hertzhead
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| Room is way too bright. I strongly encourage you to consider room/window treatment rather than EQ. Equalizers can cause as many problems as they solve. As others have said, thick curtains as well as hanging attractive rugs on the walls can provide a lot of acoustic dampi... | |
| A question on amp matching Yes, power is a more important spec than gain. Here's a way to understand power amp gain in practical terms: let's say you have two amps, both rated at 100 watts power but one has 22db gain and the other has 27db. If you were to play music through... | |
| A Tale of Two Crossovers I believe it was J. Gordon Holt, founder of Stereophile who said, decades ago, that "If you haven't heard it you don't have an opinion". I have not heard a Marchand x-over. Having checked out the XM66 out on their website, it looks like a good uni... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Shostakovich: Symphony #9, on Everest label (SDBR 3054). I believe Everest recorded to 35mm sproketed magnetic tape. Really robust format. Recently listened to it and I was amazed at the recording and playback quality. Grateful Dead: Reckoning. ... | |
| Speakers versus Balance vs Amplifier I agree with the OP. Long standing, peer reviewed science tells us that the ear/brain system uses both phase, as well as volume, to determine location of a sound. Changing the volume of one speaker vs the other only addresses the volume. You must ... | |
| Low Powered Tube Amp Distorting High Efficiency Speakers? I did a web search and found that Stereophile had done a review of the Zu Soul in 2016 (they also reviewed your amp in 2011). This was a review of the Soul and not the Soul 6, but the two appear to have similar woofers and may well have quite sim... | |
| Crossover - hard to find for biamping jji666 If the speakers have separate binding posts for low/mid-hi and any jumpers are removed then the amps will not combine. The low amp will drive the woofer via the internal low pass network and the high amp will drive mid/hi via high pass-sep... | |
| Crossover - hard to find for biamping If you're thinking of leaving the frequency dividing to the internal passive x-overs and using the active x-over just for level control you may not need one. If you choose tube and SS amps with the same gain (e.g. 26db) they should power the drive... | |
| Does your system sound “better” after being away? Yes. As much as I love my music collection, system and room, I find that listening day after day becomes less charming after 5 or 6 days. Too much of a good thing. Taking a break for a day or two seems to re-set my ears and musical appetite. | |
| Bad experience with an electrician OK, Fine! How many hippies does it take to screw in a light bulb? Hippies don't screw in light bulbs. Hippies screw in dirty sleeping bags. How do you know when the drum riser is level? When the drummer drools out of both sides of his mo... | |
| It was 61 years ago today... It"s always a gas being present for a cultural renaissance. | |
| It was 61 years ago today... I was 6 when the Beatles first played Ed Sullivan. I had older brothers and sisters. My 16 yr old sister was quite excited. I recall sensing a seismic shift. This was obviously a whole new thing from "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" In my ... | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. At the moment it would be Miles Davis/Gil Evans "Miles Ahead". Complex, layered, jazzy and orchestral. It has taken many listenings for it to open up and reveal its charms. I particularly enjoy the 1997 Columbia/Legacy CD reissue as it was remixed... | |
| Snell Type A speakers They are wonderful speakers. A used pair could be an path to good sound for little money. I believe the woofer surrounds are foam which can rot over time so check them before purchase. Atomic HiFi and TV in Ashland Massachusetts has replacement dr... | |
| Perception and Watts: Doubling of power audioguy, with respect, I believe you are mis-reading things. "A 3 dB change yields a 100% increase in sound energy and just over a 23% increase in loudness." (from the article you included). 3dB is indeed a doubling of actual acoustic energy as m... |