ozfly
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| Redbook for the long haul My short list today includes the Talk Thunder 3.1 (British company), the Resolution Audio Opus 21 and the Audio Note 3.1 separates (much pricier). They are all well built, but whether the companies will be around is always unknown. But then again,... | |
| Necessary Attire Keep it simple: Just nail your feet to the floor. Superglue also works well -- you'll never be out of the sweet spot ;-) Hmmm, bed of nails for sub-woofers -- could work. | |
| Did you ever just want to simplify? You bet! Need a smaller room and time to just listen. SET? But even that involves tube rolling, etc. Lower the old standards? Maybe that's the ticket! Forget about trying for absolute accuracy and shoot for absolute simplicity. A nice integrated c... | |
| Review: Resolution Audio Opus 21 CD Player Fantastic review! Very complete and I especially enjoyed the comparisons. Thanks for taking the time. This is helping me a great deal in my current "shopping" mode. | |
| Good Amp/Preamp for "bright " Thiel 3.6 speakers ? Great advice thus far. I'd stay away from the Bryston amps UNLESS you also go to MIT cabling. I had several Bryston/Thiel combos and enjoyed them, but the MIT was a mandatory element but greatly added to the cost of the system. Friends have also r... | |
| THX vs. DTS The THX logo carries a pretty hefty licensing fee (see previous posts on the topic). I have an older Lexicon unit with a Sunfire amp and the differences among the various formats is a question of taste. They all have different sounds, with IMO the... | |
| Would Audiogoners be interested in this? Fantastic idea! Let's do it.How the site would be organized is critical. At minimum, I suspect it would be useful to arrange it by music genre and allow for searches based on the artist/composer/title, etc. It would be great to see reviews separat... | |
| Hardest component to decide on Room treatments. It takes so long to get them right and it is very difficult to do a comparison since it's pretty bulky and time consuming to set up. It's probably best just to hire a professional and call it a day -- especially once you get into ... | |
| Spkr size vs. Room size Only if you can't fit anything else in the room ;-)Seriously, I've had wonderful experiences with large speakers in fairly small rooms. One of my fondest memories is of a homemade JBL professional series speaker system (circa 1971) with very large... | |
| The Perfect Room? Plus, a lot has been written on outlets, dedicated lines, etc. Here are some oldies but goodies (I haven't done a recent search, but I'm sure there are many other fine threads):The Big Four (IMHO, in no order):1) Advice on installing dedicated out... | |
| The Perfect Room? Room dimensions are important, as are wall/ceiling/floor materials. Relative to dimensions, Id suggest two things: First, make the room as long as possible (e.g., 32 feet is good) in order to cleanly accommodate bass notes, which have a long wave... | |
| I have a confession to make I agree with much of the above -- focus on the music and spend your time there. Also, get rid of all stereo/video publications to which you might subscribe. Don't ever look at the auction page here. Stay away from the "best of" threads to avoid th... | |
| Listening Room Abruce, I'm sorry but I couldn't get to it either way. Is there a web site. The first web site requires a password. The second post references your own internal c drive, I believe. | |
| Listening Room Angled side walls introduce complexity into calculating the acoustic characteristics of a room but there are plenty of folks who are strong advocates. What is the height of the ceiling? The 32 foot length is great since it can accommodate a 20 Hz ... | |
| About Watt Ratings Sdcampbell, nice post. I might add that the impedence load is also an important part of the rating. "150 watts per channel, both channels driven, 20-20kHz, at 'x' percent distortion into 8 ohms" would be a more complete description (add RMS, which... |