bjp9738
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| Marantz TT15/ Clearaudio Satisfy for MC carts? I can't speak to running a MC on the TT15, but I did own the TT15 for a few years and it was a fantastic table with overall performance that I think is above it's price tag. The supplied Virtuoso cart is very good, albeit a little noisy in the gr... | |
| New to hobby: McIntosh D150 w/ McIntosh Amp vs. Rotel Separates I'm not sure if I'm following the OP completely. You're using the McIntosh D-150 as a DAC and running into the Rotel RC-1572? Or not using the RC-1572 and running the D-150 as DAC and preamp into the Rotel 1050? Doesn't the Rotel RC-1572 have a... | |
| Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum? I think what it boils down to is that a whole lot of people like to criticize the items other people spend their money on. You have the right to criticize. I have the right to ignore. | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? Like has been said already, I first organize by major genre. Then by artist's last name if it's a solo artiest, or if it's a band, the first word of the band name, ignoring articles like "the". Fortunately I don't own any albums by The The, beca... | |
| GIK alternatives I'm going to pile on GIK a bit here, too. I simply cannot recommend them. I can understand the manufacturing delay due to availability of materials. All I ask is that you be up front and transparent. They were not. I corresponded back and for... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? I'm sure I've broken most of the "audiophile rules". My room is too small, I've got a big Salamander triple rack between the speakers for my equipment, my dual subs are placed in the corners behind my mains, I've got a projector screen mounted up... | |
| Turntable - The Next Step Take a look at the Marantz TT15. Made by Clearaudio. The price has gone up a bit (like everything else) but I think it's still one of the best bargains in turntables. It's a lot of turntable for under $2K. | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer It’s hillarious all these audiophile keyboard warriors bashing "Macintosh". I didn’t know this thread was about Apple computers. If you’re going to cut something down, at least learn how to spell it. | |
| Martin Logan Expression 13 - setup question Hi @pvanosta - I agree! The ML Masterpiece line is something special. I have a pair of Impression 11A's in a relatively small room, 11x20. Per ML's guidance, you want the rear woofer no closer to the rear wall than the diameter of the woofer. So i... | |
| GIK Vicoustic and others I ordered from GIK and was not pleased. It took two months for the products to arrive. And when they did, they were poorly packaged and all four pieces were damaged. Took close to another 2 months to get replacement pieces for the damaged pieces.... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Similar? I would say sort of if the speakers are similar in design. Room EQ software like ARC Genesis, Dirac Live, Room Perfect, Audyssey, etc. all strive for a flat frequency response. So if you run every speaker through the same software, in the... | |
| How do I set the crossover for 2 channel listening on my HT system? @dsands You didn’t say which model you have, but in most Denon AVR’s, if you have your Fronts set to Large, bass will never be sent to the subwoofer unless you set the subwoofer mode to LFE+Main, or you set the Fronts to Small. I do not believe th... | |
| Anthem ARC and Subwoofers - A quick review One of my goals in this upgrade was also to get rid of excess gear. So yes, I've given up some control but I also gave up a miniDSP, 3 external monoblocks and about 13-15 cables associated with all of it. 🤣 @erik_squires Interesting you shoul... | |
| Anthem ARC and Subwoofers - A quick review Hi @erik_squires I was using ARC2 initially for a couple years, but did upgrade to Genesis when it was released. It was pretty buggy when it first came out. The latest version is much better. It's probably just a matter of personal taste. I w... | |
| Anthem ARC and Subwoofers - A quick review Went through a very similar situation with my Anthem AVM60 a while ago. I did not like the dynamic limitation that ARC seemed to give. I ended up adding a MiniDSP 2x4HD and using REW to create my sub correction curves. I set distances, crossove... |