pabelson
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| Budget bookshelf system for acoustic bass Peter (I presume):A speaker that really is 3-5 dB down at 40 Hz is going to give you very good bass performance. That's not the point. Speaker measurements depend very much on who's doing the measuring and how they're doing it. Manufacturers will ... | |
| Budget bookshelf system for acoustic bass Let me rephrase that. It takes heroic meaures to pull it off, and such measures are not found in the $600-800 price range. I'll stick to my recommendation of a small monitor and a sub. Otherwise, you're likely to hear that bass fade out as it runs... | |
| Budget bookshelf system for acoustic bass There's no such thing as a monitor that goes down to 40 Hz. Speakers that size start tailing off somewhere in the 70s. My suggestion would be a small monitor like the PSB Alpha or Paradigm Titan, along with as good a sub in the same line as you ca... | |
| Are Speaker Cables Longer than 6 FT. Superior? Shorter speaker cables are better than longer.Shorter interconnects are also better than longer. If you've got to go long with one or the other, there's no strong technical reason to go with long ICs (or vice versa). If you think one way is better... | |
| Capturing radio software? I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but in general, you do not need any more resolution than whatever you're capturing. In the case of streaming radio, that's maybe 128kbps max. 192/24 would be an absurd level of overkill. Even WAV (44.1/... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? For those embracing DBT as simple self-endorsement, I am dismissive.No objectivists of my acquaintance (and I am acquainted with some fairly prominent ones), "embrace DBT as simple self-endorsement." A number of them, myself included, were subject... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tbg: If all you care about is finding a great speaker, why'd you start this thread???All individuals are not the same. I never said they were. I think you're hung up on the idea of a hypothesis about what a majority of people can hear (in which ca... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? I just think the proper hypothesis should be that a sample of people can hear a difference between cables or amps.Well, that's one possible hypothesis. Another possible hypothesis is that one particular individual can hear a difference. That's the... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tbg: For someone who "teaches statistics," you express a rather narrow perspective on the field. Think about how you would use statistics to determine whether a coin is fair. (You do agree that you can use statistics to do this, don't you?) The pr... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tbg: If these tests didn't yield positive results, they'd be useless for research. Just because they don't yield positive results when you want them to doesn't make them invalid. A good example of a mix of positive and negative tests is the ABX ca... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tbg: The main question of your post seems to be, Do objectivists like Arny Krueger extol blind tests only because they like the results? The short answer is no. Arny K. and his ilk did not invent blind tests as a weapon to use against the high-end... | |
| Renee Fleming goes Jazz? Yep. I think she used to front Illinois Jacquet's band. Check out her album, "Haunted Heart." | |
| 12yr old NAD receiver or new? NADs can be a pain to repair--or so my local repairman says. And when you fix something, it's only a matter of time before something else goes. I didn't think much of Sony's entry-level stereo receiver. I bought my dad an Onkyo, which turned out t... | |
| Is SACD a dead format? Oh! and by the way, the improvement in the formats had nothing to do with expanding bits, but expanding channels.Also, improved mastering. Arguably the greatest contribution SACD has made is to give record companies a reason/excuse to remaster the... | |
| Macintosh - Mac Mini aficionados please help In general, it should be possible to run Java programs on a Mac. (The whole point of Java is that it's not platform-specific.) That doesn't mean that every single Web site out there will work with every single browser. I suggest you find a friend ... |