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| Amplifiers for Talon Hawk monitors I'm now using the VAC musicbloc 160 with Hawks (and Firebirds). This is an amazing amp. I was extremely happy with the Auricle amps, but what VAC has done in the musicbloc 160s is really special. I'm hearing twice the depth in soundstage and befor... | |
| Home Theater Enclosure Problem? Absolutely. It has little absorption. Depending on the size of the room you probably have reverberation times that are triple what you would like to have. In addition to that the pine could have a resonance frequency that creates more problems. | |
| Acoustic doors? There are 2 types of sound transmission, air born and structure born. Air born can be stopped mostly by mass alone. Structure born requires decoupling, which means a mass layer, air gap (or other low density layer), followed by another mass layer.... | |
| Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance I was wondering what the next break through would be--thanks for the tip. | |
| The Room Skyline LP is Low Profile. It's only 4" deep and has a bandwidth of approximately 1/2 that of the HP. The LP performance and Hemifusor performance is very close, but in my opinion the Hemifusor looks better. Thus if you need a low profile option (... | |
| The Room 90 angles aren't the problem. People treat corners because they are the highest pressure zones, and thus trapping in the corners becomes the most effect--it deals with 2 and often 3 of your axial room modes. We often use soffits with single layer ... | |
| The Room Ryder:The ceiling is actually quite important. There was a group of Dutch researchers that showed the ceiling had the single biggest effect on sound quality (this was for a typical rectangular room). It makes sense because the ceiling is almost al... | |
| The Room 50% of the sound you hear in a well designed listening room is indirect--bouncing off other surfaces. Thus the room could easily be attributed to 50% of the sound quality. A modest system in a well designed/treated room will consistently outperfor... | |
| Do you ...Center Channel? Kal: Why do you find the center essential for multi-channel music? Assume the context of one person listening--so no issues with being off axis. I would have thought that in that context a "phantom" center would be fine. Are there phase variations... | |
| Cost no Object but Small Room With the Thunderhawks the Sub-PARC gets inserted between the pre and the amp. The only thing in the circuit for the Hawk section is the active crossover--no parametric. This is NOT a PARC, but it does use the PARC circuit for the low frequency mod... | |
| Do you ...Center Channel? If you are not seated off axis no center can actually work better than having a center. My reference system has no center. Almost all of the time it is either just myself or one other person watching with me and using a phantom center works very w... | |
| Cost no Object but Small Room Talon Thunderhawks with the Rives Audio Sub-PARC for each. Similar driver component to the Coltrans that Mike Lavigne mentioned (excellent speaker), except the bass is 2 8 inch drivers and it has the ability to be actively crossed over. Using the ... | |
| Home electrical question. I would recommend a transformer based system to drop the 220 to 110, this will further isolate the line. Run that to a dedicated subpanel and run your system off that. | |
| What Mobile Fidelity lp or cd is your fav ? Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon UHQRJethro Tull Aqualung | |
| Obsessed with room acoustics I'm obsessed with room acoustics--what's wrong with that? I wish more people were obsessed with it. |