jon_5912
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| Thoughts on Thiel SS2 Sub One of the big things you're getting with Thiel is excellent drivers if Thiel made them in-house. I bought a pair of viewpoints that got destroyed in shipping. I tried to fix them but their was something wrong with the crossover in one. I had t... | |
| I got a pair of ATC SCM10 A2? Something like that I got some used 110s 11 years ago, custom built for an orchestra, for a ridiculous price. People won't spend for non-standard looking stuff it seems so it goes dirt cheap. There's a pair of the 20s that has been on US Audio Mart for a long time.... | |
| Distortion from Audio Rack ?? I had some speakers on some homemade stands for a few years. They had a fairly large flat wood surface. I switched them out for some stands that had minimal surface area. I was very surprised at how big of a difference it made. I speculate tha... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? Building a really solid box seems to be a big chunk of the cost of some expensive speakers and there's cheap stuff at Home Depot and Menards that anyone could use to do this. If you attached a porcelain floor tile to MDF it'd be near resonance fr... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? If AI can learn to do just about anything humans can do it will mean the cost of HiFi will drop through the floor just like everything else that depends on human labor. Your 100K system is gonna be $500. Then all the people who only value it bec... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area Directionality increases with frequency. Larger midranges will be more directional so placement matters more. My experience has been that I prefer speakers with a smaller midrange. They tend to have more even in-room responses. | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area This has been a solved problem for many years. My 20+ year old Velodyne 18 inch sub is -3 at 14hz and distortion is <1%. People who think big subs are slow should turn off their mains and listen to just the subs. There is nothing fast soundi... | |
| Acoustic Research 302 mid range trauma..Please Help I think the 302, 303, and 338 all had the same midrange. I bought a pair of 338s and a pair of 303s from accessories4less about 25 years ago. The 338s were better than the 303s IMO. The big 12 inch woofer combined with the little midrange wasn'... | |
| Bryston Preamps - What do they sound like? I've got a BP25 and BP26 in two different systems. I'd describe them as transparent. The BP25 is 20 years old this year and there is zero noise in the knobs. It works as well as it did when I got it around 2009. The 26 also works perfectly and... | |
| ??? How Much Would You Spend ??? There are too many variables for there to be any reliable ratio of how much to spend on any component based on the price of another. Points of diminishing returns will vary for each type of component so If you're spending 3k on a system you might... | |
| No bass on B&W 800D2 I'd go to a tone generator site and listen to see if the bass sounds way down at low frequencies. My guess is it won't be and what you're missing is the bass transients/texture. I've had this experience a couple of times and the solution was to ... | |
| Thiel Owners Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Tiny Desk Concert (youtube.com) This is so good. | |
| What are the best subwoofers you have heard for music. Speed, Musicality and integration Does anybody have a theory about what specifically makes REL subs integrate so well? I've never heard one. Bottom firing subs tend to have more even in-room response. Subs with smaller woofers have less visceral transient responses that may mea... | |
| The Low Volume Loudness Dilemma I'd figure out a way to have the eq in the chain when you wanted it but take it out when you're listening at normal volume. Maybe a tape loop? It's been a long time since I did something like that. | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. My 11 year old likes eminem. I guess nothing more appealing has emerged in the last 20 years. On the other hand, how long has it been since you couldn't buy a pair of speakers that costed more than a car? It would've been laughed at and not for... |