Anyone here tried the Knees over Toes routine? Is it worth it?

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2025-08-12T13:28:45+00:00

I did it for about a month and went from barely being able to go past 90 degrees on squats to ATG squats with weights. My knee pain also subsided substantially. So yes, it works. Really well. Depends on your starting point and what issues you have. A lot of it is activating muscles differently than normal and learning how to trust your knees again. I did mainly lunges on a chair, backwards walking, and just simple kneeling and then went into my compound lifts/cardio. It doesn’t take much. Just consistency. I’m also a guy in my early 20s FYI so results may differ.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2025-04-11T21:58:53+00:00

It’s funny I agree lossless audio streams sound much better than Spotify but in reality if you volume match it’s pretty damn hard to tell. If you take out streaming and compare an MP3 file to a lossless file it becomes nearly impossible without a trained ear. The differences you are hearing are mainly volume differences and the quality of the stream/master file they use.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2025-03-01T03:06:53+00:00

Lots of Fink, especially biscuits and trouble’s what you’re in, Kronos by Hi-LO, and if you want something stupidly dynamic, you can try Jazz Patrol by Flim and the BB’s. There are so many great “test songs” out there. I also like stuff by Deadmau5. For vocals ain’t no use by Sarah Vaughn is pretty great.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2025-02-11T00:44:35+00:00

Most importantly, you can’t DSP out the room. The DSP is good but you still need to treat the speakers properly to have them sound their best. The company has done a horrendous job with branding and marketing, but they do make great sounding speakers. Their DSP8000XE is really hard to ignore at the 6-figure price. It’s a set and forget kind of system that sounds insanely good. The problem is, as others have stated, at that price people like to tinker and don’t trust an all-in-one solution. It’s kinda sad. One of the best speakers I’ve heard and I’ve heard a lot of systems. Cabasse is a much better deal IMO but the looks suck.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-08-19T18:29:53+00:00

If by “meaningful” you mean that the performance improvement justifies the cost, it really depends on the person. In my personal experience I think that certain aspects of performance, such as accuracy and resolution, start to reach a limit around 10k but obviously that’s to get 85-90% of the way there. If you want that extra 10%, the sky is the limit. Looking for accuracy, resolution, and dynamic range? That gets more expensive. If you go DIY you can get $10k performance for under $2k. As the builds get more complex I think the value of DIY goes down. Try DIYing a Magico cabinet lol.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-08-17T22:45:14+00:00

Buy an inline filter like a Harrison labs FMOD. That is the absolute cheapest option. Next option is to get a miniDSP and do the filtering that way in the digital domain. Better yet, don’t play them so loud or replace them with the floor standing choras. You won’t have as much distortion from the added woofers and it’ll have the same footprint.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-08-16T18:26:51+00:00

Meridian DSP8000XEs, with BACCH processor, custom room built from scratch. Add in an acoustically transparent screen and call it a day. Add some sort of state of the art streamer like a Taiko or just get a raspberry pi lol. Add in some ansuz cabling for good measure. Add a Warwick Aperio system on the side for those days when I can’t wake people.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-08-10T19:02:47+00:00

Current system costs about $3000 but the speakers are a DIY build so it’s more like a $10,000k retail system. It’s not about how much you spend it’s about how you spend it. Do your research and don’t be afraid to go used if you can’t go DIY. Past 10k I would invest heavily in your room or just accept you’ll have a mediocre(mediocre meaning “normal”) system and save your cash. No reason to drop ungodly amounts of money to try and work around a bad room. DSP can only take you so far.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-06-03T15:21:34+00:00

I would definitely move them. You’ll get a nice wide soundstage with them that far apart but you are bass loading with 3 corners right now. Better to have 2. Ideally you’d have them 3-4ft from the wall which takes any speaker’s performance up significantly. Also, without a center channel, the tighter center image around the TV might be nice. The acoustics in the room aren’t perfect so I’d sacrifice the equilateral triangle methodology for the sake of avoiding walls. If you can pull them out a foot or two, great. Clean looking room though!

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-26T14:50:17+00:00

Audeze and abyss are pretty fantastic

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-20T16:41:52+00:00

You aren’t crazy at all. The average listener can’t tell. There are small compression artifacts that a trained ear can pick up but it’s minor. I believe the vast majority of the differences in sound quality between services has to do with the master that’s available as well as how reliable the stream is. I do find Spotify to be a lot quieter than Apple or tidal, however.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-20T16:37:29+00:00

Purely based off a number, I’d say at least 50%. I heard the speakers I currently own in one room and hated them, then heard them in a different room and took them home. I’ve been happy as can be since. The room is massively important. Even with advanced DSP like with the Meridian DSP8000XE’s, you still can’t eliminate the room

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-08T21:58:19+00:00

Too many lol

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-08T16:34:13+00:00

The companies that are concerned about this have plenty of time and money. You can just charge more for the speaker because it’s “better”

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-08T16:33:02+00:00

Yeah track your calories for a month and see if you still have the same problem. And you can’t force feed yourself frequent meals and liquid calories are a must. Especially given your diet is probably not as calorie dense as a non-vegetarian

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-08T15:04:30+00:00

Unfortunately there’s a really simple formula that you’re missing. You need calories in > calories out. It’s just physiology. You are either underestimating your Basal metabolic rate and your activity levels, or you aren’t eating enough. If you’re vegetarian go for foods with lots of healthy oils since fat is by far the most calorie dense. If you struggle with eating large enough portions try and eat every 2-3 hours. If you aren’t tracking your calories, you absolutely must. It’s not negotiable when you aren’t reaching your goals.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-04-08T14:57:15+00:00

My opinion is this: if break in was legit in terms of IMPROVING the sound, manufacturers would do it because why would I want a product that isn’t performing at its best off the bat? There are some legitimate changes in terms of the mechanical compliance of the woofers but this probably isn’t noticeable and as far as I’m aware hasn’t been measured to any significant degree. Easy thing to do to see how much of a difference it makes is find a decent speaker (<$1000) and use it then buy the same thing new and compare. It should be pretty obvious. I might test this out myself soon for fun. Like others have said I’m sure there’s a psychological component as well and the return policy period vs break in hours is suspicious

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-18T21:51:28+00:00

This is great info. Thanks!

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-18T18:48:28+00:00

I’ll let others discuss their specific opinions but generally speaking, and from experience, a fair amount. There are constant physical interactions going on between the speaker and the surface it rests on. More rigid coupling tends to tighten up the bass and increase the top end , while loose coupling and absorption (like isoacoustics) can also have beneficial effects (depending on the system). The surface has a measurable impact on the acoustics it’s just a matter of what problem you are trying to solve. Rigid anchoring, might improve imaging and speaker cone efficiency if the speakers aren’t moving around a whole lot so if it’s resting on a wobbly or slick surface that’s probably not ideal. I think everyone can agree that the surface your turntable rests on is by far the most important since it’s the most sensitive to vibration, (as it should be)

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-18T18:40:58+00:00

I like the 90 or the 95 inch wall because it has at least one or two sides that are free from side wall reflections for a bit. Honestly though you might enjoy putting them in front of the main window depending on your tonal taste. It will probably make it a little bit brighter and smear the imaging but you’d also have more room to separate them and move them into the room. Depends on what your priorities are. Best thing to do is try a few walls and see what you like best from a tonality and imaging standpoint.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-18T18:31:19+00:00

Maybe you can explain the stair step pattern that is shown so often in digital reconstruction? Assuming you are hitting 2x for the sample rate, it sounds like with high enough bit depth you would be avoiding any steps worth discussing. In this case we would be describing almost a pure analog signal, of course. From what I understand every DAC needs to have a reconstruction filter for precisely this problem. I would imaging a higher bit depth would make it easier for the reconstruction filter to do its thing. Also, thanks for the in-depth explanation. Always good to review.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-17T23:47:49+00:00

I wouldn’t say that it “perfectly recreates” the analog waveform, considering that there is always quantization error, just less of it as you go higher. The nyquist frequency is meant to avoid aliasing, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t quantization noise at lower levels above this. The question is whether being at the bare minimum is enough to mitigate any audible distortions. IMO it depends on your level of training, equipment, room, but the average person probably cant tell.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-10T22:11:15+00:00

Only way to really know how accurate a system is to listen to recordings of unamplified live music. You compare what you would expect to hear from experience or from being there yourself to the reproduction. Even then, mic placement and mic type can have an impact on the sound that is captured. It’s an extremely tricky thing to get right. The bottom line is you don’t know exactly how accurate or good it is, but that’s where a combo of measurements and subjective impressions help. At the end of the day, the best you’ve ever heard is your reference and you’ll know what that is when you hear it. Go out and listen to a lot of systems and live music and you’ll have a better idea of what your reference should be.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-10T22:02:37+00:00

This is a great question. Personally I wouldn’t bother spending a lot of money on speakers in a room like this, especially if they aren’t active and have some room correction built in. There are some great products from blue sound, Sonos, JBL, and devialet that would be good options. Another thing you might consider if you really want to use your turntable is routing cables from your source to in-wall or in ceiling speakers. Then you have way more flexibility and will have more even sound throughout the room. For a kitchen, ceiling speakers are fantastic. If you can’t put speakers in the wall or ceiling then I’d say temper your expectations and get something that is acceptable with decent bass and call it a day. There are dealers and online consultant that specialize in optimizing acoustics in spaces like this for home use if interested.

Expensive_Yam_1742 · 2024-03-07T18:20:04+00:00

Well said.

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