newbee
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| Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it? None! But then I don't buy speakers just hoping they will just happen to sound good. If my research suggests (absent an actual in home audition) that the speakers have the characteristics that are important to me in the first place, which are supp... | |
| Rediscovery Absolutely, although I have to admit that 'streaming' was never attractive to me in the first place. I have music on all day now that I am retired, usually on a college FM station, but I also have a multi CD player (Onkyo) which I load with a lot ... | |
| Speaker binding posts with plastic covers Can you not just unscrew them? I think the tabs on the two pieces of plastic 'covers' are there to facilitate that. | |
| Help with tube choice FWIW I use new production JJ or Tesla (older versions) E88CC in my Woo headphone amp and my Raysonic CDP. Tonally they are a bit on the warm side of neutral and dead quiet in both units. They have good longevity and, best of all, are inexpensive. ... | |
| Martin Logan vs. Everything FWIW, I almost bought ML's based on an audition of a pair in a SOTA system/setup/room. Wow stuff! But before buying them I listened to them again in another store (same owner) in a nearby city. Small room, less than optimum set up. Sounded lousy.... | |
| Do people tire of audio forums? I come here mainly to help others and I get very little feedback. Fortunately my ego doesn't dictate and if I can occasionally help some one all's good! I don't care for or often participate in the philosophy and equipment threads. Life is too sho... | |
| what should I get to replace what I am planning to try Sounds to me like you've been hitting the booze a bit much. Your post is incoherent, to me at least. | |
| Help me spend $100,000 on a new system How can you really do this now, you don’t even have a room and much of what determines what you use will depend on the room and it’s characteristics? I’d recommend that you use that $100K, if necessary, to get a house with a room you can dedicate... | |
| Speaker placement Quandary Not really. They are all excellent but different musical formats and instruments. I don't know about downloads, but the CD's and Vinyl recordings came with a description of each cut and what was on display sonically. You really need that. I enjo... | |
| Speaker placement Quandary OP (and Skinzy), I don’t know what you are using as a reference for ’depth of image’ but ’depth of image’ is not so much because of set up, once you have a good set up drilled down, i.e. 5’ +/- from the wall behind the speakers and first reflectio... | |
| Room acoustics basics Earl Geddes wrote what might be considered by many a definitive book on the subject of acoustics. | |
| KEF LS60: Distance from wall behind them Don't know about LS 60 vs KEF Reference but FWIW always found speakers placed only a few feet from the walls behind them tend to sound flat imaging wise (probably with enhanced bass) whereas a monitor speaker usually had greater clarity and 'depth... | |
| Speaker placement Quandary I have box speakers, ports on rear, 3way. My room is similar to yours except a bit larger in all dimensions and a 9' ceiling. Regarding 'depth of image' minimum distance from the wall behind them is 4ft. Best imaging is about 5'. Speakers 9.5' apa... | |
| Amp first approach to build a system. Anyone did it ? And it would be a SS amp? | |
| Getting into the music RV in exchange for your recommendation for Mussorgsky's Pictures (in another thread) I offer you Kantorow's version of Rachmaninoff's PC #1 on BIS. Of my 8 other versions this fits me best, sonically and musically. I highly recommend it to you. I ... |