martykl
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| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b Where should they play, in a water polo pool?I'm tempted to say that that would be roughly as useful as an anechoic chamber, but that would be a (slight) overstatement.I never said that I had a better place to measure than an anechoic chamber (oth... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b Johnnyb53 wrote:Basically, if you create a loudspeaker to measure well in an anechoic chamber (the only way you can accurately evaluate its output), it will sound unnatural in a number of ways when placed in a room.I might have said "different" ra... | |
| What is Jazz? What is rock n roll? I think that there's a tendency to define any musical genre in historical terms. You describe how it emerged and how it morphed from whatever genre(s) came before it. Then the new genre evolves and you ask..."Is this still jaz... | |
| under the radio early 80s new wave.... Medium Medium (Hungry, So Angry) | |
| Floorstanders vs Monitors and bass response There are also good reasons to keep a higher x-over point, regardless of the main speakers' low end extension. First among these reasons is that properly placed subs (i.e. near the room boundaries) will (with very, very few exceptions) produce muc... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b I'm not so sure about squarewave testing being meaningful. It will reward first order (analog) x-over designs, but the audible benefits are debateable. I won't take sides in that debate, but Siegfried Linkwitz has written extensively on the subjec... | |
| It Might Get Load - documentary Did anyone else get the sense that Jack White was digging his time with Jimmy Page but kind of blowing off The Edge? Maybe it's because White starts the film by nailing a string to a board and says that that's good enough while The Edge makes it c... | |
| $2000-$3000 integrated with DAC ??? HK 990 - a really unique animal. This thing barks up a different tree and will definitely not be for every taste - but it should be investigated by anyone looking to take a digital signal directly into an integrated amp. Check out Kal's (Kr4) rece... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b THD below 50hz at highish SPL (90 db +/anechoic or quasi anechoic) is off the charts for most speakers. Per Sarcher's post, this test is sometimes run by HT websites, especially for subwoofer testing. Subwoofers are purpose designed for clean resp... | |
| UPS and FedEx alternatives DHL is (I think) the third big player in that business. You could try them. | |
| New Pre - Pro Sherbourne pt-7020c4 I'd second a newer model for the same reason. I've also become a big believer in automatic room EQ and those systems seem to keep improving. I use an Onkyo with Audyssey pro 32XT (it's strictly a 2.2 channel system for music only). I'm not sure if... | |
| How are Hig-End Speakers Priced? Speakers are priced by what the market will bear. A look at the recent pricing history of the Gallo 3.x will illustrate that (no shot at Gallo intended, it's just one good example of a popular speaker model that saw pretty steep prices increases c... | |
| guitar solos where less is more Ah, got it!I suspect that there's more than one exception, but I got it. | |
| guitar solos where less is more Rok,Kinda curious how you reached this conclusion ("no one in rock"). Was this via a comprehensive survey of rock guitar solos, or is it something inherent in rock music that prevents rock guitar players from producing "less is more" solos of the ... | |
| 845 Tube Amps Wilfredt,IME, it's hard to answer your question on a "tube vs tube" basis, because so many other variables are changing, too. (I know of no amp that allows the user to swap KT-88s and 845s for an "apples to apples" test.) From the circuit (per Pha... |