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| Soundproofing Actually Folk freak we got that sound leakage down heroically using layers of inexpensive materials done in a constrained layer damping system over the regular sheet rock, if we would have been able to build the wall out more we could have knocked... | |
| Soundproofing h2 we have a lot of experience in this arena, we built a soundproof wall which was insanly effective 110db in room 85db outside of room and we bult the wall out of inexpensive materials.The room and total project was featured on Rev Runs Rennovati... | |
| tube pre amp or tube amp Wahoo, I would do neither, you would get far better results upgrading to a much better digital front end. Your ARC CD 9 is showing its age vs newer digital front ends which will uncover more information and present a more realistic soundstage.You... | |
| Using a DSP and DAC Saomco, the real answer is to replace the older processor with the Wavelet which is far superior as a dac it is also better as a preampYou can use a Wavelet only as a crossover and run a different preamp and dac.Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ Legacy... | |
| Paradigm Persona series There is a difference between a dealer who is not supposed to discount a product that highly, vs a manufactuer. In the case of Paradigm they routinely offer promotions, they are a very large company and can afford to do so. The dealer is getting s... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? Dep you are so more advanced now aren’t you? If TJ is prefering a Coda to a Pass Labs amplifier and stating that a $6,200.00 Coda is sounding as good as a $14k pair of Pass Labs mono amplifiers and Doug Dale worked with and was one of the lead eng... | |
| New KEF Reference 5 speakers The fully tweeked up setup we had done at Fast's place sounded amazing and in terms of the marriage between the components, the room size and configuraton, as well as his taste in music, yes his system in our opinion did sound better than a local ... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? Pass makes some very good products however all of the points Unsound makes are very valid Pass’s gear tends to be big, heavy and runs hot. In our tests we have compared a set of the big Pass X 160 we think a $30k Monoblocks to a set of Chord Monob... | |
| Conrad Johnson preamp: ET5, ET7 (series 1 or 2) or ET3SE ?? Meitaflask we are CJ dealers with the ET 3 and we had an ET 5 on display. The ET3 was good the ET 5 was way better.The new ET 7 is supposed to be considerably better than the ET 5 the new replacement of the ET 3 is the same circuit in a newer box ... | |
| VIENNA ACOUSTICS- DIE MUSIC Samgar, the Sumiko master plan setup is putting the speakers in the center of the room, will that work for you?Any good audio guy can setup your speakers properly. We use the grid method devised by David Wilson to voice the speakers to the room.Pl... | |
| Anthem STR vs Parasound JC 2 BP vs any other sub $5,000 Preamp? Hello guys we are a Parasound dealer as well as an Anthem dealer. The Parasound JC 2 is a good preamp it is an older design and Parasound is revamping their entire line because products like the JC 2 are showing their age.The Anthem STR is an incr... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Ricred1 I think the point that Maplegrove is making is that there are a whole bunch of guys that jump on the "its too bright camp" while there are many others that don't make the same stink about a speaker which is rolled off and if you look at ma... | |
| Paradigm Persona series What I find so facinating is the villification of the Personas from certain posters here, because they have a bump in the high end vs the scores of other high end loudspeakers which have a pronounced dip in the top end. So therefore a speaker w... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Cmsgolf, really don’t know why you have this evangelical hatred of the Persoanas.We are not so powerful as to make Mr. Hofer or anyone purchase anything from us that they don’t like, sorry not going to happen.The reality is that many people here h... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more Me thinks you have a bad unit, the Nad direct digital sound is anything but harsh, the NAD m51 a very good dac with similar technology we sold for years and it was very musical and not harsh in the least. What are you using for a power cord into t... |