Enid Lumley

[Jeffy]

I’m being Enid today. Take your cell phone out of your listening room while listening to vinyl and tell me if your sound improves?

 

[Ron Resnick]

Hello Jeffy,

What is your theory here?

Would it matter if one kept the cell phone in the room, but put it in airplane mode?

 

[Jeffy]

I don’t know, you tell me. I just found taking it out of the room and the sound was better.

 

[Jeffy]

I also found if someone is watching tv in another room sound improves if the tv is shut off.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

better to put it in your refrigerator.....in airplane mode. now stand on one leg and scratch your arm pits.

your day will just get better and better from this moment.

 

[spiritofmusic]

I know someone who swears by SR acoustic dots...in his fridge.

 

[Ron Resnick]

I don’t know, you tell me.

Expectation bias?

I just found taking it out of the room and the sound was better.

This is an easy thing to A/B with the help of a friend.

 

[Ron Resnick]

I also found if someone is watching tv in another room sound improves if the tv is shut off.

This makes sense because hearing the audio from the TV in the other room easily could be distracting your concentration in the listening room.

 

[AudioLibertarian]

When I use my laptop while sitting in the "sweet spot" and then shut the lid and put it aside, the sound improves...weird, I know. The distance between the speakers and my listening spot is about 14 ft

 

[Holmz]

I also found if someone is watching tv in another room sound improves if the tv is shut off.

So are you saying that you listening to streaming sources, and there is noise coming in from the eithernet…

or noise coming in as RF from the phone?
And then through power or signal lines?

 

[mxk116]

I know someone who swears by SR acoustic dots...in his fridge.

Keeps my guacamole fresh for weeks.

 

[mtemur]

better to put it in your refrigerator...

You won’t believe how much SQ improves by pulling off the plug of refrigerator. Sound becomes more relaxed. Down side is you forget to plug it back and waste the food inside refrigerator.

Unplugging switch mode power supplies like tv, computer etc also help. Switch mode power supplies introduce noise to AC line but refrigerator’s motor must be doing something worse cause it made the biggest improvement when we unplugged it. Unfortunately having 3 phase electricity, dedicated line and phase for audio doesn’t change this situation, at least it didn’t change in our system.

 

[facten]

So if there is anyone else in the house they should stop living so someone else can enjoy their listening session? At some point reason needs to enter the equation versus obsession

 

[Elliot G.]

 

[bonzo75]

Keeps my guacamole fresh for weeks.

If you take one of those SR dots out, the avocado will spoil in 15 mins.

 

[mtemur]

So if there is anyone else in the house they should stop living so someone else can enjoy their listening session? At some point reason needs to enter the equation versus obsession

Unplugging refrigerator won’t be the most unreasonable thing for people here, especially for the ones listening tube amplifiers and records in 21st century, spending as much as a house price for audio, turning listening room full of strange shaped sponges hanging everywhere called room treatments that cost thousands of dollars etc.

 

[facten]

Unplugging refrigerator won’t be the most unreasonable thing for people here, especially for the ones listening tube amplifiers and records in 21st century, spending as much as a house price for audio, turning listening room full of strange shaped sponges hanging everywhere called room treatments that cost thousands of dollars etc

It's your house , your system so do whatever you feel is necessary or reasonable to you. Save your elitist narrative though for someone who you think will be impressed

 

[Jeffy]

You won’t believe how much SQ improves by pulling off the plug of refrigerator. Sound becomes more relaxed. Down side is you forget to plug it back and waste the food inside refrigerator.

Unplugging switch mode power supplies like tv, computer etc also help. Switch mode power supplies introduce noise to AC line but refrigerator’s motor must be doing something worse cause it made the biggest improvement when we unplugged it. Unfortunately having 3 phase electricity, dedicated line and phase for audio doesn’t change this situation, at least it didn’t change in our system.

I have a friend who shuts his fridge off and AC when listening. He often has spoiled items the next day. I can't stay long because it gets into the 80's in his house.

 

[mtemur]

It's your house , your system so do whatever you feel is necessary or reasonable to you.

Thank you for the permission.

Save your elitist narrative though for someone who you think will be impressed

I would have save my narrative if you had saved your psychoanalysis on what is reasonable, what is obsession etc.

 

[treitz3]

Come on gentlemen....let's lighten up please. This is just a hobby. Getting along shouldn't be that hard between like minded folks......we are, after all, in the same hobby.

Have a great afternoon and happy listening.

Tom