erik_squires
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| Newbie seeking any advice Hey OP:Room correction (equalization) is always a touchy subject. My advice is treat the room first, add room correction to a sub if used. Leave your main 2 channel alone. Best,E | |
| Newbie seeking any advice Room tuning first. Look at Michael Green and GIK AcousticsThat will make all your other choices more obvious, and leave you with a room that is far more speaker friendly. | |
| amp blowing fuse Yes, bad tubes could cause this. Pull the speaker cables off before you do any more experiments. Swap out the tubes and you'll know. :) Best,E | |
| How many brands use own drivers? Bose is a fabulous example of an in-house driver as well as incredibly tight alignment with marketting and consumers. They achieve the magical goal of being extremely inexpensive to produce while giving consumers enough value to merit ridiculous p... | |
| How many brands use own drivers? BTW, I make no quality statement about who uses in-house drivers and who does not.From the manufacturer, in house drivers is a HUGE cost savings, and removes your product from being perceived as a pure commodity. However, that doesn't mean your pr... | |
| How many brands use own drivers? Monitor AudioYamahaTechnicsJBL | |
| How many brands use own drivers? Magico is iffy. While the cone materials are custom, they rely on Seas and Scanspeak to make them, and the motors are based on existing units.I'd call them more "extreme custom" than in-house drivers. A more average custom driver is what Wilson ma... | |
| center speakers in stereo Set up horizontally they should be fine. Vertically however you are going to have to carefully consider where to point the tweet. Probably on the outsides, and towards the outer edge of your listening area. | |
| Is this too hot for my preamp? What should I do? Each amp should have at least 2" above it and to the sides. | |
| Planar/panel speakers to replace Carver Amazings Look at the threads in DIYaudio . com in the multi-way forum, I think you'll find plenty of technical advice there, and a couple of possible sources. I've seen long threads on discussions about the ribbon, who actually designed it, and who was mak... | |
| Looking to upgrade from my Goldenears I agree on the JBL recommendation, especially the 2-way monitors. | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Used JBL monitors?? | |
| Will technology make records obsolete one day? The movement towards one tech to another isn't all one dimensional. I'm afraid records are obsolete for me already. Convenience, storage and sound quality overall mean I rarely buy even a CD, and certainly never play them directly. | |
| Speaker Bass Port Bungs Hi Samhgar2,Closed cell foam is usually the answer, and it's not technically better than socks, but manufacturers do use tools to give them a perfect shape. Try something like this, if you must have foam:https://amzn.to/2F0U9F5 | |
| Berkely Alpha Dac 1 with Oppo 205? @ptss I haven't heard the BADA with a lot of different equipment. The presentation I heard, along with CAT preamp and amp and Magico speakers was glass smooth, but the opposite of warm. To your own ears be true.Best,E |