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| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? There is no issues or relationship between room size and speaker size. When you fix and adjust those issues: Generally, the speakers were right on edge of overloading the room, depending on music, the dreaded bass boom could be heard. Fix an... | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan so how large is the image from the new speaker? Smaller baffel "better" image capability. | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? I want reflect on this aspect: Using high sensitivity speakers requires a lot of attention to noise- grounding anomalies, other stuff that you would not necessarily hear through a less efficient system. If we consider that we have that sensit... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? There is no difference between transports. | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k @cming0038 Thanks, you forgot the part were I said that there is also a filter for headphones 🎧 😜😀 | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k I am trying to add a slight bit of warmth, plus better dynamics and imaging. @cming0038 Hmm.. I am thinking like this .. I am NOT a headphones guy at all for me the soundstage is weird when the singer is IN my head and not the normal/natural... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan Thanks to Paul McGowan My hat's off to Paul McGowan! Why? Or why him? The one that should get ALL the praise is Bascom King. It is his name BHK. Bascom King where the one with knowledge and made the design of the HW and a hired gun. In othe... | |
| What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion? Thanks @wallytools ! You guys are doing a great job. Yes, there is most likely bigger fishes to fry than select a alignment but we need one anyway so why not select one of the better ones. But it is something that we can do easily. And by unders... | |
| What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion? As we see here in the graph below 👇 The Löfgren B has lower distortion all over the record surface except in the end just before lead-out starting. But we also know that a 12" LP always start at the same diameter but the 60 mm at the lead-out is ... | |
| What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion? Parameter Custom Lofgren A Lofgren B Stevenson pivot to spindle (mm) 216.5 215.96 215.45 218.02 effective length (mm) 233.7 233.7 233.7 233.7 overhang (mm) 17.2 17.74 ... | |
| What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion? I do not get the calculator to work. I enter in effective length 233.7, overhang 17.2 and offset angle 22.953° with Löfgren B. And in the calculations and table it spits out today different offset angle and overhang than I have entered. I thin... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Another issue is when old ears are used to evaluate music without a disclaimer. Another issue is when young ears are used to evaluate music without a disclaimer. (In other words both has "issue" and a age could be interesting to have declar... | |
| Small, Effective Subwoofers? Small, Effective Subwoofers? "There is no substitute for cone area than more cone area." - Optimize | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @larryi thanks for the input: My guess, like someone above mentioned, is that the record is slightly hygroscopic I thought I provided several different reasons why it can't be hygroscopic in my previous post. But we will go the extra mile her... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs Yes, I addressed some of the issues myself in the text above: About I noticed that I as operator got better and better in the weighting procedure that the first ones is not that repetition accurate. Yes, we are not interested in if the piece is ... |