ohlala
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| Amp matching with high sensitivity speakers I hate to extrapolate, but my experience with lower output amps (35, 70, 80, 150 watt) with JBL 4367s (94db/hybrid with 15" woofers) was not good. Sure, they will play loud, but the bass is soft, creating great discontinuity between the horn's and... | |
| Why terminate speaker wire? According to Benchmark, their testing showed speakon was the best followed by locking banana. I wish all cables were speakon from a use standpoint. My cables are for too heavy for spades. | |
| KEF Blade 2 The meta is channeled disc to control rear projected high frequencies. The blade achieves its goals, imo, of a flat frequency response and KEF’s unique version of point source. Besides that and their cool design, I do not think they are remarkable... | |
| Lumin vs Bricasti Volume Control I tried M3 direct. It had that raw, detailed sound that I have experienced before without a preamp in other systems. The percussion sounds were heavily emphasized over other sounds, such as the vocals, so I much prefer the edit of the Lamm L1. I d... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5 speakers endgame? That is great, mitchb. Hales was the first hifi speaker I heard that really mesmerized me. I owned a pair of Revelations for almost twenty years, paid for by working at Walmart. There was pretty big gap between the Transcendence and Revelation re... | |
| Does it matter the wire gauge used in interconnects? I know this not super helpful, but 47 labs made a IC kit using single strand of what I think is 26g. It is a great cable, better than all the audiophile entry level cables I have tried, in that it has great tone throughout the whole frequency band... | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover Hi. Not really, Ozzy. Partly because I have not done much with it and am not sophisticated. However, as long as I level matched the subs, set phase, ran DARO, there was nothing left fine enough for the damping control to "fix". In my measurements,... | |
| Acoustics, using placement as EQ With help I have had a recent journey with this issue. The only subwoofer placement strategy that helped was lifting the subs half way off the floor. In reality the majority of the problem came from my speakers and no x-y placement was going to cu... | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover The ground switch is a good tip I overlooked. Thanks. I switched from master/slave mono to stereo. At that time I phase adjusted R and left channels to 80Hz with an SPL meter and also volume corrected the right channel at 80Hz. Phase was zero in... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 with YG Hailey 2.2s? Supra hifi demonstrated carmel 2s with diablo sporting the onboard dac at lone star audio fest. I am a real fan of YG, and that demo did not disappoint. Can’t speak of bass from that demo, but mids and highs were what I expect from a YG stereo. (I... | |
| Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned? I bought used Dominus Rev B interconnects for like ~$1500. I own and have owned other down-range PAD models. When I plugged the dominus in the first time, I could not believe how good they sound. While ergonomically a pain, I seriously doubt I wil... | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover Thanks for your reply, Ozzy. I may try to set the DARO individually. My subs are positioned to cancel a 40Hz mode, and I do not know how the equalizer will react. Obviously it can only really work at minimum phase. Doesn't hurt to try. | |
| Headphones vs full range speakers I agree with the comfort factor. I really like the audeze LCD3, but sold them largely because they were not comfortable. I ended up preferring near field bookshelves. | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover I had help from acoustic frontiers in sub/speaker relocation to smooth out bass. I have at least a hundred REW measurement from this misadventure. The subs ended up near opposite corners of the room, which flattened all but the 60Hz. Elevating the... | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover I replaced a pair of RELs (using high level input from the amp) with a pair of fathoms with a CR1. This was to correct a 60Hz room mode on the vertical axis generated by the main speakers. There are measurements pics of this on my system page. Th... |