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| How to stop the boom in the low frequencies It sounds like you are having problems with room resonant modes. This is one of the most common problems in room acoustics. Most room treatment (passive) does not help with frequencies below 150 Hz or so. To deal with that passively you either nee... | |
| What headphones? It's above your price, but the Etomatic ER-4s are fantastic. If you decide to go for more $$, I can highly recommend these. I've been using them for years for travelling by air. They reduce the outside noise by about 25 dB, and they sound great. | |
| pure class A? Class A is biased so that the wave form does not pass through the 0 DC point (thus switching). Pure Class A means that it NEVER passes through, thus the bias is pretty high (particularly for a high voltage amplifier). Running in this mode is very ... | |
| Speaker cable recommendation please Audioquest midnight would be my recommendation. I owned a pair of Heresy's for a long time. Great speakers, but Paul Klipsch designed them for efficiency, not deep bass. They roll off at around 35 to 40 Hz. If you really want the deep bass, you wi... | |
| Guidance regarding 2 female Jazz legends please.. I am probably less familiar with Nina Simone than Rec, but I can recommend "Nina Simone sings the Blues". I have this on DCC vinyl. The sound is good, but it is an old recording and is not a stellar one. I have not heard "Nina Simone and Piano", b... | |
| Should dealers be able to...... I agree with Sdcampbell. Anyone that builds an e-mail list from A-gon members (not easy since the actual e-mail is hidden until you get a reply from someone) and then uses that e-mail to send "this month's specials", or other spam, in my opinion i... | |
| Martin Logan Aerius i problem I had the same problem with my ML monoliths when I first purchased them. Read the serial numbers off the panels, call Martin Logan, ask to speak with Jim Powers in service, and explain the problem. Most likely you will need to replace the panels. ... | |
| The final solution to WAF problems / issues. I don't even want to mention the number of shoes my wife owns, but I couldn't get her to buy those. | |
| help with a sometimes boomy sounding room.. The small room is definitely the main culprit. Audiofile9 also points out the speaker placement could be optimized a bit and possibly reduce the problem to some degree. In a small room, low frequencies are not supported by the room dimensions, as ... | |
| Seems right hand side is louder, need helps Have you measured the response? You should use a test CD of some sort and plot the response with an SPL meter and determine if in fact you are really have this problem, or is it the "ear wax" syndrome (kidding aside--this really can happen). If yo... | |
| How can Audio shows be improved? The biggest problem I see is the sound in many of the rooms. Some rooms with good equipment sounded really good in NY, and others that had great equipment (that I have heard in other venues) sounded terrible. This makes it very difficult to really... | |
| hum with VPI Jr It's pretty easy to pick up hum in phono cable. If your phono cable has the ability to ground it to a different spot (other than the phono stage), try doing that. | |
| New Cable Help-Balanced or Single Ended I'm not completely certain on this, but I don't think the Adcom design is a balanced one. It may have balanced connectors, but the internal circuitry I believe is running single ended. If that is correct, I don't think you will have an appreciable... | |
| Subject: Anti-Piracy Breakthrough The only current problem appears to getting everyone to adopt to this format. It appears many will hang on to the "redbook" standard for now. Consumers are protesting: "If I can't copy it, I'm not going to buy it." or "It's far too dificult to pla... | |
| Stax Lambda Pro Headphones--Can sound Hard?? I have the same headphones and amp. They are very revealling, and if anything on the front end is at all harsh--you will hear it. I did use some Audio Purist interconnects, which I feel tame them a bit, but it is still right on the edge. These are... |