nighthawk
Responses from nighthawk
| Tube Amp Suggestions As I thought. | |
| Tube Amp Suggestions Didactically, how willing are you to learn something new? The link below is to a fellow's Masters thesis which seeks to correlate measurement data to what we hear.http://w3.mit.edu/cheever/www/cheever_thesis.pdf | |
| Cable Madness Wow Ozzy, I never had any experience like that with the Cable Co. I rented cables 8 or 9 times before I bought anything, usually 3 cables per time, over about a one year period. They were very accommodative. How many rentals did you do?Also, my fi... | |
| Cable Madness There are lots of good cables out there. Some of them will 'click' with your system and some won't. If you want to save money, buy used and sell the ones you don't like. If you want to save time, the Cable Co. has a rental program where your renta... | |
| So YOU can't hear a difference in cables If you find AU24 edgy you have a problem somewhere else. Either your speakers or one of your components is bright and is where you should focus your efforts. If you would list your system maybe we can give some guidance. | |
| Ten Percent Distortion? A distortion spec at the onset of clipping is pretty much worthless. A more useful number is the THD at 1W. This corresponds to a level you are more likely to listen to. Most amps are well under .1% at 1W. However, that simple number still tells y... | |
| Revel Salons in an enclosure? B&W has an extensive line of inwall speakers, also. | |
| Recording Limited? You said "After this point, I am playing a game which deviates from neutral, accurate playback". Not entirely true. You still need to fill out the bottom octave to have neutral and accurate playback. However, it's difficult to achieve, and you rea... | |
| Revel Salons in an enclosure? Lktanx, here is a technical explanation for you. Large free-standing speakers like the Salons and WP7s are designed to be placed far away from any room boundaries for best sound. The reason for this is only the higher frequencies radiate from the ... | |
| Revel Salons in an enclosure? They'll sound like Bose. | |
| Broke and still not happy Gellis1, what do YOU think the problem is? Many suggestions have been made and you have rejected several of them. It seems as though you are looking for a specific answer to validate your own opinion. | |
| Broke and still not happy I think if you experiment with interconnects and power cables you might be able to get the sound you want. The best way to do this is contact the Cable Co. and rent a bunch of cables. Cardas cables have a warm signature that might work for you. Tr... | |
| Break-in Bomarc, you're right, you can't hold yourself constant, but you can maintain a reference sample, as Sidssp said. | |
| Listening Fatigue Bombay, I have one minor quibble with your post - passive elements CAN lower the noise floor by reducing the bandwidth of the power line noise. RMS noise is proportional to the square root of the bandwidth. However, the filters used in this approa... | |
| Break-in Try this logic - if you are a product designer, and you know your widget changes its characteristics from its new state to its well broken-in state, do you optimize its performance for the new state, which exists only for a short time, or for the ... |