larryi
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| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. There are several ways to play the wife game. There is the "sneak": I know someone who bought the cheapest Naim linestage, and when his wife was not home, he then snuck in the top-of-the-line model which looks almost identical to their cheapest m... | |
| Storage of other speakers in the room, shorting them while not in use? Myth or true? Here is the experiment--take an unconnected speaker and push on the woofer cone to feel how much resistance to movement there is. Now, connect a wire between the positive and negative terminal and push on the cone. You will feel resistance incre... | |
| Storage of other speakers in the room, shorting them while not in use? Myth or true? This might reduce the tendency of the cones of the unused speaker to vibrate from the sound put out by the active speakers. You are not "shorting" the speaker, but, rather, completing the circuit. When the circuit is complete, the movement of th... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? As someone above mentioned, most of these high-efficiency systems do not do really deep bass. That is one of the tradeoffs that attend going this route. For my taste, the very best woofers for a high efficiency system must be very agile to match... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. When one is deeply into something, acceptable prices can become crazy. An audio buddy is currently in the process of remodeling his summer place. He mentioned that the refrigerator he ordered will not be delivered till February 2023. I asked hi... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? I sort of think that 95-96 is at the low end of the range. My speakers are 99 db/w efficient, and friend calls that medium efficiency (his speakers are above 112 db/w efficient. It also matters how smooth and high is the impedance curve of the s... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? phusis, Thank you for an excellent description of what is most prized about the sound of high efficiency systems, particularly, horn-based systems. While good design of such systems will ameliorate midrange "peaky" or "nasal" colorations, such... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? I can see how it would be harder to control resonance of larger boxes. But, many of the designs that employ heroic measures to control resonance tend to sound a bit sterile, lifeless and lacking in "weight" (thin and anemic sounding). I have no ... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? There are many low efficiency speakers that are quite good sounding, but, that is despite being low efficiency--there is nothing favorable about that attribute. For example, Soundlab electrostatics, Magneplanar planar magnetic/ribbon, Falcon LS3/... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? There are good and bad examples of all kinds of speakers with different attributes. Assuming the speaker has a reasonably smooth and balanced frequency response, the efficient speaker has several particularly important advantages. The primary ad... | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito There is a magical two-word rebuttal that seems to cover all situations and appears to satisfy a large bloc of people when uttered. MoFi should simply intone: "Fake News!" | |
| Hyperacusis. Looking for recommendations I agree that Soundlabs would also be terrific for listening at modest levels, but, the models I really like are monsters in size and they look bigger than their specified dimensions would suggest. I don't know if you are still in the Virginia B... | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito I don't know the specifics of this experiment, but, I would bet it was simply a matter of running the signal through a commonly available analogue to digital converter that would turn the signal into 16 bit 44.1 khz sampling rate of CDs or the MP3... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. The core of my system is almost 20 years old, with only power treatment and my music server being added in the last five years. The speakers, linestage and amp are probably worth more now than when they were purchased because they are made with v... | |
| Hyperacusis. Looking for recommendations What are your other selection criteria, such as price, size, placement requirement/limitations, etc.? The best systems for playing softly are quite large horn systems, but, most of the good ones are not commercial models, and they are quite expen... |