millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Electrical/mechanical representation of instruments and space The poor guy asked how we're able to reproduce the sound of an original performance so well that we're able to hear not only the original performers in their original locations but the room acoustics as well. That was the question, right?Why then ... | |
| Slight Hardness on LP's Living in a remote location where trying gear is expensive and time consuming the last thing you want to do is throw ideas on the wall to see what sticks. Which is all you can do here.Only advice worth getting is do everything you can with what yo... | |
| The Home Theater Company Collusion Theory Andy-Everything you say would make sense if it weren't for the fact your underlying assumption is unfounded. Unwritten and unsaid is the assumption this stuff is all the same. That all they're doing is putting the same stuff in different boxes.Not... | |
| Upgrade cartridge or turntable? Its really important. Something like say a cartridge, who cares what it looks like? Really? I mean okay maybe for like three seconds. Then reality sets in and what you really care about is can you set it down where you want, like right at the begi... | |
| Electrical/mechanical representation of instruments and space 77jovian commits an all too common flaw in logic which since no one studied logic no one caught. Except me, of course.Hint: "two ears"-When I'm in the room with both instruments, I hear two instruments because my ear (rather two ears, separated by... | |
| 15 amps vs 20 amps Amps is a measure of current flow or volume. Voltage is analogous to pressure. Your 20A circuits are capable of supplying more current than your 15A components will draw. Think of this as excess supply. This is a good thing.If you had 240 volts, w... | |
| Superb cheap speaker placement, finding the "sweet spot" tool. The XLO Test CD is an old stand-by setup tool. After the standard L channel/R channel stuff there's tracks of him walking around a room, just talking and hitting a clavis (wood block) with two microphones. You hear his voice saying, "The room is 2... | |
| Upgrade cartridge or turntable? Get a new stylus and save more money. Let us know when you get to $5000.This^And this:According to expert advice I ignored in my youth, turntable first, tonearm second, cartridge third. I ignored this advice, to my cost. For one thing, turntables ... | |
| Target bias dictated by amp or by tube? The lower one, if you want your tubes to last. The higher one, if you want the amp to perform to design spec.Tube bias is an ever-shifting target. In the majority of amps where bias is fixed the designer/manufacturer has been forced to choose a bi... | |
| Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm...." Really. And your evidence for this is....? | |
| To power strip or not More often than not what would seem logically to work best turns out to be beaten hands down by something you cannot explain. Go get a 20 year old Synergistic Research Master Coupler power cord for $175-250 and when you hear how sick it makes ever... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Why do YOU love vinyl?The question is a little odd, isn’t it? I mean, does anyone really love vinyl? Vinyl is noisy, fragile, inconvenient. Vinyl forces you to either listen to the songs in the order they are on the record, or get up and change tr... | |
| Recommend speakers for a large living room Question, if I were to add 4 sub-woofers, how would that work? Is there a pre-amp that could handle 4 sub-woofers? Well first off this is definitely the way to go. I tried a bunch of things and going to four is so much better than anything else... | |
| Room correction help First best thing you can do is forget everything you think and pretend you know nothing and neither does anyone else. Because its true. The only way to know is to find out. The way to find out is to try and see.So get yourself a panel or two of Ow... | |
| Developing critical listening skills Reminds me of back when I was trying to figure this all out and not being able to hear the difference between two CD players, DACs, etc. Spent quite some time being really frustrated, because the whole time there was this feeling of something bein... |