![]() The next tweak was posted on the General Forum by John Marks of JMR Music. You could also try placing Ziploc bags 2/3 full (with the air burped out) under each foot on the CD player, and unload the bags you have on top (the sand needs to be able to shift and move for maximum results) down to 2/3 full, and see if that works even better." "Yes, vibration control works wonders on almost any audio component. Well-known audio-tweaker-about-town Jon Risch replied: It seems to have made everything slightly more 'stable' and coherent." I've put two Ziploc baggies full of sand on top of the unit and it's improved the sound! The bottom end is more solid, and it's reduced some boominess on certain recordings. "I have an Ah! Tjoeb CD player the chassis is very flimsy and cheap. Then I stumbled across another beauty on Tweaker's, this one posted by "Jeff": I'm sure they're better than most stock feet." Heck, for less than $10 you could put these under all of your components. I think the various sizes would work just as well as some of the pucks that are available. I placed these under the amp, and while making a world of difference, it still had a positive effect. I was at American Science and Surplus and bought four #5 rubber stoppers. The amp sits on 1"-thick pressboard covered with Formica and has brass cones between board and floor. "I've tried various pucks and brass cones under my power amp and found it to sound better on its original feet. Correctomundo, my tweako friend.Īnother post on Tweaker's Asylum that caught my eye was from inveterate tweaker Jeff Starr: Cheap enough and worth a try, don't you agree? "Think twice before using them for large speakers!" warned E. And they're dirt cheap-as E pointed out, a dozen for the price of a can and a half of soda! He reported that the tees, when used with dabs of Blu-Tack, worked well under his bookshelf speakers and were very close in sound to the metal spikes he'd tried, especially when the tees placed on top of bricks. That's the one to use."Į cautioned that some brands of golf tees are mechanically weak, but others are more than strong enough to use as footers under lightweight bookshelf speakers. ![]() Some are very high (2-3"), while another kind are like a big thumb nail with the cap reversed. "I bumped into some golf-equipment store and found some tips for holding the golf ball for driving. So I was intrigued when I spotted a thread on Tweaker's Asylum entitled "Ludicrously Cheap Speaker Spikes." A poster identified as "E" explained that he'd been using discs of cedar wood under his bookshelf speakers, and had found them inferior to metal spikes he'd borrowed and used with a little dab o' Blu-Tack. In past episodes of "Fine Tunes" I've suggested all kinds of cheap alternatives to expensive audiophile equipment footers. Next time you're walking by a music shop (the other kind!), stop in and see if they have any!" But the material can be cut with an Exacto blade into smaller sections. This company also has a Moongel Drumpad for practicing that measures about 7" by 1/2" thick, and that sits beneath my phono stage! The pads are fairly cheap-a container of four costs $5, while the pad is a little more expensive at around $30. I use a small portion of it on my Rega RB300 headshell and on the subchassis of my Pink Triangle turntable. It's a curious substance that sticks to a wide variety of materials all by itself, yet it's very soft, not adhesive, and measures about 1/8" by 1" by 2". It filters out the harmonics and leaves the fundamental. It works great when placed toward the rim of the head. ![]() Anyway, I'll pass this tweak on to you now, like I should have done 10 years ago! There's a product I and other music stores stock called Moongel, which is used on drumheads to tweak out the overtones. I repair and mod all kinds of tube stuff. Here's a corker from Tony Jonathan! I own a music store and audio is my hobby. This method has been demonstrated to be effective in Event Extraction and Dialogue State Tracking.I just love hearing about cheap tweaks sent in by our readers. Gradually fine-tuning in a multi-step process can yield substantial further gains and can be applied without modifying the model or learning objective. We demonstrate that gradually fine-tuning in a multi-step process can yield substantial further gains and can be applied without modifying the model or learning objective.", ![]() Such domain adaptation is typically done using one stage of fine-tuning. Publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",Ībstract = "Fine-tuning is known to improve NLP models by adapting an initial model trained on more plentiful but less domain-salient examples to data in a target domain. = "Gradual Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation",īooktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP",
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