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| 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... | |
| Raising Subs? I have tried this with one and two subs to reduce a vertical room mode. It partially worked, but as usual other frequencies that I worked hard at to get just so were compromised. | |
| Looking for a streamer/DAC According to Brian of Bricasti the internal network player of their DACs performs better than the outboard streamers, citing a I2S > AES > USB. | |
| Diagonal seating? I have been down this road where I thought imaging shift was a result issues like the room, the electronics or my ears, but symmetric speaker placement along the center line of the room, mirrored toe-in and equal distance of the speakers to the li... | |
| Positioning B&W 802’s with spikes in hardwood? If it we're me, I would put mark the placement of the speakers by way of blue tape, measurement from side wall, whatever..., place the spikes, tip the speakers back upon metal discs made for spikes. You can move the speakers some this way and can ... |