mapman
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| Anyone try stuffing their ports? "Changing a ported design to a sealed without understanding design or knowing specs on driver etc shows a miss understanding of loudspeaker design. "It's redundant to say not understanding design shows a misunderstanding of design. Not much insigh... | |
| Cryo'ed LP's There is another thread about whether women are impressed by speakers.Of course we all know that cryo'ed records are the real cat's meow! | |
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| Anyone try stuffing their ports? "Why would you want too?"Because it is inexpensive, easy to experiment with and also easy to reverse/remove as desired.If it does not help, forget about it. If it does.... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000MK2 or Wyred SX1000MK2 Turbofc3s,Technically, the original non mkii ref1000's are essentially stock Icepower modules in a nice box like many and the current resale prices reflect that. I would not expect much if any difference, and an apples/apples comparison.mkiis have... | |
| Are audiophile speakers turn on for single women? paper,Congrats. That's a very well thought out assessment of how these things work in the real world! | |
| Anyone try stuffing their ports? Ckoffend,Can you provide some guidelines regarding extending some of the straws relative to others and what effect on the sound to expect as more straws are extended?I'm basically interested in guidelines for how to go about systematically tweakin... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000MK2 or Wyred SX1000MK2 So I wonder has anyone who owned BC ref1000mkII monoblocks actually heard and switched to similar Wyred or other less expensive Icepower amps?If so, also I'd be interested in knowing the speakers and pre-amp used as well.Thanks in advance. | |
| Anyone try stuffing their ports? "f a speaker was designed to operate with a port, how can it be correct to plug the port, thereby making it a virtually sealed box? "Plugging the port is an extreme case.The effective approach is to restrict the air flow through the port to variou... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present "i went down in size and bought Merlin TSM-mme"Good small monitors are a reasonable option to Maggies for many IMHO.Not exactly the same in terms of the nature of the sound, but a lot of the same strengths in a slightly different flavor.Good small... | |
| Anyone try stuffing their ports? I had B&W P6s with foam port plug that I used to good effect.I loosely obstruct the ports of my Dynaudio Contour 1.3mkiis and OHM 100S3 Super Walsh 2s in my wife's sunroom, which is 12X12 with cathedral ceilings in that the speakers are relati... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present 4est,No offense.People hear what they hear and think what they think.Thanks for clarifying. | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present "I can see how someone could switch from mag to Ohms, similar ambient information, but both are veiled IMO."4est, please elaborate a bit regarding how the OHMs are veiled in your estimation and which OHMs specifically you have heard that led to th... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present FWIW, the Maggie mg1c's I bought back in the 80's and ran for about 20 years came after a pair of original OHM Walsh 2s that I had acquired a few years prior. The Walsh 2s also stuck around for over 20 years until replaced by a new pair of Walsh 2... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present Triangle Titus XS + sub (still own).Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkII (still own)OHM Walsh (still own).Also B&W P6 but those were a totally different breed sound wise from Magnepan.Interesting the German Physiks mentioned above and the OHM Walsh speak... |