noble100
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| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Thank you Erik and Duke for a good discussion about speaker radiation patterns,direct sound, early reflections, RT60 reverberation times and room acoustics in general. I feel like I'm in school, in a good way. You guys have got me reevaluat... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Hello Erik, I don’t understand why you would want to waste your time listening to $40K plus speakers in a good room if you have no intention of purchasing them. But I actually did attend a private audition, presented by Mr. Diller at a loc... | |
| Best room treatment Hello ronboco, I agree with everything erik_squires advised in his most recent post on this thread with the exception of totally treating your room first. He is a very knowledgeable audio enthusiast, however, he importantly lacks any person... | |
| Best room treatment Hello ronboco, I just want to clarify a few things that will hopefully help your understanding. The distributed bass array (DBA) is a concept discovered virtually simultaneously through empirical scientific experiments performed by Dr. Earl G... | |
| Best room treatment Hello ronboco, When I first installed the AK Debra 4-sub distributed bass array(DBA) system in my 23’x16’ living/listening/home theater room, the only acoustic room treatments in my room were wall to wall carpeting and some padded leather furn... | |
| Best room treatment Hello ronboco, You’re getting some excellent advice from some very knowledgeable experienced audio guys and I agree with most of it. But I’m concerned that you might be getting a bit overwhelmed in the process, kind of like taking the advanced... | |
| Best room treatment I took advantage of GIK's free room analysis about 6 months ago and have continued to be impressed with the results. I took a few months before I decided on a specific acoustic company to research and educate my self on room acoustics in gen... | |
| Empty canvas: recommendations on blending audio and moving watching Hello soix, No, I wouldn't use tubes in my home theater system either, precisely for the reasons you mentioned. This is one of the generally agreed upon compromising guidelines in this hobby that I was referring to in my last post. But I sti... | |
| Empty canvas: recommendations on blending audio and moving watching +1 big_greg. There are some generally agreed upon compromising guidelines in this hobby but very few absolutes and system freedom generally reigns. Most decisions just come down to personal budget, performance, convenience and preference fact... | |
| Empty canvas: recommendations on blending audio and moving watching For tv/movie setup I would definitely separate the audio from the video as millercarbon stated and use a top of the line video picture format like OLED, which is a bit more expensive but picture quality can't be beat by any other currently a... | |
| Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band Hello hifimadness, Thanks for the recommendation, just watched it and really enjoyed it. I didn't know much of anything about The Band beforehand, not even that they were Dylan's band for a few years, so their journey was all new to me and ve... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world erik_squires: " Thanks. I have no problem with the technology. Just the interactions and people who've gotten in my grill. As a result of that, you all go swarming all you want to, wherever you want to, for as long as you want to, and let me ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Hello Erik, My wish for you is to audition and experience the Swarm. Possibly Duke or James Romeyn could arrange it? Or, you're welcome to stop by my house if you're near Indy. You could then state your objective, apropos thoughts on the... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? erik_squires:" Let me explain. I have extremely high and very vague standards. I look down on everything, and I mean everything, never talking about specifics or my own point of reference. I’ve looked down not just on people and equipment but sci... | |
| Wife opened door to build my best ever system...ideas for what it should be? atmasphere:" I would start with the Swarm subwoofer system."+1 For all the reasons he listed. A complete Audio Kinesis Swarm or Debra 4-sub distributed bass array (DBA) system is a bargain at only about $3,000 and will provide near sota bass p... |