asvjerry
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| Amplifier heat...help! Rx for the Cheap Fix...computer fans. Quiet, low power, inexpensive. I've been using them on my equipment for years. As noromance noted 10/30, you could opt for a server rack frame. If installing into a cabinet, just allow for an intake and us... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables Oxygen-free copper, as large as your connects can handle.I remember reading an analysis by a materials chemist who looked into the subject. Anything else actually degraded electron flow, which would allow for the subjective differences noted by l... | |
| Sanity test before you start this hobby My unobtainium cables add such a richness and depth to my gear that I'm literally besides myself...although we can't come to any sort of agreement whether or not a gold, silver, or platinum stylus in the gramophone's arm is of any consequence. Pe... | |
| Sanity test before you start this hobby Hmmm....I suspect it's too late for a 'sanity test', whatever that might consist of, much less indicate.Damage control may be the best solution, although it will vary widely with the extent of the 'infection'.Seems like a great opportunity for an ... | |
| Question for sub woofer users Pretty much set and forget. There are variables in the engineering of recordings that will make them 'stand out' or 'recede', but that's kind of part and parcel of 'modern music', genre dependent...Proper placement....'sizing' or 'scaling', takin... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? "Hey, has this field been plowed recently?""Well, yeah...it seems to get done frequently. Too much, I think. The soil's starting to thin out, almost to bedrock.""Let's do it again. Looks like crap, it needs to get smoothed out.""But...that just... | |
| Aggressive know it all salesman randy11, like your 10/11 post. If that doesn't flabbergast, nothing will and you should exit the store.My fav when asked if I can be helped is "Yeah, a box of money and endless therapy." If they don't have a decent comeback, I move on. Nothing ... | |
| I need advice. If the Sansui's like an old friend that you can't bear to part with, by all means update it. The improvements will be more to extend it's lifespan rather than quality, MHO...For the same or slightly more $, you could update to something new(er), ... | |
| Your first component that was "special" ....MHO, I think the 'digressions' ('L' trains and reverie of days gone by) are some of the finer moments we can share....so, have at it. ;)The item that changed audio for me was an Audio Control EQ (model number ?), the one that came with a calib... | |
| THE WALL---Why? jafant, just another case of art becoming reality....happens more often these days....Darnold=snake oil salesmanThe Wall=everyone's ennuiMHO;) | |
| Dipole Asymmetry imgood, tomcy6 has a point, and a simple solution to my mind. Try duplicating the approximate shape of your left rack behind the right OR put panels behind both. With the first, you mess a little with the diffusion behind the speakers. With the... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? Yeah, subs 'liven up' low volumes, even with larger speakers as mains. Bass comes down to moving lots of n2o2co2ar about, and one can't seem to get it to move enough. *G* | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? ...and then there's the aesthetic approach...;)Agreed, dl. Sheer volume/db's and the pursuit of more of it in the final analysis is ultimately silly. Rock concert levels in your living room or wherever is OK, but isn't what one would normally do... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? ...and going back to the original query by the OP....How loud is loud? When the sheetrock cracks? When the neighbors give up banging on the door and call the cops? When the cannons in the 1812 ov bust the windows? When you ears begin to leak? ... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? geoffkait, Absolutely. And then it was subject to the space it was in, how it was set within it, the materials within that space, the equipment combination....were there others in the room (audio show 'extravaganzas'), what was being played, any ... |