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| Speaker noise - hissing Not to be picky but I assume you mean the small tubes in the power amp? That is a logical source of hiss. And 6SN7's are not power tubes.From what you have said yes. Now if in addition to these small tubes you meant the big power tubes as well, if... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? FWIW, in my post I referred to 'smooth FR' but I purposefully did not say 'flat FR'. Flat suggests to me hearing all frequencies at the same SPL, and when I have heard sounds in a room that were measurable as flat (especially from speakers which a... | |
| How make my Ayre system "warmer"? FWIW, Rodman99999, having owned one of those DK5 since they first came out, I think the Siemans may be particularily synergistic with it, not that they have a universal tone, one size fits all, for all applications. But I could imagine a case coul... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? I can't tell from your comments exactly how much actual speaker/sitting positioning work you have already done, or how you did it, so it is really hard to comment on what you should do next. BUT, IMHO, you really can't get your sound to 'improve' ... | |
| Speaker noise - hissing Yes. Most probably the small tubes. If the hiss is annoying you will need to get 'low noise' tubes. They are usually a bit (or a lot) more expensive so be careful not to buy 'more' than you actually need. Also consider that changing tubes, unless ... | |
| Does good technology guarantees musicality? Chris, Yep! IMHO, most anything sounds better than op amps in the DAC/CDP's I've heard.BTW, I also prefer tubes. Nothing is perfect and they give me a lot of flexibility that SS doesn't. More fun........... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano Re mono in the next room or down the hall, I agree, as I indicated on Page 1, BUT its not the same when you listen to mono in the same room from your sweet seat.With a grand piano in an enclosed space even though the source of the direct sounds ar... | |
| Does good technology guarantees musicality? Chris, While I sort of agree with your conclusions.........What exactly does 'technically perfect' meant to you? Are you referring only to the DAC's translating the digital signal in the pits to some form of an analogue signal, or are you includin... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano I just had a thought - maybe the problem is not pant flapping bass, or even deep bass, maybe it is a simple as a suck out in the upper bass. A broad and deep enuf suck out in the 60 and/or 120 hz range for example would surely rob enuf tone to mak... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano I looked at Plasers room for the first time (boy am I slow or what). Setting up and integrating a sub woofer in a small room isn't a walk in the park, and IMHO, with all due respect to all, in a room this size may still not produce the sound that ... | |
| Assessing room response Are you asking how to use the equipment, or what equipment to get? Equipment wise, a Radio Shack analog or digital meter, a Stereophile test disc with 1/3 octave test ones using pink noise (which I prefer over pure frequency tones), a conversion l... | |
| Village Vanguard session with Bill Evans Chris, if the only reason I liked the Sessions was the audio reproduction aspects, I'd probably listen to Jazz at the Pawnshop. The sense of a live acoustic, the background voices, the tinkling of glasses, are all much more obvious. But then, I th... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano Guido, FWIW I think that your analysis of the value of a collection of audio equipment sort of focus's on its ability to reproduce (and for you to hear when the recording engineer puts his mikes near the sound board) what is going on when you sit ... | |
| $3000: upgrade Tyler Linbrooks or amplification? Stewie, For the sake of argument, IMHO if you have no reference to what 'better' means (to you) how will you ever know when to stop up-grading. There is always going to be something 'better' on the horizon even if in reality its only different.IMH... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano IMHO, apart from the issue of the ability of recording engineers to get it down in the first place, and getting an audio system that could make it sound real (i.e. as it would sound at a live performance) just how large would your room have to be?... |