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| Audio Help for Hearing Impaired Part II Mario, forgive my ignorance, but why wouldn't a great pair of audiophile headphones, cranked up a bit, and equalized to adjust for your particular hearing loss profile, do the trick? | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs The laws of physics are immutable (except for quantum physics which we'll leave aside for now). At sea level, at 68 deg. F., sound travels at 1127 ft/sec.So the length of a 20 cycle/sec sound wave at sea level at 68 deg. F. in free air is 1127 div... | |
| How close is too close for a truntable to speakers If your floor is a concrete slab, using a good rack or TT stand is OK. Otherwise consider a wall shelf (Target) mounted to (preferably) an (outside wall) constructed of (preferably) brick or concrete block. Interior stud walls are OK too if they'r... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Chris,If you put SL's in a 15x21 room, you'll have to put them on the long wall to avoid the large sidewall reflections they'll produce (which is why you need a large room!) and so that means you'll be listening to them (relatively) nearfield -- w... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Hi Chris,I've never owned Soundlabs, but I've been listening to them and A-B'ing them since their inception. I would have bought them too, but never had a space big enough to house them (I think a 20' x 30' room is minimum IMO) so I've been gettin... | |
| MONSTER CD RINGS . How to Remove ? I haven't tried Goo-Gone, but Ronsonal lighter fluid (naptha) has always worked great (won't eat labels or plastic like laquer thinner or acetone)Flood the inside edge of the ring. Then try and separate just a small part of the outside edge if you... | |
| Bose 901 I was a student at MIT when Amar Bose (a professor there) introduced the 901. My audiophile friends and I agreed then (and still do) that the direct/reflecting idea is basically flawed, because both the direct and reflected sound of the instrument... | |
| Turntable Rack Mounted to Foundation Let me clarify: when I said "very few of them are truly rigid" I was referring to audio racks, not concrete slabs.Concrete slabs don't vibrate in the audible spectrum, and almost not at all in the mechanical spectrum (below 12 Hz. or so) therefore... | |
| Most "Ruthlessly Revealing" Speakers. Your opinion If you want "thoroughly" revealing -- meaning accurate reproduction of every separate sonic "event" in the source material, then I think you should consider an electrostatic loudspeaker.I don't understand the use of the word "ruthless" in connecti... | |
| Turntable Rack Mounted to Foundation If you are in a real basement, the "walls" are probably either concrete or concrete block up at least 5 feet or more. In which case you might want to consider mounting a couple of 6 foot long butcher block (maple) shelves on welded steel brackets ... | |
| power cords for Roland amps/wadia transport Well, for your amp, of course you want to use a PC with at least 10 AWG conductors: and it doesn't really have to be shielded IMO, although it wouldn't hurt if it has ferrite beads (or Stillpoints "ers") on each end to trap RFI. I use the Audio Me... | |
| cartridge mounting ? for clearaudio Don't use the plastic bolts, and don't use any nuts. And most important -- don't over-torque the mounting bolts. Just hand tight and then a tad more -- no muscle required.As for the plate, it's for adding both mass and/or height to the cartridge. ... | |
| Lost Hertz In the typical listening room, there is usually what's called a room "peak" or "suck-out" around 25Hz. I forget what this is due to, but it is so common that a lot of speaker manufacturers (particularly subwoofer w/ built-in amps like the Martin L... | |
| Anybody heard Martin Logan Summits? Chadnliz -- you heard the Summits and have an opinion, and so I feel it was worth my time to read your post. "Any thoughts would be helpful" I presume means with regard to the topic of the thread, and not just any ol' thoughts.We all take time to ... | |
| Anybody heard Martin Logan Summits? Vladimir -- have you heard the Martin Logan Summits? (That is the topic of this thread) What did you think of them when your heard them? |