grumpybb
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| BW Nautilus 802, blow away Nautilus 803 Come over to my place and I'll let you listen to what a pair of 6 1/2 inch woofers can do. I have Matrix 802 S3's and they put out PLENTY of great deep bass. When I first pulled the grills off I was surprised as hell that they were not 8 inchers. ... | |
| Advice on recording audio CD-R's My cd recorder(Philips) is only a single tray so I don't have the option of high speed copy. I would think that as long as the discs are capable of being written at 4x it shouldn't affect sound quality at all, at least that is how it works on my c... | |
| This ever happen to you? Yep, the Roger Waters disc has Q sound and so do Madonna's Immacuale Collection and Paula Abduls - Spellbound discs. I also have alot of elctronic/techno music that has lots of out of phase information in the recordings. | |
| PC to DAC questions I do the same thing. My Sony VAIO came with a fiber optic output which is connected to a DAC. I think that the 256 and 320 kps mp3's sound pretty damn good, much better that using the normal miniplug analog output. | |
| best cd's to impress your friends with.. I have liked MFSL, but they did not use the original master for this disc, no matter waht they've said. The original master was lost years ago. Here's the story from DCC's website:This is a compilation of some of the key posts concerning Steve's s... | |
| Best Sony XBR TV ever? My dad has the previous gen XBR 32" and I think the picture is better than the newest gen XBR 32" which my sister owns. The truly flat screen leaves something to be desired in my opinion. | |
| Close your eyes and hear the music ? Craig, I've had the exact opposite happen. I used to workout for 1 1/2 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week when I was thinking of entering a bodybuilding contest. I'd push myself extremely hard each workout. Afterwards my hearing was almost similar to... | |
| Washington Post Article "They listen and spend, then listen and argue, then listen some more and argue some more."Hey that kind of sounds like this web-site that I check on everyday! I just can't remember which... | |
| User group for B&W speakers me also, 802 ser. III | |
| Software to give woofers a work-out You might want to search for the thread "Speaker punishing bass" in the music forum. Lots of good recommendations. | |
| Sony electrostatic speakers japan only? Here is some more info that I found at audiocircuit.com:Sony has made an ESL with separate elements for low, midrange an high. The different panels work with different polarization voltages. The low range panel consists of two elements placed 5mm ... | |
| Sony electrostatic speakers japan only? Wow, those do look wild. I couldn't get it to translate to English either. I bet you need a big stack of green to acquire those puppies. | |
| fusion jazz recommendations Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have several of the titles that have been mentioned, Weather Report, Billy Cobham, Jean Luc Ponty, Herbie, Mahavishnu, Chick Corea, etc. While I really like that stuff I would like to find some newer music. I gue... | |
| Spade to Bananas for B W Speakers Can't you just spread the banana tips out so it fits tighter? I just take the plug and put the tips of the bananas up against a hard surface, then give it a firm whack. spreads it back out and you have a nice tight connection again. Or you can do ... | |
| Home made cables I have made my own cables also. I used Cat 5 Chris VenHaus design for the speaker cables, 27 pair for the lows and 9 for the highs. I also made myslef a pair of long interconects to go between my pre and amps. You might want to check out these sit... |