petaluman
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| Linear Power Supply Recommendations! @glennewdick That seems reasonable, but incomplete. Did they give you any more specific information, like maker name, specs to look for, sites to shop? Just buying an LPS because it's cheaper doesn't seem like much of a guarantee of better per... | |
| A great has died Wow Garth Hudson was my favorite musician in my favorite Band. I saw them first at the Before the Flood concert with Dylan in LA, then 5 times on the farewell tour, including the closer Thanksgiving Day in SF at The Last Waltz. I like to say th... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? Look for an SPL (sound pressure level) meter app for your smart phone. Maybe someone here can give you a specific name to find. Ideally, you want one that can be set to give you average values as well as peaks. | |
| “A complete unknown” Check out Don't Look Back, D. A. Pennebaker's documentary shot during Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England. In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted it the ninth best documentary film of all time. | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. Elvis Costello on The Band I was wondering really where you got your odd singing style from? It's very nasal and it has a lot of American inflections. That comes from the time when most of the music I liked was either R&B or white acts influe... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design All of these are floorstanders with double woofers, resulting in total surface area approximating a 9-10" woofer. If you're content with their bass output, just go with the one whose sound you prefer. If you're likely to get a sub or two, you mi... | |
| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? Here's a thorough review (listening AND measurements). It still appears in Class A (full range) of their Recommended Speakers, along with ~30 others. Worth the read, then you can decide which & how many others you want to check out. | |
| Subwoofers are a superlative room treatment @orthomead Thanks for the additional details! FWIW, DSP and servo control both correct the input to improve the output fidelity. The DSP also does its calibrated frequency response shaping across the swarm. The servo mechanism may be more acc... | |
| Subwoofers are a superlative room treatment @orthomead Enjoy the great sounds! You mentioned DSP, so I assume you did some calibration process to allow it to optimize its settings? Are only the 4 subwoofers under DSP control? | |
| Identify, repair or replace mid range speaker in B139 based setup from Wikipedia: "A stadium is a two-dimensional geometric shape constructed of a rectangle with semicircles at a pair of opposite sides. The same shape is known also as a pill shape, discorectangle, obround, or sausage body". Dare we call a KEF B... | |
| B&W 705s3 vs Kef Meta R3 The B&Ws are mfgr rated at 88db @ 8 ohms; the KEFs 87db @ 4 ohms. Were they or the other pair you auditioned level matched for comparison? It wouldn't hurt to bring your own SPL meter into any serious listening comparison. Generally, the lo... | |
| Bluesound icon vs Nad c700 You should be able to get a used Aurender N100 for around a grand, also, if you don't need a Roon-capable streamer. | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... Brands will come and go. That's OK. I do think the high end is likely to contract, though. Does anyone out there live where the young adults are happy with the affordability of local housing? More young people live in shared wall environments,... | |
| Plasma Tweeters - Do they still exist? Plasma tweeter demo at Burning Amp Festival on 10/19/24 (see DIYAudio for more info on the festival). If this picture doesn't show up (tried cut'n'paste), go here for pics, video, and discussion - https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/demoin... | |
| Can anyone tell me when XLR connections were first used on stereo equipment. (what years)? PS I believe some Threshold preamps & amps had XLR connections in the 80s and 90s, but I don't think they ever made an integrated amp. Much more recently, Parasound HINT & HINT 6 integrated amps include XLR ins & outs. I don't know i... |