jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| OMG - Room Acoustics are Critical - WAF be dam-ed!. When it comes to the environment the most important thing in my experience has been to live in a house made out of wood. My first house was brick and plaster. It was impossible to get good sound there. I made dozens of bass traps and lots of ot... | |
| Thiel Owners Just hooked up the Viewpoints to my computer system. They're on the B speaker output of my 2001 Creek 5350SE. Audio is from PC through AudioQuest dragonfly red. The A output is on my 2010ish VA Mozart Grands. I've got $7k MSRP worth of speaker... | |
| Thiel Owners I just bought a pair of viewpoints off ebay for a few hundred bucks. They've been there for a while. I'm trying to stop being a dick on the internet but that's a great driver combo/crossover in a metal box. And I'm just buying it because I know... | |
| Headphone amp and dac advice needed I recently got the Dan Clark Aeon Noires and a Schiit Magni for the office. I already had a Fiio X7 I bought years ago. I've never been much of a headphones guy, I bought some Sennheiser HD 590s ~15 years ago but they broke. I bought some Sen... | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music For amplified live music ATC is hard to beat. They're better at high volume. They also manage bass better than most brands. This is one of those things that you need to experience and live with long enough to stop being emotional about it. A... | |
| Just received my B&W 802's: One tweeter doesn't work - HELP! There is a tiny wire to the coil and since the coil moves the wire constantly flexes and eventually will break. It may be visible, maybe need a magnifying class. My guess is that it's not fixable, at least not without specialized tools. I've ha... | |
| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair I haven't listened to them and I wouldn't if I had the opportunity. They're a product priced at a point where they don't have to compete. And that's the point I think. Competition avoidance. It's super uninteresting. Throw in a bunch of crazy... | |
| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair luxury = marketing to idiots. It's selling the sizzle with no steak. It's been around a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing They're far too expensive for any dealer to have demo models so hardly anyone has ever heard them. That means they don't have to perform well. Someone with a lot of money who wants "the best" will buy them regardless of performance and some smal... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel - they sound great in bad rooms. I put my 2 2s in a reflective living room in a townhouse. It was a second system, not something I put effort into. Yeah, if you stand a foot away and change elevation you can hear dramatic changes. Oth... | |
| Thiel Owners Maybe some Thiels are bright but a big chunk of that is about something else. Maybe personal or political or oven some sort of ethnic thing. They're mostly not bright and mostly not that hard to drive. My 2 2s were slightly warm hooked up to a ... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? I got a pair of custom ATC 110s from a classified ad. They're around 15" tall and 100 lbs a piece. | |
| What does a subwoofer solve? This has probably already been said but a sub, or subs, can solve the problem of placement. The best location for bass is unlikely to be the bast place for the rest of the spectrum. In my opinion the ideal situation is to have large speakers wi... | |
| Thiel Owners 3.7s have the crossover housed in a little compartment in the bottom separate from the main box. Thiels are "small signal systems" but they're so good at it. My guess is that nobody alive today could design a better version of the 3.7s for anywh... | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? A lot of people think so. It just depends on what is important to you. I'm never selling my Thiels. I can't be sure that I like them because of the time/phase coherence but I have no interest in changing. There's a lot of discussion of this on... |