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| The illusion of soundstage. Look up head related transfer functions. Short explanation is you never hear a flat response. Sounds that reach your ears from different directions have comb filtering effects, which your brain interprets as direction. If you can fake those eff... | |
| The illusion of soundstage. Head Related Transfer Function. :) The secret is how your head, ears, and hair affect incoming sounds from different angles. It’s more than just amplitude and simple phase. Your body adds comb filtering your brain picks up on to determine vertical... | |
| Revel Concerta2 F36 vs Monitor Audio Silver 10 Monitor Audio Silvers beat all of the B&Ws I've ever heard, but they are a little exuberant. Radius very neutral, but pricey for size and output. The one issue I have with the Revels is the horns. they seem to exaggerate breath and reed sound... | |
| Music Lovers Speaker vs. Audiophile Speaker My music loving friends love my speakers, and like listening to everything. My audiophile friends do not. The difference I think is that audiophile speakers have trends, and fads, like wine. Looking at what gets the best reviews is often not a ne... | |
| Will M+K Volkswoofer Sub work in my system? Man, those are old speakers! :) Nothing wrong with that, but probably not how you want to do your crossover. Go from your Preamp Outputs directly to the sub instead. Unfortunately you won't have any high pass filtering. You may want to consider ... | |
| speaker coupling question +1 for 3 point feet/spikes. However, you want minimal contact surface, but as rigid a placement as you can. That is, you don't want the speakers floating in the air. You want them rigidly fixed in the 3 dimensional space. Any sort of solid 3 poi... | |
| best bookshelf speakers for < $2000? Monitor Audio Silvers. :) | |
| Sopra No.2 Overpriced? I hear good things about the sound, but as far as I know they are made out of painted pressboard. The Magico S1 MK II's are the real deal, but I doubt they sound at all alike. They have their own colorations, see if they suite you. | |
| Great bookshelf or small towers suggestions I also like Paradigm as well as Monitor Audio Silver. The Monitor Audio Radius line does very well for small speakers, and measure very well, but are pricey for what you get. | |
| Oppo for HT & stereo without a processor? Never pull a ground pin from a plug. Multiple safety reasons. I use an Oppo 103 to a Halo P7, but I use miniDSP for equalization. There are several models. The bass management in the Oppo is pretty full featured but there's no room correction avai... | |
| I'm ready to pull the trigger on some new speakers.looking for some last minute advice The Stereophile review of the GE Triton 5 has a frequency response that is almost an identical match to the B&W 802D's. If you like that sound they will have similarities. I find it unnatural. Also the GE does not have the dynamic range of t... | |
| Integrated Match to Focal Spora No. 2 Hi Toneranger, I’ve done a lot of analysis on older Focal crossovers. They were "discerning" only due to a gimmicked crossover which reduced the minimum impedance by about 2 Ohms. I can’t tell if the Sopra is gimmicked the same way or not, but the... | |
| Subwoofers A HSU VTF 15H, with 2 or 4 Soffit Traps from GIK Acoustics and a miniDSP will beat any subwoofer without them for musicality, depth and dynamic range. The biggest problem in getting subwoofers for high quality loudspeakers is not really the qualit... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive One thing that keeps coming up is that we are paying for R&D. Wrong. If a speaker maker sold speakers for the sum cost of their expenses it would be almost like loosing money. No product, good or service should be sold at cost. You always pa... | |
| Magico S1 Mk II - The First Review As most successful speaker companies know, why consumers spend their money is much more complicated than reference grade frequency response. Whether my criticisms are apt or not has little to do with whether Magico will continue to be successful. ... |