nolojunko
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| What phono preamp are you using? Herron VTPH2A. Nothing finer that I've found. Great service. | |
| Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required? I wouldn't waste five minutes on Foley's follies. Period. Just move on from him.Just establish your budget, use REW and a good USB mic, begin with very low and low frequency mitigation, then first reflection treatments, starting with side walls ... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? @hilde45 Ha~ I did duplicate links. Ugh...Here ya go; the missing link lolhttps://www.gearslutz.com/board/studio-building-acoustics/1305147-speaker-position-help-needed-deter... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? Here are two links you can use to enhance your ability to use REW; one like is for speaker and listening position placement in real-time, while the other is an REW tutorial by John L. Sayers. Enjoy!http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? @hilde45 : With respect to your bass issues you are presently seeing on your room sweeps, I guess I'd just say two things:First, any data must be quite specific (frequency, +-db, left speaker or right speaker, mic placement, listening position i... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? @hilde45Here is a link data/graph of 4" OC703. Note random incidence vs normal incidence. This is just FYI, since it came up incidentally (pun intended).https://www.gearslutz.com/board/attachments/studio-building-acoustics/502621d1444038910-low-... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? @hide45: Regarding first reflection/first order/side wall reflection treatment: Don't use anything less than 6". Some of the best engineers will recommend 8" to 12" for better performance. Reason: angle of incidence at 30 degrees, or so, plus ... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? GIK requires full payment on standard production items, while making you wait 8-10 weeks....even for a several thousand dollar order! The actual production of the product takes about 2 days. No partial deposit allowed. Of course, GIK has requir... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? I went through a very similar situation as you presently have. Over the course of a couple of years, I read the books and literature, plus participated on Gearslutz acoustics threads. That was most helpful. It's good that you've done some REW s... | |
| Neil Young calls out Tidal After NY's recent 50th Anniversary "reissue" (with a small "r") vinyl, and its lame price, plus promoting it on Qobuz as a reissue to get plays, well, I was pretty much done with him. What will he stoop to next to make more stinkin money? IMHO,... | |
| In search of DIY Audio Equipment Rack Materials @uberwaltz - - Thanks for your recommendation; I'll check it out. I didn't know the specific terminology for the threaded torque lock round "collars," or however they might be described...nor their brass smooth-topped interior threaded "cap nuts"... | |
| In search of DIY Audio Equipment Rack Materials @miller: Yes, prices for 3-shelf and 4-shelf run from $3K to $4.5K. I'm in the wrong business. | |
| In search of DIY Audio Equipment Rack Materials Clarifying: paragraph 3, line 3: "... if I can find the brass hardware..." Sorry, I thought it would have been obvious I wasn't in need of help to find ubiquitous threaded rod; it's the unique brass hardware that is difficult to find, and...that... | |
| Typical New Speaker Dealer Discount A Buyer May Expect @ ElizabethThanks for your informative response covering a number of aspects in the question I posed.My own recent experience supports those responses. Interestingly, I have found that different authorized dealers for the particular speaker I ask... | |
| Typical New Speaker Dealer Discount A Buyer May Expect Excellent responses - very helpful! Thank you for your insights. |