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| PROAC D48R Bass Booming The first step is always proper speaker placement. It is also one of the hardest and most time consuming pursuit. It is not enough to apply the rough generalization that--away from the corner, bass is reduced. You have to move the speaker inch ... | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium It is not clear whether you are doing a wide-ranging search from scratch, or whether you have narrowed your interest to a certain type of speaker or type of sound. Are there other none sonic requirements, such as those dictated by limited options... | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium What is the problem you have with beryllium drivers? Beryllium is toxic as a salt or oxide; the metallic form in the drivers is not a big concern as far as safety. In the manufacturing process, the metallic form is dangerous because of the manuf... | |
| Any reason not to place stand mounted speakers upside down? There should be no problems with mounting a speaker upside down, unless the woofer magnet assembly is being supported by an internal brace that is relying on gravity. That would be an unusal setup (most drivers are not supported internally. Harb... | |
| Great Plains Audio Thanks again Jond. I see it. It is my fault--I automatically close those types of pop up inserts and I did not realize their was a link there. I am going to ask them about the difference between the alnico magnet vs. the regular (ferrite?) versi... | |
| Non-rear ported Speakers There are many different designs that have been successfully implemented, while all design types have less successful examples. I am somewhat skeptical of any categorical judgment, such as Magico's claim than ANY ported design is defective. Basi... | |
| Great Plains Audio Thanks jond. I cannot find a "Shop Now" link on their main site, but, it is good to get an assurance that the other site is theirs. The bad news is that the other site lists more options than the main site, and an interesting option (the 604 wit... | |
| Cover Songs that are better than the Original Not necessarily better than the originals, but, I like these covers:Concrete Blond--Everybody KnowsOdetta--Times they are a Changin | |
| Cover Songs that are better than the Original Hendrix-All Along the WatchtowerRighteous Brothers-- Unchained MelodyRoy Orbison-- Love Hurts Willie Nelson and Daughter--Have You Ever Seen the RainYoko Ono--Someone Like You | |
| Higher End DACs tomic601,I own the ND 555 streamer/DAC with the 555 PS DR power supply and a Uniti Core ripper/hd server. I like how it sounds. I use to own their 555 CD player, which I thought sounded better than their servers, but, their current top-of-the-li... | |
| Anyone else never get tired of Billie Holiday? In terms of the artistry and raw power of the emotions she conveyed, there are few artists that compare to her. On top of that, her voice was pretty unique. The only artist with a similar voice was Marilyn Moore. Ms. Moore only recorded one alb... | |
| Emotive sira? I also own an Epifania, although it is now on loan to a friend. The Epifania is a wonderful linestage. It is quite different from the sound of the Sira, to the extent that it seems a bit odd that the same designer/builder was involved. The Epif... | |
| Is there a such too much power for speakers? I am more familiar with the Stradivari. I have helped with the setup of three systems using that speaker. The Elipsa looks like a slightly smaller version of the Stradivari. The Stradivari did not require high power to sound good. I don't expe... | |
| Emotive sira? A lot of linestages have multiple outputs that are controlled by the main volume control. I used the second output to run a multichannel ambience recovery/synthesis processor that creates 4 additional channels of information to simulate a large s... | |
| Is there a such too much power for speakers? Most of the amps I really like are low in power. This is the case with both solid state and tube gear. I particularly like low-powered tube amps. Of course, the speakers to match with such amps must be high in efficiency and must present a reas... |