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| If you were serious about sound you would... @donavabdear wrote: If your audiophile quest is to get the best sound then buy the best equipment used to make the recordings originally. One of the few things nearly every audiophile agrees about is that you can't make the signal better than th... | |
| Would you choose 1 ou 2 subwoofers for a stereo set? @gfguimaraes wrote: Would you choose 1 bigger sub or 2 smaller ones? Neither, I’d go for two big subs from the likes of PSA (you can have two big ones of those for one JL Audio, and not sacrifice bass reproduction quality - on the contrary). | |
| DSP Active Crossover @jaytor wrote: Danville provided a sample 3-way crossover design which I have modified to meet my needs, although I’m sure I’ll make a lot more changes before finalizing my design. I’m starting out with the crossover points set at 180Hz and 1800... | |
| Horn speakers with Imaging? @o_holter wrote: ... although I havent measured the ’radiation bubble’ in front of my bipoles I can well imagine that it changes like you say. I find it to be an almost visually descriptive term a la ’sphere of sound,’ a sensation that can be ... | |
| Horn speakers with Imaging? @willgolf wrote: Does everyone have the same definition of imaging? In audio terms, what doe that word mean? +1 From Alex Halberstadt’s Stereophile review of the Klipsch La Scala AL5’s: The Klipsches created sonic images that were eerily, e... | |
| Does the Audio press ever excite you anymore? Haven’t been excited by/about the audio press for years. The writers of yore though - some of them at least, from Stereophile and TAS in particular - had the younger me glued to the pages through quite a few reviews and the both entertaining and e... | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. Speaking of the ’perfect speaker’ apparently has a tendency to negate it as a speaker - for a good reason, it seems. And yet what’s the point of that when what we’re left with is always a setup of speakers for re-production? What’s perfect anyway ... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @asctim wrote: With horn loading the problem is amp hiss gets highly amplified. Indeed, but using a 16 ohm driver - if available - will help knock down hiss noticeably as well. @btbluesky wrote: Amp hiss, is not a normal thing. It’s a produ... | |
| Toslink @mdrone wrote: I am looking at a DAC that would require me to connect my streamer via toslink. I have read in the past that Toslink is inferior to SPDIF and USB connections. Is that still true? Does it depend on the the Toslink cable used? W... | |
| Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana? @frogman wrote: It is not ultimate dynamic range that matters most. Instead, what gives reproduced music its sense of aliveness (dynamic realism) is HOW the equipment handles the dynamic swings of the music. What is the point of being able to ac... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @kraftwerkturbo wrote: I now assume that horizontal/vertical deals with the option of using 2 stereo amp for the 2x2 'feeds'. Either one stereo amp for each SPEAKER or one stereo amp for the woofers and one stereo amp for the mid/high. If that i... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @asctim wrote: ... It was interesting to me that even though the digital crossover had to do A/D D/A conversion steps, people still noticed no obvious degradation in signal. It may have to do with the people chosen for the test. Over and over I ... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? @invalid wrote: what about passive line level crossovers? I have no experience with them, but it seems the article provided by @ditusa has some bearing on their usefulness. that's just one person's opinion. What specifically are you refe... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? Some refer to active configuration simply as "bi-amping," or tri-, quad- etc. ditto, as it requires running multiple amp channels to feed each their driver section. As such it’s an inherent necessity of active and its true asset compared to just b... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? @britamerican wrote: I think you are barking up a tree there @alexberger . No way crossover parts are heating as much as voice coil. Inductors probably not at all and what are we paying all that money for fancy resistors for?? The relevance he... |