mijostyn
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| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @phusis Small speakers only sound small because of no low bass and visual considerations. I have set up, lord knows, maybe 10 LS3 5A systems with two subwoofers crossed at 100 Hz. I always put the speakers up on stands in positions people would... | |
| Blown tweeters @bill1957 Who "upgraded" the crossovers? If too much midrange gets to those drivers they will blow. The solution is going back to the stock crossovers. Trying to put a different driver in there with a passive crossover is a crapshoot. The effici... | |
| Speaker placement Quandary @fthompson251 Actually, it is not best to have your speakers well out into the room as long as the first reflection points on the front wall are damped. The position of the listening chair is way more important. What happens is bass being omnidi... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding I owned a Sapphire for 40 years and currently run a Cosmos Vacuum. Put the turntable on a stable surface and level it by adjusting the three threaded feet. Adjust the tonearm and check alignment. Plug it into your Jolida which will do fine and en... | |
| cleaning gritty surface noise on LPs @eryoung2k You are right, I am a very snarky person. Happy Black Friday. I suggest you hide the credit cards:-) | |
| cleaning gritty surface noise on LPs @dogberry All you have to do is use the Loricraft, a fine brush and a good fluid. What you are doing is exactly as I described. However, being a very impatient person, the single most important factor in record cleaning is spending as little tim... | |
| The Intricate Dance: Loudspeakers, Human Hearing, and Room Acoustics @johnread57 You have an emotional connection to the music not the system. I will tap my feet listening to a telephone. The speaker and room have to be considered as one component. Together, they are certainly the weak link in our systems by a... | |
| XLR Turntable @dunham_john What do you mean by "balanced"? | |
| cleaning gritty surface noise on LPs @eryoung2k Unless you have an industrial clean room in your house using any vinyl cleaning method that uses an evaporative drying technique, air or fan simply re-contaminates the record with the crap floating around in the air. Records have to b... | |
| Goodbye Everyone @elliottbnewcombjr Good luck sir. I wish I had your constitution. Every time I get put down I gain weight:-( | |
| Goodbye Everyone I never had time to get into photography until I retired. I got myself an Olympus 4/3 or rather OM System OM1 (still has the Olympus logo on the front). I always had to take 100 pictures to get one good one. That was incredibly expensive with film... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks I have played with analog EQ and the units back then did not please anyone present. We did adjust things in sort of an analog way by adjusting the gains on the crossovers, all Mark Levinson designed by Mr Curl. We had no way of measurin... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks Studio gear is certainly not overbuilt as some home HiFi is. It is certainly more reasonably priced. I use commercial sound reinforcement amps to drive my subwoofers and I use a studio digital switcher with DAC and ADC capability. There... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks I am a gladly retired FP. The shop I use to work with was Sound Components in Miami, FL when Peter McGrath owned it. Peter was heavily into recording and we had all kinds of professional equipment in house including equalizers. I have... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks I am 70 years old and have been doing this since I was 4 years old when my dad got me a Zenith portable for my 4th birthday. He already had a serious system for the day based on Bozak B302A loudspeakers. He had an Ampex tape deck and ov... |