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| What's wrong with my system? One other thing worth mentioning is that good bass is inherently a problem at low listening volumes due to our human ears. Its a normal thing but something that bothers some. The common solution in the old days was a "loudness" button, which provi... | |
| What's wrong with my system? That amp is 40 watts/ch I read. Also an integrated which usually means smaller power supply, less current capable, etc. compared to separates. SPeakers are average efficiency at best, not high efficiency that enables use of fewer watts for good ba... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 1.3SE vs. Contour 140 My COntour 1.3mkII monitors definitely sound best with lots of separation between them (more so than most monitors I think) and plenty room to breath. Same true with the best sounding Dynaudio speker demos I have heard over the years.I think this ... | |
| How did "Oh Mercy" end up sounding so great? Oh Mercy is a fantastic recording and is a Dylan favorite of mine, but in terms of the music itself, Dylan's releases starting with "Time Out Of Mind" are way more interesting to me these days than his older material. As a whole, they are very adv... | |
| What is nearfield listening? They will often use nearfield listening techniques (or headphones) to take room acoustics out of the playback picture. Most consumers do not care about soundstage and imaging when listening. | |
| What is nearfield listening? "But how can a recording incorporate sound not yet in existence?"A recording can only capture what was put into it by the producers."Has the reflected sound deliberately been eliminated during mixing in order to reintegrate it during playback? "I ... | |
| What is nearfield listening? Csontos,Proper distance to rear and side walls within certain parameters so that reflected sound does not arrive at your ears too soon, which results in early reflections that smear the sound, is the key. The general guideline I've read and follow... | |
| What is your take on Mapleshade products I would like to try the Mapleshade ICs someday as an alternative to DNM Reson with some similar design considerations. | |
| What is your take on Mapleshade products Good value line as high end goes. No shortage of marketing and/or confidence or opinion in their products from Pierre. He's a good out of the box thinker. My only compliant would be he can be quick to jump to conclusions where his products are inv... | |
| As I look at all these posts Big profit with wires. Relatively little needed to deliver a product. Who wouldn't want a piece of that? | |
| What is nearfield listening? Onh,True the spatial cues are in the recording, but i'm pretty sure reflected sound and the proper time delays for reflected sound to reach your ears is needed to deliver a big 3-D soundstage from a stereo recording as opposed to just 1 dimension ... | |
| How do you dress your cables? "How do you dress your cables?"I say "Hello, cables"!Whoops, sorry I thought you asked how I address my cables.NORTON!! | |
| What is nearfield listening? YEs, good point. NEarfield listening requires tighter co-location of drivers for proper integration/coherency across the audible sound spectrum as Rrog indicated, although that often helps with imaging, soundstage and detail in non/less nearfield ... | |
| What do you mean by "better" when it comes to cabl Simple. The listeners prefers the sound with a particular cable. That's what most mean when they say it is "better". Different wires might have different electrical properties that account for how they perform in a particular system. But these are... | |
| What is nearfield listening? Nearfield is listening close to the speakers so that most of the sound reaches your ears directly from the speakers. Its an attempt to take room acoustics and reflected sound out of the equation, much like listening to headphones. SOme speakers ar... |