karls
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| tube or ss preamp + amp for Dynaudio Contour 1.3? I agree with Xmore, an excellent choice. | |
| Does subwoofer + bookshelve=full range speaker? Duke, haven't heard it but sounds like I should. My only concern is that 35Hz is often not low enough, even for an average-sized monitor speaker. The RELs will often be rolled off in the 20's even with relatively small monitor speakers. Perhaps yo... | |
| Does subwoofer + bookshelve=full range speaker? While the above points about sub integration are valid, they fail to mention one of the biggest advantages of the sub/sat approach: the ability to site the sub to optimally deal with standing wave problems, and to site the sats to image optimally.... | |
| coupling monitors to a stand As above, Blu-tak or similar, available at most office supply stores. It will hold the speakers very securely, no worries about them getting knocked off, is an excellent coupler and damper, and is removable and reusable with no permanent damage to... | |
| Taming/Damping Electrostat Backwave Has anyone ever tried mounting maggies or stats inside a wall that divides two different rooms, so that you get a monopolar wave in each? Just curious if anyone has tried it and what your results were, in particular whether the reflections from on... | |
| Why bi-wiring is bad I just went and looked at the Jon Risch link above, and while he has some good points, it is very oversimplified and doesn't acknowledge any of the limitations of biwiring, namely:(1) the obvious potential for intentional and unintentional respons... | |
| Any opinions on NAD quality? I think quality has declined some over the years as production has shifted more into China (a very sorry state of affairs in all kinds of products, IMO). But I've had MUCH worse luck with Sony over the years, in all kinds of products. | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? A couple comments about concentrics: It has always seemed to me that the presence of a moving cone surrounding the tweeter would actually frequency-modulate the tweeter's boundary reflection signal, at least in the range where the tweeter is not b... | |
| Various Wadia players.. can someone order them One note of caution, when I was looking for a used wadia I talked to the factory and was advised that the transport in the 6 is obsolete and cannot be replaced if it ever breaks. Of course, that's pretty unlikely, but it's something to think about... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? GREAT post, Roy! | |
| Why low sensitivity speakers? As usual, I agree with Twl. The problem has to do with two different materials properties: STIFFNESS and DAMPING. These are two entirely different things, but you would be amazed how much confusion there is about them. I have seen plenty of refere... | |
| Why low sensitivity speakers? To Unsound: to use my analogy above, the point to a horn is that the air is unable to "escape" away from the radiating surface of the driver, that is, to just move to the side and out of the way of the driver, thus unloading it. In a horn, the gra... | |
| An electrocompaniet tale Are you sure you had the switch right? They ARE upside-down, you know, since the Brits love to drive on the wrong side of the road....Just kidding! | |
| Subwoofer placement questions The length of the wire doesn't affect the signal timing at all; it travels at the speed of light. So don't worry about that. The more important thing is if there is a path length difference between speakers-to-ears and subs-to-ears. That will affe... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? I am not about to slam on Joseph's speakers, because I think that he is correct on many points and certainly the results speak for themselves: a very clean and clear decay and very flat frequency response. These are tremendously important factors,... |