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| Have you ever wondered who sets the trends in the hi-end speaker industry? Speaker styling trends are established by committee, currently chaired by Clarence Carter. Before that was Stevie Wonder. | |
| Trying to fix specific issues with my listening area You are on the right track with Tekton, it will be an improvement. And acoustics, depending on the meaning of "massive rug" and how much of the tile floor it covers it may well be too many hard surfaces contributing to the harshness you're hearing... | |
| Too good a post to waste Yes, it is fairly easy to hear differences - if you actually try and hear the differences. That's the problem with people like Hirsch. They put themselves up as authoritative. Some fall for it. I did. Well I was young and a nerd into science and i... | |
| Have you ever wondered who sets the trends in the hi-end speaker industry? Now ask a question who creates trends in the world of speaker systems? Replace colors with sounds, belts with speakers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2fgquYTCg | |
| Yes, it is possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl because I just did it! Now if you can make your digital azimuth filter settings mimic cartridge tracking a record behavior by changing up and down left and right back and forth in a sort of quasi regular yet randomly varying way then it would be almost like the azimuth ... | |
| Too good a post to waste TAS started in 1972! The Audio Critic in 1977 along with IAR (International Audio Review). Both were run by Peters (Aczel and Moncrieff, respectively). StereOpus and Bound For Sound (Martin DeWolf) appeared around that time. A bit later was Sensib... | |
| Too good a post to waste Old ideas are like Bruce Willis- they Die Hard. And the sequels aren't necessarily any better. | |
| Blown driver Blown like sounds terrible. Scrapes, rattles & pops. I'm just worried the rest are damaged.Maybe. But if not they sure will be if you don't fire that housekeeper. | |
| Blown driver Blown like no sound or blown like scrapes and sounds awful? Usually what happens is some combination of the voice coil gets hot enough or the excursions great enough it burns and/or scrapes in the gap, and once this starts if you don't catch it ri... | |
| Low volume listening dynamics mikelavigne nailed it. As the Great Robert Harley once said, "If the first watt isn't any good why would you want 200 more of them?" | |
| Most enduring audio purchase Now that my Talon Khorus speakers are gone, and not counting tweaks like the Zerostat and BDR Cones, that leaves me with my most enduring component being my Miller Carbon Turntable. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367Born early 2003 and stil... | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? Search DBA, distributed bass array, Geddes, and study posts of noble100, audiokinesis, and millercarbon. Geddes worked out the relevant science and acoustics that is the basic foundation for using multiple subs. Duke as the only current maker of t... | |
| Directionality Explained I could understand the doubters and take them seriously- in 1980. There was no internet, Stereo Review was pretty much it, and Julian Hirsch was the Oracle of all things audio. Stereo Review and Julian Hirsch said if it measures the same it sounds... | |
| Home theater bypass - pass through question @millercarbon Are you suggesting I replace my center and surrounds with subs? FWIW I already have 4 subs. Excellent. Its not so much suggesting replacing center and surround with subs. Obviously they serve completely different functions. The sugge... | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? So true. Records were much more common, cars mostly had radios, and if the car had a tape deck it was about as likely 8-track as cassette. Yes the all-time worst format ever, 8-track, was actually pretty common for a while. Probably was a year whe... |