abstract7
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| Speaker Placement I think from Redkiwi's post that front wall is the front wall that the listener faces and is behind the speakers. I am used to calling that the back wall as you point out in your post, but I wanted to be consistent with Redkiwi's original thread. ... | |
| Speaker Placement Redkiwi--I like this post. First I think people posting should qualify the speakers they are placing: bi-pole, di-pole, planer, ported (rear vs front). Each of these would most likely give different results. While I've helped with speaker placemen... | |
| Audioquest Sterling????? I have 2 versions of clear and the jacket on both of them is blue. The sterling is the only one in grey--it's a dark grey at that. | |
| Audioquest Sterling????? I own both Sterling and Clear. Physically the Sterling is smaller in diameter with a grey jacket. While they may both have 10AWG and same number of strands, the Sterling diameter is slightly smaller. The sound of the Sterling is subjectively bette... | |
| best preamp for old Mark Levinson 29 I have a 380S which was upgraded from the 38S. There is a huge difference between the 380S and 38S, particularly in terms of transparancy. However, for the 29, unless you really need the ergonomics of the 380s I would recommend the 26 series. It p... | |
| Quality Y connector for a subwoofer? You can get Monster's from AudioAdvisor. | |
| If you Bi-Amp a 4 ohm speaker = Ohms???? You don't really need to put the cross-over before the amps if your speakers have an internal cross-over designed for bi-amping. You pointed out that you don't want the amp to see the load (reduce the load), but the load is generated by the speake... | |
| Noise canceling headphones? I second Mg123. I have tried Sennheiser and one other (can't remember which one it was) noise cancelling. They do work--any monotonous noise is cancelled to some degree (like plane engines), but their fidelity is not very good. I bought a pair of ... | |
| Best Electrostatic Cans-Stax vs. Koss Stax is used by many recording engineers--to hear the good and the bad. They are great when you are listening to pristeen recordings, but I agree with Estrnad--it's fatiguing. An interesting side note is the processing that Headroom does in their ... | |
| Help : Passive or Active? There was a thread on this just a few days ago, you might want to search on passive vs active pre and see what has been recently written. | |
| The partner or wife factor Tolerant is the best word. My wife knew from the beginning that I was not likely to give this hobby up. I am fortunate enough to have a dedicated listening room which was modified from a game room. She does enjoy family movies in the theater. A cl... | |
| Old Levinson ML 29 Amp. is Good ? I have a Reference 20.0 and a friend has the 27. We are both using Martin Logan Speakers. I am very impressed with this series of amplifiers and find that used it is a particular bargain. I'ld be surprised if you weren't very happy with this ampli... | |
| Japanese vs Domestic CD s I have a few Japanese CDs and quite a lot of German CDs. I find the imports to be generally better quality, but as Cornfedboy points out--that's not always the case--some actually go the other way--which is very disappointing when you pay such a p... | |
| Mark levinson audio system in Lexus? My neighbor bought this car with the ML system. If you haven't been in a Lexus it is quiet and very well insulated--but it's still a car and there's still a certain amount of road noise. I also have a Lexus with the Nakamichi premium system in it.... | |
| Passive pre VS active pre You need to watch the output impedance of your source equipment and input impedance of your amplifier. An active pre will take almost any source without problems, because it has a very high input impedance. Then it goes through the gain stages and... |