martykl
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| Speaker Help Required Map, IME it's the rare plant / plant stand that's meaningfully absorptive in specifically this region (or any region, actually, although they can be effective as dispersion tools) These devices aren't gimmicks. That most analytical of a-philes, Jo... | |
| Best room treatment The echo buster "bass buster" fixed the same bass issue in my room. No experience with other brands, but I believe the ATC works on the same principle (hemholz resonator tuned to app 80hz and absorbtive to an octave or so above).Marty | |
| Speaker Help Required BTW the bass buster is 4' tall and -in cross section - is shaped like 1/4 of a circle (fat wedge of pie). The flat sides are each 9" deep and they snug up to the walls forming the corner. There are about 100 colors available - so you may want to c... | |
| Speaker Help Required My guess is that you're getting bass reinforcement between 80ish and 150ish cycles from the left corner and none on the other side since there is no corner. This may well be audible since it can generate lots (app 12db in my room, relative to 80db... | |
| Tom Waits, Rain Dogs... I find this thread interesting because my first reaction was similar to Marco's. Upon further consideration, as Springsteen's music has gotten darker over the years, I can see where it's starting to approach Waits' sandbox(at least lyrically). In ... | |
| Greg Sanchez ? Zydeco piano Love this forum. Live in Montreal it is! Thanks a million.Marty | |
| Coleman Hawkins Probably more than any other player I know, the tonal beauty that Mr. Hawkins produced is a treasure. Listening to "The Hawk Flies High" is one of the great joys of owning a good system. I just wonder how well this works on radio/internet. I guess... | |
| Thinking of adding a subwoofer for more bass. Magfan,I should have responded to your other point. My set up is 2 channel, one listener. You may be quite right about unsatisfactory results over the broader area required for HT. I don't know, haven't tried.Marty | |
| Thinking of adding a subwoofer for more bass. Magfan,What I've gotten is "order of magnitude" improvement. I have enjoyed the expected benefit in deep bass: organ, (particularly synthesized) bass lines and drums are all rendered with more definition and impact. The biggest difference has been... | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect This thread is interesting to me because I've spent the last 10 days with a room analyzer, a PEq, 2 subs and 2 ears. There seems to be a lot of theory being argued here and I wonder how many people have worked through this process in their room. I... | |
| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? Don't know about a trend, but I did it - Cary 303 for QSonix. OTOH, I've kept the Cary for back-up use, so maybe I only "half did it".Marty | |
| TAD-125 Monoblocks This is the most "tubelike" ss amp I've had in my system to date. I use it with, among others, Merlin VSMs which are both very transparent to the upstream chain and very "happy" with tube power. Prior to buying the TADs, I (like most Merlin owners... | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around I'm using the TAD Hibachis with MMGs (and a whole bunch of other speakers). These are the warmest sounding ss amps I've had in my system. Silly name, excellent amp, unusual value (last I looked they were +/- $1300/pr 150 to 200W/ch).Marty | |
| Thinking of adding a subwoofer for more bass. Marntz, the spec you are reading usually states the anechoic frequency response. This is measured with no reflected energy - basically in a room without walls. Most listening rooms, however, actually have walls and those wall create reflections.In... | |
| What planer speaker to start with? Budget 2k Like Douglas, I think the ET LFT 8 is a great choice at the price point - the Vandy 2 would be the other (non-planar) speaker that instantly comes to mind at app $2K. When asked my opinion, I've recommended these 2 speakers as the "go to" choices ... |