it was a thursday evening, maybe. and there wasn't much to do except open a cheap bottle of wine and stare at the bookcase across the room. i put some music on to fill the silence and after a while my bookshelf speakers were beginning to really bug me. there was a bad rattle in the right one. the bass was flubbery. there was terrible resonance coming from the mantlepiece where they were sitting.
i tried moving them back towards the wall, and i tried moving them out to the edge of the mantlepiece. but there was no difference. they sounded like the cheap pieces of junk they are. i poured myself another glass.
i was thinking that i should really get some stands for the speakers because that would reduce the resonance. i was thinking this as i was unscrewing the cork from the corkscrew. i keep a bag of old corks. so i thought perhaps i could make a cork tripod to isolate the speakers from the mantlepiece. and i had half a dozen kumeu river corks on hand. so i put stood three corks on their ends and put one speaker on top. instant reduction in resonance. i tried with the other speaker. the resonance vanished. the bass tightened up. but best of all, the soundstage seemed to triple in height. suddenly i had music.
that, to me, is a satisfactory tweak.
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