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| Magnepan Owners - Need Your Thoughts Please The other thing you might want to consider is finding a dealer close by that has Eminent Tech LFT 8 speakers. Planar's too, but with a hybrid design cone bass driver. Many former Maggie 1.6 owners actually prefer this speaker. One of the reasons i... | |
| Magnepan Owners - Need Your Thoughts Please Bass response is also going to be a about where you placed them in the room. Big time. I would think that big tube amp should give you pretty good bass response even with the Maggies. Where did you place the speakers in the room exactly, from fron... | |
| Bass reinforcement for very large room I don't quite understand your room(s) dimensions. It sounds confusing. Pictures would help. I have no experience with setting up speakers in a huge room, but I believe if you have big enough speakers you can energize it just like you can a smaller... | |
| LSA Statement Tube Rolling You should state what you want to achieve with adjusting the sound. More detail? More richness? Or both. I'd also suggest just searching the AA tube board on the tube type variants to get a handle on what the different tubes can do and finding a t... | |
| Bass reinforcement for very large room You have your speakers 3' from the side walls with a room width of 30', so they are 24' apart? That doesn't make sense. Speakers need to be close together for good dynamics and tone and energizing the room. And I don't know that having the speaker... | |
| Magnepan Owners - Need Your Thoughts Please That's a big room. Don't you need to make sure you demo the 3.6s, not the 1.6s? Use the Cardas dipole calculator for speaker placement. 5.5 feet from the front wall, 1.4 feet from the side walls is what I get with the calculator. That is from cent... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Al, I had a look at the paper and it looks to me that the author believes that balanced AC power will only reduce hum under a specific and rare condition -- in a system with three chassis that have the same capacitance. But most of the article con... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Al, I am considering a couple of power isolation transformer based products. One takes non balanced in and outputs balanced power, or so I believe. That's the equi=tech. The other is a Torus power isolation unit and since I don't have balanced AC ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Wow, that is a huge room and very high ceiling. And minimal reflective issues I would imagine. Sounds like a great room for the big Maggies. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective A question for the OP, Teajay. Did you have room treatment as part of your system when you auditioned all of the DACs? Bass absorbers and mid to high freq reflection point absorbers? Also curious how big your room is, and how far out in to the roo... | |
| My girl friend is a genius It sounds like you have room treatment when you say you have it on all sides. But what room treatment? Blankets or something along those lines? Or actual acoustic room treatments? Your system profile does not list anything.I was and might as well ... | |
| Any thoughts on Nottingham/Grado combination? The 294 arm is a 12 inch arm and i think it has a higher mass compared to a shorter Spacearm. So I think you can not just ask how does a Grado works on a Nottingham because someone might say its great, but with a Spacearm.I'd think the 294 would b... | |
| Advice needed on sub $1000 setup The Dynavector 10X is a perfect match for Rega tables and arm. It has the boogie factor that synergizes with the Rega kit. You see a lot of 10X's on Rega arms that belong to happy people. The Denon 103 isn't the best match for the Rega arm complia... | |
| Advice needed on sub $1000 setup If you don't have room treatment such as bass traps, and you can fit them in to your room, I would put your money there before getting a vinyl rig. I recently did this and I was surprised how good it made digital sound. You can get some pretty nic... | |
| Best amp s for 11x14 room under $4000 new/used ? I would also ask Ohm for recommendations because the most important part of your choice is the synergy with your speakers. I've learned that the hard way, and the good way, and it's not be taken lightly. It's more important than the looks of the a... |