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| Starting from scratch in a large room Lots of interesting answers.unfortunately none of them are grounded in the physical reality of your room. It is easily 3X to 5X the volume most HiFi speakers are intended for. Your placement limitations are exactly that, but there are speakers tha... | |
| Starting from scratch and say $5000 Your budget means doing some serious value - oriented shopping. And that means finding a decent Preamp/DAC/Power Amp + 2 sets of interconnects combination with a reasonable WAF for under $3K. Tough shopping there. So I'd look at integrated amps: ... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Tonality - Human Voice. Male or female, It shouldn't sound tubby, chesty, cupped, or nasal, Emmy Lou Harris Eva Cassidy, Aaron Neville, Mark Knopfler (His voice turns to mud on a lot of systems) Dynamics - A big symphony, Beethoven's 9th is the f... | |
| Best musician in the world? There are a lot of incredible musicians, so many that picking the best would seem a fool's errand. Of the many so far mentioned, I do see two missing names: first, Les Paul (and Mary Ford). Not only did he essentially invent the modern electric gu... | |
| have a pair of Tekton Perfect Set 15s but need a lighter speaker The white plastic furniture moving discs HD or Lowe's work reallywell and are very inexpensive. That said, a pair of Monitor Audio 300 7g at $2850/pr. are Stereophile Class-A rated, have half a dozen other international awards, are fairly easy to... | |
| Forced to DIY I do almost all my own repair work around the house and in the yard, including stereo, guitars, and amps. In the process I've built up a pretty good collection of tools and the skills to use them. And in those cases where something is either above... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! Everyone should at some point in their lives own a Porsche, preferably a soft top. Any one, doesn't matter. Then, drive it as intended. Use good fuel, don't lug it. It's not a Mustang, not a throbbing V8 Corvette. But until you own one you can't u... | |
| Why do I need a switch? @tonywinga So what I hear you saying, based on your description, is that you have Wi-Fi signal level issues that were remedied by hardwiring. I always recommend hardwiring backhauls from Mesh network nodes to avoid those exact issues. The differ... | |
| Worth fixing? When I finally get rid of a piece of equipment, I thank it for it's service. Sounds weird, but it makes me feel less guilty. And FWIW, if you thrift or recycle it, there are hobbyists that love fixing stuff on their own time. | |
| using different optical modules with SOtM switch The internal switch fabric simply cannot support the requirements of the 10gig signalling. That it worked for awhile before failing is a good indication that your switch simply did the best it could until it likely thermally shut down. That's OK s... | |
| Why do I need a switch? I you have adequate ports and are satisfied with your WiFi performance, you do not need a switch. No switch, regardless of their claims will make better zeros and improve your 1s. Those who make that claim are preying on the ignorance of their cus... | |
| Sleeper JBL models....80s-90s The L-110 10" 3-Way was a stupendouslyvgood speaker. It was the first JBL to use a computer designed Thiele-Small alignment, and it shows. Rock solid, fast bass, spot-on midrange, and JBL's first dome tweeter. None of the typical JBL boomy bass an... | |
| Sleeper preamps: $500 new/used The APT 1 designed by Thom Holman (also known for a little project he did for George Lucas called 'THX'). He pretty much nailed phono stage design around 1980. Not to mention the most useful preamp controls ever, including a proper subsonic filter... | |
| Does room size affect volume and bass? Oof. In acoustics (as well as a lot of other areas) there's this thing called the inverse square law. Basically, SPL decreases inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source. So, go from 1M to 2M and the SPL drops -6dB. In op... | |
| Integrated Amp Shopping Decisions The Marantz PM7000N should be on your shortlist. It checks every box on your requirements list, and then some. I bought one to 'hold me over' while deciding on a pre/power/DAC setup, and after I got it broken in, I kinda stopped looking (although ... |