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| Upgrading from soundbar Soundbars have come a long ways. The Sonos Arc is very impressive on its own, and is easily expanded with their subwoofer and rear channel surrounds. The Sennheiser Ambeo was described in a review "Calling the Sennheiser Ambeo a soundbar is a bit ... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? Almost 30 years experience as a network architect for Very Large Network company. Avoid network extenders - they do extend range but at a cost of 50% of your throughput. As you add devices, this catches up with you and performance and reliability... | |
| Integrated vs. Separates on a Budget I'm a big fan of the Marantz PM7000N. It's the most flexible, best sounding, reliable integrated amp available for $1200. Factory rated at 80w/ch into 4 ohms, it drive most demanding speakers like my KEF LS-50s and Magnepan 1.7s easily. It also a ... | |
| Biamp question The Legacy SE crosses from the woofers to the 7" mid at 180 Hz. Bi-amping without a crossover loses all the benefits of bi-amping. I.e. the additional 6dB additional headroom . Baffle step compensation, impedance leveling, and frequency equaliz... | |
| USB to SPDIF Reclocking Adapter? Jitter is the variation in arrival time of data. In non-packet based digital systems, there is a similar phenomenon known as 'ragged edge triggers'. In a 16 bit system, all bits have to fire (trigger) within a very short window. Chips are rated in... | |
| How do you enhance a bad listening room's accoustics without breaking the bank? thoughts? Materials have some combination of the four basic acoustical properties: Absorption, Diffusion, Reflection, and Transmission. Materials vary in their performance of those properties with respect to frequency. Cork is absorptive only at relatively ... | |
| Advice needed re: new CD player purchase No disrespect to Bryston, but I'm pretty sure they OEM the physical transport from someone else. Engineering and building your own CD mechanism is almost like fabbing your own semiconductors - leave it to the specialists. I am just curious who tha... | |
| Have you moved away from full range to standmount speakers + subs? Horses for courses. Little monitors in big rooms will likely never sound 'right' with regard to image size. Big JBLs, Vintage Altec 604s, or Klipsch Horns will simply be overbearing in a bedroom. The dynamic linearity (ratio of change in input to ... | |
| Tube Power vs Solid State Power A watt is a watt except when it's not. The interaction with a power source and a resistor is pretty predictable. A speaker is not a resistor. It is a complex impedance with resistive, capacitive, and inductive values that vary with frequency and l... | |
| Is there a modern equivalent of Allison speakers? I agree that 'modernized' Allison's could have great potential. Back around 1980 a friend built a dimensionally identical clone of an Allison One, using the then-popular Philips midrange and mylar dome tweeter, Speakerlabs best 8" woofers, and eng... | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. Altec A7s need to be in 8-10,000 ft3 room minimum, otherwise the 2K bump will drive you crazy, likewise they really are at their best with a tube amp. Those big 515 woofers kick back a lot of EMF that most solid state amps weren't designed to hand... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system Anything from Aaron Neville's 1991 'Warm Your Heart', but 'Everybody Plays The Fool' is The One. Look at the talent: Linda Ronstadt produced the album and sings on 4 cuts, Rita Coolidge on 3. Ry Cooder, Bob Seger and Dr. John also play. Every inst... | |
| Best speakers 5k 10 k Soundstage and imaging? Magneplanars, if you have a room that you can place them in properly. Under 200ft2, 1.7s and a REL T/9. Bigger room? 3.7s and a pair of REL T/9s. Give them a solid 100-200 W/ch and happy at 4 Ohms amp.There's lots of W/M/T ... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? OK, accepting the premise of the question, and having co-owned a HiFi store back in the day, the brand selection process is not one takes lightly. Leaving aside the Parent Company Ploy that gets you a whole basket of brands (clever, but not the ... | |
| Shipping to Italy If they are under 70lbs each, packed, believe it or not, USPS Parcel Post is reliable and affordable. I have shipped to Germany, Australia, and Italy without issue and at a fraction of the cost. |