hilde45
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| Speaker positioning and center image depth @wolf_garcia Do people really need this much coaching when it simply should be: Move your speakers around until they sound good to you. The end. First, respect to you and your experience. I have benefited from many of your comments and you’ve... | |
| Best "Budget" / "bang for my buck" 2-channel amp and speakers can I get new? +1 on Belles and Salk. +1 on pair of subs, but recommend Rythmik instead of REL because the variable phase greatly improves room integration. | |
| Chord DAVE DAC I've been most interested in the Holo May DAC. That would leave you some nice $$ to play with. | |
| Best "Budget" / "bang for my buck" 2-channel amp and speakers can I get new? Rogue is a good suggestion. I'd also suggest Atoll. Parasound was on the tip of my tongue (good service, quality product, plenty of control over subs) but then you said you didn't want digital inputs. | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth This video was helpful to me. When I did my tests, I put down lots of tape and moved speakers from the front wall incrementally, same with side to side. Listening positioning, too. I won’t lie -- it’s extraordinarily laborious, but the upside is ... | |
| How to pm a member @riley804 i think the whole thing of this is ridiculous, regarding what words you cant use when sending a pm to someone I totally agree, 1000% The notion that a site would block a member from simply telling another member their email or ph... | |
| How to pm a member @riley804 You told people the problem, what they can’t do. I gave them the solution. More than a few people I’ve PM’d with didn’t know what to do. That’s why I’m explaining it here. We make a good team! | |
| Speaker polyamory -- or, stories about getting a second set to alternate with your primary Weird use of the word "polyamory." If you’re that close to your hardware you may need a little more time with your shrink. I'm polyamorous with my usage of "polyamory." I can't cotton to puritanical parameters, pops. | |
| Advice to Newbies @baclagg Gotcha! I agree, of course! Given a bad enough room, though, your advice could apply. Because if the room is terrible enough, one might never know what a given set of speakers sound like. In that case, some kind of pre-treatment of a ro... | |
| Review: The Audiogon Discussion Forum itself 😉 @gladmo Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions for this forum. There are enough people engaged here to justify improvements, for sure. Tagging is an incredibly powerful tool which would help, here. I've suggested it at my university to he... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth I've been able to use a combination of the factors listed (positioning, treatment, recording) to get a fairly deep and wide soundstage. (Chesky recordings are often great for testing this, by the way.) If I start with the best my system can do, w... | |
| Advice to Newbies OP, good post but what do newbies test their room with if they don't have speakers to play the REW tone sweep with? My own process was to get speakers I liked a lot and then tested to see how the room could be improved to accommodate the speakers. | |
| Cables recommendation @baylinor is spot on: if you can’t tell a sound difference with cables, your listening setup is not revealing enough. I tried cable changes early on. Couldn’t hear any differences. Started to feel skeptical. Then, I learned about acoustic prio... | |
| Go get out your pitchforks, I’ve done a sacrilegious thing. . . @ronboco Asks a great question. I have a Loki also, but am reluctant to fiddle with it from song to song. | |
| Cables recommendation I shop used for such things, and there are bargains to be had. I have Analysis plus for interconnects and speakers and pangea for power. Gene is a bit too much of a denier for me, but he makes sense in this video when he suggests that getting th... |