jon_5912
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| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? It's completely accurate, just not usual. High performance audio requires dealers to exist. Differences are generally subtle and it's important for there to be places to figure out what the differences are. Most dealers have disappeared. Wheth... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? @millercarbon the people who will have a big problem with this are the bungholes who want to use the dealer services for free and then buy off the internet. Those of us who would prefer to have and support local dealers won't have a problem with ... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? It makes sense for businesses to charge for anything of value they provide. The ability to demo gear has value. I really like the idea of charging since people who want to try something out at the store and then go buy it at the cheapest place o... | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? The relatively small enclosure space of a car is a big part of it but so is the nearfield aspect. You can sit a lot closer to most speakers than people think. I've used floorstanders on each side of my desk in a bunch of situations and it's very... | |
| Thiel Owners How many different materials did Thiel make cabinets out of over the years? I know most are MDF but my 3.7s are curved plywood(I'm pretty sure, some kind of layered, curved wood product, very rigid.) and aluminum front. The Powerpoints were alum... | |
| Why does a dent to a tweeter not affect sound quality? It has an affect but it's not always noticeable. I remember a speaker that had the grills on that I could clearly tell had missing highs. I took off the grill and found the tweeter was pushed completely in. I pulled it out and it sounded normal... | |
| Thiel Owners I don't have a lot of experience with many different Thiels but my favorites are probably my 2 2s. My 3.7s are technically better but they're kind of a pain. I'm currently between amps and now am trying to find reasonably priced, high powered, a... | |
| An ideal (minimal) 2.1 setup The size of the woofer matters a lot. I've never found little bookshelf speakers satisfying for rock. Little speakers + subs can have the same frequency response as large floorstanders, and can be comparable on some types of music, but nothing l... | |
| Why has focal raised their prices so much on Sopra line We're more like soviet russia now, it's not what you want, it's what you can get. I recently bought a small boat to take the kids on and went looking for an outboard. I'm in Northeastern IL and I couldn't find a 20hp outboard. I found a single ... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Judging by this thread I'd say low sensitivity speakers have the advantage of not having an hysterical cult following that refuses to accept that what is most important to them isn't necessarily what is most important to everyone. | |
| ATC and Loki I'm trying to make an abstract argument rather than personalize this and I don't think my personal experience is all that relevant. I've got a few systems. I've got ATC 110s in a family room system, Thiel 3.7s in what I'd call a den I guess, and... | |
| ATC and Loki How do you properly solve the problem of speakers not sounding right because they're not being played at accurate volume? | |
| ATC and Loki I don't mean they lack accurate bass, just that they sound like they do at low listening levels. It only makes sense for accurate reproduction at inaccurate levels to sound inaccurate. It is inaccurate. You can make it sound more accurate by co... | |
| ATC and Loki The downside to low level listening to accurate speakers is a lack of bass. It only sounds right if you're listening at levels closer to realistic for a real performance. | |
| Average Price Spent for Speakers ~ 1999 - Acoustic Research 303 - $400 - 2001 - Vienna Acoustics Haydn - $900 - 2002 - Infinity Intermezzo 2.6 - $1,600 - 2004 - B&W N804 - $3,000 - 2006 - B&W N802 - $5,500 ~ 2010 - Vienna Acoustics Bach Grand ($600 pair), Mozart Grand ($4... |