millercarbon
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| Sandbox Design Advice That is a good point and what I meant about understanding the details of your particular situation. Since there is no such thing as isolation its all controlling/tuning instead its important to understand that is what suspended tables are doing as... | |
| Tone controls -- assuming you're ok with them, when would you try them? QUESTION: If the sound is not right in your room, and you've placed speakers as best you can, what do you try next? At what point do you go for tone controls? There is no point at which you go for tone controls. | |
| Thoughts on Tube vs SS amplification for Sony SS AR1s Watts are highly overrated and misunderstood. Even listening at fairly high levels with relatively inefficient speakers the vast majority of the time is only some fraction of a watt. Its the peaks that call for power and its the ability to deliver... | |
| Sandbox Design Advice https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367Both the top and bottom shelves of The Solution turntable stand are sand boxes. There is no right or wrong way of doing it. Some features are in general better than others however. Kiln dried for example is... | |
| Sales or clearances happening now slimpikins5-Personally, I smell a rotting rat with this event; the markets were in my opinion very overblown due to a decade of funny money pump and CEO's using it for buy backs to enrichen themselves. Now they are at it again with more, much mor... | |
| Subwoofer insight. define integratedIntegrated means of one piece, whole. Its a fact. You could look it up. Bass is integrated when its impossible to tell there are subs, or even any speakers at all. Integrated is when the bass is so clean and clear and extended you... | |
| When you’re not here who will inherit your system? I hope there’s a chance that he will understand how my system works and will appreciate the gear selections I made.What's the saying? Hope in one hand, wish in the other, see which one gets filled faster?There's like three guys here even understan... | |
| Can wall sockets abroad have voltage that speakers can't handle? Yes. But then you will tend to find plugging the speakers into the wall harmful just about everywhere. Plug them into the amp and they will be fine. | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? Am I just spoiled?Hope not. You are probably just what you should be: discriminating. Audiophiles ought to have high standards. Not be running around buying one thing after another. Making fool statements and excuses like it might not work in ever... | |
| Subwoofers driving me nuts What you describe is of course physically impossible. Bass travels in waves of different lengths at different frequencies. Its possible to have nulls of no bass at certain frequencies, in fact not only possible but guaranteed. But it is impossible... | |
| Changing approach operating tube based system in current telecommuting environment Well first off your system is not mid-fi. Except for Tidal which is no-fi your other stuff is totally high end. Especially the Prima Luna, which is the one that has you concerned.Which is what I just do not get. You don't know Prima Luna runs very... | |
| Different Tubes and general purpose? Agree. It definitely does make a difference in the sound of any component when a fuse blows. There ain't any. | |
| Subwoofer insight. Spacial reproduction has nothing to do with REL, or any particular sub for that matter. Whoever REL has hired for marketing isn't being paid enough. Anyone capable of that degree of mind control ought to be working for CIA or the Fed, its just ast... | |
| The quiet grid The CCP virus has also cleaned up the air, reduced traffic noise, improved commute times, and given us all a lot more time to tweak and enjoy our systems. None of which is why they made it though.It has put a whole lot more people on unemployment,... | |
| A must watch YouTube video on stylus in the groove!!! Did anyone bother to actually watch and listen to the video? This is not slow motion. The guy clearly says at 3:30 "in order to make a decent image the scanning electron microscope requires about 10 seconds per image". Where is the stylus bouncing... |