newbee
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| Best room treatment If you have already ruled out any further tuning of speaker placement, or listening chair placement, before you can determine what types of room treatment will help you need to identify the frequency(s) at which the problem (boost) occurs. The low... | |
| "Breathing" of the air Well, a few random thoughts from the peanut gallery.........Q 'Air' - Is it additive? That is does it come from the design or implementation of equipment/set up. Or subtractive? That is does it come from the source and does it pass through the sys... | |
| Musical involvement? "Assuming meticulously set up".........Mismatched complaince of cartridge and mass of arm. Stylus shape, for example line stylus types, vs elliptical, vs conical types. The former can give very precise information not available with conical. But i... | |
| Is there a process to match a Cartridge to a Phono The capability to adjust the resistance (MM) or capacitance (MC) if you intend to fine tune your cartridge/system match is very important. Especially with MC cartridges. A lot of phono pre's, especially the inexpensive ones do not provide this. An... | |
| musical speakers for a Quad system Quads are fine in general, its your room size (14x8) that is a problem IMHO. If that were my room to set up I would do it with nearfield listening to small speakers such as small Spendors recommended by Stanwall, or my personal choice the old Roge... | |
| Overload indicator comes on when playing vinyl You may have a sub-sonic frequency peak caused by a cartridge/arm mis-match or set up. This is not heard but you will see the woofer cones pumping and sucking up a lot of watts, perhaps going into clipping which you might well hear in the higher f... | |
| 2-way speaker with best bass I had a pair of those Altec 19's. Wish I had them back. Sold them in the early 80's when I didn't know diddly squat. But, once thing I can say, that even with large drivers in a large cabinet, the bass was not really that 'deep'. Tight/fast absolu... | |
| resolution and imaging Learsfool, Thanks for the clarification regarding what I percieved as a superhuman hearing ability mostly achieved after the signal hit the grey matter. :-)FWIW, my use of the word timbre in that context was not from ignorance of common usage so m... | |
| resolution and imaging Learsfool, As the poster of one of the 'odd comments', lest I misunderstand, are you saying that you can distinguish the tonal qualities of each violin, and perhaps even be able to identify their maker by their particular tone, when the violins ar... | |
| what kills soundstage depth? Sorry for any confusion caused, but I accidentially posted supplemental comments on your system thread with the photos. | |
| what kills soundstage depth? I hoped to see some pictures of your room set up - with your stuff you certainly have the foundation for some decent imaging. Some questions 1) How far are your speakers from the wall behind them - too close to the wall is a major killer of qualit... | |
| resolution and imaging Sns, I agree totally with your last post. This has been my personal experience as well. I won't bore with details, but I have so many CD's of great performances (thats why I bought them) that are quite listenable now than I did just a few years ag... | |
| resolution and imaging Wavetrader, I love your analogy. It works! But, in the long run is it valuable to look at the painting up close, when/if it detracts from the picture the artist entended?The old 'failing to see the forrest for the trees' works as aptly, I think. N... | |
| Weather Resistant Surrounds? near aquarium Evaporting 2 gals a day! Wow! Poor fish must be boiling. :-)Seriously, water filtering/management could be a problem and some different methodolgy involved could be a good solution (if you haven't already do so) if you must put a speaker above you... | |
| resolution and imaging Wavetrader, Consider that what you hear depends on your proximity to the instrument(s) making the sound. What a mic picks up is also mostly (but not identically to your ears) dependent on proximity. If you were on the podium you would much more ea... |