eldartford
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| Crossover-less Speakers Inpepinnovations...My Bose 901s are still in their boxes waiting for my pool room to be finished. It's a huge room with cathedral ceiling, hard surfaces all around, and little furniture, and I am working on a hunch that the 901s will have a synerg... | |
| Crossover-less Speakers I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet but even "single driver" speakers have crossovers. Different parts of the cone respond at different frequency, so there is a mechanical, rather than electronic, crossover. "Whizzer" cones, found on som... | |
| Loud bad noises Try listening to the player's analog output. If that is OK the problem is with the DAC. However, it does sound like a transport problem. | |
| Is there such a thing as audiophile parametric eq? My three Behringer DEQ2496 have functioned flawlessly for several years, and if one should fail I could replace it for less money than repair of the typical "audiophile" equipment. No doubt Behringer makes some items that are not designed to the a... | |
| Is there such a thing as audiophile parametric eq? Jlambrick...You say "I'm not absolutely sure what the frequencies are". All the more reason to get that Behringer. Its spectrum analyser (also called Real Time Analyzer, RTA) will show you what your problem is. No matter how you fix the problem, r... | |
| Is there such a thing as audiophile parametric eq? For $350 (including mic) get the Behringer DEQ2496. Only you can decide if its audio quality is "audiophile". IMHO the outboard DAC would be an unnecessary complication. If you decide not to keep it in the signal path (and I bet you will) it is st... | |
| SACD surround system With the right disc (well mastered) any surround system, including SACD gives good results. And even less-than-audiophile systems can do surround well. The spatial effects are quite separate from audio quality. | |
| Biamping with tubes and SS: Input sensitivity key? If you want to match the gains of two amps this mean that there is no difference. So the logical thing is to measure the difference. This would be the voltage between the hot output terminals of the two amps. If one amp has a gain control you can ... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Scott Joplin (ragtime) by a mile. While he was recognized in his time as a great piano player, he obviously had a white colaborator who wrote the music. It was said "the negro mind is not capable of such ingenuity". What BS! | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Rauliruegas...Not surprising to me. My subwoofer systems, each consisting of a 15" and a 12" driver, has the centerpoint of the two drivers about 40 inches above the floor. This puts them near centered behind my Maggies, which was a design objecti... | |
| Biamping with tubes and SS: Input sensitivity key? The usual is "KISS". KIS, Stupid. | |
| Can anyone help me start building my own poweramp? In my high school and college days (1950s) I built several amps, and an electronic crossover from schematics. In one case I used a metal bread baking pan for the chassis! The stuff sounded OK and I sure learned about electronics. Somehow I managed... | |
| Can anyone help me start building my own poweramp? Tube would be a whole lot easier to work with. For an initial project I suggest that you rebuild an old dynaco amp. If that goes well you will have learned a bit about how amps work, and aquired soldering skill. Solid state amps have components th... | |
| New Tweeters: In or Out of Phase? Don't be afraid to put a resistor in series with the tweeter. The crossover probably already has such a resistor (called the "tweeter padding resistor). Just increase its value until you like the sound. | |
| Cheap DIY FM Antenna Sugarbrie...While what you say about the FM band being in the middle of the TV bands is correct, please note that amplified antenna, and mast-mounted RF amplifiers often have a "FM trap" filter to notch out the FM frequencies which adversely affec... |