immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? Here is a link to a question I asked on this site about subwoofer placement. I believe the very first reply was from @ghdprentice and he also provided a link to a video on the subject. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/subwoofer-between-s... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? A while back ago @james633 sent me a link to an article about setting up monitors, and this is what the article had to say about setting up subs: "At low frequencies, it is crucial that the most fundamental room modes are equally excited. Using ... | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player My guest it’s a refurbished unit. Sounds like they didn't do much refurbishing. I need to quit putting off checking the hours on mine. | |
| Changing a speaker color I've never painted speakers, but back in '02 I was working in a composite shop and I brought in some wooden window shutters, sanded off the old finish, shot them with two coats of USAirways blue and then a coat of clear and they are still holding ... | |
| Which has a greater effect on music,int.amp or CD? . . . thinking back, I remember, back in the '90s, trying out a Mesa Baron dual monoblock-in-one chassis- tube amp. I remember perceiving that as a heavily colored and warm sounding amp, and I also remember during the course of that audition (I ha... | |
| Which has a greater effect on music,int.amp or CD? I know that you did say "excluding speakers," but if it was a "rock & roll system" I wanted to put together I think what I would do is try out some of the speakers that the rockers consider to be "rock & roll speakers" (I am not really a r... | |
| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) As far as the Cary SLP05, I don’t consider mine to be all that warm. It could be the tubes I am running in the balanced input sockets, or the cables I am using, or another component in my system, but I felt replacing my old Cary SLP90 with the SLP... | |
| Best 12AU7? I find it bright, but in a very nice, warm and fat way! That seems like a contradiction in terms? | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? We take turns meeting at each member’s home, allowing each member to host and present/share their music, food, wine/drinks and good company. Most of the members have various consumer-level listening stations: AV receivers, Bluetooth soundbars and... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords So this morning I swapped in the stock cord and the problem is solved. @audphile1 , to clarify, so I am not misunderstanding, are you saying that the power cord that came with the unit is preferable to your ears than the Preffair? | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @atmasphere , is it watts that drive the speaker? (I know that if I put the + & - lead of my vm on the corresponding speaker posts. I get an AC volt reading which varies depending upon volume level.) But if it is watts that drive the speake... | |
| Thumper’s Mother @immatthewj - I dont think anyone complained about the word I used - it’s most likely an algorithm that instantly deletes. @polkalover , I do not know for sure one way or the other about that, and I do not know what word you used, but I jus... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? Which is more important to walking? The left or the right leg? Not a good analogy. | |
| Thumper’s Mother happy moderators? @polkalover , I don't think that the moderators arbitrarily take it upon themselves to read and delete posts. My understanding is that if they receive a certain number of complaints (some one once said it was three) due to f... | |
| Auditioning Used Equipment - Am I crazy ? @immatthewj the fact the unit was $10k is what blew my mind. This isnt a mCIntosh where you can go anywhere to hear it. Who the heck drops $10k on a used product with extremely limited distribution / demand that they've never heard besides a f... |