mapman
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| Anyone Damp the insides of your Speaker Cabinets? "Do most speakers sound best in cabinets that resonate as little as possible?"I'd say the answer is yes. Most but not all. Some speaker designs (Tonian comes to mind and a few others that I recall investigating) make cabinet resonances (as opposed... | |
| Anyone Damp the insides of your Speaker Cabinets? "The thinking is that most dampening simply smears and delays the resonate behavior without truly eliminating it."I tend to think of it strictly as what it says, ie damping material in the textbook sense of the meaning of the word Damping.Yes, it ... | |
| the greatest pop song ever? I'm waiting for teh Metallica version of "Climb Every Mountain". Seriously!!! | |
| Front Ported v. Rear Ported Speakers In general, front ports should do better closer to walls in theory, but a lot regarding best sound in any case depends on room acoustics and other factors case by case. So its quite possible in some cases rear porting could work best.The most comm... | |
| Best sounding integrated between $1500-$3000 I would be seriously considering any VAC in good condition that can be had for less than $3000. ARC also. Rogue would also be hard to go wrong with.All these are tube integrateds, so of course pre-requisite is to use them with speakers and in a se... | |
| Anyone Damp the insides of your Speaker Cabinets? Probably would help a lot of inexpensive speakers sound better and not a hard or expensive tweak to try in most cases. | |
| Where do audiophiles retire? Of course. | |
| New level of ridiculousness Seems like it should be better for TV/video as well. Seeing would be believing. More so than hearing I think. IS hearing alone enough to believe? Not as easily I think. No need to go into all the shortcomings of using a/b listening tests alone to ... | |
| the greatest pop song ever? Great song. That's a good one!!Better even than the nun in the movie, who was no slouch herself. | |
| subwoofer for music? BEing cheaply made and sounding good/being highly functional are not mutually exclusive.For example, though not inexpensive in the minds of many, it could be argued that the OHM speakers I prefer are cheaply made compared to many others, especiall... | |
| New level of ridiculousness The fancy powerstrip is probably more functional than the diamonds our wives might covet. Still, they will choose the diamonds. Go figure! | |
| When does speaker distortion become audible? YEs, since no system/speaker delivers a perfect reproduction, there is always distortion of various types.It's the end result as a whole how that is delivered to and registers with the listener that really matters. If listening to music live sound... | |
| CAL ICON MKII CD player replacement I replaced a CAL Icon mkII player that I owned for years a few years back when it went up for teh second time (had it fixed the first time).I found players have improved immensely in the last 15-20 years or so and the Cal was not hard to replace.I... | |
| subwoofer for music? "REL are very cheaply made"JK, can you expound on that?Which others are made well and how?Thanks. | |
| Use Your Own Ears The only reliable metric for determining good sound is enjoyment, which cannot be quantified in any specifications or any other mathematical or scientific terms. It's the "human factor" that cannot be quantified, at least so far. |