handymann
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| Room Correction, Acoustic Treatment, Positioning, etc. What are my options @mayoradamwest: Go to acousticfields.com. You need to do the best you can with room treatments, before incorporating any eq. Foley has a very interesting utube presentation of how using an eq to boost frequencies, really doesn’t work very well.... | |
| big room speaker upgrade advice, Elac Adante AF_61? @neveo: Looks like you may have an almost perfect sized room, however you need to cover the glass and the concrete. You can often buy high end speakers, that were used as demos-I did. I think your amps have plenty of power, as long as the signal... | |
| DEQX @almarg: Thanks for your response. I did read what seemed like the “War and Peace” lengthy discussion on Deqx. I’m running strictly analog and am not sure this is for me. Guess I’m a dinosaur. I still have plans to make a couple of QRD 7’s for... | |
| Over damped Room? I have made many improvements implementing room treatment. I have over dampenened, then gone back to reduce such. Properly treating your room, is one of the most important things one can do. I will continue to do so, with the advice of Jim Smit... | |
| My music sounds brighter @giri: I’m 64 and also have a mild to mid level case of tinnitus. Have you found any treatment that actually works? | |
| Anyone out there in the Dallas area interested in acquiring vinyl records? @keninrockwall: There is a way to grade your vinyl. It’s known as the Goldmine standard. Carefully rate each album according to this scale and list them as a whole collection, or individually. There are many on this site, who may be interested. Be... | |
| Speaker output is wimpy If I understand you correctly, you have inner wall wiring, with a junction that terminates at a wall plate? If you have tried and eliminated everything else, it must be the wall plate connection. Try bypassing the wall plate wiring and run the ... | |
| Speaker Wire question @rocky1313: I have a set of Tara Prism bi-wire cables I used on my MartinLogan Monoliths. The speakers were set up for bi-wiring. I now have speakers with two conductor connections. I simply combined both positives/negatives together and they ... | |
| Not enough power what does it sound like? +3 for @shadorne. I’ve never heard lows sound that bad, but highs and midrange will sound grating to you. As was said, they will sound loud and fatiguing. As @hifiman said, one can never have to much power, and current, not necessarily watts, is ... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @Elizabeth: I recently made a set of phono interconnects using two conductor/with mesh ground. I can hear no difference, between direction. I have a set of Veristar Silverstream and my home made cables rate right up there with them. I listen for h... | |
| Theta Miles CD player Thanks for the suggestion. I need to do that. | |
| Theta Miles CD player My Miles has all the bass you could ever want. The fact is, I have to monitor my bass it's so rich and deep. I have no desire to go to another player. I love mine. Just asking... Thanks for your comment. | |
| Leaving Solid State Equipment on all the Time I have two class A monoblocks I turn off, after a listening session as well as two Aesthetix tubed preamps that remain in standby, when turned off. It takes approx 30-60 minutes for them to come to operating temp. As stated above, the temps of a... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @almarg I will have to take a meter reading between the outer connector and chassis ground. When, I don’t know, but will try to let you know. One thing I know, I have no hum at all, with the gain turned up 3/4 of the way. I made a new set of phono... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? I think I may have commented on this before. I really do hear a difference in phono interconnects. I have a medium priced set of Verastar Silver Stream phono interconnects and can definitely hear a difference between them and say a generic bran... |