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| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? 40.years ago Monster Cable provided dealers with an A/B cable switch for demonstration of their product with 16 GA lamp cable. At under a10 ft no one could reliably tell them apart. At 20 ft, Monster Cable became noticeably better. One customer br... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable Great USB audio summary. "Most modern DACs with USB input implement "Isochronous transfer mode with asynchronous feedback". The isochronous transfer mode of USB is the one that guarantees transmission bandwidth but does not support data retrans... | |
| speakers/ amps liking one another Your 13 X 13 room is by far the biggest issue. you will have strong resonant modes (eigentones) in both L-R and F-R at about 87 Hz and multiples: 43.5, 174, 261, 348 Hz, etc. The speed of sound is 1128 ft/sec (sea level) divided by 13 ft = ~87 Hz.... | |
| What Gear Has Disappointed You? KEF LS-50s - just all wrong in my room. They are a near field monitor for small rooms. In my living room, they just sounded tiny and lost, even with a sub. Replaced them with Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G, and am very happy. The LS-50s will go into ... | |
| Which power cords have high resolutions and separation?? A power chord is a two note chord that is neither major nor minor. Savvy music theorists will note that this is because it only consists of the root and fifth notes of a given chord. Since the third is what determines if a chord is major or minor,... | |
| Anything that is like Norah Jones? Eva Cassidy 'Live at Blues Alley'. The best of the Saturday night show. 'Songbird' is the entire 30+ song set. The Friday night set was supposed to have been recorded as well, but wasn't. And on Saturday she was starting to come down with a cold. ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I had a dinner out with Andrew Jones many years ago. He impressed me as a genuinely nice man and extremely competent speaker designer. I've followed his career arc for decades since. The Source Point 10s may seem controversial to some, but I see m... | |
| Best way to keep REL sub from “hopping around” at high volumes Buy 4 2" Sorbothane 30 Durometer feet from.Amazon. Sorbothane is the real thing, no esoteric BS, its what is used for vibration control in all kinds of applications in all kinds of industries, because it works. 30 Durometer is the softest and work... | |
| Subwoofer suggestions for budget system? Keeping the bass out of the Maggies requires a subwoofer with a low-level high-pass filter that can be set to 60Hz. In turn, that requires line level cables to the sub and back to your power amp, adding complexity and expense to your system, as we... | |
| Which power cords have high resolutions and separation?? First, start with a dedicated 20Amp circuit with a whole house surge protector ($ varies) wired with 12 or 20 gauge wire and a Hospital Grade receptacles ($12 ea). Next get a good cheap oscilloscope off eBay or C-List and see if you've got any RF ... | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I always let guests have the the first picks, the start working my faves into the mix. Usually I'll suggest Eva Cassidy, Aaron Neville, if it's Jazz, Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny "Beyond The Missouri Sky", Diana Krall. Eric Clapton and BB King "R... | |
| Is the seated-centered solo listening to music a dated tech? Multicell horns are used to reduce the level of early reflections in the listening space via tight control of their dispersion pattern. Most famously, the Altec 203B 'Long Throw' 2-Cell with a 20x40 degree pattern was 6dB hotter at 100 ft than oth... | |
| Streaming: WiFi or wired?? The lack of basic understanding of networking, hell, even basic physics is somewhere between amusing and appalling. Digital SQ begins with sample rate and bit depth. For a CD that's 44.1 KHz and 16 bits. 16 bits isn't adequate to avoid detail lo... | |
| Help Building an Audio Room I would try to net out a 13X 15 X 9 room. Sound transmission to the master suite indicates using not only a resilient clip system for the ceiling, and a layer of 1/2" plus a layer of 5/8" sheetrock. Fill the joist cavities with rock wool. Make sur... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Hold on for one moment. Consider the piano. It's roughly 5 feet wide. So sound from a bass string is going to arrive at the mic way after sound from the treble side. Worse, that bass string is several feet long, so sound will arrive at different t... |