larryi
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| TV between speakers: Curved Screen TV, help? Hurt? A friend of mine has a custom built room designed by Rives (acoustic design/engineering firm). Along the front wall where the speakers are located is a giant floor to ceiling hardwood reflector located dead center on the wall. This reflector is cu... | |
| Why do some audiophiles beat up McIntosh? I heard a current model (302?) high-powered solid state Mac amp on some high efficiency speakers. Yes, this is not the kind of speakers that amp is meant to run, but, this does give one an idea of how it sounds putting out very low power (how most... | |
| the difficult second Lp Warren Zevon's second album, the self titled "Warren Zevon" is, to me, his best album. His third album, "Excitable Boy" isn't bad either. | |
| Getting phantom image perfectly centered Making the distance between each speaker and your ears different will cause slight phase shift, particularly at higher frequencies, and unequal toe-in will also have an effect on phase. Changing the relative volume (using the balance control will ... | |
| Getting phantom image perfectly centered To be clear, you tested the components by switching the places of the left and right speakers and the image still skewed to the same side? Speaker imbalances/difference are apt to be more significant than any electrical component. I also presume y... | |
| Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of Michael Hurley: "Have Moicy" | |
| Harbeth speakers vs Audionote I am not an owner of either brands, but, I hang out a lot at a shop that carries both brands. The Harbeths have a tighter, more accurate bass response and deliver a reasonably detailed and lively sound while being on the warmer side compared to ma... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? As I have described in earlier posting, I like fullrange drivers used as wide range drivers in multi-way systems. One of the best for such applications is the old Jensen fieldcoils with the built-in power supplies (e.g. M-10). That driver in an op... | |
| The Audio Critic It must be quite the burden being the only sane person in a world full of delusional people. I must I have deluded myself into thinking that the ethical lapse of Mr.Aczel mattered; I was really against the religion he preached.It is amazing that h... | |
| Floor Stander with Small Footprint 7K - 15K I like the ProAc D40 mentioned above too. I don't know about specific models, but I have also like J.M Reynaud speakers (the ones I heard did NOT fit the floorstanding, narrow profile requirement). I would also add to the list of contenders the YG... | |
| The Audio Critic I suppose, like everything else, we can debate what constitutes "integrity." I for one would not call someone "[a] man of absolute integrity" when that man wrote a rave review of a speaker system (Fourier 1) in the Audio Critic without first discl... | |
| vintage versus modern speakers Hi Mapman,It has been a while since I heard Ohm/Walsh drivers, but, I would bet that they still sound terrific. Have you had the chance to hear Ohm's latest iteration of the Walsh driver? Of course they claim that their current speakers are vastly... | |
| vintage versus modern speakers If someone likes a particular sound, someone likes a particular sound. What is the "objective' criteria for superior or inferior? I don't see the point in claiming that someone else's taste is wrong or that mass delusion has gripped those nostalic... | |
| vintage versus modern speakers It is interesting how technological advances can be more readily applied in certain areas, but, not in others. We now have, and employ, the latest tools to analyze such instruments as the violin and yet, many of the best instruments remain those m... | |
| Fozgometer Have you tried connecting the meter to the output of the phonostage or the preamp? A lot of cartridges don't have enough output for the meter to work straight off the cartridge. |