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50 TIPS TO GET
THE BEST
FROM YOUR
HI-FI &
HOME CINEMA
50 tips to get the best from your Hi-Fi & Home Cinema
Russ Andrews
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Welcome to our 50 Top Tips Guide
We thought it would be a great idea to gather together some of the tips Russ has
published, over the years, into one handy publication. Throughout the following
pages, you’ll find a mixture of Russ’s top tips and other tips we’ve come across –
or have been told by our customers – which we’ve found particularly useful
when setting up our own systems.
Many of them offer a completely free way of improving the performance
of your system. While we can’t guarantee that in every case they will
improve your sound quality – everyone’s set-up is unique to them –
you really have nothing to lose by trying them.
If you have any questions, need any advice, or want to offer
suggestions, contact us online or on the number below.
Happy experimenting!
Call us on
0845 345 1550
or visit
www.russandrews.com
for lots more information and tips
So what makes us qualified to offer advice?
If you don’t know Russ’s reputation in the
Hi-Fi industry, then you may well be
sceptical of our approach to achieving
truly enjoyable music and movies. Why
should you take our advice? That’s a very
good question that demands a
convincing answer!
Russ’s thirty plus years experience in the
industry, much of it spent in fundamental
research and development work, has
given him an unmatched appreciation of
how a Hi-Fi system works as a whole
within its environment.
Russ’s pioneering research into the effect
that mains quality has on
Hi-Fi systems led to
development of the world’s
first Hi-Fi mains cable back in
1986; today, his continual R&D ensures
we’re still leading the field.
The philosophy behind Russ Andrews
Accessories is to provide enthusiasts with
products that really work to improve
sound quality and to back this up with
plenty of information and excellent
customer service.
We are here to help you achieve real
musical pleasure from your system.
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is difficult to play or skips, you may be
able to create a drastic improvement by
burning a copy on your computer. The key
point here is to select ‘Use Error Correction’ in
the preferences of your recording software.
Ensure that the disc being copied is cleaned,
and the disc that is being burned is
cleaned too. Our ReVeel® and ReleeS®
CD enhancers are perfect.
ReVeel® and ReleeS® are
avilable from us at
www.russandsrews.com/5420
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Burning love
- If you have a CD that
If you’re a fan of vinyl as your main
source you’ll be aware of how important it is
for the platter to be level. But this is also
important to owners of CD/DVD players too. If
the component isn’t level, its performance
can be negatively affected by the laser
struggling to track the disc correctly. Have a
look in the toolbox, and search out a small
spirit level. Check the levels in both directions
and adjust as necessary until the player is
perfectly level.
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Many CD players, and some AV components,
have the facility to turn the display off. If you
can cope with the lack of information, this is
well worth doing. The display itself emits
noise into the component so switching it
off can improve clarity.
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Freeze your discs
– We’ve
found that Deep Cryogenic
Treatment (DCT) is a great way
to improve the sound from your
CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs but you
can also achieve a similar effect by
putting them in your home freezer.
Place the discs in the freezer without
the paper booklet. Leave them in
there for 72 hours and then transfer
them into the fridge and remove
them 24 hours later to come
gradually back up to room
temperature. You should notice
improvements straight away,
ranging from subtle to significant
changes depending
on the disc.
CD player to your amp, it is worth testing the differences
between inputs. The natural thing to do is to plug the CD into the
CD input, but this is not always the best connection. The old
Creek 4140, for example, sounded better with the CD plugged
into the Tuner input! Don’t plug your CD player into the phono
input though - that’s for turntables only!
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– When connecting sources such as a
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Solid foundations
- Every turntable needs a strong, rigid plinth or the sound will be soft, soggy
and unfocussed. Check the corner joints to make sure there is no movement due to dried-out glue.
If it has a plastic plinth, fill the cavities between the stiffening struts with ‘Plastic Padding’ body
filler. This will both stiffen it and dampen its resonances.
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Keep it clean
– The stylus is renowned as a dust
and dirt collector, so make sure you clean it on a
regular basis for best performance. Fluff is easily
blown or brushed off, but mould release agent in the
record groove builds up on the stylus into a hard black
lump that causes mistracking. The black gunge is not
easily removed because very few cleaners dissolve it.
Alcohol and those snazzy little vibrating cleaners have
no effect on it.
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Sensitive nature
- Try to avoid
placing your turntable near to your
speakers as it can be very sensitive
to the sound they produce, which can
muddy the sound and create feedback.
Russ Andrews TipTonic has been
specially formulated to remove
this and is perfect for gently
cleaning the stylus tip.
Available from us at
www.russandrews.com/5068
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the tracking weight and the anti-skate
adjustments on your tone-arm. Although
you set these when you first get a turntable, with
use they can become off-set, so it’s worth
consulting the manufacturers handbook again and
checking that the settings are still correct.
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Revamp your Amp
equipment* switched on 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week (except
during electrical storms, of course, when you
should unplug it from the mains, and also
unplug TV and FM aerial leads!). The sound
from your system will take at least a week to
settle down and stop changing. If,
subsequently, you turn any part of it off,
even for a few minutes, expect it to need 24
hours to settle again.
The improvements in smoothness,
sweetness and musicality are enormous.
Bass may appear to drop half an octave and
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Turn on, tune in
- Leave your
improve in clarity. The whole sound will be
more relaxed and listenable. It will also
reduce the incidence of breakdown since
turning your system on and off puts
enormous stress on the internal
components. We appreciate that there is an
electricity cost incurred - however we
believe that this is offset by the improved
performance and reliability!
* Amplifiers shouldn’t overheat, unless
faulty or badly designed (please note that
some amps are designed to run quite hot).
We would, however, advise against leaving
valve power amps switched on all the time.
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Got it taped?
– Did you know that the
sound from your amplifier can be degraded
when interconnects are connected to the
‘Record’ or ‘Tape Out’ circuits? The sound
can become really muffled with a lack of ‘life’,
information and 3-dimensionality. Some
preamps/integrated amps have a ‘Tape Defeat’
switch to prevent this but if yours doesn’t it’s
simply a matter of unplugging the leads when you
are not recording.
Radio radio...
Boxing Clever
- Use your TV set-top
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Don’t get rattled
– Rattling panels on
equipment can cause nasty signal interference
and create a rather harsh and confused sound
due to the microphonic nature of the internal
components. There are two things you can do to
address this. First, make sure all the casework screws are
nice and tight. Then, second, use a reasonably heavy
item, such as a cloth covered brick placed on top of the
component to dampen the vibration (when doing this,
check first that there are no vents impeded by doing
this and avoid if it does).
An even better solution is to use one of
our ‘Dampers’, a lightweight, self-adhesive
wooden panel which attaches to the
top of your component. Its low-mass
construction means it can effectively
damp the panel without storing any
acoustic energy itself.
www.russandrews.com/5700
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box for radio. If you’re not a fan of DAB
and prefer the sound quality of FM,
there’s now a real alternative. For £50 or
so you can replace your FM tuner with a Freeview
or Freesat box for equal to FM quality with better
reception. If you can connect your existing box to
your TV and Hi-Fi at the same time, you can use
the screen to navigate through the stations.
Alternatively, use a simple LCD mini TV monitor
plugged into the box.
Most boxes of this type will have a digital output
– probably optical – that you can connect to an
external DAC or Home Cinema processor. We
recommend connecting them that way (rather
than using the analogue outputs the box may
have) for best sound quality.
50 tips to get the best from your Hi-Fi & Home Cinema
Russ Andrews
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