bpoletti
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The best room upgrade: $2250 Much less expensive than other treatments, try getting a dozen or two of artificial ficus trees. 5' and 8' as leafy as you can find. I have purchased a lot of artificial ficus from At Home stores. The 5' trees are only $40. The 8' are more exp... | |
PowerBall Lottery Winner Start with a Golden Ratio room with poured concrete walls a thick-pile carpet, a solid, rigid well-braced ceiling, solid wood doors and only enough windows to meet code for egress. Suggest room dimensions (close to Golden Ratio) could be 10' high... | |
My battle with sibilance. @blueranger Are you SURE is sibilance? You haven't described the rest of your system.There are a LOT of sources for annoying HF. Speaker breakup, a crossover component gone bad, a tweeter issue, a metal driver starting to flex. Amp, preamp and ... | |
Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! The ONLY review(s) that count are by the end-user listener. | |
List a Condition you know of that will produce Better Sound filling the room with artificial ficus trees. They act as diffusers and absorb sound. Properly placed, they can really help a room. and improve sound quality. | |
Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels @optimizerWhen room interact with recorded sound, the recorded sound is distorted. Period. The BEST listening is in a dead room. Your statement that rooms should not be deadened is promoting that distortion. Period. It interferes with imaging... | |
Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels @optimize - A room must ABSOLUTELY BE COMPLETELY DEAD in order to NOT distort the recorded signal. ANY room contribution to the sound is a distortion.Anything other than a DEAD room will distort the sound. Absorbers, diffusers and the like need ... | |
Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels Let's think this through. The drywall is already tightly screwed to the studs or joists. The drywall will vibrate based on the dampening effect of the studs or joists, the thickness of the drywall and the size of the open area of the drywall tha... | |
LYRA DELOS IS AMAZING!!!! You will probably like the Delos even better with a top notch phono preamp. Start looking for a Herron VTPH-2a. No longer manufactured, but you might get lucky on the used market. I'm currently using a Lyra Skala with the VTPH-2a and find no n... | |
Should I switch to a larger room? For a 10x12 room, I would suggest placing 8 to 10 artificial ficus 5' trees behind, between and beside the speakers and one on each side and slightly in front of the listening position. Maybe one behind the listening position. These will break u... | |
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING What the OP is describing sounds more like a poor setup. Tracking force too light, VTA way off, arm mass way too light. Nothing can fix a poor setup except improving to a good setup. That's why there are turntable setup specialists. | |
What speaker has the best tweeter? All of my designs have made the tweeter sound like the best one. It's ALL about the design and the crossover, using the right tweeter in a given design.That said, there are dogs, but most soft dome tweeters and decent ceramic tweeters can be tame... | |
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING @jeffvegas - You are completely correct. The delos is a terrible cartridge, way to thin and bright. There's NOTHING wrong with your system.I'm in a particularly charitable mood. If you can carefully repackage the cartridge in its original box w... | |
How to remove scotch tape brown residue from album covers The best way to remove those ugly stains is with a scissors. | |
My Apologies to Miller Carbon I leave my SS amps on all the time except when I'm away from home for more than a week or so. I hear a definite difference when the amps are repowered and it takes several days for the amps to get back to peak performance. I am leaving on my pri... |