livinon2wheels
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| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters I bought two pair of ADC 303AX speakers a while ago and upgraded both of them with soft dome tweeters and rebuilt crossovers and it totall transformed those speakers into something that was quite listenable and even desirable. One pair served in m... | |
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? lets hear it for cannabis...it is partly how I survived college...and it may be part of how I navigate old age. We will see. Right now, not at all. | |
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? Thank you for posting your thoughts...I feel your frustration at a profound level as I just hate what marketing departments are doing to obfuscating real understanding of what a given product actually offers. Now when I evaluate a new product I lo... | |
| Preamp with separate volume control for each channel? I have no clue if this idea works for you, but check out the Emotiva PT1 or PT2. Either one will give you a decent DAC, preamp, and pretty darned good balance control that can be set via the remote control for pretty accurate settings of channel b... | |
| Preamp Output Completely Different with Tube Amplifier versus Solid State Amplifier Maybe you have discovered that Solid state amps are just cleaner and with essentially zero audible artifacts...I realize that is an unpopular opinion but you have presented the evidence here in a fairly pronounced way that this is so. I understan... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? FWIW, since I am replacing everything that was in my prime system with 'reasonable' SOTA compnents, I am expecting to drop 50-65K. I am still pondering speaker choice and final amplification and processor choice but it will be in that range. I hav... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? FWIW, since I am replacing everything that was in my prime system with 'reasonable' SOTA compnents, I am expecting to drop 50-65K. I am still pondering speaker choice and final amplification and processor choice but it will be in that range. I hav... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? FWIW, since I am replacing everything that was in my prime system with 'reasonable' SOTA compnents, I am expecting to drop 50-65K. I am still pondering speaker choice and final amplification and processor choice but it will be in that range. I hav... | |
| GoldenEar T66 vs. Legacy Focus XD I really want to hear a pair of Focus SEs...My dad had a pair of signatures that sounded really good except their low bass content was not that great to my ears. I want to try their bigger brother and see if they satisfy. I had a pair of VMPS Towe... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? It seems to me that what is desired is a mostly flat response without favoring any specific frequency or any frequency band that is a subset of the 20-20k band. That said, I am sure many of you have seen the so called idealized response curve that... | |
| Impedance - The most ignored and useful measurement tool @lanx0003 Here is an easy way to remember what happens in an LC circuit: Remember the phrase ELI the ICE man. Voltage leads current in an inductive circuit and Current leads Voltage in a capacitive circuit. Helpful tool to remember. When you first... | |
| Network Switches @jnorris2005 - I agree with you...my only concession to the other side of this question that IF there is inadequate filtering in the streamer or receiver or whatever is connected to the home network, then noise carried on the Cat 5 or 6 cable or p... | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought I gave up on analog for the most part long before the house burned last april. That said, I understand that for some people, analog is a ritualistic thing...cleaning the record, getting up every 20 minutes to turn it over, putting it away in its p... | |
| Would like to get more bass out of my B&W 801 series 2 speakers Ok I am going to throw out an option not yet considered... Due to the fact you listen a low levels, could the lack of apparent bass be due to the lack of appropriate low frequency equalization to make up for the low levels you listen? Think of the... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers I have always believed that good audio gear is on balance a lot less trouble that any woman I have known including my current wife. Somebody once pointed out to me that audio gear doesn’t keep you warm at night, but I beg to differ, especially if ... |