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| Will painting an acoustic panel lower absorbency? Jcambron: You probably need a combination of other acoustical devices, such as diffractors. You want to get a balance of absorption, so over damping won't work terribly well, which it sounds like you've discovered. You can actually tune (build) di... | |
| Will painting an acoustic panel lower absorbency? The fabric is the right way to go. It does depend on what frequencies you are trying to absorb. Quite honestly if you are planning to cover the entire room in fiber board you are going to have an aweful lot of high frequency absorption, and while ... | |
| Mark Levinson 20.0 amps, "Anyone with info on it" Not so much the right slope as the right cross-over point. You should get the slope that is recommended by the speaker manufacturer. For my Martin Logans it was the steepest slope possible (24dB per octave). For the McIntosh I would guess it would... | |
| Pure Monstrosity re: Monster tm cables There was also a very interesting article in Inc. Magazine about Monster cable. Noel Lee did do a great thing for this industry when he did bring the attention to cables. Prior to his entrance into the market, you bought a stereo system and they t... | |
| Mark Levinson 20.0 amps, "Anyone with info on it" I'm using a Bryston 10B cross over. I tired the KBX and liked this one better. I have not tried the LNC, but if I'm not mistaken it is single ended only and I wanted to use balanced. I think Marchand makes excellent cross overs as well. At the tim... | |
| CD Recordings..... What Do U Know? Unsound: That's the same experience I've had. I can make copies of some pretty poorly mass produced CDs that sound much better once I've made the copy. But take a JVC XRCD--I can't make it any better it only gets worse. I used a Genesis digital le... | |
| What makes phono cables different? Quiet is probably the most important issue, but in general it's similar to regular interconnects, except now, due to low signal, the sensitivity is much higher. Most of my sytem is Audioquest cables. I have heard the emerald phono cable, the Hovla... | |
| CD Recordings..... What Do U Know? Jacks: That's helpful and clears up some of the confusion. I had confused jitter and error rate. I had been told by someone in the industry of CD mastering and manufacturing that there are clocking errors on the record end that can be reduced by e... | |
| Mark Levinson 20.0 amps, "Anyone with info on it" The ML 23, although I have not heard it. I have heard an ML 27 and it had the same character as the 20.0 (actually maybe even slightly darker). I expect that the whole 20 series would have this similar character, but can't be 100% sure. As to the ... | |
| When will the "Madness" stop Also, you might want to read this thread, although not exact, it's context is very similar to what you are asking.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&991962314&read&keyw&zzmerry=go=round | |
| When will the "Madness" stop I'm moving (in the process now). I'm in a temporary home while the new home is being built. The temporary home is too small for my reference system, so I have a very modest tube and monitor based system. No audio purchases for me for a while--it w... | |
| Mark Levinson 20.0 amps, "Anyone with info on it" I have a pair of the ML 20.0s and love them. I have considered replacing them with the upgraded 20.5 or 20.6 but have not done so. I have compared this to the 333, Krell KMA 100s, KMA 160, Classe (too many to mention), and Rowland 5. ML 20.0 is de... | |
| Mark Levinson equipment setup I've had similar problems with my 380s, 36 and 37. It takes me a few tries of plugging in and unplugging the connectors and powering up. I have not been able to find the logic in what sequence works. I diligently took notes one time after a power ... | |
| CD Recordings..... What Do U Know? In digital, unlike analog, re-recording can actually make it better (not just sound better, but really technically better). Jitter occurs at both the record end and the playback end. If you can eliminate or reduce the jitter at the recording phase... | |
| Is it worth keeping a Levenson no.32, no360s when Chichiuno: Interesting findings, but not that surprising as the 40 is a no holds barred processor. Do you have analog source components? This is where I think the 32 would outperform the 40--but having never tried it myself I can't be sure. If you... |