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| active crossover recommendation The DBX 234XS is the best overall choice I know of. At $319 it supports 2 X 3-Way channels if need be with easy setup. It uses the highly desirable Linkwitz-Riley 24 dB/Oct filters, which generally aren't used in passive designs because of parts c... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? To understand the nature of recorded music consumption one needs to break it down into endpoints and the drivers associated with them. Consumption endpoints characteristics include fixed vs mobile and solo vs shared. Mobile further breaks down int... | |
| Passive Bi-amping using XLR Y-adapters Using two amps running full range into passive crossovers is NOT bi-amping. Sorry. Bi-amping requires bypassing the original passive crossovers and using an active crossover between the preamp and power amps matched to the design crossover frequen... | |
| Made in USA All my equipment is made on Earth, by humans. Beyond that it gets very complicated, and kinda pointless. | |
| Preamp for VPI Prime 21 turntable $300-800 @vonHelmholtz, Thanks to a large knob on the front that allows impedance matching between an MC and the Copla preamp, it appears to be uniquely capable of matching the requirements of the cartridge. I really do recommend reading the entire arti... | |
| Preamp for VPI Prime 21 turntable $300-800 You might want to read Herb Reichert's write-up on the Lounge Audio Copla transimpedance MC preamp in the March 2023 Stereophile. "The Copla made recordings sound charged and vivid in the extreme but also vivid and relaxed." concluding "It behaved... | |
| What tonearms are compatible with a Scoutmaster? The more exotic the stylus, the less forgiving it will be from errors in geometry. The 10.5" arm is a balance between the lowest tracing error of a 12" transcription arm, and the lower mass and tosionaly stiicer, but higher tracing error 9" arms. ... | |
| Budget amp that will give Magnepan 3.6Rs better depth of soundstage I agree with misstl, Maggie 3.6s are a lot of speaker for your room. So, making the room ’seem’ bigger acoustically would be the logical first step. That means acoustical panels. They will reduce the level of reflected vs. direct energy and in doi... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume If you really want output you need surface area to push the air - a single larger driver and a horn loaded compression tweeter. In other words, a JBL Pro-style studio monitor. A model 4349, with a 12" woofer and 1.5" compression horn tweeter with ... | |
| This Sounds Like A Pretty Good Deal -- Opinions? A deal. Grab them. | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume How big is a 'big room' and how lively or dead is it acoustically? Do you have a target peak SPL in mind? Finally, how far is it from you speakers to your listening position? Volume level is a physical parameter that is easily calculated. If your ... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? At age 69, I've been reading audiophile magazines for 50 years. I've cut back to just Stereophile because their mix of equipment, music, and personalities is consistently the best. But to survive, they need to attract a younger, newer, and less af... | |
| The problem with absorption panels- it kills the fine details OK, it's clear a little clarification on acoustics is needed here. Not trying to mansplain, but just to provide some context. 1) Speakers provide input into the listening space. What you hear is the direct sound from the speakers plus the reverbe... | |
| Should I upgrade my Advent 5002 speakers? I am a huge fan of the Large Advent. Henry Kloss worked some magical engineering into the voicing that still amazes people today. That said they are not the last word in definition and dynamics. Time moves on. Footprint and architecture-wise the S... | |
| room size question. A few speakers are designed or are tunable (via port stuffing) to enable placement closer to the rear walls. It's just a matter of how the load the room acoustically. Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G are one. In my room, I am able to get them within ... |