kr4
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| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? There are no guarantees. I have heard of people resorting to balanced cables for much shorter lengths because their situations involve lots of EMI. (Do you live near a radio/TV transmitter?) Recording/mastering studios have miles of cables all inf... | |
| subwoofers w/room correction Marty is spot-on. The auto setup on the Velodynes is grossly inferior to a manual setup but both are limited to a single microphone position and only account for frequency response correction.The JL is a pretty simply single frequency parametric E... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? I run 10meter interconnects, balanced and unbalanced, in Manhattan and have no noise problems with either. FWIW.Kal | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? No answer is possible without knowing (1) the output current abilities of your preamp and (2) how much EMI noise there is.Kal | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Eldartford wrote: The effect is to put the musicians in your room as opposed to the usual approach of transporting you to some recording venue. Bryoncunningham wrote: I think you are right about this. So, whether you find this approach to multich... | |
| Two-channel is inferior to multi-channel, no? Avgoround wrote: If you're into sound coming from all around you, and don't mind the overall refinement of the recording likely deteriorated a bit, I don't think you have much to stand on in this argument. You offer that same specious argument abo... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Bryon, I agree. There are, also, terrible stereo recordings. Any technology can be misused or used tastelessly.Kal | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Niacin, in a real world live performance, sound does come from all around you. That is what accounts for the differences in the sound of a performance in a small club, a concert hall, a gymnasium and an outdoor stadium. It is, also, those differen... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Niacin wrote: Having music coming at me from all angles is as unnatural an experience as I can imagine.I do not generally care for such either but that statement indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals and advantages of multichannel ... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Cine 100, I was distinguishing between multichannel for music and multichannel for home theater. Without doubt, MCH HT is the volume mover for dealers these days and those that still sell a bit of audio tend to sell stereo.What is the issue for me... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? It's too bad that more dealers don't try to promote higher end (2) channel systems as an alternative to surround sound. Although, the current "norm" of multi-channel design provides a niche for me!Really? I have rarely ever found a high-end dealer... | |
| Squeezeboz Touch and high rez files The Touch, itself, cannot handle a 192kHz file at all. It is the SqueezeServer on the PC or Mac that will downsample the file to a format acceptable to the player. It will downsample to lower bitrates for other SB players.However, if you try to pl... | |
| Squeezeboz Touch and high rez files I know nothing about Macs but the SBT plays 24/96 files and 24/192 files (downsampled to 24/96) from my PC wirelessly.Kal | |
| Using Oppo as DAC? The Oppos have USB inputs but they are moderately restrictive in what they will accept.Kal | |
| When have A/B comparisons led you astray? Same mechanism. Neural adaptation and it is a common source of bias in long term even more than with A/B comparisons.I recall a study done at a hifi show. Subjects made a blind preference choice between two options (speaker vs. speaker, or tube am... |