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| Concert stage layout -- who made who? It's a little known fact that Inkly Dinkly the giant squid passed on a lucrative deal in the mid-sixties at the height of his cartoon career citing health reasons. Dinkly then returned to his first love, music, but subsequent studio work was hampe... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? PBB, I didn't forget you. One of the basics of sound reproduction and perception is that the ear's sensitivity to frequencies changes with the sound pressure level. Ever notice that there's a just-right playback volume? For example, below that lev... | |
| Concert stage layout -- who made who? Tvad, know any renowned left handed drummers? Solo piano is commonly spread from the performer's perspective too, treble right, bass left. Symphonies seem to be displayed from the conductor's perspective, violins left, cellos right. In the good ol... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? ...then a boombox can be equal to A. Porter's system... Audiotruth Number 132466: The only system that actually matters is the one in the room you currently occupy. | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Pawlowski I like your formula idea. Let's say Performance plus Recording plus Playback equals Experience. Which props up which? Maybe they're all interdependent. A purist might say let's get the Playback to be totally invisible, remove it from the... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Mark me as a person who having once fallen for "look at the perfect sine wave this unit produces" eventually graduated to a more mature understanding of the audio ARTS in all their varied subjective splendor. The good news is that anyone, who got ... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Part of the voodoo here is that human hearing isn't linear. When midrange and bass tones are at equal sound pressure levels, the bass ones will sound subdued 'cause the ear is more sensitive to the midrange frequencies. The reason fidelity takes m... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Fidelity takes many forms. As you have guessed accuracy is one of the dead end streets in Stereo Town. It's on offer anywhere audio is sold. Once you get past the idea of replica, reproduction and analog, jump ahead to speakers that best convey th... | |
| I bet you already know this one... And one to add a joke that your post brought to mind:How many Taoist monks does it take to change a lightbulb?Two.One to change it. One not to change it. | |
| Music starts early Lugnut, the echo isn't coming from the stylus improperly picking up the adjacent groove, the stylus is tracking the info that the lacquering and metal mastering process created and left behind. As you note the entire groove echoes the one next to ... | |
| Music starts early Sorry to disagree but LP groove echo, not tape print-through, gets my vote as the most commonly perceived occurence by the home listener. Like many, for years I thought groove echo was a playback induced event. It's not. Groove echo is an artifact... | |
| Shorting caps/Cardas protective caps worth the $? Bigjoe, where can we find the rubber plug covers? | |
| Cleaning Cassette Decks Insist on unscented 99% isopropyl alcohol; it's available at Safeway. Some shops carry only lesser dilutions (they're cheaper) like 90% and 85%. | |
| stacking components Hooking up additional speakers in parallel means the second speaker will connect to the terminals on the first speaker. For selective switching between pairs, yes you'll need a selector box. Both pair will connect directly to it. | |
| Need a dummy crash course on soldering fem.RCAs Trelja, thanks for your kind words! |