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Steve Elford
Nov 193 min read
Coupling & Isolation – Part 2
Right here we go. Time for some experimentation with isolation and coupling. Let's presume you are at the stage in your system building...
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Steve Elford
Oct 233 min read
Room Acoustics – Part 1
Okay, although I've started a listening optimisation series on coupling and isolation, I though I would jump across to room acoustics as...
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Steve Elford
Aug 212 min read
Synergistic Research Fuses
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...
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Steve Elford
Aug 92 min read
Speaker Setup – Part 4
Vertical Phase Accuracy. Back in Feb/March '24, I wrote a series of blogs about speaker setup and ended up talking about phase rendering....
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Steve Elford
Jul 233 min read
Acoustic Conduction
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...
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Steve Elford
Jun 123 min read
Supports and why do they matter?
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....
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Steve Elford
May 83 min read
Understanding Balanced Mains
Having just published the new section on this site for Quiescent, I though I'd write a blog about balanced mains power. Quiescent...
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Steve Elford
Mar 274 min read
Speaker Setup – Part 3
Fine Tuning Phase Accuracy. In part 2 of my speaker setup series, I discussed setting up the accurate triangle for stereo reproduction,...
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Steve Elford
Mar 143 min read
Speaker Setup – Part 2
Increasing Accuracy. In part one of this speaker setup series I covered basic system symmetry. In essence making sure the left and right...
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Steve Elford
Feb 273 min read
Speaker Setup – Part 1
Basic Symmetry. Listening optimisation always includes a certain amount of debate and experimentation with room layout and speaker...
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Steve Elford
Feb 73 min read
Thinking About Mains
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...
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Steve Elford
Jan 152 min read
Broadbanditis
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...
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Steve Elford
Jan 122 min read
Listening Optimization
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...
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