mapman
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| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? The goal is to isolate the speakers from interacting with the floor. When that happens the vibrating floor essentially becomes part of the speaker typically resulting in muddy bass and obscured midrange and detail. Suspended plywood floors found c... | |
| Subwoofer Footing - Connect or Isolate? I can assure you it is not uncommon for some here who will not be named to post solely for the sake of posting and to garner attention for reasons unknown and with absolutely no regard for Truth or integrity. It should surprise nobody that this ki... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Yes the best pick or call it what you will who also happened to win. | |
| why is the right channel on my cassette deck inaudible? Could be the heads just need a good cleaning. Tape players all need that periodically. Lots of oxide accumulates on heads from tape over time. Always. | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? Yes everything vibrates. But some will gladly play others by stoking fear and uncertainty. Including fear that some undetected vibration will negatively impact some audiophile’s sound. Once a fear of some problem exists you can then sell some expe... | |
| I need help with an amp decision You can’t go wrong with the Benchmark amp. | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? For isolation from EM fields Start with physical distance between components. Especially keep preamps and source devices well away from power amps and powerful amps from each other. Also from any nearby appliances with transformers as well if poss... | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! Well dealing with room acoustics is all about tweaking starting with choice of speakers and then where to put them exactly and whatever else follows from there to get a handle on things initially. I would agree to put that one on top of the list. ... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Now that Bezos got his joyride out of his system, what’s next? A run for President as an independent? We need some fresh thinking in this world from people who have proven no task is too great for them to get done when needed. Or would he just pan... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? The main source of physical vibration is the speakers which can interact with certain floor types and muddy the sound. Also can cause noise and distortion to be picked up by turntables in particular. The other important form of Isolation I have fo... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Now THAT is funny! | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. The trip changed him. He came back as a cowboy in a cowboy hat. | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! No doubt clean ears are a must in all cases. Very fundamental. You have to tend to that that first before getting down and dirty anywhere else with tweaks. | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? Active speakers are a good example of how Class D enables things not possible before. My little but over performing Vanatoo active speakers are biamped with two Class D amps in each. | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? More efficient amplifiers ie Class D and similar. Also the ability to control noise with same. That’s the big one by a huge margin that makes things possible that were not prior including beefier amps in a smaller more cost effective package. Int... |