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| Lowering the noise floor Ok then, let's talk specs. Alan Maher Designs:"AQUA EMI Wrap Specifications:Filter Frequency: 0Hz to 200+ GHz (max frequency of our test equipment)Noise Suppression: 95% to 98% based on 120/240v incoming electrical serviceNoise Floor Reduction: Gr... | |
| Lowering the noise floor I have spent more than $10k on treating both my home and system to reduce all types of contributors to the "noise floor": shot noise, EMF/RFI (from land, sea or air), EMR, grounding issues and so on (all Alan Maher Designs). My system only cost me... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @bo1972 "The thing what I hope people will learn and understand is that trial en error does not garantee you anything."It's ok, bo...it doesn't guarantee anything. I think that's why they call it trial and error. Just sayin' | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @gdhal "While I'll agree that @geoffkait post is more accurate and thought out than many of his other posts, to some extent it is not entirely correct because there is yet a third (that I can think of, perhaps there are more) high-ends for audio. ... | |
| Equalizers- love them or hate them and why? I’ve been using EQ in one form or another for more than 40 yrs. If your system is not nearly yet to where you’d like it to be, then EQ is...well, if not a "swiss army knife" tool, then at least a very flexible and useful "band-aide" that will amel... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @geoffkait "There are two high ends for audio. One is in the solid grip of upgraditis, that one tends to be solidly Anti Tweak, believing that the secret to sound quality is the electronic circuit, expensive parts and “solid engineering” - in qu... | |
| Happy Thanksgiving Well said. Many thanks and many returns. | |
| Best way to decrease the internal volume of a sealed speaker? If you use Flex Seal, it may have petroleum distillates in it, as the more expensive rubber sprays at Wally World (10-12 bucks) will have. However, the cheaper stuff (2-4 bucks) doesn't have pd's. Pd's are rather corrosive to electronic circuitry.... | |
| Best way to decrease the internal volume of a sealed speaker? For experimental purposes (trying to find the correct internal volume reduction for a given sound) you could cut off various lengths of appropriate sized blocks of wood. Easy to do and to dial in to your preferred sound. Once the amount of volume ... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @phusis Thanks for your comments and I definitely agree: the interest in horn material damping somehow appears MIA, yet too many manufacturers seem to be acting almost as if they are better off letting such sleeping dogs lie, rather than stepping ... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? But....I suppose makers of box designs may *claim* that they’ve gotten rid of their cabinet resonances by their sheer prowess in wood construction and so forth....only in fact to rely on a lot of help from their crossover design in the final resul... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? One thing I do not particularly like (not that I hate it, but I find it swaying me not to buy) about most modern horn speakers is that the horns are so often made of some kind of plastic but that there is generally no attempt by the manufacturer w... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @inna The above is only my own personal take. Why not a $5k USB cable? Hey, if anyone is inclined, I'd say go for it...but for me, considering where I happen to be with it all at the moment, it's just a question of having different priorities, I g... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @aberyclark Good point. I have a MoFi CD edition of Billy Joel's Turnstiles (1976) and a BluSpec CD edition of the same exact album. The BluSpec one happens to sound great across the board, no issues at all. The MoFi by comparison happens to sound... | |
| Room acoustics (It seems I had nothing else worthwhile to do today, so I decided to submit this novel I had originally written for publication. I haven’t proof read it yet, it’s just too damn long for me. ;>)I can understand why no one here might fully have r... |