hilde45
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| Most important fundamentals in your built/modded listening room? @mesch Thanks so much. Let me be clearer about the space. The overall basement is 27.5 ft x 28 ft. The room I'm thinking through is 27.5 ft. x 17 ft.Let's call that Section A.The overall basement is cut in half by a long staircase, creating a sec... | |
| Tube Flavor @jerryg123 We're all "boobs"? Is that really what you want to say about everyone here? Why choose to put things so derisively? What do you think that says about you, Sir? | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices @russ69 LOL! Nothing needs to be "excessively taxed" by definition! Good one! | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" @tweak1 If all the factors are the same and the difference is only the amp and the depth disappears, I don't understand how your comment applies. | |
| Tube Flavor @oldhvymec I recently had my ears tested and one ear is better than the other. Are both your ears equally good? If not, do you know how to compensate for that when you do your left/right testing? Regards, | |
| Tube Flavor I have a tube preamp and tube mono blocks. Here is my experience.First, I looked up the stock tubes that came with my gear. All JJ tubes. Not expensive. Decent. I consulted some folks on Audiogon and they suggested the preamp could be bettered, fi... | |
| Most important fundamentals in your built/modded listening room? @erik_squires I agree about diffusion. I’ve now gone the over-damped route and am seeing how to make my space "alive" without brightness. So...I have two of these: https://images.app.goo.gl/rkE6t1jUgAMBoHCm7QUESTION: How would you lay the GROUNDWO... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" @mahgister Thank you so much for the links. The Science Direct one looks very good. I will look at the others. I am willing to experiment and also alter my room, perhaps not as much as you. So, I hope there is some kind of solution here that does ... | |
| Most important fundamentals in your built/modded listening room? Fantastic set of comments! I am copying these out into a list meant for a contractor. These ideas will be implemented. I hope there are more.Some replies to you generous folks:The room won’t have noise issues. Just master bedroom upstairs and my s... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices @russ69 I agree with you! And yet:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638129/"People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce fe... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices Much of human happiness, for better or worse, is derived by one's status relative to others in one's perceived peer group. Expensive goods of all kinds is one way to try to raise one's social capital. Audio is just one of many ways to do this. In ... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" Agree, Erik. Mahgister, helmholtz controls sound very interesting. Can you refer me to some threads where they're mentioned so I can read up on them? All the best, | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" The most recent podcast from Darren and Duncan sheds some light on the issue of left right and depth soundstage, particularly the kinds of factors involved in the design responsible for enhancing or limiting them. Also some interesting comments ab... | |
| Garth Powell on Why Audioquest does not make AC Regenerators @tvad Thanks so much for your comments. I always perk up when I see you posting. Your good ears are only matched by your good sense and gentility. When you speak, I listen, note, and investigate what you report has worked for you. | |
| Garth Powell on Why Audioquest does not make AC Regenerators Appreciate hearing people's experiences. I've watched more than a few of Paul's videos on the regenerator. If I am remembering accurately, he basically says don't use a conditioner -- just use their regenerator. Of course he wants to sell them, bu... |