eldartford
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| B&W exposed tweeter on top design.... I have heard all the technical explanations about why the tweeter benefits from an isolated location, but I really wonder if it is not just a styling feature for marketing reasons. Lots of excellent speakers have baffle-mounted tweeters. | |
| Woofer dust cap repair advice, HELP I have had very good luck pulling out dented dust caps using a pin or a needle. Just poke it through the dust cap next to the dent and manipulate it so as to press out the dent from the inside. When you withdraw the pin there will be a tiny hole w... | |
| Tube Amplifier for Maggies Maggies will make your 22 watt amp sound its best. But, 22 watts will not begin to make the Maggies "sing". I have gradually increased the power of the amps I use with MG1.6, and at 600 wpc, (for biamp 80 Hz and up) I think that (finally) no furth... | |
| Foam surround replacement question The dust cap is sometimes the source of higher frequencies which the large cone cannot follow. Same idea as a "whizzer" cone. And then there is dust to worry about.Better replace the dust caps. | |
| Can I suspend / hang speakers? The positive aspects of suspending speakers are complete mechanical isolation from the floor (so that it doesn't vibrate) and removal of the speaker from all adjacent surfaces. (You would not, for example, put the speaker right next to a side wall... | |
| Can I suspend / hang speakers? Poor Issac must be spinning in his grave! Yes, the voice coil will push with equal force on the driver cone and on the speaker enclosure, but Newton also came up with F = M*A, which tells us that movement of the massive enclosure will be tiny.The ... | |
| SACD - Dying already? I never think to buy discs anywhere except the net.DVD-A will survive because it is a very flexible protocol, that can offer something for everyone. The audio quality is obviously better than CD (same PCM code with more bits and higher sampling ra... | |
| Can a MC cartridge be used with a MM preamp? Probably. But I wonder if "high output" MC pickups that are made to operate into high impedance preamps retain the qualities that MC pickups are known for. My advice is stay with a good MM, or jump into the deep end with a new preamp and a "real" ... | |
| Surround Speakers Aunest...I would say it's the other way around. Have you listened to any of the European Audiophile DVD-A discs from Tacet or MDG, or the domestic products from AIX? These, and some SACDs, caused me to upgrade my rears from pretty good Dynaudio mo... | |
| Surround Speakers IMHO...you will not realize the potential of surround sound unless all the speakers are top quality, preferably the same. | |
| Maggie's and cats The trouble with a kitten is that,Eventually, it becomes a cat.(Ogden Nash) | |
| Maggie's and cats Once upon a time we had cats and Maggies. Sometimes I would come into the living room to find a cat perched on top of a Maggie. I have described my cat training method as "shock and awe", and it worked. The cat quickly learned that the Maggies wer... | |
| Thoughts on single driver speakers "Full Range" cone drivers are not really "single" drivers. "Cone breakup" occurs, so that different parts of the cone are radiating different frequencies. Design of such a driver is more of an art than a science. The breakup characteristics of the... | |
| Dust??? With very high voltage power supplies, such as required for a CRT (TV picture tube) dust will be attracted to, and will eventually cause failure of the power supplies. For low voltages, such as used for solid state equipment, there is little tenda... | |
| what is the best way to deal w/ an asymnetrical .. I am not sure that an asymmetrical room is any problem. In a concert hall, most of the audience sits towards one sidewall or the other. My room is very asymmetrical, straight wall with windows and fireplace on one side, and multiple hallways and a... |