bishop148
Responses from bishop148
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Hi-fi lore, was at one time you had to have a 15" woofer for good bass - due to the inherent low resonant frequency and large ability to move air - or something like that. These days smaller, faster 8" and less woofers are popular. Problem is they... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound The JBL K2 S9900's have my vote for what you want. You won't hear much better than these for smooth, powerful and clean reproduction. As for lack of extreme bass, you could move the speakers closer to the corners or add subs. personally I would ch... | |
| Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget Sounds like you want punchy rock speakers - but refined. JBL 1400 Arrays will do that, a used pair may just fit with your requirements. | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I'm not interested in buying more gear, even if I could afford it. I have 4 pairs of speakers, smoke damaged from a fire I had 4 years ago, just sitting in my basement - since. JBL 1400's - fortunately undamaged, a pair of JBL 250ti's and 2 pairs ... | |
| Will a high quality preamp really make a difference in sound?? Also speaker cable A good pre-amp should make no difference to the sound. If your power amp has a volume control, you can plug your source device directly into your power amp, so bypassing your pre-amp, (make sure your amp volume is turned all the way down). If i... | |
| How long should high quality speakers last? Why wouldn't speakers last for a very long time? Apart from replacing the foam surrounds and capacitors, or perhaps re-magnetize the magnets, I haven't and I don't know why you would need to. | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS My wife left her Creative round computer speakers running quietly yesterday. Damn, they sounded great, open and airy on female vocal. Better than my $15,000 speakers do at low volume. Go figure! | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Woofers begin to break up in the upper mid range whereas tweeters often have a resonance peak and power handling problems in the lower high frequencies. That said, I heard some JBL 2 ways, a CD and 15" woofer, netherless, they blended well togeth... | |
| ??? What Is The MOST Expensive System You Ever Heard ??? What Was Your Opinion ??? I heard a pair of Focal Grand Utopia's 15 years ago, driven by 2 monoblocs with cables the size of a garden hose in a acoustically treated room. Speakers were selling for 250k - thats a lot back then. Sound of course was tactile and sublime - am... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? To be honest I can't hear much difference when I swap between my 3 power amps. My 600 watter definitely has more oomph. Maybe its just nostalgia but I do like my old Phase Linear 400, however my ears are now, low-fi. | |
| Power cord maybe I'm getting old but you guys have lost me. As long as a power chord is thick enough to carry the current without voltage drop, isn't that all that matters? | |
| Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. You need cables heavy enough to carry the current and so do not present a resistive or inductive load. Thats it. Fancy, expensive cables IMO is BS. I assume you are being funny about using wi-fi instead of cables. | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Maybe I'm ignorant, but why would a power chord make a difference to sound? Sure, if the original chord cannot handle the current demand, there would be a voltage drop in the power supply rail but that's only at very loud levels. For 99% of the ti... | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? The problem is that homes are built with the worst possible acoustics. Walls and ceiling/floor all parallel to each other causing standing waves and their harmonics - all bad. That is the cause, breaking up those resonances is the only solution. | |
| Dog pissed on speaker Ozone generators I believe work well on lingering bad odors. |