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| Is a 12' X 16' room big enough for stereo? I owned a pair of Theil CS.5's in a room almost that exact size (if memory serves), it was in the bottom of a split level house so the floor and two supporting walls were concrete. It worked fine in that room, in some ways better than others, but ... | |
| Questions for Audio Engineers I know you asked for a book, but I've been working on the same idea lately and found these helpful:www.diyaudio.com http://www.hayenga.com/basslist/links.html or just www.hayenga.comhttp://www.sound.au.com/ (if you opt for biamping)www.geocities.c... | |
| Is the Cassette Recorder Dead? Oddly enough the cassette is still better than all these horrible sounding digital devices like MD, DCC, MP3, etc. I own one of kenwoods top of the line MD's and the flexibility is nice, but its bad digital-thin and anemic sounding. A good high qu... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Firstly, Frap, I don't know what you mean by "cables like MIT,etc." creating LCR changes--all cables create LCR changes to my knowledge, or I should say frequency shifts due to them. Secondly, in the last sentence, plating does subtly affect the L... | |
| Cables with the best highs If your gear is sensitive to the cable, one with too much inductance will roll-off your highs. A cable with too much capacitance can cause overshoot or ringing in the high frequencies which can be perceived as more detail, to some. Now if your amp... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" I read alot of 'em, but does anybody wonder "why things sound the way they do?" So you hear differences, but why doesn't anybody explain why it sounds different instead of just arguing whether or not it can be heard. I mean, ya, you put on some ca... | |
| Small footprint speakers Well, you typed the word small in caps so you must mean small. One of the smallest floorstanders I know of would be the focal daline 3.1's and Totem's arro. I heard the former and it was too bad, that was years ago. But both are bordering on 1/4 s... | |
| Help with NHT 3.3 s I get the impression you are standing in all other positions when getting good bass, but when you sit in the sweet spot there is no bass: do you think its a height problem with your listening position. How is the bass when you sit behind the liste... | |
| What Does It Take to be an Audiophile? One I heard was when your music collection costs more than you audio system (this is assuming you've got a significant chunk of change in the latter). | |
| The worst sound system Thanks Elgordo. I kept thinking the B stood for But and then something. Its weird how our minds work puzzles. I've noticed like on those word jumbles in the paper--it seems if I don't get them within the first few seconds it becomes harder and har... | |
| The worst sound system I agree with Liguy, I worry about my hearing in those conditions. But I don't let bad speakers bother me anymore. Everyone is different and some things matter more to others. I mean, I don't insist on gourmet meals every night, Ramen noodle is fin... | |
| improving my system, please help Electrostats have to be pampered to sound there best; they are a demanding speaker to get sounding right. 1.) they tend to be far more sensitive to speaker placement than many other more "conventional" electrodynamic transducer designs simlply bec... | |
| How good is Dynaco ST70 pwramp? There are several mod's out there that increase the performance of the amplifier. Van Alstine has one that basically includes an entire new circuit design and board. Only the tubes, power transformer, and chassis are kept. The Soundvalves one ment... | |
| Interesting reading for ESL owners "Author:" is not me; I wrote the first three lines and I just made that distinction so you would know when the reader writing-in stopped and the author began writing. Its a good article, even though others who "read" it on another thread got upset... | |
| Interesting reading for ESL owners http://sound.westhost.com/cables.htmBelow excerpt is from this link. It has a scientific explanation on how cables can benefit in some speaker designs, in this case the Quad ESL."From a reader, I get dissent ... I take issue with the statement tha... |