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| Subwoofers - Front Firing vs. Downward Firing Shadorne, you are quite correct about the REL subwoofer designs (or at least the early ones).Having had a REL Stadium II for 10 years, I found it integrated well with my full-range speakers when run from the main speaker terminals (in other words,... | |
| Subwoofer setting "...for a 20Hz wave to form in the air, the largest dimension of the room must be at least 27.5 feet."I've seen this argument before and also seen it refuted.How do you explain the stomach-churning bass able to be produced in some car installations? | |
| Cartridge setup revisited "Since a wooden arm would not be dimensionally stable at typical range of residential temps and humidity,"Perhaps the humidity may affect a wooden arm (although I can't imagine that the wood would not have been properly sealed against such absorpt... | |
| TW Acustic Raven One owners Thanks Jaspert,Don't get me wrong?.......the sound of my system with the Raven AC-3 plus DaVinci and Copperhead arms is of course far more revealing and competent than with the Rega 3/Hadcock combination.The point I was trying to make is that the ... | |
| TW Acustic Raven One owners I have to disagree slightly here........I mounted a $5000 ZYX Universe on my 30 year old Rega Planar 3 with Hadcock GH228 unipivot arm (total price 30 years ago $375) and the resultant sound was one of the 4 revelations of my audio life.I now have... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano "-how to make a grand piano sound real in a room that is not big enough for a grand piano."I know what you're saying Shadorne, but my living room is not big enough for a symphony orchestra.....come to think of it....it's not big enough for the Bea... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano On the subject of realistically recording the grand piano, I don't know that it's particularly difficult rather than the engineers being scared to do it without compression?Listen to Keith Jarrett- The Koln Concert on ECM (recorded live) to see ho... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano The grand piano is probably the hardest instrument to recreate convincingly in a domestic hi-fi system. This is because its frequency range is possibly the widest of any musical instrument and the dynamics of the keys-on-strings from ppp to fff wi... | |
| can a tube-o-phile be happy with ss? It depends entirely on your speakers. Some speakers love tubes and sound poorly with SS whilst other speakers simply can't be controlled adequately with tubes.If you've found the speakers that suit your room and make you swoon, see if they actuall... | |
| Solid state amp/Tube Preamp. Possible? I had a Kebschull valve preamp with the SS Perraux PM1850 power amp for 20 years, and it was the sweetest combination I have ever heard. In some ways, better than the Halcro DM10 and Halcro DM58 monoblocks I now have. Didn't know the impedence mat... | |
| Room Acoustics question: Just a slight correction........The RATIO is 1:1.618. It is NOT the NUMBER 1.618.The RATIO is often called the Golden Mean and it is found both Geometrically (The diagonal of 1/2 a square added to the square), and mathematically as Zargon has demo... | |
| Lyra Titan i and Olympos SL I had the Titan i for 6 months in my system, and my friend Richard has the Olympos in a very different system so I really can't give you a valid side by side comparison. In my opinion, Doug is being very generous to the Titan i. I found it cold an... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Well now I'm completely confused? Are you saying that the Linn is great with transistors but with tubes it's only the CD player that benefits? | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, you can do much better than a LP12....especially if it sounds like your CD player.Even my 30 year old Rega 3 would demolish any CD player! | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I too am running total solid state and the Duelunds are a revelation. I don't understand how a capacitor is going to distinguish between an electrical signal generated by valves or transistors? It doesn't make sense to me and I'd sure like to see ... |