martykl
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| Loudspeaker dispersion- I'm not sure that the baffle acting as an extension of the driver diameter could explain this. If the cabinet is one foot wide (like many are) then horizontal dispersion would be impacted at app 1khz, but the 90 degree horizontal spec cited by the... | |
| Should I upgrade my Blu-ray player now? Db,If you're correcting for ROOM INDUCED effects, the benefit of room correction shouldn't vary whether the system is good, great, greatest. Of course, that assumes that there are room induced effects to correct AND that the correction software ca... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Strange thing about Oh, Well. You'd have to look long and hard to find two guitarists with more divergent styles than Peter Green and Lindsey Buckingham. In concert, Buckingham (duetting with Neal Heywood) often plays one Peter Green song - Oh, We... | |
| See what Country song was 1 on the day you were b Evidently, it was "Wake Up, Little Susie", by The Everly Brothers.I can live with that. | |
| To all that worked in audio salons. It's funny, but I also recall that "Audio Alchemy", "The Hunter" and "Fresh Aire" (three of the first names mentioned here) were omnipresent demo discs at the hi-fi stores that I (always on the buy side) visited. Also Angela Bofill and, somewhat l... | |
| Best Rock Drummers Philo,I saw the Ginger Baker documentary, too, and it's clear that there's just something wrong with the guy. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I actually laughed when Ginger hit the interviewer with his cane at the end. They'd just spent several m... | |
| Modern integrated vs. vintage...what do I get? Just how modern are you willing to go?Both HK (990 integrated) and NAD (sorry, don't know the model#) provide digital signal processing of the type usually encountered in AVRs. You'll get internal DACs, active digital x-overs for subs (if you ever... | |
| Should I upgrade my Blu-ray player now? I think Bob's point(s) is/are:1) If the system is a HT rig employing a pre-pro and decoding is done therein, any potential benefits of the superior Oppo analog section are lost (bypassed). (tho, if that's not the case, then the analysis changes.) ... | |
| What was your first 'hi-end' system? In the late '70s/early '80s, I used Kef Corelli speakers with Audire electronics and a Dual 'table. | |
| Svs sub : should i go with sb13 ultra or pb 13 Sealed subs generally provide tighter (more highly damped) bass than ported models. You can check "group delay" specs at HTShack.com (if they're available for the models you're considering) and you'll see one measure of this characteristic. The tr... | |
| Best Subwoofer for Quad 2805 under $5k There are a lot of great subs out there. I use Rythmiks (they pair wonderfully with little Maggie panels), but SVS, HSU, and several others are also well regarded. I'd only offer a couple of general thoughts you might want to consider.Think of "ti... | |
| Fleetwood Mac Slaw,Per my post above, Bob Brunning played bass on FM's first few gigs because John McVie was reluctant to leave his steady gig with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, notwithstanding the fact that Green and Fleetwood were bolting from Mayall to start ... | |
| DeepChord presents Echospace So, if I'm gonna give this a shot, pick one album for me.My tastes are pretty broad - pretty to tuneful to noisy to quiet intensity (Sondheim to Fleetwood Mac to Clash to Hiss Golden Messenger) - but this genre may exist outside that spectrum. I c... | |
| What great speakers can buy direct? A pair of MMGs and a pair of Rythmik or SVS subs (all direct, all in-home trial) makes for a great, full-range system that might fit in your room without dominating it. Similarly, a pair of smaller Ohms with subs might do the trick (tho at a cost ... | |
| Merlin VSM -how much space from the side wall ? IMO, there's always a trade-off with placement of the VSM. As I've posted many times, you get some welcome room reinforcement in the bass when you get close to the walls, but imaging is optimized in (as close as you can get to) free space. If you'... |