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| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @decooney, I just bought the MiniDSP mic sold by Dayton and run that into my iMac. Nothing else.All, I use test tone generators as well as REW. Tone generators are great for finding room resonances, and when I have a deep null, I like to play t... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @b_limo and @hilde45, You will get a null at any frequency resulting from a distance that corresponds to one quarter wavelength from any room boundary. A sound wave reflecting off of a surface will be exactly out of phase with its primary wave a... | |
| Is imaging reality? I love Monet and Renoir. I love to look through art books and those books serve a purpose. But I remember my first visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and my first visit to the Chicago Art Institute. Nothing in any art book could prepare o... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) Yes, the diagram helps. I don't know how much flexibility you have with rearranging the room, but if you can move stuff around, I would rotate the bed 90 degrees and move it to the other end where the gear currently resides. Put the sofa next to... | |
| Is imaging reality? @bkeske, I’ve never lived in Cleveland or the surrounding area. I lived in SW Ohio until I was about 40. Still an avid Ohio sports fan. Thanks for the info about Szell’s involvement in tuning the hall. Szell was a lot more than a great conductor. | |
| Is imaging reality? bkeske, I agree with your comments on Severance Hall. Not a bad seat in the house in my experience, and the most beautiful venue I've seen by no small margin. It's been a while, but as I recall there is a fair distance between the front row and... | |
| Best SET speaker combo under 5k new or used I'm thinking you could get Coincident Frankensteins paired with Coincident Triumph Extreme II for just a bit over 5K. That is a pair that works really well together. I rebuilt the crossovers in my speakers for about $500 and added a sub. Reall... | |
| Is imaging reality? No, what we hear from a good recording on a good system in a well treated room presents as something I've never heard in a concert hall with respect to pinpoint imaging. I'm not a professional musician, but while I lived in the midwest I attended... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) As usual, there is a divergence of opinions. I agree with a lot that has already been said, but I'm going to try to tie together the best of it and add one or two other points. Pure guess on my part, but of the speakers you listed, I’d lean str... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? @j-wall, I went through a similar reality check a number of years ago as I drove through areas that had 1M plus valued homes. I thought "how can there be this many people who make this much money?" My wife reminded me that when we took out our l... | |
| Pioneer Direct Drives - Now and then? So weird! Earlier this year, I bought a Lyngdorf integrated with a built in MM phono preamp and said to myself--Hey remember that old Pioneer PL 51 table you bought in 1973 that you've had in storage since 1982? Maybe it's time. The drive stil... | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? @mglik, I think you are correct in your analysis. As I stated earlier, I made the transition from my 300B amps to the M-60's and couldn't be happier. I went for the power supply upgrade plus the V-Caps, which I think is well worth the cost. Car... | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? I'm going to suggest you consider another alternative, that being OTL amps. My speakers (Coincident Super Victory II) are 92.5 dB with a benign impedance curve. I tried driving them in a medium sized room with Coincident Frankenstein 300B amps. ... | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? It has been a mixed bag of experiences with me. I've had some iffy encounters with B&M stores, but borderline rude treatment in my experience seems to hinge more on being recognized as audiophile cogniscenti than looking like a fountain of ca... | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life The advice to listen to live music frequently and critically is foundational. The second observation I will make is that I learned more in the first 4 months of reading the audiogon forum than I learned in 40 years of reading the magazines and v... |