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| Obvious Epiphany What direction the sound appears to be coming from, including the phantom cener image, is dependent on two cues—the relative loudness of the sound and the ‘timing” cue—how much how much sooner one signal arrives vs. the other. By moving closer to... | |
| How noisy is my line? Audio Prism Noise Sniffer I saw the meter reading and demodulated noise from the meter speaker on a dedicated line running from a very expensive dedicated subpanel. There was still, somewhat high level of noise, that was substantially reduced by a powerline conditioner. ... | |
| list of speakers Some other brands that make good speakers, in my opinion, include Songer Audio and Pure Audio Project. | |
| How noisy is my line? Audio Prism Noise Sniffer Google “powerline noise analyzer” or “powerline noise sniffer.” The typical meter has a numerical readout in some units, such as parts per thousand, and they also have a mini speaker that plays a demodulated form of the noise so you can identify ... | |
| list of speakers A nice list with a LOT of labor behind it. But as others have mentioned, there are many brands missing, including some major manufacturers. For just the letter A, I notice several brands that I like a lot thar are missing—Acapella Acoustics, Ari... | |
| 2a3 ? When my local Audio Note desler first set up the ultra expensive AN-E SEC, he chose Audio Note’s Kageki (parallel SET 2a3 amp). He used the same amp when setting up the top AN-J model. The sound of both speakers was magnificent. i own the Kagek... | |
| 2a3 ? I have heard some SET amps running the big transmitter tubes, including a 1610 tube, and I have not heard any that surpassed the lower powered SETs when playing speakers of high enough efficiency such that no amp was being forced to play out of th... | |
| 2a3 ? There are fans of the romantic sounding midrange of the 300b, who will not listen to anything else, while there are people like me, who like the tube, but not as much. You simply must listen to a variety of amps using the various tube types to ma... | |
| 2a3 ? My speakers are 99 db/w efficient. I own a pushpull 45 amplifier that works well with these speakers, but, I don’t play music that loud so I can’t say how happy others would be with my setup. I have a parallel single ended 2a3 amp that also deli... | |
| 2a3 ? I like 2a3’s, provided the speaker is efficient enough. The. 300b tends to deliver a richer sounding midrange and a warm bump in the upper bass that is part of the “magic” of that tube, but, compared to the 2a3, the 300b sounds murky and not as d... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs To keep this going, I would add Ry Cooder's soundtrack to the movie "Paris Texas." Beautifully atmospheric sound. His other albums are also well recorded--check out "Meeting by the River " and "Paradise and Lunch" (I have, and like, both the ori... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? That video was interesting and captured the fundamental difference in subwoofer approaches. While I generally avoid subwoofers, I have helped with installations using them and I agree that REL is good at integrating the woofer with the main syste... | |
| Would you buy a pair of speakers by just looking at the measured freq. response? Many years ago, a magazine did a review of a Dunlavy speaker with a remarkably flat response, both on and off axis, very little resonance evident in the waterfall plot, and the closest thing I ever saw to the ideal impulse response. I thought it ... | |
| What about Dan Clark? A number of years ago, when i was contemplating new phones (I have Stax 007 phones, I looked at Dan Clarks’ electrostatic models and Stax’s SR 009 phones. I preferred the Dan Clark model because it was not as lean sounding as the Stax phones (on ... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs There are a number very good recordings by Joan Baez,such as “Diamonds and Rust.” I have a particularly good sounding reissue of her “Farewell My Angelina” put out by Cisco Records (an audiophile label that consistently delivers good records. Ano... |