cd318
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| Floor standing speaker isolation advice needed. @kalali, yes finding springs with the optimum compliance can be a problem especially if large heavy drivers render your speakers front heavy. Like with most things in audio, it can be a fools mission to pursue perfection, but springs are probably ... | |
| Floor standing speaker isolation advice needed. Whatever form of isolation you chose (sorbothane or springs) will need to be compliant/soft enough to get as low as possible (<10Hz). That will make the speakers very wobbly so will you need to use some form of wedges underneath the speakers or... | |
| Speaker recomendation The ATC drivers are custom built and many believe them to be the best in existence as far as engineering goes (Harbeth, Magico, Vivid, and others may disagree). The sheer weight of the magnet is a shock. The weak point used to be the cabinets but ... | |
| SACD No you are not right. Recording and mastering quality varies according to the provenance of the Master tapes used. Earlier generations are usually better, but a lot depends on aging and wear and tear, alignment issues etcThen it's down to how they... | |
| single driver speakers @seanheis1 Wow! Life must be tougher for audiophiles in America. So many choices and so much happening in the world of loudspeakers.Along with Devore and Zu there seems to a trend towards minimalist drivers and crossovers - and high efficiency pap... | |
| Talk but not walk? A good question to ask before we get embroiled in the highly contentious business of home experimentation might be, 'What, if anything other than a monumental waste of money and time has the entire history of tweaking achieved?' Walk the walk inde... | |
| Talk but not walk? @glupson What is wrong with the Koss Porta Pro?Nothing! I've yet to hear any headphone that sounds more vivid, more alive in the mids. If ever a product deserved it's classic status it's the Portal Pro's.The discontinued Jays v-Jays were also bril... | |
| Talk but not walk? @prof Your experience at the dealers is one that is shared by more than a few of us.You take time off work, and may travel a considerable distance (100k in my case, don't laugh but UK is not the US) to get to listen to pair of speakers that you k... | |
| Talk but not walk? The entire history of tweaking has achieved nothing but lead all and sundry who followed down blind alleys where they were effectively blinded by pseudo science and often mugged of not inconsiderable amounts of money. Spiking has been perhaps the ... | |
| Talk but not walk? @mapman timely advice. You can tweak all you want but you're much better off playing some music. Rockin' here in the UK with the Doors. God, I love this band! Even more when the sun is shining. | |
| Speaker recomendation I wonder whether the dealers realise that the less they say the better. How about letting their gear speak for itself?As long as you have a vested financial interest in promoting your own stock you should refrain from doing so. Anything less smack... | |
| Talk but not walk? Attention seeking, narcissistic, compulsive, repetitive, random, useless argumentative verbiage can admittedly be mildly entertaining on occasion. Eventually though the lack of meaningful interaction or discourse just smacks of desperation and con... | |
| Talk but not walk? You do have to be careful in what you read about in audio. There is so much nonsense spouted ad infinitum. The worst of it intentionally. Ultimately you should be able to save yourself a lot of energy, time and money if you are able to consider th... | |
| Talk but not walk? There should be no good reason to remove an amplifier case cover. The cover protects you from a possibly fatal shock and the components from possibly fatal damage (and dust).Case resonance issues in amplifier design are best left to the designers,... | |
| New Speakers up to $15k - The more I read the less I know! @fsonicsmith Congratulations! Be they artistic or engineering approaches (ear/measurement) real advances in speaker design are slow. So slow in fact some say non-existent at the high end.The best you can do is to find the compromises you can live... |