speakers from the JBL L7. its powered with a Marantz ms-80 and sounds nice but I have 2 of the selfmade subs, can I put the amplifier in bi-wiring and put the image 12 as high frequency and the 2 subs as the low frequency and let the Audyssey work it out. the reason I didn't tried it is that I have to recone one of the subs where two speakers are bad. and the are very heavy and have it to move one floor up to get it there (they have the size of a washing machine). maybe you tried it or know someone who did this.
Good suggestions! I use Mogami cables that I buy off of Amazon, they sound fantastic and are still inexpensive. One important thing, you should explain to vinyl newbies to ALWAYS WIPE THEIR STYLUS (NEEDLE) FROM THE REAR TO THE FRONT OF THEIR CARTRIDGE, else damage may incur.
I would say from my own experience it is unlikely that damage MAY occur...:-) Dumb as I am, i destroyed 3 OC9/III already ;-) But i admit that 2 times it happened because i was arrogant enough to not wear my glasses while putting on the stylus shield cover upside down - kkkk. So if somebody wants a kind of insurance, I would recommend MM with changeable stylus therefore plus some glasses :-)
Clean the stylus with it live, you can easily hear if you are applying too much force, LOL!
OMG! (yes, that's me being ironic, but still) Those Monkey Hooks look incredible. Never heard of such a thing. Good vid, Andrew. I'd add the Onzow Zero Dust stylus cleaner to the turntable segment; They're not cheap--in fact, there are cheap hacks out there like Magic Erasers, etc--but they're washable, and last a long, long time. I use mine between every side and I'm kind of fastidious with my vinyl, so it's insane how much gunk comes off the stylus...
Also,if you use a subwoofer,put in your listening position,then walk about until you get the bass to your liking ,at that spot,put your subwoofer box
excellent tips
I don't know if it comes out of the same factory or not but I've got a "Neoteck" brand stylus gauge that looks like the one you're showing. It was in the $14.00 range from Amazon. Good tips and I REALLY like you talking about keeping the cabling tidy. When I was younger I didn't worry about it and that kind of mess just burns way too much time when moving or swapping gear. Thanks!
I would guess they are all from the same manufacturer and the companys just print their name on it (Its the same for many products like this)
The power strips you mentioned always use sacrificial surge suppression and wear out over time. Some have LEDs that indicate when they're worn out, but I have a strip where the indicator light is still on even though it's certainly worn out. Bottom line, religiously check your surge suppression and replace it annually as a matter of course. I recommend looking at ZeroSurge, which is expensive but not sacrificial / disposable, and is cheaper long term (and greener) than disposable power suppression.
If you get to live long enough you will come to the realization that there is nothing real good that it isn"t "sacrificial"...
Washing machine pads! Excellent. The sorbethane speaker pads cost $71 dollars cd. Thanks.
Years ago, I lived in a very bad neighborhood and my speakers walked off.
Very good, thanks.
What do think of turntable isolation?
More important even than having short unbalanced cable runs (matter much less with balanced) is that when your audio cables have to cross your power cables, that they do so at a 90° angle. This will minimize inductance of hum and noise from power.
There is a chance that employing shorter power cables incidentally resulted in physically moving them away from rca and speaker cables... PRESTO! A blacker background.
Great ideas! I never heard of monkey clips, they will make life so much better/easier!
I LOVE them! So glad I could turn you on to their greatness! Be well!