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| musical small sub for B&W 805s's Bob_reynolds: What active crossover and subs have you used (manufacturer and model) and what dictated your choice as opposed to other options? | |
| What kind of active speakers? Of interest to the Floyd Toole fans: Published last year was "Sound Reproduction, Loudspeakers and Rooms" by Focal Press. Mr. Toole does a nice job of explaining what the title suggests. After finishing his book, my impression is that his bottom l... | |
| What kind of active speakers? To those using active speakers - what music genre do you listen to with the actives ? Also - as to the poster using JBL's in one system and KRK's in the other - comparison between the two ? | |
| B&W 803S Speakers I run the 803's in a 12x19 room that opens into a second room with no problem. Have listened to the 683's but found a very big difference in imaging - 803's image much better in my opinion. I also felt that the bass of the 803's was more realistic... | |
| Dimly lit room: Plasma, LCD, or DLP Any comments as to the quality of non-HD media (such as old movies on DVD - from 1940's, forward) when viewed on plasma vs lcd, and for various lcd's? Comments most welcome from those who have done their own side-by-side comparison. Particularly i... | |
| How different between B&W 804s & B&W 805s???? Brianmgrarcom : No I did not get a chance to hear the MA6600. I did listen to the 6900 and found it a little lacking in power, i.e. turned on the power guard easier than the 7000 or 252. Kind of an interesting experience actually. The store that h... | |
| How different between B&W 804s & B&W 805s???? Vikaschhariya: I run a pair of 803S' with a macintosh 402. I compared a number of amps (however not any Marantz models) and nothing came close to the mac for my tastes. However, I herard little, if any, difference between the 252, the 7000 integra... | |
| Violin concertos/Symphonies.... Furtwangler - Beethoven's 9th on EMI (1951), Music and Arts (wartime) Tahra (Lucerne festival - last performance) The EMI from '51 has the best sound - in mono. Also Von Karajan Beethoven's 3rd from the 1961 cycle but not from the later cycle's. J... | |
| Grounding of Dedicated lines You will not gain any sonic benefits from altering your present grounding setup. And, yes, I am an EE. | |
| uncompressed RVG CDs only | |
| what is the weakest link in my audio chain Benqsun: I don't see any weak links in your system. If your really want an upgrade to have a noticeable improvement look to your main speakers. But the Paradigms are nice speakers and if you like their sound you would be hardpressed to do better. ... | |
| slew rate and rise time Krkus: Very nice. I like the speaker damping - stuffing leading to damping factor for an amplifier etymology. I also like your reasoning based on the multiple tap amplifier technology of bygone times. | |
| slew rate and rise time For the accepted engineering definition of "damping factor" see for eg. Automatic Control Systems, Kuo; or, Digital Control System Analysis and Design, Phillips and Nagle. Both published by Prentice Hall. The first edition of Phillips and Nagle ha... | |
| slew rate and rise time My guess is that the term "damping factor" was at some time in the past appropriated by audio manufacturers for marketing purposes. The term is defined in automatic control system theory where as the product of the damping ratio and the natural un... | |
| slew rate and rise time Rleff - Keep in mind what "damping" is, as opposed to "damping factor". If you look at the response of a system, any system, to an input signal, the question is how well does the output follow that input - both in terms of time and magnitude. At t... |