newbee
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| Monitor speakers that disappear:best image/staging Have you considered that speakers have different radiation patterns and how they perform can be affected by both set up and toe in. Some want to be heard well off axis (pointed straight ahead) and some work best toed in? When I encounter those spe... | |
| Adding Tone Controls? Bama, Nice post. A couple of comments on speaker/listening chair location/set up. Keep an open mind on this because some of it is not intuitive and conrtary to customary set up.1) Set the speakers up so that the speakers/listening chair form an eq... | |
| Made in America For me it is hard to get nationalistic when buying most anything. Some of the worst products I have purchased in the last 20 years have been American made. Fortunately most of my high end USA audio stuff was pretty good after it settled in and got... | |
| Does fair trade still exist "Fair trade" is no longer legal but contracts between manufacturers and retailers usually make it appear that they will sell at the same price or lose their contract. Often it is nothing more than an agreement not to advertise at any price less th... | |
| Dealer selling B stock doesn't tell customers Funny thing, I just saw this post on AA. Don't you go there?Just in case you missed it, short of qualifying disclosures to the contrary revealing it to be less than 1st quality new product, that would be fraud! Sort of the law in most jurisdiction... | |
| Adding Tone Controls? Bvdiman, Normally I would agree with your sentiments. In fact in my first post I completely avoided comments of any type on other possible contributions to the problems he was experiencing and a couple of possible solutions. None what so ever. As ... | |
| Correct way to burn in a new CD/SACD player That is a 'clue' to what, exactly? That there is no performance changes in audio equipment as it ages? Or just that the manufacturer is smart enough not to enter an arena of audiophiles with too much time on their hands and nothing better to do th... | |
| what would you do? You know what I like about Kevin Deal, he's got the balls to come on a forum like this and defend himself when he thinks he has been unnecessarily abused. Somewhat rare. That, if nothing else, seperates him from the herd. He doesn't seem to like '... | |
| Adding Tone Controls? Bama, FWIW, you can lower the volume of distortion in the upper-mids and highs, but you still get distortion only on a slightly reduced level. Maybe not so good. But, how do you know without trying first. Perhaps an equalizer or tone control, digi... | |
| Can't drive Proac Studio 110 with low budget amps With a lot of speakers it is not so much the raw power available, like for example 200wts at 8 ohms, as it is the current delivery to speakers with lower impedences i.e. 4 ohms and below. Amps which double power output at 8 ohms when it droops to ... | |
| Is it really possible to compare A/B speakers?? First, I concur with Almarg's observations.Re your last sentence, I don't believe you can make an 'intelligent and informed' (as I interpert that phrase) decision based on the best A/B demo set up in a store. You can only do this in the room you a... | |
| bella extreme 3205 tubes "The inputs are what I'm most interested in"Are the Sovtek 12AX7's the AX or the LPS version? Generically speaking the LPS version isn't far off from the tone you are looking for, i.e. open mid range - brighter highs, but how it combines with the ... | |
| TUBE MAGIC CANADA IAM 96 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER It looks quite nicely built. But FWIW I'm really impressed with the reviewers manner in preparing the review (on this and another amp I read while on Dagogo). I'm willing to take him at hs word. Its not just another puff piece.That said, even if t... | |
| how do i get more bass w/o adding a sub Apart from the issues raised by Almarg, I would think that you might improve the bass response some by finding and taking advantage of bass frequency nodes (or avoiding nulls). This can be more easily done using a SPL meter at the listening positi... | |
| One sub or two or none? Looks like you have tried all of the things suggested about using sub's. As I did. The only sub set up's that ever worked for me were rolling the main speakers off much higher than 40 hz and placing a single sub between the speakers. Elegant and s... |