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What's your chair ? Eames Lounge Chair & Ottomen, beautiful rosewood shell with soft black leather. You can spend hours at a time in great comfort.db | |
Depth Imaging RF,Please just refer to me as db.I visualize acoustic waves emanating from the front of the enclosures, some of which leak around the sides of the narrow baffle -- I assume imaging is the driving force behind the trend to narrow enclosures. This m... | |
Depth Imaging RF Sayles et al.It is an external wall, so it would not be possible to sink the TV. I think the message is what I imagined it might be, i.e. front projection is the way to go if you want to maximize depth imaging in a system used as your home conc... | |
Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia? Vargus,In addition to Audiogon, I regularly read the Vanguard Diehard board at Morningstar and several of the Motley Fool boards. It's on TMF boards that one encounters the plea from someone five years from retirement with a few hundred $K in savi... | |
Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia? I realized as I wrote it that my previous post sounded preachy, and would have canceled it had that been an option. The thought of all that expensive equipment in such a small listening environment clouded my judgement. If the speakers are given t... | |
Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia? Vargus,If you can afford (not just pay) that kind of money for a pair of speakers, can't you build a music/home theater room that would better suit your needs? I like the sound of both the WP-7 and Sophia, and would be pleased to have either. It's... | |
Do you get Ringing in the Ears from your hi-fi? I should relate a personal experience: My best friend's father suffered from tinnitus, and went to his GP who told him he should just get used to it. He asked me about it, because he knew I worked as a graduate student at a research center that wa... | |
Do you get Ringing in the Ears from your hi-fi? There are certainly other causes of tinnitus than sound exposure, and if you have a continuing experience you should get to a otologist or at least a good ENT guy who could refer you to an otologist for appropriate evaluation. These guys will like... | |
Any risk in refinishing the speakers? I would think you could just seal off the drivers and any ports with masking material, making sure the refinishers know to handle the speakers as fragile so they don't dislodge the diaphrams. I have a pair of KEF 104/2s that I think about refinish... | |
Sony Qualia 004 projector-How well does it work? Sony's web site shows the KDS-R60XBR1 that uses their SXRD technology with amazing native resolution for a list price of $5K. It's listed as a new product, but presumably available now -- I didn't try to order it online. I too have been impressed ... | |
Do you protect your hearing? It's not the ear plugs that harm your hearing, it's the high levels that can be achieved. Keep the level down down and your hearing should not be harmed. If it sounds loud, it probably is too high.db | |
audiophiles or retrophiles Stanhifi's response is a prime example of what I was trying to address. This does not help anyone. If he would care to offer a reasoned explanation of why digital and solid state are so obviously inferior that any of us with exposure should apprec... | |
audiophiles or retrophiles For those of you who wondered whether my exposure to audio was entirely through reading, my first experience with serious audio systems began in the early 1950s. I've built amps, preamps, and speaker cabinets. I've owned tubes, vinyl, and corner h... | |
Proceed PAV/PDSD HT Processors Good? ldk,I considered both the Lexicon MC-1 and Krell HT 5.1, and have listened to each. I've read claims that the sound of the PAV/PDSD is superior, but I suspect it's a close call. I do know the spaciousness and imaging I so value with the Proceed st... | |
Proceed PAV/PDSD HT Processors Good? I have had a PAV for many years, then bought a PAV/PDSD combination a couple of years ago. I use them with a Proceed Amp 2 and Amp 3 that drive a pair of KEF 104/2 mains, a KEF 200 C center speaker, and a pair of KEF 102/2 surrounds. Frequencies b... |