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| New KEF KC62 Not Responding? @dprendergast Pleased to hear you got it going. The connections on your amp are very unusual and far from intuitive. As you may have read, I am shortlisting two or three KC62s in my system. Opinions seem to be divided. Some say the new te... | |
| Turn it up...? @mapman Agree. Need to measure sound levels before jumping to subjective conclusions. @imhififan Unlikely voltage variations can cause this. In UK +-6% variation is the legal maximum. Most amps draw power and store it. Once there is ... | |
| Class-A Amplification and 15 Amp Outlet Hi Jeffrey Welcome to the wonderful world of Class A. You're gonna love it. I have Krell KRS200s, possibly the most power hungry domestic amps ever built. They draw more than 1kW per side from the wall. I live in UK where the standard wiring ... | |
| How to make small room sound bigger Quite a number of posts here are not answering OP's question, which I must say I find a strange one. How to make a small room sound bigger. Why? My objective would be to improve the SQ. As some have posted, making the room sound better will no... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? The only difference is where you put the amp. For active the signal from source to speaker is line level all the way (except for vinyl). For passive you take the amp out of the speaker and put it somewhere else, running an output level cable bet... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality @erik_squires "Shorter version of this: Use shielded power cords."... Of known inductance and capacitance. It's no use these guys telling us that capacitance and inductance are the reasons power cables sound different. Two cables each of know... | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please Thanks @soix The independent test by Australian HiFi covers this. It may be a a fair bit down at 11Hz (in fact -22dB on that graph), but I will certainly take 8dB down at 15Hz and 2.5dB at 20Hz. As good as anything out there and better than ne... | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please Whilst picking up the really helpful comments from all who responded, I have also been continuing my research on the net. I think I have made some progress and am ready to do my first set up and listening trials if I can borrow the kit. @jtcf ... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... That stuff looks about 80% fat. Is it really that good? Certainly won't be good for your arteries unless you wring it out prior to eating. Perhaps that's why it's priced so high, to make sure you don't eat too much of it. I will be staying wit... | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please @m-db You and others advocate the crawl test as if all standing waves are bouncing around along the ground. Surely they are present throughout the room, in which case we should also test whilst standing? Would save my knees as well. | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please Hi @phantom_av Are you selling 'em? More interestingly your post suggests there is a problem with odd numbers. Perhaps irregular formations will cancel standing waves more effectively. In which case an odd number of subs would be good. | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please I now read in an REL spec that their wireless has’ delivery latency’ of 16-20 milleseconds. Wonderful term ‘delivery latency’. Might sound benign but it just means ‘delay’. A 20ms delay is the equivalent of the length of a 50Hz wave, or around ... | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please @danager Thanks. Yes near the beginning of his talk he said he has an acoustics PHD. Most of what he said makes sense, but he was totally contradictory on the benefits of conventional room boundary damping for low frequencies. My room is buil... | |
| Help with choosing sub-woofers please Thanks y'all. @danager Early in his vid Mr Geddes says damping all the room boundaries is good for bass. Then just after 17m he says it won't do any good at all. Kinda put me off him, that and his whiny voice and condescension, including to... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @mijostyn I am convinced you are utterly correct about the superior SQ of pure Class A. I will never leave it. My Krells are KRS 200s, the last reference before Krell were shamed into abandoning Class A because of the power consumption. Mine ... |