jacquescornell
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| Martin Logan Aerius i vs. Spica TC-60 I'm done tweaking and futzing. Maybe I have a tin ear, but I don't hear the "hardness" that some have mentioned as characteristic of the Adcoms. A friend has an all-tube setup with Brentworths, and in many ways our systems sound quite similar. The... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 vs. DSP8024 as DAC $500 PC? Bah! I'm a professional photographer - I NEED a top-end Mac. Give me OS X and at least a Conroe, or better yet two Woodcrests. I don't know a single pro photog who uses Windows, and I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. Sorry if that offen... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 vs. DSP8024 as DAC Well, my HK CD changer is not exactly hot stuff, so maybe there's nowhere to go but up. The room EQ improvement certainly outweighs any signal degradation, as I can hear the former clearly and the latter not at all. That's why I'm interested in kn... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 vs. DSP8024 as DAC Bright and zingy? Was that the Auto-Q result? Did you try manually adjusting the curve after doing the Auto-Q? I found the Auto-Q result to be understandable, but a bit bright. I moderated the curve by 1db (raising dips and lowering peaks, except ... | |
| Best Five Demo Pieces for your System Well, I lean towards vocals, jazz, blues & rock at modest levels. Here's what I've been using to test and tweak my Martin Logan Aerius i's and EQ with a Behringer DSP8024:Lyle Lovett's "I Love Everybody" - some of the best drum recording I've ... | |
| Best bargain find ever ? rkopperman, did you use a .38 or a .357?Was the seller otherwise in mortal peril, stoned to the beejezus, or suffering from dementia? I mean, really. | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Cardenal Mendoza (Spanish brandy). Or a good Armagnac. In a pinch, Delamain cognac. Hennesy VSOP if I'm really slumming it. | |
| Best Find Ever??? Stax Lambda Pros with an SRD-X energizer for $300 (50,000 yen) new in Tokyo in 1987. Still got 'em. Believe it or not, that was the regular retail price in Japan at the time, when they were selling Stateside for around $800. If you're interested i... | |
| What is your most beautiful component? Martin Logan Aerius i's. Not exactly beautiful, but certainly striking. They're my pride and joy. My Adcom, HK & Behringer electronics are strictly two-baggers. But, they sound great. I'm single and frankly don't care if the stuff looks like j... | |
| Initial impressions of Behringer DSP8024 Am now using the DSP8024 as a DAC between my HK8550 CD changer and my Adcom GFP-555 preamp, which limits D/A conversion to just one step instead of three. Sounds great. As a DAC, it doesn't seem to be any worse than that built into the HK. Haven't... | |
| Buying decision time, or Time for a sanity check? It's the concordance of two events: 1) there's money in my savings account, and 2) I hear something better. Neither of these happens very often, as I know full well the danger of wandering into a good audio dealership.Every few years, if event 1 h... | |
| Tired of boring, polite, laid-back sound..... Here's one out of left field. How about EQ? Yeah, I'm a philistine. But, I've gotta say, adding a Behringer DSP8024 digital EQ between my CD player and preamp has breathed amazing new life into my Martin Logan Aeriuses. It fixed some serious room ... | |
| Martin Logan Ascenti's or the new Vista. Help Andrew, I've added a Behringer DSP8024 between my HK CD changer and my Adcom preamp, and the effect of EQ is pretty amazing. It completely tamed the room resonance at 80Hz, fixed a huge (-9db) suckout at 40Hz (probably due to an open doorway in th... | |
| Who makes speakers with relaxed high freq.? Spica TC-60s and Martin Logan Aerius i's. I have both. Both have slightly rolled-off, non-fatiguing but nicely detailed treble. The Spicas are a bit more rolled-off than the Aeriuses. Both offer superb imaging. I've added a Behringer DSP8024 digit... | |
| Initial impressions of Behringer DSP8024 I tried putting it in a tape loop to EQ the whole range rather than just the bass. Makes a nice difference. Now I know what another poster meant when he called the Aeriuses "warm". They are warm. I just hadn't noticed, because my previous speakers... |