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While other places try to push expensive non-performing stuff based on non-sense, DakiOm offers rational, scientific proposals for improving sound quality. Proposals that you can test and verify. We are proud to introduce our DIY Projects. We hope you will try them to confirm our expertise, then try our products. DakiOm, the only rational place in the audio world...

DakiOm is a new outfit, scientifically revolutionary in the subject of sound quality improvement. Our theory on inherently unstable amplification of high frequency (HF) noises explains very well the poor quality of so many audio amplifiers and players. It also offers the best explanation as for why sound quality is degraded as a result of mechanical vibration on electronic circuits and on wiring. Circuit characteristics, including impedance of wires, determine the amplification of HF noises. Theoretically, the changes of geometry caused by vibration, therefore impedance of wires can modulate unstable amplified HF noises into bad sound.

In summary, we theorize that all competent amps should reproduce audio signals perfectly. The difference in musicality of amps ($200 amp vs $2000 amp) is the result of the amount of unstable amplification of HF noises that injects more or less garbage into the perfect audio signals. Some amps are more stable than others, therefore are more musical.

However, presently, no commercial circuit is stable enough to reproduce acceptable music quality. Music quality is presently poor, regardless of system costs. Commercial and high end amplifiers compare marginally better, not worth swapping for the cost. The only solution to really improving audio circuits is our new techniques for stabilization of amplifiers. With the right theory of why audio circuits perform poorly, we can use ordinary electronic parts in extraordinary circuits to do the job. By contrast, without a good theory for guidance, current high end systems use exotic parts in ordinary circuits. These are expensive non-solutions, bordering on snake oil. For example, why use a $20 transistor and a $5 capacitor to try to make a 40 year old circuit produce better sound. Instead, the "right" circuit can produce superior sound with $0.50 transistors and $0.10 capacitors.

With our theory as a guide, we already have a glimpse to the power of true reproduced sound. True reproduced sound (needed for good reproduced music) is relaxing, emotional and exciting. Our goal is to get there, to get to true (reproduced) sound.

Since presently, we can only identify musical like/dislike, the best test for achieving the goal of true reproduced sound is the improvement to all kinds of reproduced music. To us, an audio system reproducing true sound should satisfy any listener of any kind of music. We cannot yet compare reproduced music to “live” because the characteristics of “live” are vague and undefined, unsuitable for scientific comparison. We must first define the variables necessary to identify “live”, clearly we fail to do this so far.

We don’t sell "stuff", we sell better reproduced music. Therefore please evaluate our products in this context. The purpose of our DIY projects is to supplement you with some ideas and products that we cannot manufacture yet (due to our present limitations) but they are important for better music.

These few but critical DIY projects are developed by DakiOm and are proven to be the best returns for your time (cost is relatively small). We believe that unless you get these projects done, you will never get true (reproduced) sound.

The few DIY tweaks below will turn your poor sounding electronics into a world best system (but you have to select good speakers, and of course, get all appropriate DakiOm products such as R203 for stereo player outputs and A203 for stereo amplifier outputs).

You have to do these “DakiOm tweaks” because there is no commercially available products that give equivalent improvement in sound quality. You cannot buy this much improvement in musicality no matter how much you are willing to pay because there is no off the shelf expensive component that does the same thing. Expensive components may look good but they definitely sound just as bad as cheap ones. If you want good music, the only available options are:

1. DakiOm DIY or,
2. Pay someone to do DakiOm tweaks. You may even start your own business doing them for others.

DISCLAIMER:

No guarantee is provided for the accuracy of the information or the application of the information provided on this web site. Dakiom accepts no responsibility or liability with regards to the use the information provided, for any purpose. The user accepts full responsibility for all information provided here in. DIY is for people with training in the subject. If you are in doubt, always seek the help of a professional! 

Before Starting a DIY Project You Must Understand The Goal

1. Explore your ways to differentiate sound quality. Forget past propaganda by the audio establishment. Concentrate more on comparing the feeling of pleasure in long term listening. Pay much less attention on silky mid-range, huge sound stage, transparent, neutral, etc. Simply put, the better component allows you to enjoy music longer term. Only poor components need the vagueness of "better sound stage", "silkier mid-range" and other meaningless vocabulary to deceive you.

2. Explore ways to verify your differentiation of sound quality to eliminate placebo, bias effects. Listening is subjective. There is no 100% objective listening. There are only objective testing methods. To be real, the subjective perception must be identified consistently, repeatedly by objective testing methods. Blind tests are good but are not necessary. Blind tests are needed only in the beginning when you are not sure what is musicality. When you catch your meaning of musicality then, sighted tests are good enough for yourself. But remember that in order to convince others of your findings, blind tests are required.

By the way, there is not yet a correlation between musicality and electronically measurable variables. Audio is still in the primitive stage of development, human ears are still needed in the design of audio components.

You must be able to identify the rendition B of a song you like most, under A/B blind tests, consistently and repeatedly. If you can do so then the tweak B works.

Symptoms of a Bad Audio System

The question is how do you know that you love music but your audio system is unsatisfactory?

Symptom: You don’t listen to music that much, you don’t care to turn on your system, even though from time to time you really enjoy your favorite songs.

Symptom: You enjoy music only for a short time, then get bored or start having headache (no kidding, many people can’t stand long term exposure to bad music). By the way, it may be a good idea to expose young kids to good music, preventing possible adverse effect of bad music on their development. Therefore parents have the obligation to find out what is good music.

If you don’t have the above symptoms then you don’t need high fidelity audio (but your kids may). Our advice is to be patient and explore anyways. Get a feel of whether or not you can recognize better music. Our bet is yes, you can. Please, do start with the testing of DakiOm DIY on your system. If you notice the improved music then make sure you buy all needed DakiOm products to improve further your enjoyment of music.

Exploring Musicality

At DakiOm, we believe that the majority of people have musicality inherent in their being. Musicality is personal as evidenced by the fact that people like a variety of kinds of music. The trick is to help people recognize their sense of musicality. Telling people to listen and decide for themselves is a non-starter. People have already done that and they already know what songs they like but they still don’t know what is musicality.

There must be a clear procedure, step by step instruction that people can use to distinguish nuances of their like/dislike about music. High fidelity audio is for people who want to develop further their musicality, maybe to the point where an initially subtle musical nuance become more dominant, more important later. It is rewarding to sharpen your musical taste. You will find that good music is a wonderful entertainment alternative.

The most basic aspects of good music are impressionable familiarity and emotional connection. Example of familiarity: A tune that you like gets stuck longer in your head, a piece of music that you dislike gives you headache. An emotional song stirs your soul. These aspects of music remain in long term memory such that comparison is more accurate. Other terms such as tight bass, silky mid-range, big sound stage … are vague and disappear as soon as the music stops, not good as comparative attributes of sound quality but perfect to sell lousy stuffs.

Therefore our proposed DakiOm Comparative Listening Test deals with repetition of one song for testing the impressionability of familiarity and the emotional connection. The better rendition of a song is the one that imprints comfortably in your head and gives good feelings. A bad rendition of a song is the one you run away from after comparing it to a better rendition.

So, listen to each rendition of a song for many times in a row (say 5 times) to learn (by feeling, not by analysis) the subtleties, then compare how you feel about each rendition. Repeat the comparison many more times until you can decide which rendition you like most. The comparison is fast if the differences in the renditions are huge. The comparison is more difficult if both renditions are about the same. But, keep on comparing, after a while, you will become more and more apt to recognize what you like.

We invite you to begin with us a wonderful journey into a new musical world. Also, please feel free to stop by our new office/showroom for a demonstration of how good a fully tweaked system can sound. Enjoy!

-DakiOm

NOTICE: Please Carefully Read Through This Entire Web Page Before Attempting Any DIY Project! No guarantee is provided for the accuracy of the information or the application of the information provided on this web site. Dakiom accepts no responsibility or liability with regards to the use the information provided, for any purpose. The user accepts full responsibility for all information provided here in. DIY is for people with training in the subject. If you are in doubt, always seek the help of a professional!