immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| JD Souther has passed away Bummer. Total coincidence, but last night I watched a full concert, Warren Zevon at The Capital 1981, and he did a nice cover of Simple Man, Simple Dream. | |
| To all you Cary SLI 80 owners, I'm looking for tube suggestions Try some Gold Lyons all around. And I would switch to EL-34s if you want more tube goodness. I didn't think that the (reissued) Gold Lion made a EL34? Or is the KT77 synonymous with EL34? | |
| No Wonder You Spend So Much Money On Stereo Equipment Dopamine is good. I used to compare buying audio gear to a cocaine habit. However, I always said that audio gear compared favorably because although it has the potential to suck one dry, at least you have something to show for it when you wake ... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! I have had artists over, played their own tracks for them on both stereo and my multichannel rig. You and the guys from Def Leppard must have had a blast. | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? Thanks for getting back to me @atmasphere ; oops, I see the typo I made. No, two or three years ago my old Radioshack meter failed the drop test and bit the dust. I replaced it with a Southwire meter I bought at Lowes. It was that meter that I to... | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? @atmasphere , after I read the replies I started thinking that the fact that I had always had at least the amp end of my cables connected when I was trying to measure made my readings to not be valid. I would think that regardless of the length o... | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? Your 8TC cables are 9AWG equivalent which is heavy enough for any run inside a listening room. You have nothing to worry about. Okay, thanks for getting back to me on that, @carlsbad2 , the reason I mentioned it is because in one of my earlie... | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? @atmasphere and @carlsbad2 and @everybody else who tried to dumb this down an explain it for me--thank you. @atmasphere and @carlsbad2 I now know that on a couple of levels I wouldn’t get an accurate reading--for one the meter I was us... | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? Thank you. I will no longer spend time trying to measure my speaker wire resistance. | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? @gs5556 , basically you are saying that measurements I took with my meter set to ohms are probably not accurate? | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? @kijanki , they are actually longer than usual runs because of the way I had my system set up in the last room. (The equipment was, and is, off to the side of the speakers as opposed to being in between the speakers. I'll measure the length, hop... | |
| Alternative absorbent acoustic material? Thanks for the input and the clarification on the Dow Corning 703. I did some searches and I think I am going to play around with some of that. | |
| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids Thanks, @soix , I appreciate constructive input from all legitimate sources. The room I presently have my gear in (and I don't see moving to another room any time soon) is significantly smaller than yours, so I am trying to maximize speaker place... | |
| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids So how far were the fronts of the speakers from the wall? @soix , do you subscribe to any rules of thumb on that subject, with untreated walls? The reason I ask is that when I posted my ’B Stock Revels’ thread, some of the feed back I received... | |
| Perhaps useless, but today is National Dog Day........ I did a midlife career change and I graduated from a RN program in '08. I won't go into all the gory details, but I often say that about the only good thing I got out of my new career was becoming a dog lover. Since '08, dogs have, as @stuartk ... |