What’s Your Best ‘Tweak’?

The Isotek powerchord are two meters long.

:small_blue_diamond:A GOOD INSTALLATION of the music-system

That means more than all the “tweaks” together.

/Peder🙂

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If it’s a tweak rather than upgrade purchase, then I can’t split it between my purpose made mains block connected directly to the 10mm t&e from the cu and the concrete pillars I built to support my speakers and hifi racks to eliminate a suspended floor.

I made the mistake of buying 1m, which were good with a lesser system. The stiffness is also problem with a shorter length. Did you try PowerLines?

Phil

No I did not try PowerLines, and I followed a recommendation of my local dealer, but not without testing them at home :slight_smile: Also, I use an Isotek Aquarius unit since a longer time so I thought it would be more consistent to use Isotek cables.

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Best tweak?
Replacing the stock PSU supplied with Rega RP6 with newer NEO PSU. The result was amazing.

Not bad for about £200. At the time, thought this was a really good value tweak (upgrade).

For what it’s worth - having conducted A/B listening with same on the Planar 6, concluded the NEO offered majority of the difference to the newer model.

(Comparison of Ania - RP6 & Planar 6 - Aria - Naim XS2)

Great system, I’ve almost the same (but NDX2/XPS DR) and the full loom S/L puts it on an entirely different level. I have challenges with cable dressing to due to a living room setup. I’ve tried to cover the basics: S/L I/C free and not touching other cables, furniture etc, same with the Burndy. Speaker cables and source cables clear of power cables. I apply an 80% of perfectionism principle :sunglasses:

And speaker plugs and connectors, iec, amp speaker terminals(very fiddly), speaker spades and terminals basically everything thats copper or silver.

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Mike. Thanks, yes once stabilised the SL chain gives a big improvement (for me). Are the interconnects and Burndys the main bits to focus on? Due to space I can optimise those but the power cables and speaker cables tend to be close.

Apparently, I’ve managed to have them clear of anything else.

I think close but not touching is the idea, and crossing at 90 degrees if they cross. I use foam cutouts from packaging to keep one speaker cable clear of an adjacent power cable. I use a power strip and run the power cables under the TV cabinet where I can, which helps. But it’s very much a “do the best you can” for my system as it’s in our lounge and has to fit in with family living.

Have to be honest, this is not what I was expecting to be reading.
Changing a component or a cable isn’t a tweak it’s an upgrade (or a sidestep). Tweaks are cost free or very close to it. Dressing cables, putting coins under spikes or screws into floorboards for spikes to sit in, using those green pens on a CD; they’re tweaks. One guy I know covered the perspex lid on his CDS3 with a piece of felt and swore it sounded better.
I’ve also received some tweaking tips at hifi shows. I was once told to put 3 twists per metre into my speaker cable. On another occasion, before my entry into Naim, I was advised to ditch my bi-wire speaker cable and replace it with a combo of mains cable to the bass drivers and lighting cable to the tweeters. One suggestion came from a gentleman in an anorak, the other from the representative of a loudspeaker manufacturer. I’ll leave you to decide which was which.
Regards,
Steve O.

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Just tried that on my CDS3 with a foam mouse mat. Blow me down - more detail and precision. Or maybe I’m losing it !..

I seem to remember this ‘tweak’ from years back when I had a CDS3. Something about blocking ‘stray’ light?

G

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That sounds logical. It is quite a noticeable difference on orchestral music, further improving what is already a brilliant CD player.

Can anyone say to me if this guy is crazy or not? What is it for ? Madness tweaks?

Remind me , does the Cisco just send Ethernet to your streamer .If you get a good Wi-fi signal . Will that just do . What about powerliines , why the need for a switch

I am new to Naim set up

I think the best tweaks have been speaker and stands positioning… as well as cable dressing and cable de stressing… costs nothing and always sounds beneficial.

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Ditto listening position!

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I’m not going to watch a 13 min video. Indeed I prefer not to watch any review or advertising type videos as they tend to have far too much fill, and waste time trying to find tge substance, unlike text. Can you give a brief synopsis?

I you have enough spare Ethernet ports on your router, you don’t need a switch to connect it to your streamer. A wired connection is usually more reliable than WiFi, but if your wireless performance is good, you may not need the cable.
Powerlines generate very high levels of RFI all over your house, which may have unintended consequences for electronics devices, and possibly even your health, so I would avoid them.