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| Why low sensitivity speakers? Karls is right on the money. The greater the cabinet size the easier it is to move a lot of air, required for bass. It also enables you to use more than one or a larger bass driver, both of which add to the efficiency of moving a lot of air. You c... | |
| What could be instead of side walls? If I understand you correct, it's not a parrallel issue, but rather one where the walls or different distance from the speakers. You are probably getting an imbalance that is frequency dependent from one wall to the other. This is a difficult situ... | |
| Terrible room. Contemplating headphones. Help I would suggest 2 things. First of course is the room. You clearly need some absorbing material, and you can get it cheaper than the foam recommended above. Medium density fiber board such as owens corning 703 works great to get rid of slap echo a... | |
| Component video cable? I've used several cables. The best I've tried is the Audioquest YIQ-4, but a very close (and I mean VERY close) is the Better Cables component video cable. I think their newer ones are better than the ones I have previously used. At just about any... | |
| Sound control when finnishing a basement? I would recommend something a little different. It's called a "chicago ceiling", and uses WHR blocks that suspend a ceiling that is then sheetrocked. You need the sheetrock to keep the sound in and controlled. As has been previously mentioned susp... | |
| How do the Martin Logan Ascents compare to the I personally like the Requests and SL3s. The new Martin Logan line has the "force forward" technology. It makes room placement easier by cancelling the ill effects of 1/4 wavelength peaks and nodes. It's a bit more dynamic than early bass designs.... | |
| Where's My Bass? What's the room like? Are your speakers near sliding glass windows? These will reinforce mids and highs, but leak bass badly. Do you have a good balance or absorption and diffusion material in the room? Sometimes bass sounds lacking simply because... | |
| Audio as a hobby Snow skiing and bicycle racing. Actually I don't race anymore, but I did for a long time. I still ride regularly and can still hold my own with the B riders. Snow skiing, never competed--was never really that good, but enjoy it emensly. I have bee... | |
| Leaving your amps on, Very efficient speakers and even good amps can have this occur. I had a pair of Klipsch La Scalas (104dB). Pretty much always had a some white noise. I was using a 40 watt class A/B amplifier of good, but not great quality. Will it damage the spea... | |
| Cable directionality I'm glad we have a cable designer here--welcome Orbeck. As a physicist I like hearing the scientific explainations, when I can only surmise the bits I know about cables. It's certainly refreshing to the hocus pocus. | |
| System for weekly traveller to use in hotel room Marakantz is right. Headphones, particularly the Etyomatics are great on the plane. Couple it with the airhead amp and (don't shoot me here) the MP3 jukebox (it's actually quite good if you don't over compress and holds hundreds of CDs) and you've... | |
| Cable directionality I've wondered a bit about this myself. The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that the dielectric does change with electrical flow. If this is true (I have no conclusive evidence that it is), then cable break in (which changes the diele... | |
| Would your system be different if ............? I would...wait..I can't disclose that on audiogon. Just kidding. Actually I'm fortunate enough to have a dedicated room and a VERY accepting wife. The system is really for me, of course friends and family enjoy it regularly too. | |
| Small monitors for a dear aunt I would recommend the Creek integrated and B&W 300s (they might be called 330 or something like that now). This is very inexpensive (even new) and nice sounding. A good match with the Marantz CD player. | |
| Recommended dimensions/ratio for home theatre room What dimensions are you asking about? Room dimensions? projector throw? Seating position? Is your primary concern video performance or audio performance or both? Our company designs rooms both audio and HT for superior sound (but we also take into... |