mezmo
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| Center Channel Recomendations Hardly an expert, but what about your center channel don't you like? As I see it (being that all I ever use mine for is movies) my biggest concern / consideration is not so much what the center channel does, but what it doesn't do -- specifically,... | |
| Ever hear the "Maggie Scream"? Yea, sounds like the amps. I know that there was a batch of Bryston amps that went out at some point that had a muting switch that went bad after a couple of years. That is, when you power it down, there is normally a mutiung switch that cuts off ... | |
| How does sound change when tubes start to fail? Think of it this way, one of these days you'll have to retube the thing. Might as well get a set of new tubes now and try them out. If you hear a difference, well, then it was time. If you hear no difference at all, then put the old ones back in a... | |
| Listening to my HD650's, a sobering experience... Yea, there's a level of detail that I've never managed to replicate coming from speakers. That said, I definitely agree that there is something unequalable about the room-filling sound that you get from speakers and a proper soundstage. To too had... | |
| FedEx, and HELL VTL to the rescue Yep, I used a VTL preamp for years and spoke with Bea on a number of occasions. Definitely top notch folks. | |
| Adding subwoofer to Full-Ragne Speakers question Me no electrical engineer either, but think of it this way -- folks bi-amp speakers, right? And the point is both to increase the power to each individual set of drivers and to put correspondingly less demand on each amplifier in order (which is w... | |
| Where do I go from here, keep it clean Booze, says I. Some wine, perhaps a port or two, some Scotch, maybe a six of Bud tallboys.... Just think how much liquid joy you could purchase for the price of a CD player worthy of sitting on a rack with the rest of that gear. Hey, whaddaya mean... | |
| what's your favorite album cover? Call me shallow, but I've been partial to Bran Van 3000's Discosis, simply because they use this drawing from Boris Vallejo as the cover. Album's a huge dissapointement (although their first is actually good), but can't argue with their choice for... | |
| Listening Chairs The same outfit (American Leather) does custom home theater chairs that also look awfully decadent. It is all very nice stuff, custom built, and highly recomended. Don't come all that cheap, though, unfortunately. | |
| Listening Chairs This is what I use. Both the chair and the sofa. The chair reclines, too -- which is real nice. | |
| headphone amp setup question Been a question for me, too. Best case solution is to use the tape loop, as that (often) bypasses the volume pot on the preamp and allows you to have only one in the circuit (the one on the headphone amp). Folks can certainly disagree whether havi... | |
| The tweeter on my speaker has a crater...Help By the way, a longer post on the same issue can be found here. | |
| The tweeter on my speaker has a crater...Help Honestly, the dome is (as far as I understand it) just a dust cover for the working bits and largely cosmetic -- so it really shouldn't effect the sound either way. That said, it should be simple to pull out. I've pulled out metal domes on Thiels ... | |
| Horns and Triodes...? Yea, I'd love to build a pair of the Voight Pipes myself, and was seriously considering it there for a bit. Tom was kind enough to send me some pointers, I'd picked out the Lowthers I wanted to put in them, and I was on the hairy edge of pulling t... | |
| Gain vs Volume....a question? Just to add a couple more simplistic thoughts to the already excellent discussion from an absolute laymans perspective, "volume control" generally can be achieved by two basic means, either attenuating (that is reducing) the signal that comes int... |