millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Mixing 4ohm and 8ohm Try both ways, use the one that sounds least bad. Usually I say best but with a receiver then least bad is more apt. Amp won't care either way so use whichever one you prefer. | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? If you’re gonna read a book then Robert Harley’s Complete Guide to High End Audio is a far better place to start. Its not that the other one is bad, its just I find understanding concepts works a whole lot better in the long run than memorizing pl... | |
| Thank you AudiogoN and users, for civility.... Glad someone got it. Was beginning to think I'd misunderestimated my audience. | |
| Thank you AudiogoN and users, for civility.... eBay is all hat and no cattle. We’re more the soft bigotry of low expectations. | |
| Second/Starter Systems and Thoughts on Components... If you're asking how to use this to help a budding young enthusiast, the answer is have them listen. Most people have no idea how much difference they are able to hear between components. Vast majority think its only speakers that matter. Heck eve... | |
| Putting speakers next to other speakers Okay technically you can put speakers next to speakers just fine. What you can't do is put cables next to anti-cables. They will annihilate each other. Sorry, but I'm eager to see the postometer roll over 3000 and the quality is suffering. | |
| Is Parasound on to something? Or, How important is crossover management in preamps? If you're upgrading, look for integrated amps first. Ignore features like crossovers. In fact ignore all specifications entirely. Forget watts per channel. Forget whatever nonsense you heard about "matching". Focus on how it sounds. Period. Now g... | |
| Speaker and IC Cable recommendations for Simaudio Moon 600i - Focal Sopra 3 I don't know about 1.5m XLR. Anything not standard 1m can be hit or miss. Could be you find a killer deal, because nobody wants to buy the longer length some poor schlub has to sell. Or just as likely you find hardly any selection and wind up bein... | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? Let’s not debate semantics. Generically, the term ’audio filter’ can be applied to mean anything which changes the timbre or harmonic content of an audio signal. Uh, what you just did is precisely to debate semantics. Just so you know. So your ide... | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? A well kept music industry secret is that 99% of the great "recorded" heavy metal guitar licks were performed in studio by George Gobel. In 1999 the Megadeath tour was thrown into a shambles with the unexpected death on June 5th of Mel Torme. No... | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system How do we achieve: Truthful tonality/timbre Truthful harmonics Liquid sound Transparency Speed/Dynamics/Pace/Rhythm/Timing Soundstage Coherence Well for starters you don't do it with freebie patch cords and rubber power cords. No amount of... | |
| What is this speaker cable connection? Yes but the most badly designed worst engineered spades I have ever seen. I mean that picture, its like a car wreck. You don't want to look, but you do, and then you just can't stop. What a mess. We should have a contest, who can spot the most fla... | |
| Putting speakers next to other speakers I am looking for the real world good news ACTUAL experiences which defy gloomy theorists. Replace "gloomy theorists" with "experienced factualists" and you begin to get a feel for the answer. If you have two speakers that sound very different t... | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? It was between the Advents and the JBLs. The Advents did sound very good, but were power hogs. JBLs played a lot louder and being in band hearing live horns - real horns, trumpet, trombone, not Klipschorns!- blasting all day and being a teenager l... | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system Don’t worry about cables. We just need a power amp, a turntable, a cartridge, a phono stage, NOS tubes, and a DAC.Right. Because, as we all know, cables don’t make any difference. Spend $8k, hook it up with freebie patch cords and rubber power plu... |