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| Norah Jones a tinge short I am not a fan of the singer, but, that aside, I did expect the CD to be well recorded, given that everyone was using it at CES a few years ago. I found it to be quite poor as far as the miking of the vocals. The rest of it sounded decently record... | |
| For Past & Present Sonus Faber Stradivari Owners A friend has Strads in a room that I would guess is about 16' x 25'. This is however, a dedicated, custom-built, Rives-designed room. These speakers sound very good. I would call them well-rounded speakers that can do everything right and sound go... | |
| Sound proofing floor Green glue appears to be the most commonly used adhesive in soundproofing projects. A friend has a Rives-designed dedicated room which used a lot of that stuff. | |
| Sound proofing floor Check out the following site for advice:http://www.soundproofing.org/index.htmlYour walls will also carry vibration to the structure below, so soundproofing could be a pretty big project. Good luck. | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Crem1 and Thommas, I don't think we have a big difference of opinion. You both use RCMs and steam cleaners. I also use both, though I rarely find a record so dirty I need to avail myself of the steam cleaner. But, for me, the RCM is the essential ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Thommas,I think R/O water works fine. I use it to clean my records. I would bet that most other forms of demineralized water would work fine too (distilled, cation/anion exchange that is not based or replacing water hardening minerals with salt). ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? The statement that distilled water is better than R/O water is factually wrong. Most of the distilled waters one can purchase contain FAR more minerals than R/O water, particularly the magnesium and calcium carbonates and the sulphate compounds th... | |
| Hardwood floors Sound treatments I have a lot of rooms that were acoustically acceptable with very minimal "treatment." Where audiophiles are involved, rooms can easily be overtreated and sound unnatural and sterile. So, generally speaking, go slowly with any approach to treatmen... | |
| Experts: Why is preamp important? I don't know about your particular HT receiver, but, most of the HT processors and receivers I've heard, including those pushing $10k are very disappointing -- brittle, unnatural and unpleasant. If you are serious about good audio (not primarily h... | |
| Considering a change. Avantgarde for Wilson. As others have noted, these are quite different speakers. Both can be quite fussy about setup and precise location. But, if your overall concern was with excessive brightness, there is no question that the Wilsons would be the wrong direction. Add... | |
| Speakers that have wide horizontal dispersion Try experimenting with your existing speakers. If you go with extreme toe-in, you can effectively improve coverage. If the left speaker is aimed at the viewer/listener on the extreme right side, that listener will get a loud signal from the left s... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Piedpiper,I own a Titan/Vector/Basis Debut combination feeding a Viva Fono phonostage (tube based). I like the "quickness" of the Titan and its wide open top end, and its very precise and unequivocal placement of instruments. I had the chance to l... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Thomas,Thanks for sharing your observations. It appears that you personally favor the Phantom and the DaVinci. A friend has the Phantom and a Basis Vector, so I've heard both with a Lyra Titan and a Transfiguration Orpheus. I have never so much as... | |
| Why Can't Tubes Be Mass-Produced Cheaply? I don't know of any current production small signal tubes that better vintage tubes, and it is not just a matter of old tubes being better when driven hard. I have some old Tungsol 6sn7 roundplates that measure very weak on my tube tester. In my a... | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? Rmaurin,I don't have the VTA adjustment mechanism. I have made a set of spacers out of 1/2" PVC pipe that have been filed down to different heights. The spacers differ in height by .3 mm (measured on a set of calipers). This difference is easy to ... |