larryi
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| Picking Speakers 20k-30k Additional detail would be helpful, such as any placement restriction (can the speakers be placed well away from the back wall or side walls, or do they have to be in the corner), how far away is the seating area, is the priority ideal sound for a... | |
| High end speakers at low volume Many single-driver, high efficiency systems and horn-based systems do excel at low volume liveliness. But, many have a “peaky” or rough sound, so there are tradeoff you have to work around (meaning you should hear them first). For example, Z... | |
| Build a Faraday cage around your equipment. Do we even know that there would be a meaningful improvement in performance if there were a faraday cage in place around our gear? Is this a big engineering failure of manufacturers or a refusal to provide us a tinfoil hat for our stereo? I can ... | |
| Build a Faraday cage around your equipment. RFI/noise will find a way to ride into the cage from any wire entering the cage. My music server has a built in Faraday cage to isolate certain stages from noise entering or exiting the cage. The means of isolation are quite extraordinary. For ... | |
| Most amusing album or song titles Bellamy Bros.: "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold it Against Me." | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Setting at 93 degrees static does make sense--drag would lower the actual angle in play. | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? That hypothetical 92 degree ideal setting is not even that. As the Wallytools people point out, one has to set the 92 degrees when the stylus is actually dragging when the record is in motion. They utilize a special microscope and take measureme... | |
| Most amusing album or song titles Do comedy tracks count? I like the Austin Lounge Lizard song which packs every line with redundancies. It is set in the old west. Some of the redundancies are sort of subtle, such as "As the sun sets in the west. . ." (which other direction wou... | |
| horn or line array? Arion, I heard your speakers at Capital Audiofest. I am a fan/owner of a horn-based system, but, I like a lot of other types of speakers. I really liked your speaker, even if I don't think it sounds like any particular horn system. It is a BIG... | |
| horn or line array? The very best sounding systems I've heard were horn-based systems either using original Western Electric drivers or G.I.P. reproductions of such drivers. This means truly ancient technology, basically, early 1930s drivers. Most of the systems we... | |
| Perfect Vinyl Forever I own and occasionally use an Ultrasonic cleaner. Most of the time I clean with an old Nitty Gritty machine that I converted to totally manual operation. I spin the record by hand to "scrub" in both directions and I then thoroughly vacuum away t... | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? Unless one is considering extraordinarily difficult to drive speakers and a requirement to play at extremely loud levels, I would expect 100 watts to be plenty, and, power is not a concern. However, amps are critical to the sound of ANY speaker a... | |
| Level adjusting speaker drivers A big pet peeve of mine—speakers without L-Pad control of driver levels. It is simply amazing how much a speaker can be transformed or made to work well in a tough room by tuning it with such controls. Yes, they can be incorrectly used and that ... | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. With that kind of money, it makes sense to first go to a big audio show. There are vast differences in sonic approaches and most of them are within your budget. After you hear stuff that you liked, if you report your preferences, people here can... | |
| Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge I heard all these speakers at Deja Vu (I don’t work there). I have heard JM Reynaud speakers a while ago and liked them a lot too. My favorite speakers are high efficiency horn systems or systems using fullrange drivers as wide range drivers in ... |