bryoncunningham
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| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? I am a believer in the audibility of jitter. Here is another link to some useful information about jitter. I have also found a lot of useful discussion of this topic in the A'gon archives.My conversion to believing in the audibility of jitter occu... | |
| How Big is Too Big? Cw - I agree that most people sit much farther from their screens than the THX guidelines recommend. I sit at 9 feet from a 60" screen, so I too am farther away than the guidelines, but probably closer than most viewers.I find the distance at whic... | |
| How Big is Too Big? You can calculate THX recommended screen sizes here. The recommended screen size for a given viewing distance is often a lot bigger than you might think.I started with 42", then 50", now 60". Bigger is often better, and it's not just Freudian. Hav... | |
| Does delay really matter? My experience has been that the use of delay is particularly important for subwoofers, to minimize the potential cancellation of the sub's output with that of the FL and FR speakers.For a simple demonstration of this, you can use a SPL meter to me... | |
| Halo A51 vs Anthem P5 I have heard both these amps at length. I currently own both the Halo A23 and the Anthem A5, which are the little brothers of the A51 and P5, respectively.The A51 is class A at low levels, and it has many of the benefits associated with class A, i... | |
| Tweaks to Add A Little Treble Emphasis... I agree with those who have suggested starting with speaker placement and room acoustics. It would be useful to know more about your speakers and room. | |
| Cd transport isolation Two different products I've used with good results for this application: Bright Star isonodes and Black Diamond Racing jumbo pits. Totally different approaches, but both were effective. | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. The choice between accuracy and musicality is one that every audiophile faces sooner or later. Although I agree with Jax2 that accuracy and musicality are not NECESSSARILY mutually exclusive, in reality, one is often achieved at the expense of the... | |
| Comments on Amphion Speakers, Please Like you, I am sensitive to the harsh quality of some metal dome tweeters. I have heard the Amphion speakers, and my advice is: Listen before you buy. Personally, I found the tweeter to be extended and detailed, but also distinctly "metallic" soun... | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? System. | |
| What percentage of audiophiles use a sub ? I have used a sub for years with my bookshelf speakers. Recently, when I switched to floorstanding speakers, I tried setting them up without the sub. I was never able to achieve the quality of bass in my listening room that the sub provided. So I ... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? My average is around 85dB, with brief peaks, on some recordings, as high as 100dB.As several people have pointed out, my volume level is largely determined by the quality and dynamic range of the recording. I have also noticed, as has been mention... | |
| What is Musicality? Sabai wrote in the OP: Appreciating good music is not only a matter of how good your equipment is. It is a measure of how musical a person you are. Most people appreciate good music but some people are born more musical than others I think Sabai i... | |
| What is Musicality? The term musicality gets used in different ways by different audiophiles, but there is one usage that I find the most informative: A system is described as musical when the sound it produces is perceived by the listener as a GESTALT, rather than... | |
| Can back surrounds smear the front image? I do not listen to multichannel music, but I have noticed that my surrounds diminish the coherence of the front image during movies, even though my processor, like most, delays the signal sent to the surrounds to compensate for variations in the s... |