jeffreybehr
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| Will open baffle woofer be good for center channel Chad, as I indicated on the fone, that filter point needs to be around 30- to 35Hz to achieve the 'brute-force equalization' I was so successful with. Did you get my e-mail today?. | |
| Silver speaker cable question S23chang, OK.BTW, I thought the AQ silver-conductor cable so good I bought short double-biwire lengths of KE-6/8 and KE-4. Sure does sound great, but it is indeed expensive!. | |
| Silver speaker cable question s23chang: "Jeffreybehr, audioquest price is too expensive for pure silver speaker cables."Huh? Where oh where did I suggest he buy AQ silver-conductor cables? I sent him to AQ to read about what they call Spread Spectrum technology.. | |
| Silver speaker cable question Boa, unless you already have lots more 20g. wire to add to your existing cable, I'd add a pairs of 16 and 21. That'll make a cable with an AWG equivalent of about 12.8. You'll also get the benefit of what Audioquest calls Spread Spectrum Technolog... | |
| Setting up Quad 988 right Mr, if you intend to space the 5 equally about the circle, I think you'll find that the L- and R-fronts are too far apart. The ITU 5-speaker setup, for which virtually all multichannel recordings are made, has the 3 fronts spaced fairly narrowly--... | |
| Setting up Quad 988 right With my 989s in a larger room, I discovered that the soundstage (SS) got bigger the farther from the front wall they are; mine are now SEVEN feet from the wall in my 19-feet-deep room. And I too sit fairly close to the plane of the speakers altho ... | |
| Poor Man's "Super-Speaker" System Douglas, regarding active crossovers on the ET8, you might read this http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/MUG/messages/83818.html . Probably I'll be buying a pair and am investigating biamping both passively and actively.. | |
| Best wire to replace stock wiring in preamp? Overhang, I believe strongly in solid-conductor cable, not stranded. Yours is stranded. I'd use the same thing I recommended just above.. | |
| Best wire to replace stock wiring in preamp? I vote for solid silver. Buy it from Michael Percy Audio; http://www.percyaudio.com/Catalog.pdf . I'd use the 22g. uninsulated 4-nines stuff at 95 cents/foot plus 14- or 16g. teflon tubing at 40 or 50 cents/foot. The larger tube becomes mostly air... | |
| Quad ESL 989 and Maggie 3.6s "I can't imagine how there could be a soundstage without any space behind/between the quads (SIC)."'Any space?' Huh? They're SEVEN FEET from the front wall. I sure am glad all you folks know so much about me and my system...NOT.. | |
| Quad ESL 989 and Maggie 3.6s "The bottom line is the 988 is an overall better sounding speaker than the 989, bottom end nothwithstanding. Period."Glad to see you're so open-minded, WC. Some of us have steel-trap minds; you have an iron-doored mind, and the door is CLOSED.. | |
| Quad ESL 989 and Maggie 3.6s "Bottom end difference between the 88 and 89 is insignificant as you will need a sub or ideally a pair anyway."I disagree. The extra level and extention of the 989s WITHOUT subwoofers are what helps the coherency of the system. The 989s may not re... | |
| Can HI FI components really make music? I agree that your audio system will NEVER sound like live music of ANY kind, but you'll get closer with some kinds than with others.I'm amazed that you didn't tell us what kind of music you love and are trying emulate. IMO, the highly synthetic st... | |
| Poor man's IC cooker? I just connect mine between my VCR and preamp and let it run, for days.. | |
| Quad ESL 989 and Maggie 3.6s I have and LOVE Quad 989s. I too drive them with ASL amps, but mine are FIFTY-Watt SETs, the Explorer 805 DTs. My listening room is fairly large at c. 3200CF, but the amps will play the speakers louder than I ever want to listen. I drive them full... |