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| Matching a amplifier to speakers Dynaudio is a fine manufacturer - now that you've chosen your speakers, it's time to hear them with some different amps! I think they have a pretty consistent "house" sound, so hearing any Dynaudios with an amp should give you a good idea of the ... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? @bdp24 Not sure how I stumbled across this long nascent thread, but I enjoyed reading your contributions. Since I know we share a common obsession, I wanted to add one thing. I believe this is from Levon - he said that Richard Manuel played rh... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area Most modern box speakers use reflex loading to handle the bass region. The most obvious "violent" cone movement occurs at the port tuning frequency, where the box acoustically vanishes and the woofer is completely unloaded. | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" 3 friends listening to the stereo together: musician: I like the trumpet player's last cadenza - a touch of Louie, there audiophile: I found the bass a bit thin engineer-type: Sorry, I wasn't listening. Busy playing with my slide rule... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, I'm assuming the ARC & Pass are both fully balanced circuits. If you live in the middle of Manhattan with 100 different wifi networks within a stones throw of your audio system, XLR should definitely be both quieter noise-wise and louder sign... | |
| Do sound characteristics matter when moving from midfi to hifi? 1. I see the separation between mid-fi and high end as being more about philosophy & voicing than price. Companies like Schiit & First Watt make cosmetic & economic compromises to produce gear with more than a whiff of high end perfor... | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One @atmasphere , would you please share the name of your platter pad with us? | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Jesse Colin Young lived around here for over 20 years, moving to Hawaii after losing his house & studio in the Mount Vision Fire of 1995. I saw him do several solo sets in the 80s & 90s. This particular time, he opened for the Rowan Brot... | |
| Jesse Colin Young has passed away. Jesse Colin Young lived around here for over 20 years, moving to Hawaii after losing his house & studio in the Mount Vision Fire of 1995. I saw him do several solo sets in the 80s & 90s. This particular time, he opened for the Rowan Brot... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @chenry Thanks for your response, but I'm aware that he's using Spinorama. My question isn't HOW he produces the pretty pictures, it's how he decides what is important. Forgive me if I'm incorrect in assuming your response is out of ignorance,... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @prof To quote from my previous post - "the speaker design - box vs planars vs horns vs OB". You'll have no problem in any gathering of audiophiles finding people who prefer Magnepans or Klipschorns or Linkwitz over box speakers. These speaker... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @prof Sorry, not calling you out on this, but you said "ASR evaluates equipment based on objective criteria that has been found to predict certain aspects of sound quality". I was hoping that you could point to a link/post/discussion on ASR cov... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. ASR Review: Over the years, I've read a small handful of ASR speaker reviews. I've noted the following characteristics: 1. The primary focus of all the reviews were the measurement results 2. In spite of that, the essential imperfection of speak... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @BDP24 – fantastic post idea! I had a similar experience the first time I saw Los Lobos in 1983. Robert Cray was then king of the West Coast blues circuit, but on this night in Portland, OR he was headlining the Key Largo, not a blues bar (saw th... | |
| More on XLR vs RCA considerations? True balanced circuitry is more likely to result in slightly different SQ and improved SQ than cable differences. The cost difference should also be higher, but there are some mighty expensive cables out there! I'd buy a balanced amp (my preamp ... |