jon_5912
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| Your experience of moving to two subs @curtdr, Honestly subs are more for movies or just messing with. They do make a difference with some music but if you mostly listen to music that doesn't have much below 40 hz you don't need them. If you want good bass the most important thing i... | |
| Your experience of moving to two subs I've just started playing with this in a PC system. I'm buying small subs off ebay for cheap and now have 4. 2 tiny PSB sub series 100s and 2 Episode 8" Evo subs. Episode is a custom install brand and has terrible resale value because nobody kn... | |
| How To Keep Cat Off Stereo Equipment? This is a question for Michael Vick. | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? I think it's about exclusivity and avoiding comparison. If you price something high enough hardly anyone will ever hear it or be able to compare it to other products. Bose is famous for requiring their products to be displayed in separate areas ... | |
| What is the proper loudness for listening? There's a relationship between distance, volume, and reflected sound. You can tell the difference between someone talking 3 feet away and someone yelling 50 feet away even if the volume is the same. If what you're hearing sounds like someone pla... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? Holt's main system had a pair of active ATC 50 towers, the anniversary edition I believe. I'm pretty sure they were sold here on Audiogon after he died. | |
| Injecting one sub to Benchmark system… The idea behind running the headphone out for the sub is that having the pre-outs running two sets of wires at the same time and into 2 amplifiers at the same time is harder for the dac to power than a single set of wires and amp. Running from th... | |
| Injecting one sub to Benchmark system… I was in this situation in about 2006 with a dac1 and a sub. The new models may be different but I thought back then that I really lost something by having the DAC output going to both an amplifier and a sub. I'd at least experiment with getting... | |
| Real world Loudspeakers what does very good cost ? I bought a pair of Thiel Viewpoints off ebay for a few hundred bucks. I'm listening nearfield and it's sublime. | |
| Thiel Owners I recently got some viewpoints for a few hundred bucks off ebay. I'm enjoying them way beyond what a normal person should be allowed. | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? At some point you make peace with your inner cranky old man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgVgkrcqhk | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? I can confirm that the Snap AV sub is a good quality littlle sub. It's got good output down to 37hz, pretty much done by 30hz. For an 8" sub for $112 on ebay it's a steal. Gloss black box, good controls, I wonder if all custom install only bra... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often Class D has high power and no audible distortion. Amplifier distortion is no longer a factor. High power class D amps more than make up for the difference in dynamic contrast between low and high efficiency speakers. High efficiency speakers ha... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often Class D is going to make high sensitivity speakers obsolete. Amplification is a solved problem and the only thing left is to make it cheaper. The high end audio world has to a decent degree accepted that the Benchmark amp is essentially perfect.... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? When it comes to big vs little subs and one vs many, I don't care. I just want the best performance for the money. I already have a Velodyne dd18, Infinity Intermezzo 1.2, and the tiny PSB. One thing that I know is that it's impossible to get f... |