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| Does a Subwoofer Make Spiking Redundant? Unless your floor is concrete, I would think isolating your subwoofer would be better. With standard wood frame construction, you don’t want the sub to couple to the floor which then acts like a radiator vibrating at its resonance frequency, mucki... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Power regenerators do absolutely nothing for sound quality unless your components are very poorly designed.In my experience, everything is on a spectrum. It’s not binary. Clean power is very, very important. Every time I’ve cleaned up my power in ... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? I’ve also found that isolating the subwoofer from the floor makes a big difference. I use a cheaper product to good effect: IsoAcoustics Iso-200Sub Subwoofer Isolation Stand. It’s surprising how much vibration is carried through the floor into the... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? Please do. I would appreciate hearing your feedback. | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? Maybe not most important but if you not have great bass you're life is not complete.What a great quote!Bass done right is otherworldly. Most people (specifically non-audiophiles) have never heard good bass. Heck, I’m sure there are people on this ... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? Some people might call me a bass head. I’ve been known to throw on some electronic music and push my system to near its limits, but that’s for fun, not critical listening. For critical listening, I might run the bass a little hot, but never at the... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? The addition of a distributed bass array was life changing. Bass is now "real". It's not bloated or uneven and it provides a blissful foundation to all the rest.Do distributed bass arrays sound “tight?” I know that’s a hard word to define sometime... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? It is definitely the hardest band to get right.It really is. There are so many factors that go into it that are above and beyond the other frequencies. Room acoustics are very challenging at low frequencies and then there’s the challenge of contro... | |
| "I have the best system in the world!" An Audiophile's Journey From my limited understanding as to why cables work, I would have thought of all people, engineers would be most inclined to realize that they do work.I’m an engineer and I believe in the benefit of cables because I’ve heard the effects with my ow... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Interesting. I am in the same situation as you. I have a couple SMPS’s on the same circuit as my other gear. I could power them off a 12V battery using a 120V AC inverter or run a dedicated line for them. I wonder if my amplifier would sound bette... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? It’s fed underground. Another update:The electrician came out and repaired the bad neutral lug and tightened everything up. The utility turned the power back on. The first thing I did was run some “tests.” Dimmable lights that used to buzz loud ar... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? They tested the line from the street to my meter. I don’t know what they tested exactly. Is that the same thing? | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Thank you for sharing your experience. Clean power is vital!Quick update: I called my utility company and they sent someone out immediately. They discovered that the neutral lug on the homeowner side of the meter was loose and the bolt is stripped... | |
| Cheap Amazon Chinese tube pre amps Yes, I bought a cheap tube buffer. Swapped the tubes out for better ones, replaced the power supply with an ultra low-noise power supply, and replaced the volume pot with a resistor-based voltage divider. I ended up with two of these for dual mono... | |
| Need opinions on duping CD's Yes, burning a bit perfect copy of a CD to a CD-R can sound different than the original. There are several factors that go into it. If you’re interested in learning more, I recommend you read the Genesis paper on burning black CD-Rs (see link). Ev... |