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| A speaker stand with room for an amp? @erik_squires wrote: Since this project is to convert my two way speakers from using passive crossovers to active ... Good initiative. It’ll give you a bearing for sure what’s in store sonically with active config. of your mains compared to th... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks wrote: Again, I was impressed by BACCH and am open to hearing the manner of DSP you implement. Again, don’t conflate tone adjustment (broad) with room correction (narrow). I’m not conflating anything here. Broad- and narrowband equali... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks wrote: “I take it they’re mostly digital by now for a number of reasons, though analog mixers are no doubt easier/more intuitive to use. ” maybe in mixing. In mastering (most similar to our use case) analog is still felt to be superio... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? @erik_squires wrote: When were Snell A/IIIs made?? I believe they entered the market in ’84 and were replaced by the A/IIIi’s a few years later, if memory serves me correct. | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks wrote: Wrong. A great analog studio EQ can and does add its own special color sauce if you will which can be all improvements, no drawbacks. "Special color sauce" pretty much tells it like it is, and whether such a flavor is a benefit... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks wrote: Oh I’m not closed minded to hearing it all. I’ve said that many times I want @mijostyn or you or someone to put me in touch with a good demo. Did a demo ever materialize at poster @mijostyn? Always exploring. The journey neve... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks wrote: I won’t go into how much better (again) studio mastering analog ideally with a hardwire bypass sounds compared to DSP. Read the whole thread. This war was fought already. It’s actually a great thread. Go back and read if if you’r... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system "Equalizing" is typically thought of as more or less elaborative tone controls as an extra measure on top of preconfigured passive speakers, and being able to attenuate a usually limited range of frequency bands. The rub mostly centers on the "ext... | |
| Passive subwoofer amps help! @mijostyn wrote: Funny you should mention the K2. They were the last Crown amps I will ever own. Their control over big sub drivers with high BL products was terrible. I think it was the back EMF that destroyed one of mine, the other went in the... | |
| Passive subwoofer amps help! @mijostyn wrote: I do not like Crown amps. I have had them twice and both times they were unsatisfactory. I’ve previously used Crown’s Macro Tech class A/B series for subs duties for a short while, and found them to be very good amps (not only... | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? @12many wrote: Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? I would say most tracks are very much listenable on my setup. It wasn’t until I went fully active that resolution and transparency combined into a sonic balance of being both highly i... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? @richopp wrote: … what I do know is that when Jim Winey decided to make Magnepan speakers 6' high, the listener was treated to a source that more closely mimicked the experience of being at a live concert. The "sound stage" of a concert is the ... | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? The Cerwin Vega CLS-215’s were actually very decent speakers with a rather effortless and relative natural overall sound/tone combined with good physicality, scale and fullness - very important core traits in sound reproduction at that - and at th... | |
| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? @joelepo wrote: I have a McIntosh 402, rated 400 watts continuous per channel. If I use it to drive a pair of Klipshorns or LaScala [specified to handle 100 watts continuous] or similar high-efficiency speakers, do I risk damage to such speakers... | |
| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas @mijostyn -- What’s the weighting used relative to your SPL-measurements? A question aimed at everyone, really, just to get a bearing. Many if not most may use A-weighting "default," but with B or C-weighting and substantially less LF-attenuati... |