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| Have you heard a great listening room? If you have time, money, and an obsessive-compulsive disorder, you can build your own ideal listening room. First, the room dimension ratio is more important than room size. The perfect room ratio is 1:1.4:1.9. An example would be ceiling 10 feet,... | |
| Could a speaker attenuator substitute for a preamp Thanks, Bear. I'm going to need some time to digest all these ideas. | |
| 40hz ratings/speaker response Joeb, the point that I was trying to make was that sound waves can't be heard if they don't have room to develop at least one full cycle. For simplicity sake, one cycle of sound meanders like the letter S. According to the laws of physics, one ful... | |
| Looking for computer program to catalog cds LPS There is a great section in microsoft works that lists all information about CDs, LPs, etc. What's great about it is that microsoft works comes with your computer so you don't have to buy anything; and you can sort your listings threedifferent way... | |
| 40hz ratings/speaker response Thanks Bob(inpepinnovations) for the clarification. This old dog just learned a new trick. | |
| 40hz ratings/speaker response Perhaps the size of the listening room has something to do with the limitation of sound frequency. Assume that sound travels at 1223km/hour at sea level. Then if my conversion table is correct, sound travels at 1,114 feet/second. The sound frequen... | |
| Volume Controls that Accept 12 Guage?? You can join your 12 gauge wire with a short strip of 14 gauge wire using a wire nut. Electricians use them in homes to join wires together in electrical junction boxes. Make sure that you choose the wire nut color that is designed for joining one... | |
| Words From the Wise 1. Store all of CD tracks that you like as WAV files on a 60GB computer hard drive. Write information about the track in a data base for sorting purposes. Make a backup hard copy of the CD using a CD burner. Sell the CD on amazon.com, half.com, et... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time To be the greatest songwriter of all time, one must be able meet the highest ranking for the following criteria: 1. Write songs with words and melodies that are popular, easily recognizable, and easily sung by masses. 2. Write songs that influenc... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 3: Duettino) Most of you remember this from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. This beautiful music was played over the prison P.A. system and brought the entire prison to a standstill, and almost created a riot. | |
| Help with decision...New CDP or add DAC to DVD? If you are referring to the Proceed model CDP, there is no contest. The Proceed CDP was taken off the market because of a software problem that Madrigal has not been able to fix. I had to send mine back to the factory to have it fixed, but now fou... | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? Klipschorns with a Belle for the center was the best at the very beginning of stereo, and is still the best today. You simply can not fight the laws of physics. These are the most efficient speakers of all time with the greatest dynamic range. Bec... | |
| How could surround sound be used in an audiophile system? Thanks for your suggestions so far; all of you have been a big help. You are correct in saying that you need to know what my system has. Here is the setup: Klipschorns for the corners, Belle in the center, a pair of Forte II for the rear, Mark Lev... |