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| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? At 80 dB, a fairly loud average level your ears are down about 10dB at 30 Hz. It's significantly worse at lower levels. It's not the equipment. What you hear is what happens at low loudness levels. You need to equalize to get the affects you want ... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Measurements matter. Two factors. You usually need to combine them with perceptive listening. Subjective feeds objective and vice versa. But some measurements matter more than others in the hands of an experienced designer. One who measures an... | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? Re panzrwagn - Closed box sound is dryer because it ends faster, has less overhang. It's more detailed because it stops more quickly. Speed of bass is really not the initial attack but how quickly it stops and closed boxes stop faster. It's just t... | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? Every one is correct. There will be no harm done. But you will, of course, lose some of the lowest bass since that comes from the port. How much loss depends on how much you stuff. Experiment; try using various amounts of say Dacron or plastic foa... | |
| Which subwoofer should I get? The biggest flaw of almost all subs is the lack of a high pass filter for the main speakers. It's hard to do when you don't know the main speakers. But properly done a high pass will make the subs/mains twice as good because the main woofers have ... | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? One significant factor of tube amps is a low damping factor which interacts with speakers to change their frequency response(which includes fuller, softer mid bass). Almost all solid state amps have a high damping factor due to usually higher fee... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? Everyone forgets the power supply. It isn't as sophisticated as the amplifier circuit itself but it's actually the direct electrical connection to the speakers whose impedance interacts with the amplifier to great affect. The thing we think of as ... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre And you're correct he asked about amps for passive ATCs but they are still on order and probably can be changed and I strongly believe active ATCs are superior and also will save money. Also ATCs are designed to be active and passive ones are sec... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre There's a lot of truth in what you say but there's too much 'sounds good to me' in audio which is ultimately fine for each individual but there are products that do allow suppression of belief on great recordings and there's almost universal agree... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre I might add that the last speakers Gordon Holt, the founder of Stereophile bought for himself were active ATC 50s, basically an ATC 150 with a smaller woofer(same mid range, tweeters and amps). And he told me they were one of the very, very few sp... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre Have you ever read ATC reviews comparing the active version against the passive version. The active version wins quite clearly every time. The biggest problem driving a speaker is the lousy reactance of a passive crossover. That's why really good ... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? Agree with all you wrote. And as an audiophile almost 6 decades I won thousands of CDs and LPs and I'm just used to playing physical formats; the physical sources feel more real. | |
| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? If there is anything Rockport speakers do weel, it's bass response. They are bass reflex which rolls off at 24dM/octave but the designer claims and told me his speakers have a custom alignment so they roll at 12 dB/octave like a closed box. He poi... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? There is fidelity and there is the personal 'sounds good to me' but the latter is personal and varies with the listener. Fidelity means reproducing everything that is there. If it's on the source it should be in the listening. If it isn't that's a... | |
| Shrink Totem 1's? The bass response will end up totally screwed up with loss of extension and probably boomier mid bass. The volume of a box is not random.; It's an integral part of the bass system. Don't do it! |