newbee
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| Placement of dual subwoofers... Where you place your subs depends a lot on their design and the design of your mains, as well as your reasons for using them in the first place. Consider where they are crossed over to the main speakers, the crossovers slopes, as well as room acou... | |
| Mono blocks wiht preout/main? You are correct. When you remove the jumper you have disconnected the NAD's amp and when you take an IC from the RCA of the pre-out to the D100's you have effectively replaced the amp in the NAD. Mono amps only need one RCA. You run an one IC from... | |
| Speaker power ratings vs. aplifier power ratings? No. Usually a speaker manufacturer's power rating only means maximum power input for designed performance. Uusually much less power is actually required to get satifactory performance in a typical set up. This is all kind of loosy-goosy but the si... | |
| Quad 2805 Toe In Experience? I listened to my Quads (63's) about 5 degrees off axis, i.e. axis crossing behind the head. My set up distances were very similar to yours except I was a about a foot further back (in a longer room). Don't forget with Quads diffusion on the wall b... | |
| Have you used a frequency/tone CD w/SPL meter ... For someone trying to get a handle on the whats and whys on their rooms bass response I think they are invaluable. Especially so when initially setting up speakers. FWIW, I suspect very few who are really serious about set up are without one.What ... | |
| Opinions on Power Regenerators and Tube Amps I had a buzz in my Barons which didn't entirely go away when I used the Barons ground lifters (BTW - if you haven't already done so, try lifting only one ground, alternating channel to channel, that might help). Mine went dead quiet when I plugged... | |
| Speaker Cable Termination Bare wire is good but it will oxidize and its tough to clean all those individual wires :-). I prefer good spades which clean more easily or locking bananas in that order. FWIW. | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? "spending that money on more music"Probably the most intelligent conclusion anywhere in this thread! :-)Do it! | |
| Whats more important? Speaker or the Amp Old subject. Nothing new. A speakers performance is highly variable and its sound will depend on the amp driving it. But the greatest amp (whatever that is) will sound like crap if the speaker sounds like crap. The quality of the speaker is the ul... | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? All of this talk about speakers vs electronic's and the ratio of costs between the two leaves me feeling like I just had a Chinese lunch! Hell, its not even an hour later and I'm hungry again! :-)Speakers are the BIG deal. Best speakers you can af... | |
| Which CD Players? You don't indicate a price range, but if you're looking for something in the $1500 +/- range, check out the Raysonic 128. Well built and tunable by tube selection. Got a good review in 6moons. Their only, possibly negative, comment was it was full... | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? Chiho, Whether you hear differences or not, or whether the differences are large or small (to you) depends mainly on what you are trying to accomplish by changing amps and how experienced a listener you are. If you have no specific goals and only ... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Gregm, Just a thought in addition to your comments on 'dynamic range'. I've come to believe that the real importance of getting a system to sound like 'live' instruments, is not so much the difference between minimum SPL and maximum SPL, but wheth... | |
| Am I the only one purchasing hybrid disc's....... Pawlowski - I'm listening to a two channel redbook system. My point of reference is other well recorded redbook recordings. I do not have either a SACD player or a multichannel system. But I'm very much into audio and I have a large collection by ... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing Tvad and others,Tvad, I noticed the Shahinians - a big caveat, note that they use a driver which may not be obtainable to a user if one (or more) needed to be replaced. :-( Re comments of Seadweller's wife that the speaker sounded boxy. Am I the o... |