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BAH! I eat MDF sawdust as porridge and sprinkle it over my salads and pizzas. Real men wear it in their eyes and their nostrils as a badge of honor!

This past weekend I finally installed some acoustic absorbers on the wall under my TV which is behind my loudspeakers. For many years I had used three 2 x 2 foot foam wedge sheets just stuffed into place in that area, and while they functioned fine, they would slip around and were rarely...

I am anxious at the breakneck pace Heeman is taking at completing these speakers.

These are NOT Wilson Audio knock-offs. Using odd-shaped enclosures to control internal reflections and standing waves goes back to the 50's and is common today in nearly all high-end loudspeakers, including the C1s these will be replacing. This design was intended to be easy enough for Heeman to...

As for making choices, everything has to work together, and every choice impacts every other choice. Drivers need to work well together. The baffle has to work ideally for the tweeter's forward propagation and provide reasonable area for all the drivers, how the drivers fit on the baffle is...

These cutting-edge midrange drivers are the latest and most advanced low distortion drivers with stunning dynamics for their size. You will not find a better midrange driver for true high-fidelity reproduction that this model without spending nearly double the price, and there are only a couple...

MDF is often the choice for loudspeaker enclosures because of the commonly available materials, it exhibits the best acoustic performance. It is self-dampened, the resonances are at higher frequencies due to the high mass per volume, and it is harder to excite into resonating than hard woods or...

Fasteners weaken MDF joints and not recommended, ever. I've built thousands of enclosures from MDF using only glue and not a single one has ever failed at the joint. In fact, when I would test how they would fail, I managed to get dozens of unused enclosures (mostly prototypes and leftovers)...

You should all be insanely envious of what Heeman is building. These will rival $50,000 systems when completed and tuned up.

My amazing, but 8 year old, Topping VX-1 amplifier with USB digital audio amplifier died a few days ago, so I needed a solution for my office rig. So, I decided to experiment with budget stuff. I'd seen these for awhile on various sites and decided to give it a chance. It is a cheap, Chinese...

Bet it sounds amazing in that room!

I don't typically take photos of the wires I braid. This is four strands of 14AWG silicone insulated wire. I just do an old-fashioned plaiting, like you'd do for a girl's hair or whatever. Not complicated. Works like a champ.

I personally use single strand 16AWG or 14AWG highly flexible silicone insulated hookup wire which I braid to make a two conductor per polarity (two for positive, two for negative) and then tin the ends and use quality generic banana plugs to terminate them. If you want to spend money, you...

It depends on the content, date, number of agreeing witnesses or sources, and so on. General facts which hundreds or thousands of people can confirm are easier to believe. Stories about something where only two or three people can serve as witness, however, I start with doubt. So, I believe we...

I am sure there are exceptions - but based on my experience and those of others who tell similar tales, I assume they are absolute lies until proven otherwise. It is shocking how wrong they are, sometimes to the point that hiring a writer who has a mere overview experience with the topic would...

Because I am old enough and done enough things in my life which are now being made into documentaries, I have discovered that ALL documentaries are just as wrong as fiction stories.

Just remember that while the book and limited steaming series were based on real events, and many of the facts about the murders and such were well documented, more than 90% of what you saw on the screen was fiction. The story is the result of a very good writer filling in all the blanks and...

Check things like the oven, security system, buttons on the refrigerator controller, every aspect of your HVAC, including the thermostat, and all the computer and networking stuff, etc. For years I would stumble on a device that was no longer working correctly, but it didn't affect me at the...

My favorite albums seem to perform very well on that list.

I am really shocked at how few people are using Amazing Music HD. Why do people not like it? I love it because it has one of the largest catalogs, compatibility with every single common device, plug and play with Alexa services and apps, nearly every single track is at a minimum uncompressed...