randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| After nearly 20 years, I left Magnepan and went ProAc which Maggies did you have? | |
| Hearing is believing?........power cables....... be sure to replace the wiring in your house and get the utility to rewire back to the sub-station | |
| Sorbathane under granite slabs for speaker bases? Sorbothane, or any elastic substance will allow the speaker to move - esp. when a bass note at high volume is sounded. This is a no-no in any box speaker, as that will phase-modulate all of the sound.If you have box speakers, you want spikes. | |
| MMGs 1.7s without a doubtDMGs can be tricky to place correctly and need to be in front of the arc (from the users listening spot) the main speakers are on (IIRC from talking to Wendell)Mye stands and similar are of no use. Dipole radiators do not have... | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 I wonder if they will have a firmware update for HDMI 2.1it looks like about a year wait | |
| Hearing is believing?........power cables....... rodman - it's fine for him to listen to different products (as long as he can return them) but he needs to be very careful to avoid a placebo effect and buying a "look" not a sound | |
| Grateful Dead May 77 Box Set Announced when it arrives a comparison to DP 25 would be interesting... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? DWMs are dipole subs... or "subs" | |
| Hearing is believing?........power cables....... just be sure they are aligned with the Earth's magnetic fieldsif you lack a magnetometer, you can get close by using a map of declination for compass settings | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? higher mass will lower the Q of of the resonant system- for those allergic to Google, that means any resonance near a certain freq. will be lower in amplitude and more spread out than a higher Q for both higher & lower freq.it isn't really tha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados What are the best Herbie Hancock albums on CD?(other than Maiden Voyage & Empyrean Isles) | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? I'll modify this a bit:Nothing with meaningful bass is going to sound great in an 11x12 room [without a LOT of treatments incl. bass traps] - too small and nearly square, double trouble.But you may be able to arrange things with the speakers and l... | |
| Has anyone heard new Less Loss C- Mark power cable? will you run it all the way back to the sub-station? | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? Wendell told me the wall mounts do not have as good an SQ vs. cost curve as the floor standing speakers. He also told me that the 3.7's have a SMALLER acoustical footprint than the 1.7's - when I asked if that was due to the different technologie... | |
| Tympani 1A's and AMPLIFICATION. yes, Maggie & ARC are not just neighbors but have been incestuous neighborsmore recently, Magneplanar has used Bryston amps - at least at showssomeone will mention the Sanders magtech, which is designed for electrostatics, not maggies (tho it ... |