newbee
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| Jazz Piano Trio / Spanish Guitar Bill Evans, a premier jazz pianist. Bill Evans Trio recorded by Riverside. Waltz for Debby is a good recording to start with.Tommy Flanagan - A trio with Peter Washington & Lewis Nash on a release called "Lady Be Good" by Verve is a good place... | |
| Vandersteens and room acoustics I would try putting the speakers with their backs to the solid long wall firing towards the balcony railing. I would place them about 4ft out into the room, 9ft apart, and put the listening chair just in front of the rail. That might just work! A ... | |
| Vandersteens and room acoustics You have a major issue with a room that size. It is tough to do anything excet listen in the nearfield, which it soulds like you are already doing. Can you get your speakers out a bit more from the back wall and move your listening chair back, mai... | |
| How can you tell when you need to replace tubes? You don't need to test tubes to see how they are performing unless you have a SOTA system and are anal about maintaining that sound level. First, I agree with Eldartford, except it can be a PITA to put in new power tubes, rebias them etc. Small tu... | |
| Speaker Placement Advice Toe your speakers in until the axis' crosses in front of your listening position. This will reduce the reinforcement and reflections from the side wall next to the left speaker. If after you do this you still have a slight left sided off balance m... | |
| The eternal quandary Twoleftears, 'Accuracy' went out the windows when we selected our speakers and their set up. Nothing you can do will ever recreate exactly what the engineers put down. Not even close!Detlof, A 'benchmark' system! You are absolute right on! It does... | |
| First name basis? A rose by any names still smells....or something like that anyway. In forums you have chosen how you want to be addressed by the choice of moniker or by if/how you sign off your post. There is no discourtesy in addressing someone by their moniker.... | |
| Most transparent amp you've heard? "Is the question as posed useful?"I didn't think so, that is why I posted. But, I don't think the question needs to embody the perfect reproduction of a live event issues that permeate the typical 'best' question, all you would need is a speaker/a... | |
| Most transparent amp you've heard? How would a fella ever know if he had just heard the most transparent amp if he didn't have the most transparent speaker, what ever that might be? I always thought transparency was the end result of how an amp and speaker interfaced, complimented ... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? Raul, What happens if we just go naked? They sell nude cartridges don't they. Maybe that's a combo made in heaven. :-) Come to think about it, heaven that is, two naked bodies might even be better than just one. I think I'll go try that..........:... | |
| The eternal quandary I re-read your initial post. I do not have this particular recording, but I have a lot of HM's. Most of them are very good, but I would never call them rolled off or dull, in fact on some I found there was a tendency to close mic the instruments, ... | |
| Dealing w reflective surface between loud speakers Your clarification of speaker type would certainly support your complaint. In addition to my comments about how to handle the problem if the speakers were front firing cone/boxes, consider that the back wave of the speaker needs to be hitting a su... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones Rodman99999, Love the reference to an 8 track tape. Completely worthless. You didn't miss my point at all, did you. | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones Pubul57 Too bad we can't tell from the manner in which an opinion is given whether or not the opinion has any value beyond that of a classic testimonial. Some folks seem to be pre-disposed to hearing differences embodied in most tweaks and some th... | |
| Dealing w reflective surface between loud speakers For the less than absolute anal set up specialist, and for only those using typical forward firing cone driver speakers, if you can get those speakers out a couple of feet from the plane of the TV screen, which should be no problem at all if you h... |