dmoffitt
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| speaker placement, room treatment esp. floor ? well, got everything installed / set up last night. mass-loaded the stands w/ very small steel shot (20lb divided 5lb each among the 4 legs per stand) then sand on top (allowing the sand to filter down thru the shot as well), these things are BEAS... | |
| speaker placement, room treatment esp. floor ? got a pad-backed 12x15 piece of rug last night.also got some better speaker stands (SC-14 from studiotech) and will be mass-loading them tonight... | |
| How can I get the best possible sound from my PC? streaming radio over a $1200 cable?????? even 160 or 192kbps mp3 sounds flat, lifeless and horid to me, perhaps your source isn't worth this kind of expenditure? maybe bringing a GOOD cdp to work would be a better choice of the $ than throwing tho... | |
| What small HT speakers to buy? i'll second the recommendation of the dreamcatcher from totem acoustic. | |
| speaker placement, room treatment esp. floor ? Sean, you're quite right about the rotel 985, it is rather lean at lower gain, but fills in quite nicely as it increases. i'm thinking a sub is the right thing, either a DD-10 (although i hear there are some reliability concerns) or SPL 1000 (800?... | |
| Coaxial or Optical? mypersonally thoughts are, if you are going anywhere near / along power lines, there's no question, go optical. there are tons of arguements re: sound quality from optical vs, coax, you could have a coax cable made of belden 75ohm cable w/ good co... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Sometimes I think I shouuld take redkiwi's advice and use more public transport (except Rochester is sorely lacking), or hop on my bicycle :D1) My daily driver is a Honda Element EX (5-spd). I also am restoring / upgrading a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo... | |
| Apple Ipod from what i've heard, the apple ones aren't 'bad' for approx $50 but are nothing to write home about and dont come close to Ety's or shure etc. dan - my only concern re: the e5 is the inline gain control, it's bad enough coming out of a headphone-... | |
| What cable caused you to become a cable "junkie" ? audioquest coral and optilink3 really impressed me | |
| Apple Ipod please let us know your take on the e-2 (considering a pair).and in case you haven't tried it, AAC > OGG > MP3 any day of the week, aac 320 over either my senn's or grado sr125s is quite impressive musically imo... and i can fit well ove 100... | |
| Review: Paradigm Reference Studio 100 v3 Speaker a friend traded in his Ref 80 v2's for 100 v3s. my take: the tweater in the 80 made me want to stuff my ears with cotton balls they were so harsh / abrasive. the v3's crossover or design or tweater choice is MUCH improved.they seemed too 'boomy' f... | |
| Review: B&W DM-602 s2 Speaker i sold my 602 ser.1's that i had for like 7 years when i bought my CDM1-NTs. i LOVE those speakers, they were what got me into hi-fi i the first place, i was wowed that for the same price as some monsterous Cerwin Vegas from Sears or whatever, I c... | |
| Why do tubed preamps image better than SS? my understanding is this:tubes 'distort' differently than SS (and EVERYTHING distorts. it is just, how, and to what extent, how/if you can perceive it, etc) - something to the effect of the distortion being in phase w/ the output?therefore, when i... | |
| Tetrode vs Triode mode in Tube amps someone correct a t00b n00b if i'm wrong, but my take is, you sacrifice a bit of power w/ triode but it is cleaner power vs tetrode? (or do i somehow have that backwards) | |
| What is amp's watts-per-channel exceeds speaker? i'm running 2x100 (aka 200W) bi-amped power to my CDM1-NTs. they're rated at 8ohm/120W but handle playing as loud as my tastes require (and quite a bit louder i assure you) and will do so for years, reliabily... it's just the nature of speaker com... |