donbellphd
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| Do you protect your hearing? Fishboat,There is some argument about whether hearing changes with age absent exposure to noise, but if it does the loss is nearly always at higher frequencies. I suspect what you're experiencing is a change in taste. I find that I now tend to pre... | |
| TV VIEWING DISTANCE QUESTION Re KJL: I doubt screen size had anything to do with the headache, but an obvious answer is to watch another movie at the friend's without ingesting anything.We sit 92" from a Sony 36 XBR as a compromise set by an equalateral triangle determined by... | |
| Do you protect your hearing? As a graduate student I worked in a psychoacoustic lab with the charter of research related to noise induced hearing loss, so I became aware of the problem in my early 20s. My masters and doctoral research dealt with auditory processing. Long-term... | |
| Subwoofer in the corner? Forget about it I use a Velodyne HGS-15 crossed over at 80 Hz with a pair of KEF 104/2s, and have found that an Auralex SubDude eliminates boom and seems to extend low frequency response. The front of the sub is about 2' from both rear and side walls and towed in... | |
| DVD-A vs. SACD Dnewhaus wrote about theorectical considerations of DAC processing. A number of the follow-on posts assert that vinly is or ought to be superior, but without an explanation as to why. I'm curious as to why vinyl would be expected to be superior. T... | |
| Issue Multichannel SACD with 2 Channel Player My Sony DVP S9000ES has had no trouble with hybrid CD/SACD. After moving equipment around, I have sometimes found that it won't latch on SACD, i.e. selects SACD then reverts to CD, but unplugging it so it has a chance to reset cures the problem. I... | |
| Wilson Sophia It is interesting that my wife's first reaction also was that the Sophias and WPs look like trash cans, and I must admit that they do somewhat resemble the cans we see on the street. But she was impressed by the sound of WP-7s.What I was aiming at... | |
| Should i cross speakers over to "small"? Following the advice of the expert who installed my Velodyne HGS-15, I set the pre/pro to shunt everything below 80 Hz to the sub, and it had the effect of really opening up my KEF 104/2s in stereo mode and enlarging the soundstage they generate. ... | |
| Wilson Sophia I listened again today to a pair of the latest WPs, and I must say they do sound great. I've listened to the Sophias at the same shop, and I like them as well. The last several posts brought up the issue of cost, especially as related to other sys... | |
| AVP-S How good on 2 chanel and movies? Jeanine,I use a Proceed PAV/PDSD for stereo, DVDs, and HDTV, and I'm very pleased with the imaging and soundstage achieved in all three modes. I'm not sure how the PAV/PDSD combination compares to the simpler single chassis AVP, but IIRC there was... | |
| What is needed to have the best CD/Digital sound? Justin,If I understand you right, you listened to the analog master tape, a CD, and an LP of the same recording session. Is my understanding correct? As I wrote in an earlier post, I suspect most current recording is direct to digital, because ana... | |
| What is needed to have the best CD/Digital sound? Justin,All I'm saying is that the richness you enjoy may well be the result of distortion of commision or omission. Each transduction process in which energy changes form, i.e. acoutic to electrical or mechnical or magnetic or whatever is frought ... | |
| What is needed to have the best CD/Digital sound? Justin,I think you're talking about beats among high frequency harmonics that result in sounds you can hear. At the sample rates used with some digital capture, several times the usual limits of audibility, you would expect to capature those harmo... | |
| What is needed to have the best CD/Digital sound? What can it be about tubes and vinyl that adds warmth and richness except distortion? I concede that the quantization process and the conversion back to the analog domain can be flawed in a number of ways, but this is an area of understood signal ... | |
| Looking for opinion, Cary 303/300, thinking about I have the feeling you guys who allude to analog have grown accustomed to a particular form of distortion. Using a needle to track waves in vinyl seems archaic. Distortions induced by digital signal processing would seem to pale in comparison. If ... |