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| Adding subwoofer to Full-Ragne Speakers question No, it does not work really work that way. | |
| Adding subwoofer to Full-Ragne Speakers question Let's not anthropomorphize speaker drivers. They do not have powers of concentration. They merely move in response to electrical signals delivered to them. Now I suppose it's conceivable that if a crossover were diverting LF signals away from your... | |
| What's Your Favorite Rollins album? Colossus is tough to beat, but I also like Volume Two, which features a guest spot by Thelonius Monk. Also fun is Dizzy's Sonny Side Up, with Rollins and Stitt. | |
| Break-in Sure, and when somebody compares mint and broken-in components in a blind test and identifies them consistently, I'll believe that break-in is a physical phenomenon. Until then, I'd argue that the psychological explanation carries a lot more weight | |
| 50hz deep enough? Rbstehno: I agree that the best (and probably only) way to know whether any speaker will give you satisfying bass is to try it out at home. And my post offered some explanation for why a smaller speaker might nevertheless give you decent bass in a... | |
| Break-in I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that the ear is the only "moldable" sensory organ. You can become accustomed to hot foods, rotten odors, even touching hot or cold items.The point is that anytime you do a sensory comparison, the biggest variab... | |
| Break-in But how do you predict how a component will sound after break-in, if you don't know what causes break-in? How does an engineer design for a phenomenon he doesn't understand? (Answer: He doesn't.)As for measurements, I think Tom Nousaine once teste... | |
| Break-in I can't recall seeing anyone report that a component sounded worse after break-in. I'd say your suspicions are warranted. | |
| 50hz deep enough? I want to correct a misimpression that Rbstehno seems to have taken away from my (and perhaps other) posts: Bookshelf speakers can be quite apppropriate for larger rooms. But no speaker will give you as much bass in a large room as in a small one.... | |
| 50hz deep enough? Just noticed your post about room sizes. Well, that explains why a bookshelf speaker is giving you lots of bass! Once you move into the larger room, you won't get nearly as much, with that or any other bookshelf speaker. | |
| 50hz deep enough? If your current speakers are Paradigm Reference Studio 40s, they aren't anywhere near flat to 50 Hz. Tom Nousaine measured them for Sound & Vision several months back, and if my recollection is accurate, found that they started rolling off som... | |
| 50hz deep enough? No bookshelf speaker is flat to 50 Hz, no matter what their specs say. On the other hand, they can be helped by room interactions, so it's really hard to say what's an acceptable rolloff point--and that leaves aside the most important question: Wh... | |
| issue of speaker stands Ummm...have you tried googling "speaker stands"?Seriously, every audio outlet I know of, both online and brick-and-mortar, carries them. Since it's tough to judge looks and stability from a thumbnail pic on the Web, I'd visit dealers in your area ... | |
| issue of speaker stands There really isn't as much to this as you seem to imagine. Speaker stands need to be the right height, and they need to be stable. (They also probably shouldn't be resonant boxes, which is why getting rid of your towers is probably a good move.) A... | |
| What happened to Discwasher? Recoton, which owned the brand, went bankrupt in April and sold its accessories business to Gemini Industries. Discwasher doesn't appear anywhere on Gemini's website. I suspect the market for inexpensive record cleaners is even smaller than the ma... |