redkiwi
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| Cable "burning": Real or VooDoo ??? In an attempt to add to Albert's well made points. First, in this labour of love I have learnt that faithfulness to the music is not measured well by any of the measures used in electrical engineering. We will all agree that "no distortion of the ... | |
| Sony SCD-777es or Modified Link DAC III I have not compared them Martice, but hearing the MSB I found it to be on the "busy and brash" side - similar to the Audio Alchemy DACs. It was not to my taste, but has a liveliness that serves the music. There are DACs at a similar price that giv... | |
| I am stunned Holy heck! Liguy tried something - liked it immensely and decided that sharing his good feelings with this community would add to the moment. And then you guys turn it into a debate on electronic engineering theory again - like we haven't done the... | |
| Musical subwoofer for under 1K Try an AAD C-10, I think it is, way below $1,000 and I just installed one with a friends Aerius i speakers and it worked very fine indeed. Do not run the Aerius out of the sub, use its internal crossover, just add the subwoofer in parallel with yo... | |
| Thiel 3.6 s and amplifier choices I have Thiel 3.6s at my beach house, and used the Aragon 4004 at one stage (but not for long, it is very solid state sounding if you know what I mean). I now use a Plinius SA250 Mk IV, and the combination is utterly stunning - after going through ... | |
| loss of bass after filling stands Martin, I hesitate to be too definitive because I have found that different things work with different speakers, and can depend on the weight of the speaker. When you screw speakers to a heavy stand you ensure that the speaker's energy has a sink ... | |
| What affects timing in a system? Hi Delancey - I am coming in late on this one, but lack of timing is usually due to smeering. Gross smeering is usually caused by vibration issues - such as the use of very compliant materials to support equipment or speakers (such as bladders, an... | |
| Sweat spot? Sp. placementt again Gregm - with a girl from downunder, I can't see your problem. Have you tried canting your speaker forward a little (or up at the back)? | |
| Where s the bass? Sounds to me like Jadem6 has it right. Presumably your listening position is far away from a wall, and probably in an anti-node. In my large listening room I get a similar effect. If I move stuff around to fix the bass problem I get poor sound thr... | |
| loss of bass after filling stands Hi Martin. If your marble tiles are not spiked to the floor, as suggested above, then the additional weight of the sand is probably allowing the speaker to move back and forth at a lower frequency and cancelling bass. Therefore I agree with the ab... | |
| Spikes under the Subwoofer? I believe Nanderson is on the money in the context of most reasonably priced subs. Personally, I prefer the use of spikes with subs, BUT - there can be an issue with downward firing subs in that the space under them is affected by the insertion of... | |
| Hanging Audio Rack? Sorry JD, been away on the boat again, and just saw your post. I like 3mm thick bright steel in an L-section and welded not bolted, from the playing around that I have done. I have tried aluminium and quite like it as a support for certain types o... | |
| Hanging Audio Rack? Hi JD. I was being a bit provocative, albeit trying not to criticise "being American and all", by pointing out that I think "you all" (if I can use that term mate?) have a tad too much faith in throwing mass at an engineering problem. I do believe... | |
| Power cords - a BASIC question I have found that what I perceive as the conditioning effect of a good power cord can become too much in a long length. There definitely is value in using very thick guage and high purity copper in the wall, and other stuff that has been discussed... | |
| Hanging Audio Rack? I am not sure you guys are on the right path. If you sink concrete into the ground you are ensuring you get vibrations from one of the most likely sources, the planet we live on - it rumbles and grunts all the time, and transmits energy from passi... |