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| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... Decades ago in the 1970s i worked for a Philadelphia area chain, Wall To Wall Sound. As a come on we advertised Dynaco A25 speakers at a price I made no Commision. We also sold the original JBL 100s and the original Heil speakers for 4 to 5 times ... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? Three possible problems with bass. 1. Room nodes mainly based on speaker location and room dimensions. There are zero nodes and big bass nodes and you need to place the listening seat and speaker location to minimize these affects. 2. Speaker ba... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? IMF Studio transmission line speakers. Not only were they a step up from my original AR2a(modded to the x version) but because of them I got to know the man they were named for, Bud Fried and we became life long pals and later through him I got to... | |
| Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue? I recall my friend Murray Zeligman who designed speakers telling me that it often wasn't frequency response that caused brightness but poor crossover design to the tweeter resulting in ringing in the crossover region. Another possibility is flat ... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge One factor often cited for MC pickups is wider band width due to low inductance. But this is due to fewer coil turns which gives low inductance AND low output. MMs almost always have many more coil turns AND higher output. But there have been MMs ... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge In some ways comparing MC and MM pickups is unfair. In general the top of the line MC pickups are way more costly than MM pickups.The question of which style is best is like a boxing match between a light weight and a heavy weight. And then there... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? Your concept is correct but you have to measure everything that matters and some things like frequency response and distortion are only part of the story. And these examples are essentially static measurements and music is dynamic not static. so e... | |
| Can it get better? If you run out of power with the Pass try a bigger amp. But make it much bigger. The Pass is not a 25 watt amp. That's it's rating running class A into 8 ohms. It goes into AB above 25 watts and puts out about 70 watts if I recall correctly. So if... | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? About 50 years ago Bud Fried(Irving M Fried of IMF speakers) told me he thought the 3 hardest things to reproduce in order are male voice(we are so familiar with it and it goes into an upper bass region speakers often suck on), female voice(again ... | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... You should not listen to artists like Eva Cassidy. She ruins for most other singers making them seem ordinary. | |
| Underpowered? can't believe it's not enough power unless you're in a monster size room. Systems have oomph if they're dynamically linear and that can be limited by a speaker with a lousy impedance load and/or an amp that can't handle the load. My gut feeling is... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” It depends . I suspect the reproduction quality needed to suspend belief every time you hear a 'better' system. I recall stories of live/recorded demos in the 19 teens with frequency response of old telephones and many participants were heard to b... | |
| 30 to 50 watts seems to be all I desire The AVERAGE watts even on inefficient speakers playing loud is only in the low single digits. Even an avreage twenty watts would either drive you out of the room or else make youd deaf. Power is used for very, very short term transients which can ... | |
| Why I'm not adding a sub to my 2-way monitors for music Musically the important thing when adding a sub to a system is that a high pass is used on the main speakers. Then as stated distortion foes down and the main speakers open up significantly. Without the high pass this won't happen and the only adv... | |
| Amplfiers that Sound like Pass 30.8 that are not so heavy Unless the amp power supply is a switching type(very rare) a large power supply is desirable but heavy due to a large trnasformer. Great power supplies don't show up in standard amp specs but are the most significant factor in the amp's performanc... |