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| Reel 2 Reel What would you suggest for a first reel to reel, 1/2 track or 1/4 track?Half-track machines are primarily professional use. The extra tape width per track gives a slightly better S/N ratio and also helps reduce the chance of signal drop-out due to... | |
| Spendor S9e or ProAc Response D28 I have a set of Spendor S8e speakers and really enjoy them. Very smooth and very musical at all volumes and I listen to a very wide range of music. I've not heard them side by side with the Proac but my impression is the Proacs are a bit brighter ... | |
| Reel 2 Reel I've got a Tandberg 9241X. I've mainly used it the past couple of years to convert my open reels to digital. I had to recently get my rubber rollers rebuilt and one always worries about the availability of parts to repair or maintain a 30 year old... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Raul wrote:Maybe what you have to do is to convince to the RIAA about your subject because with out standards is very difficult to follow a " rule " like you want.Bob is certainly entranced with his way of looking at this issue but as with most th... | |
| Review: Spendor S8e Speaker Thanks for the compliment. Sometimes it is tough to write accurately about equipment you like without veering into overt gushiness. The sensitivity of the S8e is 89 dB. While not qualifying as a high-efficiency speaker, they do a pretty good job w... | |
| Bel Canto S-300i I haven't heard the model you refer to but I've had the S300 power amp for quite some time and really like it. I think it is an excellent buy. I posted an evaluation in the review section of Audiogon that you may wish to read. | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts While on one level a watt is just a watt, we also have to take into account how humans hear. As Duke noted early in the thread, we perceive "loudness" far more on the average level than peaks. Take the following example with a 20 watt tube amp and... | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts Duke, excellent answer. Clipping behavior is the reason that people perceive tube amps to be more powerful even when the wattage is the same. This is also the reason that electric guitar players love tube amps. Many of the most memorable "sounds" ... | |
| Are Sound Waves Able To Penetrate Canvas Painting? The change in absorption from canvas paint is going to be frequency dependent. Higher frequencies may be reflected where they were previously absorbed. However, painted canvas is not near as stiff as drywall, plaster or paneling. To the extent tha... | |
| DIY CD Compression? Adobe Audition will let you "normalize" tracks, do peak limiting, adjust volume levels, do dynamics processing and other such goodies. Pro Tools and probably some other programs will also do this. You'd have to rip the tracks from the original CD,... | |
| life without audio dealers Unfortunately a lot of this discussion seems to be turning into a black and white situation. It is almost as if some are saying that if the dealer won't deliver endless pairs of expensive speakers to their homes for lengthy trials, then a B&M ... | |
| life without audio dealers when you compare speakers at an audio dealer, will that comparison hold up in one's own stereo system ? maybe.it is possible that while you might prefer speaker a over speaker b during a dealer demo, you might prefer speaker b over speaker a with ... | |
| life without audio dealers There is no good substitute for looking at and hearing equipment in person. I've seen some fine looking photographs that fail to communicate certain aspects of how a piece actually appears in real life. Punching buttons, twirling knobs and general... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4-JR If you suspect the unwanted sound is a mechanical resonance from a speaker driver, try running a frequency sweep (though be careful with volume level as you get into the highs - you don't want to fry a tweeter.) If there is a resonant frequency yo... | |
| What Volume do you listen at? > Grand Piano = 110 db SPL, Drum Set = 115 db SPL...These figures get thrown around a lot, but need to have a dose of moderation applied. Those figures are correct if you are standing next to the instrument while someone is banging away as loud... |