bpoletti
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| Speaker upgrade To expand on the use of artificial ficus trees.... They are diffusers, The leaves deflect sound rather than keeping a coherent soundwave bouncing off the walls. It breaks up and helps absorb the sound waves. The ficus trees are also have much ... | |
| Speaker upgrade @romney80.... Thanks for the kinds words. Artificial ficus trees are not my original idea. But they are certainly effective in reducing room problems and one of the best bangs for the buck in acoustic room tuning. | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. That placement works great and is absolutely the very best speaker placement.... Not. | |
| Curl or Pass @wspohn wrote:"I like both, but IMHO neither attains the level of Curl's older Vendetta design (I don't believe that the parts are available to replicate those, although a variant was used in the CTC Blowtorch preamp." Completely agree. JC's Ven... | |
| Curl or Pass @dougthebiker wrote: On another note, I’ve never heard of Herron or Tom Evans. Where could I find some reviews of those?Dougthebiker Wow. You're planning to spend a couple thousand dollars and you haven't even done any basic research into alte... | |
| Curl or Pass For the price point your using, there are other phono stage designs that you might find a little better. One might be a Herron VTPH-2A. Maybe a few dollars more, but not significantly so on the used market, if you can find one. | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? troll thread | |
| Priorities So many people think that just getting better equipment will solve all their listening problems. But I have to agree that fixing the room / room acoustics, even by only adding a small forest of properly placed artificial ficus trees, will create ... | |
| what are your cartridge set up go to I downloaded a template from Vinyl Engine that works pretty well. I have a Lyra Skala on the end of a Jelco TK-850L. The VTF get adjusted, then the cartridge is aligned against the template. Then I listen, set the VTA and start the process agai... | |
| Speaker upgrade @romney80Speakers only sound as good as their environment allows and based on the way the upstream electronics perform. The room is top on the list for problem correction.All the speakers you listed are very good, but exactly WHY are you interest... | |
| Speaker upgrade @arafiq Go away and play with your little stuffed animals. Let the adults have a meaningful discussion. | |
| Speaker upgrade Before you spend a lot of money on speakers, populate your room with a dozen or more artificial ficus trees behind and between your existing speakers. Wall-to-wall at least 7 feet high. Place the artificials on stands, if necessary to attain the n... | |
| Just ordered a vpi avenger The dealer is making between $4,000 and $5,000 on the sale. I would expect them to deliver it to me and set up the table. It’s not difficult to set up, but it is heavy. Why wrestle with it and possible damage the table? Let them earn their profit.... | |
| Bass Driver Size - how much better is an extra inch? I use a pair of 18" drivers in a 14 x 27 x 8 1/2 ft room. No complaints. An extra inch would basically take the drivers up to 20" or 21". Not sure that would make much difference. | |
| Audio Research preamps EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS No sympathy. Who was it that bought an ARC preamp? Who was it that made their OWN DECISION to operate it that many hours a day?It's ALL personal decisions. |