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| musical sub Bookshelf monitors are usually prized for their midrange timbre and accuracy. They obviously can't stack up to a floorstanding monitor in the bass department. That's due to a number of factors, and the drivers are only one of them. Cabinets are a ... | |
| musical sub Personally, I like B&W. I think they're good speakers. Thin sounding? Perhaps, but almost anything that doesn't have big woofers can sound thin, particularly in a big space. My Aliantes sounded thin in my room- until I got the JL sub. It integ... | |
| Low-cost I/C's Oops. Sorry. I just got some custom made splitters from Signal. One into two split. Paid an extra 30 bucks for the connectors, but with the splitter cables, I got six of them....maybe they consider the three ended splitter cables a "pair" and I go... | |
| JL Audio F113 --- Loud Buzz --- ??? --- Bizzarre Surge protectors are hit and miss. They often miss during storms, and during power outages they may miss as well. That's a big miss for your gear. I don't think you should unplug after each listening session. I don't do that, it's a hassle. But if... | |
| An Experiment in Speaker Placement Ahh, so she acceded to your idea. Well, that IS a different story, especially if your room has so many issues. Can't fault her there. Room treatments, as mentioned by others here, may be the way to a great compromise. Rives Audio will do an entire... | |
| The better Led Zeppellin live recordings on vinyl. You'll have search around to find it, but the Copenhagen Warmups are floating around out there on vinyl. Sounded pretty good. Those were the shows Zep did while preparing for the 1980-81 US tour. And then Bonzo choked on his vomit. Still kills me.... | |
| musical sub I agree with most in this thread- selection of components can take care of a lot of bass issues. Your B&W's are excellent speakers. They roll off at what, 38 Hz? Good for most everything except pipe organs. However, another consideration that ... | |
| An Experiment in Speaker Placement Sorry. You're screwed. Room is a huge factor. Strike one. WAF is bigger- strikes, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. Side retired. You're out.All joking aside- you may want to have a look at what Rives Audio can do for your room. ... | |
| JL Audio F113 --- Loud Buzz --- ??? --- Bizzarre If you had a surge, I agree with Elizabeth- you probably fried one of the modules in the Class D internal amplifier. I had a lightning strike near my home last spring and it cooked a Rowland Class D amp that was run via a surge protector. The best... | |
| Low-cost I/C's Signal uses Eichmanns as an option. Like $5 per connector. | |
| Why are my mosfet fuses blowing? The Classe's are largely A/B. Most are Class A for the first 30 watts and then A/B thereafter, I believe. Rest assured, to push those Thiels, you're going well into the A/B range of operation. An A/B amp will still generate quite a bit of heat as ... | |
| Amps for tube-a-holics? Exactly. Wife factor is huge. Didn't mean to disparage the build quality of some pentode based amps. Some are superb. Look at some of the Ayons. Beasts. But mine is a Golden Tube Audio, and they had serious quality control issues. Still like it, b... | |
| Amps for tube-a-holics? You have to find what YOU like best. Some prefer 300B amps. Some like flea powered SET's, like 2A3's. Some like the versatility of a push-pull setup. You can roll tubes with almost any tube amp. But sometimes, rolling gets pricey. Willing to spend... | |
| musical sub I too use JL. Strength is that the sub has so many different options for settings, you can really get it to integrate rather seamlessly. | |
| Any experience with Y-interconnects? Postscript- Signal Cable is building a set of custom "splitter" cables for me to address the issue. Will eliminate a couple of connections that would have been necessary with a standard Y-interconnect. Frank at Signal Cable came up with the idea a... |