hilde45
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| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» 60% of audiophiles are immortal??! Yes, you see there's this fuse, you know, it's costly but once installed, your lifespan is extended indefinitely. Oh, you also need the cable that comes with it. Also expensive. But just those two things -- fu... | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» I used to be worried about this issue. Now I’m so worried about other things that I don't have the bandwidth for this. | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? @sns Thanks for clarifying your setup. Since you have dedicated lines for 10AWG wiring, including lines dedicated to subs, I can see why a 10awg PC could help you obviate any possible current limitation, especially if the PC's that came with your ... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" The environment is always the first thing to fix, better yet design, correctly and then use room treatments. Then it comes to placement of all the gear and furnishings, speaker placement most critical. Why is this the order? I would have suppo... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? @sns I’m well acquainted with placebo effect, been around the block a time or two over the decades....How one can conclude PC don’t affect dynamics which I could also define as current delivery, just as it does with pre’s, amps, sources is illog... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" @mashif Understood and agree. This is why it is so difficult to get new entrants into this hobby; we keep making it more complicated (and expensive) for newbies to put together a system (including room) that is acceptable to 'us" and not subject... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" @mashif Sure, live music occurs in an acoustic space and that’s an important part of the original sound. But a good recording captures that sound and that’s what I want to hear. An untreated, live room distorts the sound in the recording by add... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? If one believes power cables make a difference with the rest of their equipment why would they not believe they could make a difference with subs? PC’s also affect dynamics both macro and micro. So, per everything in audio, believe what you want ... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" "Research proved that in a live musical environment, approximately 30% of what we hear is direct sound while 70% is reflected from walls, ceilings and floors and only reaches our ears a few milliseconds after the direct sound. The human brain use... | |
| LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS OF MY LISTENING ROOM @ronboco I don’t believe the room was over damped at any time. My mistake. I thought that's why you added diffusion. If it sounds better with diffusion, what would you say has changed for the better? | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" My background is in recording studios and I couldn’t imagine trying to put a system together without first doing basic room treatment. Between standing waves and reverb time, I would find it impossible to evaluate gear. Agreed. I disagree abou... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? I got in touch with REL about this and they said they had tested several third party power cords and found there was no improvement. I wouldn't bother. | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" You can do more harm than good however, if you don’t know what you are doing, or just put some things in the room, thinking it will make an improvement. More harm than good...depends. Some rooms are really bad to begin with, and almost anything... | |
| LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS OF MY LISTENING ROOM I strongly recommend a consultation with Jeff at hdacoustics. He is very good and I am extremely happy with my room. Because your room was initially overdamped, you added diffusion down the road, if I remember. Was that because he didn't sugges... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" Best $500 dollars that I ever spent was DIYing a case of 703 Owen’s-Corning rigid fiberglass panels. Hear hear. I did that right away for my 6.5 foot ceiling. Made the room usable. I would add this. “A person’s hearing ability can totally wr... |