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| At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home? Well said millercarbon. I also agree with miijostyn- you can get a pretty convincing portrayal of a drum kit at a distance but I too have heard a real drum kit in my room along with my speakers and there's just no comparison, even when it's played... | |
| True or False? Good listening skills for musical playback enjoyment include the ability to mask out unwanted sounds and anomalies and reconstruct in our heads things that aren't really heard. Bad listening skills would be to be able to hear things as they really... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Blind testing is quite useful for determining if something is plainly audible to most people. It can also be used to determine if some difference that’s been shown to be audible is preferable or not to most people. Proving that something is inaudi... | |
| My conclusion: mid level $$ analog vs digital When I used to have a vinyl setup I would occasionally compare the same album on vinyl with CD. Some of them sounded nearly identical with a moderate grade cartridge and phono stage. Some sounded very different. I think the mastering is a big deal... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! The less measurable the effects are, the more audible they become. Or am I wrong here? Anybody got some measurements on these power cords? | |
| Compression Titanium Worlds finest tweet ever engineered I refute it. Compression drivers and their associated horns are too big. | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I think we need a technical description of "shouty." A lot of sounds in nature could be described as shouty and a lot of speakers can't produce them with the lifelike intensity that a horn speaker can. Maybe it's the inability to shout regardless ... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? It's definitely been one of my objectives to have a system that sounds good all around the room, even though it's still best when directly between the speakers. Speakers with smooth off axis performance and some degree of directionality in the tre... | |
| Ever wanted to know, what your phono cartridge sounds like dead flat?? Interesting! He says it can get the frequency response very flat, at least relative to the test record. But then he says it can't help with the channel separation being no better than 30db. I wonder! The channel separation issue, if I understand ... | |
| Playing with two sets of speakers simultaneoulsy About 12 ft. Speakers about 10 ft apart from center to center roughly. Why do you ask? Sorry, I can’t remember now what I was thinking when I asked that. In any case I agree with raysmtb1 - more drivers more fun. The Maggies have some advantages i... | |
| Will Sasha II work in a 11.5 x 26 ft room A room like that might work better with the speakers centered on the long wall. While he was marketing Cello speakers, Mark Levinson discovered that he could get excellent sound at shows where he was stuck with a long skinny room by playing the ro... | |
| Playing with two sets of speakers simultaneoulsy How far away are the Magnepans and the Proacs from your listening position? | |
| Bass is clearer and more impactful when I stand vs. when I sit If you are using as subwoofer? Like millercarbon and mlsstl said, experimenting with the position of both your listening spot and the speakers is the key. If you are using a subwoofer you can also experiment with positioning it's height by putting... | |
| Converting two-car garage to listening room. What would you do? Non parallel sidewalls and a sloping ceiling helps to reduce what we at ASC call "head end ringing." With parallel sidewalls and floor and ceiling sound emitted sideways from the speakers gets trapped at the front of the room and relatively slowly... | |
| Bruce Edgar Sad to hear of his passing. I found his writings very enjoyable and helpful. He shared his knowledge freely and I am grateful. |