dcbingaman
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| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? Tim, the basic Swarm system comes with four subwoofer speakers, ported 10" drivers in a 1.6 cu. ft. box. I had a cut out in the front wall that my V2W fit in that was too short for Duke's subs, so he made a 5th one for me to fit that space. Same... | |
| Is it possible for the center image to drift from lp to lp? Astro58go, if you are handy with a soldering iron, get a small box and and Alps RK40 (Black Beauty) balance pot. These are the best pots ever made (IMHO), and are still readily available on eBay. Put a set of input and output jacks on the box an... | |
| Is it possible for the center image to drift from lp to lp? I have noticed this with numerous LP's. I think the absolute phase between L & R channels is crap shoot in the long, arduous rendering of the recording from the master tape to the cutter lathe to the master to the stamper to the record. It on... | |
| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? I'm using Duke's Swarm system with five subwoofers and two Vandersteen Quatro Woods which have built in subs of their own. In my previous set-up I used a single Vandersteen V2W sub with the Quatros. I use a Meridian G68XXD with MRC room correcti... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? First the target market is slowly diminishing. Gen. X and Y and Millenials are using iPhones for their primary music source and show no signs of changing. Only the Boomers care about this stuff anymore.Second, the value proposition that many aud... | |
| Which Processor? I agree with Smer319. Meridian has, by far, the best sounding digital D/A's, DSP's and surround processors in the business. Don't believe it ? How's this for a comparison - in the new Automobile magazine the editors of Automobile and Sound and V... | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers Look into the Audiokinesis SWARM subwoofer system. Four passive subs that you ASYMMETRICALLY distribute around the room with a 1000W amplifier to drive them. No single sub, (even Vandersteen or REL), can compete with this system, if set up right... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? Second added footnote - if you read Meridian's White Paper on Room Correction, the target function they are optimizing (with up to 60 digital filters) is the room's reverberant field - in essence the famous waterfall chart. Below 250 Hz, the reve... | |
| Great multichannel amps do not cut it in stereo This statement is BS on its face. It depends entirely on the amplifier design itself. Any two channels of my 5 channel BAT 6200 will run rings around nearly every stereo amplifier for sale today. How you ask ? Each channel has its own independent ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Meridian's Latest DAC's with their patented "apodizing" reconstruction filters. Nothing I've heard comes close except the dcs professional stuff. The ones I use are in my G68XXD processor, and in my Audiocore 200 preamp, but I think their portable... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? Added footnote - I've had the Meridian DSP speakers in my room and compared them to the Vandersteens. They are pretty good - especially the big ones (7000 and 9000 series), but not as good as the Vandersteens. Even the Meridian techs who have cali... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? Thanks, Johnny. Richard says the same thing. The digital reconstruction filter is the key ingredient. I use a Meridian G68XXD which uses their patented apodizing filter and 24 bit / 96 kHz digital processing of all inputs. I honestly can't hear a ... | |
| Quatro Wood CT VS. 5A's Thanks, Tom. I heard Randy's Vandersteen 7 pair at Optimal Enchantment in Santa Monica a couple years ago with both analog (Basis TT with the Airtight MC cartridge) and digital (dcs) sources, using Audio Research electronics.They are pure magic, a... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? When I say flat, I mean with a smooth response over most of the room, such that the room's dominant nodes and anti- nodes ( i.e. suck out) do not dominate the "Rayleigh Region" where the wavelength of the sound and the room dimensions are of the s... | |
| Quatro Wood CT VS. 5A's Tom, the 7 carbon tweeter looks different than the carbon tweeters in the 5a Carbon and the Quatro CT. For one thing, the latter two have a phase plug and look just like the Vifa ceramic-coated metal domes. My guess is the 7 uses a true "C sandwic... |