newbee
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| Best RCA interconnect up to ~$100? I agree with others re Blue Jeans but would add it might help in determining when to move on, if at all, to having a set of cables with known different sound you can use. I recommend an inexpensive set of Mogami. They are different. When you can a... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? Anything mechanical benefits from a break in period for sure. Electronic devices can benefit from break in, but not so much and it's not nearly so obvious. On the latter, long periods of break in might just be the breaking in of your ears to a new... | |
| Golden Ears? Yep, we all lose some HF as we age. Some fix it with hearing aids, some with tone controls, some just adjust their system set up. All work to some degree. But, FWIW, a good headphone system, for me, is far more feasible. With my main system I note... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Iconoclast Did you not read the 'intro' that you directed us to. BJ explains their position in a rathur humble way, I think. But, FWIW, I've always think, as with most manufacturers, it's just more of a matter of marketing their product or what they sell, no... | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation Good plan I think. Problem with running big amps 24/7 is the heat they produce can cause degradation to the amp's parts causing early failure etc. | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... When you are putting your new system together, if you can, I'd put the components on the side wall and use long RCA's to your amp placed on the fireplace hearth behind your speakers. I would never locate my components in the room's corner, especia... | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? Clearly cables can sound different, some of the differences are predictable by their construction and the materials used. But 'good' or 'bad' I don't know. Just different for sure and it all depends on their synergy with your components and your ... | |
| What happened to my room acoustics FWIW, my room is about the same size as yours (19.5x13.5x9), but my set up is a tad different. I use the triangulated set up with my speakers 4' off the wall behind them, 9' apart, sharply toed in (axis crossing slightly in front of my head). My c... | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? My miracles appear on those occasions when I have found myself so involved in the music that I no longer hear anything related to the performance of my audio system. It truly is a revelatory experience, and unfortunately somewhat rare. It is somew... | |
| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! My 1st speakers were Rectilinear 7's in the 70's. Then - Altec 19's Rogers 1a Thiel's 3.5's Acoustats 2200s Quad USA 63's Paragon Jubilee/Jems Tyler Linbrook Signature Silverline Bolero's bought about 10 years ago and they aren't going a... | |
| Pictures at an Exhibition For performance, Richter's Sofia recording made in 1958 can't be beat - everybody agrees! Problem is the recording was live and is poor. None the less it is great and sets a standard. Another very good performance in much better audio is Pletnev's... | |
| Somewhat of an oxymoron - speaker stands for the floor for bookshelf speakers. Depends on the height of your speaker's tweeter (from the floor). Normally it will sound best when it is at ear level. Room and tweeter/speaker design might accommodate a slight deviation. For normal sized monitors we're usually talking about some... | |
| Somewhat of an oxymoron - speaker stands for the floor for bookshelf speakers. I sort of agree with ghdprentice. When I set up a pair of 'bookshelves' on stands I used some 24" high steel stands w/4 fillable posts and attached the speakers to the stands using a generous amount of Blue Tac. In order to counterbalance the spea... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation "Not a great room". It seems counter intuitive to me that you would want to spend up to $1000 to counterbalance the room problems, especially when expensive cables tend to be neutral and likely to expose problems in you room/system. In your place,... | |
| Which frequency to adjust if voices/mids give me a headache. To answer your question, if I had an equalizer of the 10 band type, I’d lower the slider in the 1500/1600 hz range 3db. WAG for sure! I know nothing about Dirac. |