broadstone
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| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution I appreciate the well considered advice regarding headphones and I do use them occasionally but only to shut out competing activities in our house and to limit my intrusion on others. Even though their sound reproduction is incredibly resolved, it... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Atmasphere, if the Peachtree 220 amp is the cause of this low volume distortion and compromised detail, I'm wondering if using a more efficient speaker might actually exacerbate rather than improve the situation. On the other hand if using a lower... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Ok, I'll try a combined response to these well considered suggestions. As far as trying more sensitive speakers like compression drivers, for example, that will be on my list. As I said earlier, the speakers that I liked best in almost all respect... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Yes, ZD, there are several places for me to do some auditioning and, to a limited extent, I've tried this and is how I ended up buying the Ethos pair several months ago. One of the things that I've been overlooking here is the equalizer, an oversi... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Thanks, Al. You're absolutely right; I looked it up and those lyrics are, indeed, as sung in Showboat. Even those specific lyrics, though, as many others, were changed by Robeson for the performance. Many others, it seems, were modified along the ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? From Ol' Man River- Don't like livin' but keep on dyin'. Not very uplifting but profound. | |
| Full range drivers with piezoelectric tweeters That makes sense, Timlub. My next project is to find a decent 6.5 inch full range driver and I'll use your advice in choosing a proper piezoelectric transducer. I'll let you know how it goes. | |
| Full range drivers with piezoelectric tweeters Timlub, thanks for the explanation. With that in mind, I'm going to pursue this with a little more confidence that it can be made to work in the situation I described. I'm pretty familiar with crossover design and building so if I'm not able to ge... | |
| Full range drivers with piezoelectric tweeters Yes, Elevick, if I were to use ribbons, a crossover would be necessary; in my experience they don't hold up to delivery of low frequencies except at Low volumes. As a matter of coincidence, the tweeters installed in these enclosures are EMIT ribbo... | |
| Best multichannel amp for quality stereo listening Thanks, Soix but I think I'll be alright. I'll use the Peachtree Nova and Peachtree 220 for the audio inputs that I care about (CD, Apples TV and jukebox) and the B&K for video (TV tuner & DVD player). I think the only issue I'll have is t... | |
| Equalizers - don't listen to the nay sayers lowrider, I have a digital system but learning the 2496 is going to be the same in either domain I assume, but perhaps with somewhat different goals. Anyway, I'm still in the curve from the standpoint of learning its full capability but may not ha... | |
| Headphones for Hearing Aids I'm using the Behringer DEQ2496, a truly incredible piece of equipment that many here on Audiogon recognise as one of our best choices. | |
| Equalizers - don't listen to the nay sayers Sorry for the delay. I now use the Behringer DEQ2496 and it's incredible. | |
| Headphones for Hearing Aids What I said about the giant hearing aids would apply only to using the EQ while listening w/o hearing aids to your speakers. In what I understand your situation to be, though, my suggestion is that you consider trying connection of your headphones... | |
| Best multichannel amp for quality stereo listening I apologize for changing the nature of my original post here, especially after having received well thought out responses, but I just discovered that the Nova does, indeed, have an HT bypass function at one of the aux connections. I didn't even kn... |