mapman
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| Room treatments behind or between speakers? Always start with primary reflection points on walls based on listening location/sweet spot, for biggest bang for the buck, and add from there or not with secondary or lower reflection points if needed. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Well, according to Ddraudt, in this his only thread, these wires apparently have now changed home audio forever and any system may be lacking in lieu of them.SInce I cannot afford them, with kids in college and such, I might have to find another h... | |
| Should you tune room to headphones Blue,Also keep in mind that wall treatments affect soundstage and imaging as well. They reduce the levels of reflected sound at the higher frequencies, which is often what is needed to some extent. Lower levels of reflected sound is also what one ... | |
| Should you tune room to headphones Blue,Here is approach I would recommend to get everything in order.Good hEadphones like better Grados are a good reference for what is in a recording to hear, ie essentially detail. Each has their own sound though in regards to detail, tonality, d... | |
| Another CD-Player vs. PC question: "Anyone else besides me find CDs to generally sound very generic, bland and extremely uninteresting. I'm referring to out of the box untreated CDs."Thank God, no. | |
| Should you tune room to headphones Blue,Your 5000s have teh 4 3 way level adjustments on each speaker.Setting room size to small and location to free (for lowest low and mid bass levels) might bring the tonal balance to be more like the Grado phones with less bass. I tend to run my... | |
| Should you tune room to headphones Blue,Good headphone sound is certainly a useful reference.Different headphones/lines still still tend to have different sound and tonal balance as well. So there is no absolute reference even there.Room acoustics can certainly be a challenge getti... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Some interesting new content on the www.ohmspeakers.com website these days.All shapes and sizes of Walshes, many seemingly new, for various applications and locations, with new pics of some. ALso JS's weekly post on various topics. Good stuff! | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz One thing that can be said about these is that by applying magnetism they have a unique design concept that one would expect might well have some effect on the sound compared to no magnetism. A wire on steroids perhaps for lack of a better descrip... | |
| critics dynaudio speakers Dynaudio is a gold standard line for good sound. Hard to go wrong when done right. | |
| Another Squeezebox Replacement Thread Hi Michael.Yes baltimore county since 1988.Listening to plex on amazon fire tv via toslink out to my family room system as I type on the ipod controller. Sounding very good!Plex and android are a good combo. We'll be seeing a lot of hardware optio... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Abuck,Plex on amazon fire tv box with toslink out to dac, $99.You need a hdmi tv for display.Also you can cast from mobile devices and control from there.Plex server software is free download and mobile app is $5 | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? Krell and B&W?Not two I have ever heard together or would tend to mate instinctively, but ya never know. Lots of brand recognition power there though. I guess that means something to someone. | |
| What music do you use to assess your system? I like to listen to everything, all genres regardless of recording quality.So I assess by randomly queuing up tracks to get a random sample of how things sounds overall. Every recording is recorded differently, so I listen to make sure I can hear ... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? I would always tend to steer away from converters. One more hard to quantify variable to throw in the mix. Keep it simple. USe good quality devices and wires intended to work together out of the gate. Things can never be better using a converter/a... |