mswale
Responses from mswale
| Optimized Center Channel You have a very common issue once you expand from 5.1. Also think Marantz HT receivers make this worse. You can always raise the gain on the center channel, but that can lead to it being out of balance, when panning dialog will change the volume. ... | |
| Walk-in soundstage Have this in my HT room, it feel like you can feel the raindrop when it's raining, things are 3D positioned in the room. Door knocks always tip my dog out. However, it has 13 different speakers all over the room. Think it would be almost impossibl... | |
| Klipsch Mod What Klipsch speakers do you have? What did you do the crossovers? If you think the original tweeters are shrill, the TI tweeters will be worse. Yes, they will need a L-Pad. Forget about the Crites tweeters, get Dave's machined tweeter, these ar... | |
| What do you care about in this hobby? 1. sound/enjoyment, it has to move me. 2. Price as it can be tided directly to #1 3. aesthetics, the other half has to approve. 4. Synergy, finding out this is very important, separate from value, money spent. My setup is vintage, sans my stre... | |
| I find myself changing direction, in a way....... If the concert is encoded in Atmos, it sounds awesome in my HT room, you are part of the show, sound everywhere. But if it's not in multi-ch it sounds like poo. Have gone down the video/live shows in the HT room, but my 2ch setup sounds best for... | |
| RCA to Optical Converter Legit question, why would you use a receiver with a soundbar? What are you trying to achieve? Best use of a soundbar is HDMI from the TV to soundbar. I just can't understand why you would want to us an amp to another amp (powered soundbar) | |
| Upgraded from Klipsch to Volti - Was it worth it? Volti are a couple rungs above stock Klipsch speakers. But Volti are also much more expensive, so they should be better. I want the Lucera, but they are expensive, then there is tax, plus shipping. Thinking these will be over $20k total. For tha... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? Think it all comes down to if you are a DIY kind of person or not. As said, you will get much higher quality parts, at much lower prices, so if you are bargain type of person. Yeah, you can make a $10k speaker for around $4k. Yes, the resale will ... | |
| Seeking a new loudspeaker, horn, single driver, concentric or open baffle Call Volti, talk to them, think that is the speaker you want. They work very, very well at lower volumes. What I have found that at lower volumes, the soundstage is smaller, everything else is the same. Have very modded Klipsch now, listen at 50... | |
| What is your vinyl commitment? Project X2 $1000 (open box) Sumiko Amethyst cart $600 new needle after getting it caught on a MF towell $450 Alm Sub platter $200 upgraded power supply $75 cables $250 Stillpoint footers $250 | |
| Streamer Options Needed Don't waste any time or money getting the Mini to sound better. The cost is not worth the benefit, plus it's also getting old enough to need a replacement. 10 years is about the limit on a Mac, it will no longer get any updates. Hate to break it... | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? Weird how many people have mold issues. Never seen a moldy album. But have see a ton of dirty, scratched and nasty album covers. Think if mold is an issue you should have desiccant around your collection!!! Not sure if they use it anymore, but th... | |
| Audio Grade Ethernet Cable So much misinformation about networks, and how they work. There are almost no differences in Cat cables, the difference is the bandwith that they work on, the higher the Cat rating, usually the higher quality of cable. However, there are good cabl... | |
| Just got a new power amp Thought the conscience was to always use XLR, they have a much lower noise floor, carry less noise, have less signal loss, of course higher gain. Why would you not? Lowering the noise floor is always an improvement. | |
| Has anyone here set up a system with tiered subwoofers handling different bass spectrums? Not to beat a dead horse, but run the mains full, not crossover at all. Adjust the subs to fill in, agree, it should be around 80hz or less. Adding another sub, in just the lower spectrum would be difficult, hard to integrate. If you are just lo... |