henry53
Responses from henry53
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? It depends what you are trying to do / solve with subs. I have an extremely difficult problem so the solution, including using 2 subs was also difficult. The problem could not be solved without subs as placement was critical, simply buying a pair... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions In my system I have tried the micro rendu, for 3 years until really tired of drop outs, if you are very computer savvy this may suit, of course you need a computer hooked up to stream. Being frustrated I have tried the Bluesound Node, nice interfa... | |
| Sabrina X Anyone Add Subwoofer(s) The first thing is to work out what the problem is. I have a quite small listening room 4.5 x 3.2 metres. Bass control is my issue not lack of bass, the walls shake and items on walls rattle even at moderate volumes. Adding 2 subwoofers has allowe... | |
| finding the weak link Must agree with the subs as an addition, 2 are better than 1. Your main speakers are extremely unlikely to be placed for maximum bass effectiveness, subs let you do that. I have a Vincent tube hybrid pre / power combination and use DSP to reduce t... | |
| Balanced versus single ended As with most things the devil is in the detail, I have heard both in many different guises and believe that, on its own neither makes an audible improvement, its far more about how the technology is put into practice. | |
| Vienna Acoustics sounded terrible at Magnolia Must say I lusted after a pair of Vienna Acoustic Mozart speakers. The distributor changed in Australia which meant they became very hard to find but also had some good deals when you could. I eventually found a pair of Mozart Grand for less than... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole If you like it, then that is all the objectivity you need. | |
| everything sounded great until the upgrade It could be that a new very good component now shows up how relatively poor the others are. This is common and if not careful leads you down the never ending audio rabbit hole. You buy better speakers, better speakers now need better amp, better a... | |
| I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged. You are buying audio to listen to it, not to put a meter on it and measure it. Obviously how it sounds is the most important thing. In my own case I recently bought a Lindeman Limetree Bridge, even after it was lambasted by ASR, why, it sounded w... | |
| Sub Pairing With Harbeth 40.3 XDs I highly recommend 2 subwoofers. This has improved my system immeasurably. I had big problems with base at 60 and 120 hz. due to room sizes. I use 2 Definitive Technology super cubes 4000. I have tried KEF, SVS and Sony but can hear nil differen... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Again there appears to be a strange belief that expectation bias only works one way. I myself have been surprised on occasions where I expected a component to be bad, based upon price, reviews or friends comments, only to find the item did in fac... | |
| How do you judge audio components and speakers? Do I enjoy it? | |
| What does a subwoofer solve? It is very unlikely that any hifi source will not provide enough base, bad base perhaps. An amplifier may well be bass shy or lack bass control and certainly speakers are likely to have the biggest effect. However a vital component affecting bas... | |
| Isolation Advice Needed Mechanical jacks under the floor are a cheap, stable option but will not solve the real problems of your stereo. You can effectively build a suspended floor under you speakers with the speakers mounted on springs and the suspended floor further mo... | |
| New to hobby: McIntosh D150 w/ McIntosh Amp vs. Rotel Separates To get a better pre power combination than the Rotel you will need to spend a lot of money. I had a similar combination which I replaced with Vincent Hybrid Pre / power, less bright with better soundstage. |