paul6001
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| Coupling/Decoupling Electronics Just a few remarks to hopefully finalize this discussion. The effects of speaker spikes seems relatively straightforward but it really is remarkable how often it’s misunderstood. The effects of spikes is to couple the speaker to the floor on which... | |
| NAD and Spade Terminals I'm not sure if this guy is just fed up or a conspiracy theorist—https://www.kenkessler.com/hi-fi/mondo-audio-ce-regulations-and-eu-meddling/ | |
| NAD and Spade Terminals I know. I've got a copy. EU must have put the regulations in place after the manual was printed. Or something. Maybe the law applies only to me, just to bust my balls. | |
| NAD and Spade Terminals And the answer is . . .It can't be done. Some crazy European safety regulation forbids spade terminals. They're legal in the U.S. but NAD just makes one version for everywhere so they have to make them spade-proof. Well, at least it's not just me.... | |
| NAD and Spade Terminals I appreciate the effort but I’m afraid that it’s been no help. Yes, in the manual, NAD says that they take spades. Elsewhere , they describe them as “five-way” binding posts. Plus, it’s just hard to imagine that they wouldn’t take spades. But when... | |
| NAD and Spade Terminals Because the NAD doesn’t take spades? | |
| Please Educate Me I can’t help but notice that when Paul McGowan raises the exact same point that I did in my original post—100 replies ago—no one makes fun of him, no one mocks him, no one feels the need to attack. Maybe Audiogon members should be paying a little ... | |
| Visual Confirmation Bias Speaking of first reflections—One of the good things about this apartment is the many windows. The LS50s are firing at four of them. But they’re covered by very nice, old-school wooden blinds that are quite adept at diffraction. My biggest room pr... | |
| Visual Confirmation Bias Seasons In The Sun! Now THAT’S music! By? No googling. Djones, you’re right on both counts. Believe me, there’s nothing I’d love more than an Eames easy chair planted right at the point of the triangle. But this apartment dictates that the couch g... | |
| Visual Confirmation Bias Anyone want to comment specifically on the LS50 and it’s supposed forward/bright sound?All this talk of memory caused me to return to an earlier observation of mine: There seems to be no limit to the lyrics I can recall to songs that a) I haven’t ... | |
| Please Educate Me Another county heard from. Paul McGowan of PS Audio in conversation with John Atkinson of Stereophile, February 28, 2018. The conversation, which has been edited for readability, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0NUvziOgWQAtkinson:... | |
| Visual Confirmation Bias Unfortunately, my apartment is so small there’s no room for a sub. Although maybe the bathroom . . .Actually, I find that I get the best out of the LS50s by playing “Singles Going Steady” by The Buzzcocks LOUD. Or at “elevated SPLs” as some might ... | |
| Please Educate Me It’s because I’m a New Yorker that I appreciate a good brawl. If one is to spend 24/7 obsessing about a pair of speakers, one will reach a point where there’s not much to do except worry about “halfway wavelength cancellation frequency.” God only ... | |
| Please Educate Me Also, I did a little calculating. (I might have a problem here.) My quarter wavelength cancellation frequency is 214 hz. Halfway is 107 hz. Is that good? Bad? I can’t do much about it but should I worry? | |
| Please Educate Me From my original post:”Conceptually, logically, I don’t know why it isn’t.”Doesn’t that invite a response, doesn’t that ask somebody to inform me why it does? Like desktopguy so nicely did. Complaining that, “He never asked a question” seems to be... |