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| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations If soundstaging and imaging are important are you considering room correction and active amplification? | |
| Soundbars for guest house Around 1500, looking for the sweet spot of sound quality vs price…. | |
| Soundbars for guest house Thanks for that, great room with vaulted ceiling and adjacent open dining with many windows! | |
| Bookshelf speakers that renders 3D soundstage The room and speaker position is critical and Soundstage can be vastly improved through 1) digital room correction (e.g., Dirac) and 2) going with active speakers (e.g., Linn) | |
| DSP vs. active analog crossover vs. passive analog crossover. What is your take? I found going Active to be huge step up in Linn speakers/amps - incredible change in dynamics, clarity, spaciousness. Unless a room is designed to acoustically match the speakers, properly applied DSP is requirement to achieve clean/natural/flat ... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Active speakers with room Correction! originally Linn Katans driven actively with room correction - incredible transformation! upgraded to Linn Majik 140s actively driven with room correction and a sub. Tears! | |
| Best speakers for a small room First priority is room correction. Second is actively driven. Then look for sonically neutral / flat speakers. I use Dirac, Linn to achieve all three, Kii has some interesting looking kit… | |
| Crutchfield Customer Service They have fantastic customer service! Think of them first! | |
| Your thoughts on my quest for new speakers I have the same Linn Malik 140’s and a rhthmik 15” sub with also the majik center channel and katan surrounds. If you take your system aktiv (I have linn amps with aktiv cards) and add room correction ( I use dirac) you won’t need new speakers! ... | |
| Dual SVS PB-1000 Pro versus Dual Rythmik LV12F- does Servo Technology Matter. Rhythmik. I have an E15, sb3000, and vtf2, and 3 different bass guitar set ups. All great, and you can’t go wrong, but Rhythmik best for music as it sounds just a bit tighter and more controlled. | |
| Helping a friend build a new system add a minidsp studio to this system plus a musical sub and enjoy the music https://audiophilemusings.blogspot.com/2015/03/ | |
| Advice on a streamer Check out minidsp…. | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? Check out minidsp with Dirac! | |
| Why did you choose the components and speakers that are in your system? Start with speakers for clarity, sound stage, timbre; add sub for bass/punch; clean source very important; powerful clean amp; critically - room correctionI listened to many speakers - selected Linn 20 years ago also considering the benefits of ac... |