bryoncunningham
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| Small Speakers for Small Room, Close to Back Wall? How about the Dynaudio Focus 110? They are close to the size you mentioned, and they include a foam plug to block the port, for use close to the rear wall. I personally own the slightly larger Dynaudio Focus 140, and I am quite pleased with them.Y... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? If you were to reverse the speaker connections, that ENTIRE waveform (including the initially negative-going tweeter output and the initially positive-going woofer output) would be inverted.Ahhh! Now I get it, Al. The sentence above is what made i... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Jea48 - No, the two speakers are in phase with each other. And no, the woofer does not produce less bass. I believe you are confusing the following:(1) The ABSOLUTE polarity of a recording - positive or negative.(2) The RELATIVE polarity of a comp... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Onhwy61 - No, my room does not have many highly reflective surfaces. It has a thick rug over a wood floor and 2" acoustical foam over a large area on the ceiling. Both side walls and the wall behind the speakers contain diffusion. Also, the room i... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Another thought: I wonder if it has something to do with how the sound from the tweeter and woofer "sums" at a particular listening distance. | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Al - I agree, it is befuddling. I would be inclined to conclude that I am crazy, if it were not for the fact that my friend with the same speakers experienced the same thing. Perhaps it is Folie à deux! | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Al/Bob - I could not locate my meter, so I asked my friend with the same speakers (and same observations) to test his speakers. His result: 2mV. So I guess that's not the solution to the mystery. | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Al - I believe I have a digital multimeter around here somewhere. I will look for it and report back my findings. Thanks! | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Thanks for the responses so far.Gregm - Yes, the soundstage does seem a little deeper. But the more obvious improvement is that images are more focused. Your theory that the improvement is attributable to a room interaction was my first thought, b... | |
| Quick poll: Listening at night, lights ON or OFF ? Off. Always. | |
| Tube Buffer Question I used a MF tube buffer for a period of time, both with and without the external power supply. The addition of the power supply had two results in my system: Lower noise floor and improved dynamics. The differences were subtle. | |
| Best speakers for home theater/voice clarity? Like several other posters have suggested, I suspect there is a setup problem. You mentioned that you are running in phantom mode. That could be the problem. Do you have poor dialogue intelligibility in (unprocessed) stereo? Do you have it from al... | |
| Up or Downstream: Which should be more resolving? Blindjim - Thanks for your thoughts. I agree with all of them.FWIW, I wasn't trying to suggest that resolution is of paramount or of exclusive importance in an audio system. I was more interested in hearing peoples' thoughts on whether any valid g... | |
| Other than music, why are you an audiophile? they are emergent, simply because they are (1) different in kind from the components' characteristics; (2) caused by the components' characteristics; and (3) difficult to predict from the components' characteristics.And this would be because the e... | |
| Other than music, why are you an audiophile? Anything extra that emerges may sound as sweet as heaven but I am not interested in this kind of sugar-coating.I too am not very interested in "sugar coating." You may recall my recent thread, "How do you judge your system's neutrality?" in which ... |