martykl
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| Best Speaker For This Room Assuming that the 6.5" central ceiling height (Duck!) is actually 6.5' (Duck, if you play in the NBA ;-} ), that's your overriding concern, right there. I'd probably try to find something with a tweeter that had limited vertical dispersion like so... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Opinions vary on this one.I set the sub's low pass (and I low cut the mains with an active x-over) just above the highest frequency hump or suckout that I want to EQ away. Basically my approach is to fix the room passively as much as I can, recogn... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rbf,I've been out of the market for a bit, so I'm probably not your best resource for that question. I own Rythmiks, which are terrific, but start at $700+. The very fine, entry level SVS sub is a bit cheaper, but IIRC still north of $500. I under... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Since this is a "best rock" thread, in the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that the Freedy Johnston CD only contains a handful of rock songs. The balance is more in the plaintive, singer-songwriter FJ ballad style.Marty | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rbf,IMHO, once you're out of the real budget models, subwoofer set-up is usually more important than the specific choice of subwoofer model (unless you've defied the odds and chosen a truly crappy subwoofer!). Good news - you haven't.To clarify my... | |
| WHEN DID DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY BEGIN? One more tangential note:A lot of related technology came out of Bell Labs ca 1970, when they developed WDM (wavelength division multiplexing), and, later, DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) to increase the potential capacity of fiber o... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona M vs Verity Audio Parsifal Beyond,I own PL 6 mono amps. I'm struggling to recall which output tube I settled on for the Cremonas since they ended up with the Pathos pretty quickly. The PL amps subtly, but clearly, change character as you swap output tubes - I suspect that t... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rbf,The Velodyne auto EQ is a mess. It only uses graphic (fixed band) EQ and doesn't incorporate the parametric (variable "Q") capabilities of the software. Get a video monitor and manually tweak all paramaters (x-over point, slope, phase, band ce... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 New releases from Brendan Benson (What Kind of World) and Freedy Johnston (Rain On The City) are both very good. I'm not sure that either one ranks with the respective best from these artists, but both are still a cut above most rock that I hear t... | |
| Silverline Preludes : Still a good buy? For big bass energy from a small footprint, I think that the Prelude is pretty tough to beat. They're not exactly neutral tonally (and - as Wolf notes - they don't go particularly deep), but they can deliver the thump of a kick drum with surprisin... | |
| Help Finding Balanced Tube Preamp with HT Bypass.. I believe that the old Sonic Frontiers pre-amps meet your requirements. | |
| Pre pro-go balanced or not nad v. Onkyo A little over a year ago, I did the same comparison between Onkyo/Integra, NAD, Denon, etc., that you're now doing. My system is 2 channel, music only - so no comments from here on the video side of the equation.I went with the Onkyo (in part) bec... | |
| Guitar Solos A recent addition for blues-rock types is the CD called "Todd Rundgren's Johnson". It's a disc of Robert Johnson covers and Todd simply smokes on this one. He hasn't been doing this kind of stuff since The Nazz and the long lay off seems to have r... | |
| Popular Male Singers in the past Half Century... A few personal faves (with recommended tracks). Some are pretty well known, others pretty obscure, but I really like all of them. No guarantees, but you might, too.Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) - Sara SmileNorman "General" Johnson (Chairmen of The... | |
| Build a new system around pair of Snell Alll's? Frog, It was quite a while ago, but IIRC, there were several different amps over a period of 5ish years. I know that one was a SS Audire, because I sold him that one. I'm pretty sure that there was also a Counterpoint hybrid in there, somewhere, b... |