njonker
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| Maryland,Wash.DC Metro area I am in Reston, and I guess I am not a big 'club' person. If this turns in to something pretty informal, count me in. I have a system with which I am very happy, still learning a lot about taming my room and getting the acoustics right. Would love... | |
| Any Famous people on Audiogon ? I just hope noone is on to my secret plan to crush the competition and dominate the world of Audio with the beta release of PowerAmp 2001...Bill. | |
| what the _____ I used to have a small active PA system, including a crossover and two stacks of three Carver power amps. To make everything simple, I used TRS cables for everything... Speakers, interconnects, you name it. (Hey, I was young..)Friends would love t... | |
| Stereo sounds better than 5.1? I would not consider that I have yet heard a great 5.1 system, while have heard some great stereo systems, so I guess that my final judgement on this will have to be up in the air for a bit.As to my systems, I have integrated my HT setup with my s... | |
| Horrific Confession and Question Here is an interesting experiment you may want to try if you have the tools to do it... In professional PA, many devices are used to shape sound. Get an Equalizer (Almost any will do, 10 band is fine), and stick it in your audiophile system. Boost... | |
| Radio Shack SPL Meter mods corrections That was Awesome! I did a test using my new Terrasonde The Audio Toolbox, albeit in nowhere near lab conditions, nor do I suspect the audio toolbox qualifies as lab grade equipment, and my data roughly agrees with your data above. I thought that s... | |
| How would you rate your listening room? Worldcup86, it is hard to say cause it depends on many factors. One of the things that seems to play a big role are the normal bass modes of your room, which are determined by the height, length and width of the room. In your room, you would have ... | |
| absolute best component you ever owned The rug I hung about 2.5" out from the back wall of my room that got in-room frequency response to within +/- .5dB from 1kHz up. At $150 including hardware, it's the cheapest component of the system, best improvement I ever made.You can take my sp... | |
| Must -have SACD's Drubin: Thanks. I clearly hear the difference, as evident from my 13 out of 15 listening test success. I tried to distinguish between 'different' and 'better'. Quantifying exactly what is better is what I was having some issues with, but I have th... | |
| Must -have SACD's Telarc has an SACD out of the Dave Brubeck 40th anniversary tour of the UK. It was recorded in DSD, and on my system it sounds like absolute magic. This is a dual mode (CD and SACD) disc. I have listened to it in both modes numerous times on my SC... | |
| How would you rate your listening room? My room I think is about a B. Looks like:the black boxes are the speakers, in reality they are toed in slightly. The blue box is my listening chair.The room is about 8' high, 14' wide at the narrow spot, and 20' long. The alcove in the right-bck h... | |
| Vote for the best speakers in 10K range Although the topic seems to have varied a bit from the question, I will put in my vote for the best speaker in the $10K range... The winner for me is Vienna Acoustics Mahler, hands down the nicest sounding speaker I have heard in it's class.Niels. | |
| SACD, MSB/Upsampling, LPs Compared Thanks for pointing out the article and the link to it. I have had an SACD player for a few months now, and I would agree that the sound is extremely nice on good recordings. As with every medium, there is bad software out there as well, so SACD i... | |
| PC Spectrum Analyser? Well, I hate to admit it but I gave up on the idea of the PC Spectrum Analyser using my soundcard for now. Running a 1kHz test signal from CD through an osciloscope gave a nearly perfect sine wave. Running it through the spectrum analysis software... | |
| Tuning speaker / room response? OK, take two of the experiment will thus involve pink noise and a spectrum analyser. I have done a bit of research on linear mics, PC Sound Cards et all, and as it turns out, it is not really economical to turn my PC in to a spectrum analyser. (Se... |