jon_5912
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| Yesteryears' expensive speakers compared to modern moderately expensive speakers There are a number of factors. It is in the best interest of manufacturers and the industry in general if people think technology is improving a lot. Otherwise why upgrade? I think in the cases where companies are coming out with new super-expe... | |
| Who wants the best improvement in their system EVER! Somebody was drunk or similar, we should let this go. It's one post, nobody's perfect. | |
| Thiel Owners I'm not a circuit designer so I don't know the details either but I've read a number of places over the years that one of the advantages of active designs is that they can actively correct phase so they can remain phase correct with higher than fi... | |
| Thiel Owners It seems to me that the eventual future is all digital crossovers and active speakers. The idea of active crossovers doing the basic separation and then passive components being added to perfect the signal is interesting. You could have time/pha... | |
| Y No YG ? It's a cost no object luxury product. Lots of money is spent on things that don't make it perform better and don't even make it look any better. It's pure vanity. You've got something that most people can't afford and that knowledge makes you l... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers I'm using a Bryston BP25 and benchmark dac1 along with a velodyne dd18. It's a very unsuperstitious solid state system and I'm not complaining about it at all. It's exactly what I wanted. I'm just saying that I think most people like a system t... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers I wonder if the new tweeter has made a difference in how they sound at lower volumes. I also wonder if they are voicing their home models more for moderate/low volume listening. I've got a pair of active 110s that are definitely at their best wh... | |
| Paper Based Speaker Cone Question Paper can be great. You should not disqualify a speaker because it has paper drivers. | |
| Missing the Old Days I'm a big fan of bigger woofers that aren't crossed over too low as well. In my mind 8" is the minimum woofer size that can give decent punch. 10" or more is better. A pair of 8" woofers is still fairly common and that can come close to a singl... | |
| Missing the Old Days Cerwin Vega is still around. JBL has some models available from MusicDirect.com that you might like. Klipsch is everywhere and they still make some pretty big floorstanders that I'm sure rock pretty hard. If I were looking for some big rocking ... | |
| Thiel Owners prof, you need to listen to just your sub without the speakers playing. Use the online tone generator to see if the sub is producing sound at midrange frequencies. If it is, something is probably wrong with it or the setup. In my opinion it's i... | |
| Thiel Owners I've wondered why I've found that using speaker level inputs on a sub frequently sound better to me than using the low level or sub inputs. In some cases, it's definitely been that the line-level source I was using couldn't run the two sets of in... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? So, yes it's obvious there is a heavy amount of subjectivity in this hobby. But I don't think it is entirely insurmountable subjectivityThis ambiguity surrounding what is subjective/objective and how people react to it makes this hobby great for ... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? This has been a stunning display of transparent nonsense. It boils down to a sales pitch similar to "all the cool kids are smoking lucky strikes, you should too." We have right-brained vs. left-brained and musical vs. amusical. People have to d... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? This is illustrating why I'm in camp one. I don't have the patience for all of the navel gazing and tail chasing that goes into trying to come up with my own personal definition of musical. It's obviously subjective. It's the perfect amount of ... |