hilde45
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| I bought some Owens Corning 703. Now what? Brief update. I did some critical listening with one interesting variation: (a) the entire box of panels against the front wall with the front face of it OPEN or (b) with the cardboard flaps closed. Very, very noticeable difference in what it did ... | |
| Best bookshelf speaker? I've come to really love Fritz speakers and Salks.Two reviews of Fritz are here, one's a video:VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn3h3Tk6PzE&t=28s&ab_channel=DHhttps://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-fritz-heiler-s-carbon-7-se-m... | |
| I bought some Owens Corning 703. Now what? @lemonhazeThank you for taking the time to articulate the important things, in useful form. As the diagram on my system page will show (and which my measurements confirm) the corners are not that problematic.( see: https://systems.audiogon.com/sys... | |
| DAC's Made in the USA OP, if you bought a piece of Chinese gear -- but used, from a fellow American -- you would be helping out someone in your country without adding profit to any companies you don't support. Maybe that would help find the right gear without some of t... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" @mahgister -- you're telling us about your system again. Can we confine conversations a bit to the topic? It really does get long... | |
| DAC's Made in the USA @buellrider I’ve been reading a lot about the AVA amp you mentioned. People like it a lot but love the 400 version. More Class A power. Costs more but it does come up used. FWIW, https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=174030.0 | |
| I bought some Owens Corning 703. Now what? Thanks Shalommorgan and Tomic601.Yes, I will try a few well placed panels and not go too crazy. I placed a couple panels at the floor just beneath the ceiling and really heard a difference, so I know the effort to put at least one or two up on the... | |
| Speaker suggestions under 4k I love my Salks, built in Michigan. Here are a few good options, used:https://www.usaudiomart.com/search.php?keywords=salk&cat_id=3&type=FOR%20SALE&sortby=pri...Here's the website:https://www.salksound.com/home.phpMany options. Send Ji... | |
| I bought some Owens Corning 703. Now what? @shalommorganThat's an inspiring effort and a beautiful setup you have. Thank you so much for sharing that, along with your advice. I just spend an hour or so moving things around and so my side walls became my front and rear wall. Terrible -- lot... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" Benjamin would say, "One might subsume the eliminated element in the term “aura” and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points bey... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" Have a good new year. And if you could write shorter posts, well...that would be a kindness. (No offense, just so many words!) | |
| Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp? @jaulbrich -- Your post made me laugh because it was such a compact and insightful compendium of (to modify the old jazz standard title) "All the Things We Are." I also laughed because there is this constant forgetting about what the hobby is abou... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" @mahgister I enjoyed your post about how the many factors combine to incline us one way or another, depending on variables that are not usually taken into account -- especially the room. And, we can agree that a good comparison should try to exclu... | |
| Should I got full tubes or stick with hybrid amps? @soundchsrI'm still learning but my guess is that (a) your corner windows are a problem, as is the glass front on your fireplace(b) you have different items behind the two speakers (asymmetrical)(c) your first side wall reflection points are an is... | |
| Should I got full tubes or stick with hybrid amps? The description of your room makes me suspect that issues there at least need to be sized up properly before gear changes. I have very low ceilings and they helped eliminate a lot of speakers -- and I knew it was not the speakers fault. But if you... |