mitch2
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| Bass trap materials Not sure where you have been looking but there is a lot of information on DIY bass traps over on Audio Asylum. | |
| Go Buy Some Music You Deadbeat Streamers! I guess I am in the 10% minority with my recent purchase of 4 CDs by artist Marcus King, a very good younger soul, southern rock, and blues guitarist/songwriter.Those CDs were immediately ripped to my Antipodes server and then good to go for playi... | |
| Is This A Bad Move? Millercarbon is spot on with his comments regarding your bookshelf. Interestingly, Michael Kelly (formerly a/d/s and then Aerial) incorporated Environment and Treble controls on his large Aerial LR5 monitors for the same purpose you are discu... | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? Interesting place. I contacted them months ago about their ATC SCM50 ASL powered speakers (still listed) and they had no interest whatsoever in moving on what appeared to be a high’ish price compared to what those speakers typically sell for used.... | |
| It was 20 years ago today... Cheers to you viridian.We have seen a lot of changes over 20 years, which was last October for me.Most amazing to remember back from when I could not comprehend a world beyond the CD to today when we don't even have to touch physical media. I mos... | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life Lots of great advice here. When you are reading about this stuff, put less emphasis on what is subjectively "best" and more on what types of gear/speakers suit your musical preferences, budget, and listening space best.Once you assemble a system ... | |
| Adding a Cisco Gigabit Switch Something else you could look at to reduce network line noise is presented in this article by Michael Lavorgna titled, "Electrically Isolate Your Networked Audio" - a relatively inexpensive add in the audio world:https://www.audiostream.com/conten... | |
| In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment The answers to this stuff may seem easy when typing posts on Audiogon, but none of it is easy and leading throughout something like this is even more difficult to the point where nobody could possibly measure up to perfection. While our shelter-in... | |
| Are these Duelund wires good for interconnects- Hey Steve, I agree with you that solid core wire can sound quite good for ICs and SCs. I didn't say I liked the Connex silver IC wire, but some here do. My experience with it was just so-so.I use solid core wires in my system including ICs that ... | |
| Are these Duelund wires good for interconnects- Maybe for hook up wire or speaker cables but for DIY ICs, IMO you would do much better with a premanufactured IC-specific cable from a company like Furutech or equivalent. Some like this silver IC https://www.partsconnexion.com/CONNEX-66070.html | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I agree with @dynaquest4 about these threads influencing newbies to spend their money. When somebody is in the early stages of building a system, either because they are young or because of limited finances, IMO the worst thing to spend money on ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Marcus King - Echo Sessions 61 and more.... | |
| Advice Please On Speaker Cables For Vintage Advent Large Some vintage Western Electric 10 awg speaker wire would be all you would need and would probably sound great. You can terminate it or simply twist it and use bare wire. The folks from SPEC Corporation say the vintage Western Electric wire has an... | |
| Sonnet Audio Morpheus @transience Your comment in another thread about Metrum Acoustics closing shop is correct according to this....https://metrumacoustics.com/Like a marriage, when SHTF only those involved in the marriage can figure out what really happened, and ther... | |
| Speaker vibration control idea.. What are your thought? I have suspended wood floors and notice with my Gallos that a tremendous amount of low frequency energy in getting into the floor and walls at moderate to higher volumes.In conjunction with whatever else you do, you may want to look at the floor... |