ohlala
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| Pee Wee Herman has passed away I grew up with Saturday morning 'cartoons'. Playhouse was the best. | |
| Subwoofer Advice & Therapy :) I agree that phase and frequency and LF filters can help but are not a complete substitute for sub placement. Your advantage is the latitude to place a bit away from the walls. Get the largest sub you can. I have owned undersized subs; it is not g... | |
| Can you have too much speaker presence? I have been down this road and think jtgofish makes an interesting point. What I would do, though, is perform acoustic measurements. The issue may be band limited. Problems are easier to solve if you can isolate them. | |
| Fathom subwoofers? My experience has been adding a pair of S510s then changing to a pair of fathom113v2s and CR1. There has been an embarrassing amount of measurements and adjustments in this process as well as help with an acoustician. There is a size difference ... | |
| How To Keep Cat Off Stereo Equipment? I have three cats and top vented equipment, including a 532H sitting on the floor. They lay on the top of everything because the equipment is left on all the time. I have never seen chassis damage created by the cats or hair in the equipment. I ha... | |
| Rell or JL subwoofer? I have owned a pair of s510s and the fathom 113s. JL for HT and REL for music is an oversimplification people should dismiss. Their setup philosophy and feature sets are very different. REL assumes good in-room bass response from the main speakers... | |
| Sensitivity 86 v 90 In my experience for most speakers, the relationship between sensitivity and amplifier watts is often an overblown consideration. Gain, however, is predictable. Like others have stated you may have a gain issue. I do not know your preamp but 4-6 o... | |
| Starting Point for Room Treatments? I completely agree with glennewdick and meant to include his message in my paragraph. I also use room eq wizard but with a Dayton em6 and focusrite Scarlett interface. I hope the USB mics are less fussy to use. Learning REW and performing consiste... | |
| Starting Point for Room Treatments? Deciding on an approach to treat a room is personal decision as there are many products and DIY options, including old standards and more esoteric approaches. The first step, imo, is to define the issues. A common first step is experimenting with ... | |
| Preamp with two volume controls? JL Audio CR1 crossover has a sub/satellite balance control. btw, The lamm L1 has three volume controls! | |
| LS50 + Sub Or Floorstander? You can be successful either way. I think a main goal with adding a subwoofer is to even out the bass response. To do this you have to solve the room modes and the bass response of the the LS50 at the same time. There are additional tools like EQ,... | |
| Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects My interpretation of an old almarg post is that some noise rejection may occur connecting XLR with just one of the units being balanced, so I gave it a try. | |
| New transport or repair CD player I am all about maximizing the lifespan of gear, but based on my experience using a Cary 303 as a transport, I would audition a new one. The change from the 303 to a server/built-in renderer was a decrease in that digital-type distortion. | |
| Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects I tried XLR mogami vs Purist Proteus RCA (5m) from an unbalanced crossover or preamp to a fully differential amp. The Purist sounded like Purist and the XLRs sounded more distorted, which was the least surprising outcome. | |
| Help finding a subwoofer An active crossover is there is to solve an issue, but you do not yet know if you have that issue or if you even care. REL subs are actually fairly limited in features. I wish I could easily show pics of my best REL vs best JL Audio waterfall gra... |