newbee
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| Shostakovich Fifth Symphony Interesting post. I’m not an expert, by any means, on this composer but I do enjoy his music. I have all of Haitink’s performances and enjoy them all. I think understanding what was on Shostakovich’s mind when he composed them can be helpful but I... | |
| Upgrade from my Audio Research LS7 to a remote control model? mktracy, not to worry I think. I believe OP has posted a 'wanted' ad for the LS15 and LS16 on USAM for a used unit. Not the SP 16 however which I think might have been a good, if not better, choice as well. Oh well. FWIW used Placettes pop up fre... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Well here is something that, at minimum, you will find more 'modern'. A road less traveled for sure. Paalo Berglund and the COE. If you are tired of over orchestrated, bloated Brahms, performed by large orchestras, which is so abundant, perhaps yo... | |
| Upgrade from my Audio Research LS7 to a remote control model? If you really are happy with what you have why take a chance with changing out your pre-amp for something different? I had a ARC SP10II and wanted a remote volume control so I just bought a passive remote control unit and put it in my tape loop. I... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge RV, FWIW, if you were happy with the Clearaudio cartridge I'd go back to it in a heart beat! Setting up a great vinyl system is as close to rocket science as you're going to get in this hobby. Everything (!) matters. Some things which I've never... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? I purchased a pair of 3 way speakers (Thiel's) in the late 80's (I think) after a great dealer room demo. I totally lacked any advance skills in evaluating them but they came in natural Brazilian rosewood and sounded great! That began a very frust... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge RV, You are dead meat, at least in my experience. One of the principle reasons that I got out of vinyl was that I was compulsively listening to all of the audio thingies, like sound stage in particular. I venerated my "Living Stereos"! I came to r... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth bigtwin, I can understand what you have experienced but I think you (and others perhaps) may be missing the point about bringing the speakers out into the room. I'm using a equilateral set up with speakers about 9ft apart and 6ft from the wall beh... | |
| Lessons of youth When all was said and done (after getting sucked into all of the equipment hyperbole) what I came to realize was that using a manual camera (without auto focus, spot light meter, auto film advance, etc) and a good hand held light meter made a bett... | |
| Lessons of youth LOL, I visited one of those photography forums back in the film days when one could develop and print his own pictures. No one talked about what one did to take pictures only about things like the resolution of a 35mm lense on a 36 inch print or t... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth Why do you limit your observations to depth of center image? Why not depth of image at the extreme left and right? That's important too, no? What about basic speaker positioning issue of near field or distant/mid range. That too makes a big differ... | |
| Noisy Right Channel FWIW I don't feel that usually having 'matched' pairs is all that additive. At least I never used them in my ARC pre. Unless your pre-amp has provision for biasing small tubes I'd just cheap out and buy the Sovteks from the Tube store. If they are... | |
| Noisy Right Channel Switch your tubes channel to channel and see if the noise switches channels. If it does get new tube(s). Perhaps just reseating your tubes will solve your problem. | |
| Weird I doubt that the inversion of absolute phase has anything to do with your problem. What strikes me as possible though is that with both subs running perhaps you are just getting too much bass and this excess bass is muddying up your upperbass/lowe... | |
| Uneven room dimensions/reflections = uneven toe in as solution? You might try just shifting you listening seat a little toward the weak side. Not much...just until you get a solid center image. |