newbee
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| fine tuning speaker placement Consider that you are sitting way too far away from your speakers. Assuming that you have them firing them down length of the room you have them about 7'4" apart and your head(chair) is about 14' away. That will muddy up the mid'sand greatly reduc... | |
| Break in period for albums.? For classical especially, when listening to music I have never heard (a frequent occurrance) I'll put it on and keep it on background level a couple of times. If after that I find it at all interesting I'll listen seriously. If I don't find it int... | |
| Soundstage wide and deep but not at all tall. . . Hi Benie,A couple of things FWIW. Firstly, you are, for the most part, 'right'. Everything is a matter of personal choice and you are certainly intitled to yours as I am mine. Absolutes are hard to find....It would appear that we have similar goal... | |
| Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44? Second bite at the apple - I mentioned in passing Symphony #1. After posting I sat down and listened to it. This symphony should be far more highly regarded by audiophiles, IMHO. It is big! It is dynamic! It is engaging! and, even though it was hi... | |
| Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44? Ashkenazy's recordings of all of the symphonies as well as the Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead, and The Bells, are outstanding. For both performance and the recording.I haven't checked but I think they are available as a budget set now. His wor... | |
| How critical is the exact placement of the tonearm No prize for 'close'. You only need care about precision to the degree you care about the quality of the 'sound' it can produce. If setting one up with precision is an issue for you, you'd probably be better served with other sources. Now if just ... | |
| Where are you today? My last SS stuff was Threshold SA Amps combined with my SP10II, and some Quad 63's. Started with tube amps in '91. Have had multiple amps and speakers pass thru the house since then and haven't really been totally satisfied until nine months ago w... | |
| Reduce audible hum Pro-ject RM-5 Probably hum caused by your cartridge and or TT motor is not shielded. Quite often it appears as the cartridge approached the motor. In running a Grado on a favorite TT at the begining the hum was not present, but on the last 1/3d of the LP the hu... | |
| Lack of depth problem Vett93, FWIW, in my set up the location of the listening chair is every bit as critical as the location of the speakers. I note you are moving your speakers about but you haven't mentioned moving your chair. Don't miss the opportunity to try this ... | |
| Soundstage wide and deep but not at all tall. . . I had this problem of lack of height for some years and it was only relieved when I ran some Acoustats, and when I drove some good dynamic cone systems loud. A few years ago I bought some speakers with SOTA tweeters, voila heighth appeared at norm... | |
| Attenuators Assuming that you are talking about 'in-line attenuators' you place them either at the source input of your pre-amp or the input of your amp which ever works best for you. | |
| Lack of depth problem Vet, Looks like you have pretty decent stuff, a decent sized room and dimensions, as well as appropriate damping, for a good sense of depth of image. BUT, in considering advise (and giving it) we should be mindful of how YOU define depth of image.... | |
| Tube integrateds with by pass Check out the Cayins. My A100T has one. | |
| Lack of depth problem A thought, beyond the set up issues and choice of electronics both of which play a great role in creating a good sense of front to rear depth of image and which we cannot comment on because of a lack of specific information. (BTW what are you usin... | |
| Why are all the Virtual Systems mega-assaults now? Wow, whodaguessed you harbored such excellent tastes! Sorta reminds me of my exwife, at least that's how I remember her now. :-) |