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| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. I got here at ASC too late to meet Chris. I’ve only played an electric bass a tiny bit. A few years ago someone gave me one that suffered some kind of rattle with the knobs on the main body. I didn’t have an appropriate amp to work with it, but go... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. @bdp24 Below 60Hz is sub-bass? The lowest frequency produced by a standard 4-string bass (acoustic and electric; why do people insist on calling an electric bass a bass "guitar"? That’s an oxymoron!)---the E string played "open"---is 41Hz. That’... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. The bass traps in corners are typically more like upper bass / lower midrange traps. That's an important and problematic range in a lot of rooms, and a reasonable amount of traps in the corners can definitely improve the clarity in that range, wh... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport A good CD transport should load fast and be very mechanically silent. I had an old Sony ES CD player years ago that I used as a transport. It would only play redbook CDs, and it loaded faster, switched tracks faster, and ran more silently than any... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Something new to me about slew rate and horns - higher efficiency speakers can do what a lower efficiency speaker would require a higher slew rate from the amplifier to do. So low efficiency combined with a desire to play loud creates a requiremen... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response @terry9 My experience of slew rates is different. I am driving ESL's, and my amps sound good with 30V/us output transistors, better with 40V/us, and better yet with 50 V/us; that is, better transient response. Interesting. Reading up on slew ra... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Years ago I tried to measure transient response to come up with an understanding of why I thought horns sounded better than direct radiators. In nearfield measurements I was shocked to see that cheap little bookshelf speakers that only sounded OK ... | |
| Don't do anything! I’ll share an experience I had with gear breaking in. Years ago I needed to buy two of the same stereo amp for a bi-amping project I was working on. I got the amps long before I was ready to use both of them, so I gave them both a listen, determin... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? Nonsense. This isn’t a scientific forum. No one here owes you any "rigorous" explanation or any other kind of proof, although of course you’re free to conduct your own experiments and share the results. If the empirical evidence described by user... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? We don't typically listen under blind conditions. If an improvement is perceived, and it is unshakable under normal listening conditions, then it works for you. We need not ask why - unless we're curious about it. When people start giving untest... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? This seems like a serious thread from people who have really done a lot of work with op-amps over on ASR. Seems like there are a lot of gotchas if you don't choose and test carefully. Objective changes for the worse or better in terms of noise and... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. The thing I like most about music is that it can express things that we don’t have other ways of expressing. You could talk to me all day about a Beethoven Symphony, for instance, but until I hear it I’ll have no idea what you are talking about. O... | |
| Mood @cdc Thanks for the background info. From that perspective, I can see how music can be like a condiment. @mahgister I agree there's a lot more possible in interpretation than just acting like a condiment. However, it's sometimes sort of true,... | |
| Mood My experience suggests that some systems might be more robust against the perceptual swings that some of us experience. Right now I feel that my system is in a robust state because I haven't had a bad sounding day since I set it up like this. It's... | |
| Mood @cdc Who said that music is like a condiment? I can think of ways it can be like a condiment. But then there's this guy who said interpretation is a condiment. So if music is already a condiment, we have a condiment^2 with interpretation. |