gmueller
Responses from gmueller
| Advantages of multiplying drivers? Audiokinesis pretty much has it nailed. The only thing I would add is that there are some advantages to going MTM rather than TM for a 2-way. It's a set of trade-offs, but with an MTM you have the advantage to splitting the "work" from 2-3K on dow... | |
| burn in, break in Good advice all around. Start slow and work your way up. On the other hand, just letting them purr along all day because your wife doesn't want to listen to them all day is a waste of electricity. During break-in you are trying to loosen up the su... | |
| Tripping Breakers Try plugging the amp into another circuit. If the same thing happens it may be the amp or power cord. If it powers up successfully and your breaker doesn't trip then the breaker on the circuit you usually use should probably be replaced. This is n... | |
| Tweeter quest Here is a site you may want to look at:http://www.zaphaudio.com/nondomes/He does a lot of driver testing and is pretty well respected in terms of his knowledge of drivers and DIY designs. Be prepared though, he's not of the "audiophile" camp and p... | |
| speaker suggestion The bass probably is a symptom of the room. Below 200hz or so, the room is a big part of the bass you hear. Your old room probably had some beneficial room 'gain'. That's mostly gone now because the room got much larger. Before dumping your curren... | |
| Speaker 101 - tweeter and cone materials Well, let's be real basic - no offense. When crossing a woofer to a tweeter, a crossover is used that filters out the lows going to the tweeter, and the highs going to the woofer. Metal woofers (and all woofers) have cone break-ups at frequencies ... | |
| Speaker 101 - tweeter and cone materials Brian C. probably slams metal cones because I believe he generally eschews complex x-overs. With metal cones and their nasty break-up characteristics you really need x-overs with steep (real steep) slopes so that resonance and break-up nasties are... | |
| Anywhere to sell speaker parts?? You might want to go to either Madisound or Part's Express website. Each of them has a user forum where folks sometimes post items for sale. It's a lot less hassle than setting up a bunch of ebay auctions and the users there are pretty hardcore so... | |
| Budget bookshelf system for acoustic bass Lot's of good responses and choices here. I pointed out the B&W's because of the recent good write-up, meets the price point, gets pretty close to the frequency response goal and has sufficient sensitivity for the Linn. (Published sensitivity ... | |
| Budget bookshelf system for acoustic bass Well, it partly depends on what you consider a monitor. If you're talking about the really small monitors with a 4-5 inch mid-woofer, then 40Hz is really not an option. If you get up to 6-8 inch woofers you might find something that goes there but... | |
| Denon DV-2200 vs 2900 Thanks for all the input. I had planned to use a high quality DAC because redbook is still what I primarily listen to, and probably will for years to come. I'll have to continue to research my options. I'd like to keep the budget pretty low becaus... | |
| Denon DV-2200 vs 2900 Avguru, thanks for the input. Actually, I was going to use them as transports - sounds like that may not be the best idea now. Maybe that old NAD in my second system or my son's Marantz would be a better idea. (He'd love a shiny new do it all play... | |
| System for a dorm - how is this? Don't get bogged down with cables. What people generally regard as "the good stuff" is at a price point that is not in the budget. Used cables can be an excellent value - in general they don't break or wear out. Lots of cables can be found on A'go... | |
| Does your system's sound change with the weather? I have not noticed this effect, but this discussion came up on a DIY speaker site. It had to do with sealed cabinet speakers. If a cabinet is really "air -tight" then simple science suggests that changes in outside air pressure could result in eit... | |
| What pre amp matches the McCormack DNA 0.5 I recently paired 2 DNA 0.5 dlx's with a VTL 2.5 and am quite please with the sound. The high gain of the 0.5's is not problem at all with this particular pre-amp. |