mapman
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| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "Imagine the impact of the tympani had you been sitting closer."I can only imagine, but I would propose that it is possible the impact could be less sitting closer if sitting on a more rigid floor or foundation. Its possible that being higher up a... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave From Wikipedia:"A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation."So if it is in the source but not heard, it is an alteration and ca... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "removal of the lowest source frequencies (requiring the greatest energy) from an upper bass driver and the main amplifier"That is usually a good thing and common with a good sub setup.Also true with good full range one box designs that are not un... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Frazeur1,I decided to first try tubes I could walk into Guitar Center down the road and buy for $20 each first. The Groove Tube Gold 12AX7s I bought solved the problem. Also, surprisingly, I am hard pressed to hear a difference from teh previous A... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "some like low bass and others do not"I'll go out on a limb and propose that many that like good sound and do not like low bass need to hear it done well and not like it is done most of the time. | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "Electronica artists have the freedom to create music without the limitations of traditional instruments. They can be creative in any octave they want and I don't want to miss out."Very good point!Those that shun anything electronically produced w... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "When you hear the rumble, T-Rex may be near, and that is exciting, know?"Or if not, maybe just Tweety bird..... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "Sit mid hall or balcony and you won't experience the visceral impact of low bass."Often but not always true.Sitting at Dress Circle balcony level in Carnegie Hall, I felt the visceral impact of the tympanis when struck to the greatest degree I re... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave Often one will chose to not worry about it initially then tackle it later once all the rest sounds right.True that most can detect the lowest normally audible frequencies but not the highest as ears age. | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave Because part of the music occurs there normally with a good recording or live and this is the " high end" audio site where everything that you can or should be able to hear matters.Having said that, it does not in practice really matter to many.I ... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 1.1 vs Totem Model 1 The Proacs seem very nice, but on a cautionary note, assuming the Proacs are tube friendly from a load perspective (most small monitors like these that also show good bass extension, like Dynaudios, tend to not be tube friendly in my experience, b... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound.....Anyone????? CK,Watts/power alone is solely about how loud it can/should go and not useful to determine much else.Other characteristics of amps and how they interact with speakers, like damping, current delivery, transient response, and other aspects design an... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 1.1 vs Totem Model 1 I am both a Dynaudio and Totem fan, but I would not look fist to either Dynaudio or Totem for use with a 15W tube amp, but having said that, integrate a good powered subwoofer and offload most of the low end work to that and you might get by if yo... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems TIm,That's good to know.I don't doubt many good amps would sound quite excellent with both. I just wonder though if any one is truly optimal in both cases or if the two extremes require different amp characteristics for optimal results in both cas... | |
| Synth/Electronic LP recommendations I picked up "The Mix" by kraftwerk recently. It jumps up near the top of may favorite albums in this category immediately along with "Mix Up" by Patrick O'hearn.Both have outstanding sound quality."The Mix" does a nice job of taking Kraftwerk's cl... |