kevinzoe
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| question about speaker placement. dead end room? From the looks of your picture the speakers are firing across the room width. I would bet that your seating position is right agains the wall - is this true?Have you considered placing the speakers on either side of what looks like a fireplace and... | |
| Subwoofer Set Up Check out the research on sub placement by Welti, Toole et all at Harman International. With two subs, try placing them at the mid points of each side wall as a starter. Also read Dr Floyd Toole's lastest book where he spends many pages considerin... | |
| Improve my system Bass traps because "small" listening rooms are dominated by bass peaks and nulls below the room's transition zone or Schroeder frequency which about 300-500Hz (which is only a difference of about 9-10 semitones).Room size (and budget) may dictate ... | |
| It is all about the ‘Room’, thinks Toole. Hi Buconero117,I am nearly finished and have taken my time to 'digest' each section. I find it a facinating book and obvious tool that all a'philes should have.The top topics that particularly interested me dealt with proving the conventional wisd... | |
| I need help with my Equipment addiction Bummer, your WAF is a serious limiting factor to contend with. Just a thought buy my DIY Skyline diffusors have been called 'art' by many visitors and they work very well acoustically too. Would appealing to her artistic side work? If you want inf... | |
| I need help with my Equipment addiction Equipment addiction you say??? Ever try your hand at room treatments? How good is any equipment if you don't have a room that allows equipment to show its stuff, warts and all? You may find that turning your attention / addiction to treating your ... | |
| Marchand Dusty & Jburidan - are you both using the Marchand XM44 because you've bypassed the internal xover within your speakers, OR are you using both the Marchand external xover PLUS the speaker's internal xover??? Care to elaborate?thanks. | |
| Marchand Drew - thanks for your very informative responses. At the risk of hijacking Stanwal's thread, let me ask a related question: If one wants to remove the low bass from the main speakers (which in my case has the woofer crossed over at 80Hz) and send... | |
| Bidat vs. Perfecwave MSB Playback Design You might also wish to consider Berkeley Audio Design's "Alpha DAC" which plays high res formats too.http://www.berkeleyaudiodesign.com/products2.htmlBest of all it's 'only' US$5,000 which I think is quite a savings over the Playback Desgin and li... | |
| How to tell if Acoustic Treatment is Needed? Ken in Calgary - it's Kevin in Toronto here.Some more thoughts for you:(1) Get your hearing tested. Men, moreso than women, and especially after 50, lose our hearing quicker. Best to know if or at what frequencies you may be challenged by. If it's... | |
| EMMS Labs CDSA vs. AA Capitole Reference SE Zenieth - have you listened to the EMM product yet and compared it to your Audio Aero Capitole Reference SE? If so I'd be interested in reading about your impressions.When I spoke with the North American importer, he said that one of his dealers s... | |
| Using CD player without Preamp? Tduffy1,I'm in the same situation you are - driving an amp directly from a CD player. In my experience only, I have compared the CD->AMP Vs CD->PRE->AMP combinations within my system using an Audio Aero Capitole MKII SE CD player, First S... | |
| Anyone have an opinion on the JL Gotham sub? Brent,I've seen Gotham advertisements now (Stereophile, TAS) so presumably your pre-order of it will be filled shortly. Please let us know what you think of it when you receive it.thanks,kevin | |
| Best stand mounted monitors Hi All,Thanks for your recent additions to this old thread. In the meantime I bought the Model 1 from FAB Audio which is a floor standing speaker, built a dedicated 'soundproof' music room in a new home and did some other system changes (amp + CDP... | |
| High End Integrated Choices also check out Unison Research and Pathos both from Italy . . . |