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| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? I auditioned Gallo 3.1 refs and liked them but preferred both OHMs and Quad ESL. The OHMs are a fraction of the cost of QUAD ESLs I preferred.The Gallos and OHMs have some similarities but the OHMs are smoother and more balanced top to bottom. Gal... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? "Mapman - what you're saying makes me think it'd be great to audition a pair of these before buying, but is that possible?"You pay up front, audition in your home for several months (the only reliable way) and then can return for money back if not... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? Coverto, The flip side of omnis (directional designs) is that it is perhaps more like what one might hear if listening at very close distance to the player at a live performance where you receive most of the sound directly from the instrument bein... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? Omni directional speakers are just that, sound is radiated in multiple directions. Only a small % of the sound emitted from the part of the driver facing you reaches your ears directly. The rest reaches your ears indirectly as reflections off the ... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? There are lots of directional monitors capable of eliciting awe...if you sit right in the sweet spot. Same true of directional floorstanders.Good omnis can awe listening from most any location and hence can awe a room full of people all at the sam... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? The largely but not fully omni MWTs a couple of feet in front of you will work very well, better than most any other design I can think of, for casual listening from that chair. You will mostly likely hear a coherently imaging soundstage beyond th... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- "You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order."Actually, probably just buying an album alone these days qualifies you but, yes, the cleaning and playing parts are likely then as well.Also, if you actually spend time reading ... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? " The micro walsh will play fine in an 11x14 room. no worries,"Most likely.A foot or so out from rear wall will help with imaging depth as with most any speaker design. Micro Walshes do have a very small footprint to help facilitate this if possib... | |
| full range close to wall positioning The new BLue Circle PEnnies are designed to go close to walls.Disclaimer: haven't heard these yet but am intrigued by the design. | |
| Which matters more, DAC or transport? The easy way is to just buy an integrated player.If the Arcam is an older device, it is probably possible to improve on it in all regards with newer models at modest cost, like a Rega or Cambridge Audio player, say.If it is newer, then it might be... | |
| where to find blank disks for denon dcr-w1500 Yes, you need the ones that say for music or audio, not computer/data.I've bought them recently at Best Buy. I suspect Target, Walmart and any specialty record/music stores still around have them. Ive used Memorex and Maxell most recently with my ... | |
| Clipping Tweeters usually fried and silent or audibly distorted as described above.Other non speaker problems might sound similar. Hook the speakers up to some other source and listen for the problem that way first if possible before drawing final conclusi... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? Front-ported bookshelves/monitors + sub might be the way to go given your placement requirements. The Triangle Titus speakers in my system pics could cut it nicely with a good Rel sub or something similar added. Read up on those on the internet an... | |
| Dream speakers and amp for an 11x14 room? That's not a big room, so you have countless good choices in your price range.You want the drivers to be closely located together in a room that size, approximating a point source, for a coherent imaging and soundstage. A smaller footprint is also... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "I met a girl who sang the bluesAnd I asked her for some happy news,But she just smiled and turned away.I went down to the sacred storeWhere I�d heard the music years before,But the man there said the music wouldn�t play.And in the streets: the ch... |