Or install a wabbit-guard
Oh man…cawots where are the cawots…?
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Wabbits got them all 
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Oh… boy …the thd, im distortions along with the ripple effects as well
emi and rfi need Where oh where is waymanchen and his bag of tweaks to fix
all this anyhow…
Best wishes y’all
Cawots cawots …wabbits need cawots 
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Muffle you? No. You raise your point of view, I raise mine. That’s how this works.
I do think @Rob_W 's speakers might benefit from being lifted off the floor with some low stands. Maybe a pair of Townsend’s.
I’m truly not surprised on the system shown that things like power cords, etc. don’t make a difference. As others have pointed out, speakers against the wall - that’s a massive sonic comprise and will completely color the sound.
I don’t have a ton of experience with Mac gear, but hearing a speaker demo sound poor one time, I asked to switch out the Mac amp for something else and it was a huge improvement. I’m not sure I’d even refer to Mac as an audiophile company.
Really who cares about a noise accessory from over ten years ago. Power and noise are very system dependent, and let’s be honest, one needs a highly resolving system to hear these subtleties we discuss.
Not sure what the Paul/Audioquest connection is or what PS products have to do with a beef against Audioquest (who makes a competing and excellent power conditioner I use)
Anyway I’m off to yell at people on the Porsche forums for wasting their money on snake oil because my Chevy has better 0-60 times.
@Rob_W That 100 watt rating for the apogee scintilla isn’t really correct, most people who own them drive them with multiple amplifiers that weigh over 200lbs. I listened to a pair of apogee divas driven with 600 tube watts on the midrange/tweeters and 1500 watts on the bass panels. An apogee scintilla owner measured 60amps peak before he blew the breaker on his amplifier.
I got the 100 watt rating from the specs on the mfgr web site. Lets say you were to triple that and get 300 watts into a 100 watt rated speaker. Here is what I calculated. It would definitely blow a 20 amp breaker buts its questionable if you could weld
Apogee Scintilla
300 Watts each
1 ohm speakers
2 x 1 ohm speakers at 100 watts
sqrt(300/1) = 17.3 amps x 2 speakers for 34.6 amps RMS
multiply RMS by 1.414 for 48.9 amps PEAK
@Rob_W the manufacturer only used that 100 watt rating for marketing reasons, apogee speakers don’t really come to life until you use an active crossover with well over 1000 watts.
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Well there you go! Learn something every day. Thanks for the update.
It seems I hurt your feelings and now you are taking out your aggressions like a child
I’m just telling how I see it or have heard it for myself. I bought a krell ksa 300s amp for my apogee duetta 2 speakers, and I can say it sounds very good, but nothing like the guys system I bought the amp from. This guy had a pair of apogee divas driving the midrange/ tweeters with audio research 610T monoblocks with the kt120 mod and krell FPB 750 monoblocks on the Bass panel with an active crossover, the krells double down when impedance is halved. I believe the bass panels are under 1ohm when directly driven and the midrange tweeters are way less than 1ohm.
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Hey Vince thanks for the recommendation. I have rubber isolators about 1-1/2" thick on all corners. Do you still think elevating them will make a difference?
Tweeters at ear level is what I’ve always heard.
Yes, I think if you decouple them from the floor you will get tighter bass and better imaging. It’s worth a try since you can’t move them away from the wall.
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