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| speaker cable and speaker's in room response Add enough capacitance and you will loose highs.My maggies come with 1ohm resistors to put in series with the HF panel to do the same thing.Short answer? Yep.Buy yourself some 24ga wire, run 50 ft of it to each speaker.It'll sound awful. | |
| Tweeters - beryllium vs esotar Just realized you wrote Brylliom in your post, but not title. did you mean Berrylium?Berrylium is a very light metal and if fabrication was not an issue, would probably be good for those liking metal dome tweeters....I have always found them a lit... | |
| Tweeters - beryllium vs esotar Metalurically speaking, what (alloy?) is Esotar? | |
| Non-current limiting power conditioners For various ..... political .....reasons, I'd avoid Monster.My Panamax is decent, good protection levels, several zones and an isolation transformer. Also protection for phone and small dish / cable. AND, as if that wasn't enough, a volt and amp m... | |
| Most expensive Once you have factored in the room, supporting electronics, building/permit costs and land to build it all on, you'd end up talking some real money. | |
| Plasma speakers anyone with info? What anyone prefers is OK by me! My entire professional career in semiconductor processing / fabrication has been spent around an absolute AlphaBet soup of Chemistry. I will NOT have any Fluorine or Fluorinated compounds in my house.With the possi... | |
| New Adcom GFA-555 se - Special Edition When my cube (Carver) died, I went shopping. I was strictly at the low end of the $ scale.....and my hi-end store had a 555 on the used rack. Tempting, but ultimately no-go. I think it would have driven my panels fine, but I was a little timid buy... | |
| Plasma speakers anyone with info? Where I work.....a large Semiconductor Manufacturer, we use SF6 in plasma etchers...to etch Silicon. I wouldn't want a cylinder in MY house! Not to mention the EPA showing up to monitor emissions from my Stereo, of all things. My cats NEVER went n... | |
| Non-current limiting power conditioners Care buying a used Power Conditioner is urged. The MOVs, Metal Oxide Varistors, used to shunt power to ground can do so only so many times than are 'worn out'. I would tend to avoid a used conditioner, except perhaps, in the case where NO surge pr... | |
| To open a thor TA 1000 MK II you first... PLEASE be careful with any metal chips generated by using an easy out or the 'grab it'. Any chips get in the wrong place and ZAP! You may want to have a vacuum cleaner standing by with a small tip. | |
| Speakers connections on ASL 1009??? Just so long as they are both connected the same way, it simply doesn't matter. Music is A/C.Swapping BOTH will produce an 'absolute' phase change which is beneficial on some music. Some amps/pres, have an absolute phase switch. My PSAudio is one,... | |
| PERFECT 10w x 18d x 9h room, any good? Any basement room will have concrete or stone under whatever is used inside the walls. Floor is likewise concrete, no matter what you are walking on.Also, you never mentioned the ceiling. Open joists? Drop ceiling w/acoustic tiles?With 9feet of ce... | |
| PERFECT 10w x 18d x 9h room, any good? Can't argue with that! Too small IS too small and that size brings some awful problems of its own. I had my Maggies in a large closet once....about 11 x11x 8 and it was the worst. I had to swap them L/R to get the image correct...10x18 is pretty s... | |
| PERFECT 10w x 18d x 9h room, any good? Undertow, there is a reason for the phi ratio. This is much more than just 'math', which I find most people irrationally shy away from. I am not going to give a history / math lesson, tempting as it might be, but the phi ratio is one of those 'per... | |
| PERFECT 10w x 18d x 9h room, any good? Concrete walls? Concrete floor? What kind of ceiling?Any windows? Stairs/stairwell or any attached spaces...thin doors to laundry or other service area?All play a part. but you start with the basic dimensions. If concrete walls, best of luck and a... |