phomchick
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| Filling speaker Stands? If you use sand, only use stands that are welded, stands that have bases or parts that are screwed or bolted together might cause sifting in the cracksI had some steel stands that rang like bells. I filled them with play sand from Home Depot ($6),... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Sand is the easiest to get through small openings. It is heavy and inert. Lead? Don’t bother. You are looking for speaker stands that don’t resonate, not speaker stands that The Hulk couldn’t pick up. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im SpiegleJohn Luther Adams: Everything that Rises for String Quartet | |
| Cable Burn In What nonsense. | |
| Infinity RS1B ? Buy or runaway @playthebody Thank you! Do the crossovers still fit in the base, or did you end up with an external crossover box like PS Audio did with the IRS Vs? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Today is Gustav Mahler’s birthday which I celebrate by playing all of Mahler’s symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde. With a 10 minute intermission between each piece, this “Mahlerthon” will take 16 hours. | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? Since 1995? Wilson Audio WATT3/Puppy2They still sound incredible.I can imagine. One of the best speakers I've ever heard. Congratulations! | |
| CDs Vs LPs CDs by far. CDs have much greater dynamic range, and don't have pops and tics. Plus the arguments about analog vs digital are nonsense. There is no difference in audible reproduction between the two methods (except for the much greater dynamic ran... | |
| Klipsch vs Infinity As has been pointed out, these are two entirely different speakers. REALLY different.The Klipsch are horn speakers. They can play very loud, they are very efficient, they have great dynamic range, and they sound like horns. They are colored.The In... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new I have a Dynavector Karat 23R cartridge, and a Dynavector 6A silvered step-up transformer both of which I bought new, and neither of which has been used for 25 years. (The rest of the vinyl set up consisted of a SOTA ruby turntable and a Linn Itto... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? This is fun, but I can go back to 1968 and am a relative piker, with only seven speaker systems in 50 years.Rectilinear III (large)Infinity 2000 (predecessor to the 2000A)Chartwell LS3/5AAdded custom built transmission line woofers using KEF B200s... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Well I just bought a used Ayre K-5x pre. Any opinions?Only a question: if you were happy with no preamp, why? | |
| Is it my amp or pre-amp ? The delay relay on Aragon 4004/8008 amps can intermittently fail. Have a service tech look at the delay circuit, and R&R the relay and clean the contacts. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense One more thing, I use “Generic” when creating the filters in the REW EQ module. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense @craigl59You can export your filters from REW and import them into JRiver.After creating the correction filters in REW, export them as a WAV fileFile -> Export -> Export filters impulse response as WAVChoose "stereo" the right and left filte... |