lonemountain
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| Harman To Acquire B&W, Denon, Polk And Marantz From Masimo In $350 Million Deal Very large corporations owning small audio brands isnt a great plan. I worked at one of the bradns mentioned during the early 90s and while it was wonderul staff and wonderful internal people, the management above seemed very motivated by stock v... | |
| Harman To Acquire B&W, Denon, Polk And Marantz From Masimo In $350 Million Deal Is all china or India now. Most of those brands dont make anything in their home countries and the few that do make only a few of their small quantity highest end products there. The real thing of value in those brands is the car audio. There ... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @onhwy61 ATC actually did make an active crossover years ago, before they made the "amp packs" with everything built in. I’ve asked about making another one over the years, but calibrating a system properly is not easy. I use an Audio Preci... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @ei001h Sounds like your journey ended up in the right place. Ultimately the thing that makes ATC the MOST different is the low distortion drivers. This is is something both passive ad active users can appreciate when it helps them hear things... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @ei001h You’ve put forth the only argument that wins. It for this reason that we still build passives as many in the hi fi hobby love the ability to "craft their own" so to speak. The technical virtues of "the lowest distortion way" dont alway... | |
| !!!OK OK - I'm Big Enough To Admit I Was DEAD WRONG!!! Class D Doesn't Always Suck!!! I think judging am amp on class is indeed not wise, as I have a full on service department in this space I tried to build a good sounding Class D amp, Not easy at all. You still need a great front end, you still need a great power supply, you nee... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations I am the US importer. The actives will outperform the passives every time, not due to amplifier issues but do to control of phase. There is no way to control phase in a passive crossover. This a huge performance issue very few talk about. In ... | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? It requires a lot of knowledge and experience to know how to compare two products much less two brands. The only people who have this opportunity are studio techs who hook up gear and take it down for a living (for the visiting engineers in a com... | |
| Speaker set up for more than 1 person It was the NS series Yamahas not HS. And at the time (70s, 80s), Auratone was the king along with a wide variety of other speakers depending on budget. Tannoy was probably the king of fidelity, Auspurger the king of rock and roll in walls. Toda... | |
| Speaker set up for more than 1 person They have been here. ATC specifically has designed for wide dispersion as this is critical in larger studio control rooms where mutiple people are working on the recording (scoring recording) or you have a large console that has a lot of channels... | |
| Anyone have experience with the new ATC active bookshelf speakers? Not "midrangey" unless you prefer a smiley curve speaker. No quirk in the upper mids or low treble, they measure extremely flat. They went over extremely well at AXPONA this past week in the ATC room. We have a lot of reviews lined up and there... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. How very disappointing for me go on a really good rant about the wrong speakers! | |
| Speakers sound too bright. Why is everyone skipping over this is a dipole 1 foot away from the wall behind them? I dont care how long you burn them in, what treatment you use, the cables, the preamp- NOTHING will fix that "dipole close to the wall behind them" problem. If ... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. Im gonna take a guess and say the problem in this room is they are a dipole sending tons of energy (50% of its total output) on the wall behind the speakers. This energy is reflected back into the listening space with a delay that is created by th... | |
| SHIPPING speakers? @tomic601 Depends on what it is. Smaller to medium speakers in cartons (shipped on pallets), larger speakers and subs in crates. All of it is air freighted to me then shipped to TMR or? We occasionally do containers (sea freight) but this tak... |