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| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...Fun and games for sure. I don't think this has anything to do with SW X/O frequency. The sound wave doesn't care whether it is launched from a separate box or not. Very deep bass will boom nicely if your room is large enough to sustain ... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? My trusty Sony PS X800 really has no faults that I can specifically identify. Neglecting for the moment the linear tracking servo controlled arm, consider just the DD table. There is no speed variation. This is evident using a strobe disc, and by ... | |
| Speaker design myths revealed Fiddler...Please tell us all about your open baffle system. | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Gregm...If the two out-of-phase SW are physically half a wavelength apart they will add at that frequency. I guess some people use this to boost the SW SPL. My point is that if this distance between SW is the length of the room that frequency is a... | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...My observation of bass boom when there was an out of phase speaker in the rear did not involve subwoofers or crossovers. Just plain vanilla speaker systems.I bet that Rives mention of killing room modes with a rear subwoofer involved dr... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Jfrech...Thanks for the kind offer but it probably is not practical. And not necessary, as I do have ample oportunity to hear good LP playback systems.About the Ferrari, my Honda CRV will take it on the rutted dirt roads around here. And sending t... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? Artizen65...Slight correction. The money saved by improved reliability through use of dormant mode, rather than continuous operation, is TAXPAYER money, not mine.Continuous Operation was proposed several times over the years while I was involved, ... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Albertporter...Too bad that comments you disagree with tend to get lost in the great Audiogon computer.1. Have you ever actually measured the signal to noise ratio of the LP medium? It isn't that hard.2. What is the separation spec for your phono ... | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...I noted the bass reenforcement from an out-of-phase rear speaker as a BAD byproduct of matrix multisound. For me it seemed boomy. This is what you would expect because the reenforcement is peaked at a wavelength that corresponds to a ro... | |
| hilary hahn..violinist I was impressed by all the praise, so I bought her SACD (which won a prize) of the Brahms concerto. The way this multichannel disc was mastered is so terrible that I am not sure that I can give a fair evaluation. (She is recorded equally in Left a... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? Sean...Of course "Well designed" applies to the protective circuitry also. Protective circuitry should be designed so that it does not affect performance. If this is a stated requirement it can be done. This rule applies not only to performance, b... | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? I don't know about Rives suggestion about canceling room modes by having one SW at the back, but, years ago when experimenting with matrix quadraphonic sound I found that bass from the front speaker could be greatly reenforced by the rear speaker ... | |
| Only three manufacturers? Playboy expertise lies in other subjects. | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Vinyl may have some good characteristics, but to be completely truthful, low background noise, dynamic range, and separation (all things that can be precisely measured)are not among them. Of these deficiencies, surface noise, including clicks and ... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? Well designed electronics are not "stressed" by turnon and turnoff. Fifty years ago my tube power amp had a "soft start" circuit. Actually it was just a wirewound resistor with a bimetalic strip with switch contacts on it. The resistor was in the ... |