bishop148
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| 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. | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! A amplifier driving a set of speakers sees not only the impedance of the speakers that varies with frequency but also the whole circuit including the cables. Thin cables represent a resistance and impedance and thus would degrade dynamics and in... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. I have 2 old but nice Phase Linear pre-amps. However I want a remote and the Emotiva pre-amp for $500 looks ok to me. A friend of mine has Emotiva amps and Gallo surround system in his acoustically treated room - sounds fantastic. | |
| WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection I have wi-fi connection in my home, as we all do. I plan on wiring my home and not using wi-fi at all. It gives me a headache, I know it shouldn't, being that it has such a low power output. Does anyone else have this problem? | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? I've considered bi-amping my JBL 1400's, whenever you bi-amp you need to modify the crossover - I believe. May be worthwhile, although crossover design is a black art IMO. | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? I walked into a hi-fi store in the early 70's, there was a lineup of JBL speakers from bookshelfs to a Paragon. Loved them straight away, always have, tried other speakers but always returned to JBL. | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? Dam! Don't you hate being wrong! However out here in the boonies, lightning strikes are frequent and without a very fast over voltage protection it can and will damage your gear. |