s7horton
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| alternate method of bi-wiring When I was not bi-wiring, I pulled my stock jumpers off and replaced it with decent cable. Of course I had better sound that way. I guess my rule of thumb for jumpers is this: Buy the speaker best speaker cable you can afford, then buy two feet of... | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers I say change the amp and forget the sub. I have never had good luck with sub/speaker integration. It might be my room. I'm not sure. But I do know, the sub systems I have heard sound too fake to me. Granted, I haven't heard any 5000 dollar subs. B... | |
| alternate method of bi-wiring The idea behind true biwiring is that more of the current from the amplifier is sent to the midbass drivers. (They usually require more power than tweeters) Simple circuit equations tell you that if you have two wires connected to one source, more... | |
| Upgrade single amp or bi-amp I've always been a fan of biamping personally, but it is always the best idea to listen to the combination before buying. If you can get a bryston or a Stratos on loan for a night or two, I would try that. You already know the characteristics of t... | |
| Amp Suggestions For A Newbie - Please I am currently using paradigm studio 20's with an anthem integrated. Very nice. I personally don't care for the B&W line until you get up to the CDM series. I owned the next step down from that (CM) series and didn't like it. I've also spent t... | |
| Am I the only one? Viridian brings up an interesting point. I guess I just assumed that someone inquiring about a product would know about it. I can't imagine someone being interested in a kilobuck amplifier without knowing anything about high end audio. We have to ... | |
| "Vertical" biamping I have used vertical biamping a little. I did it because I bought two of the same amplifier. They sounded good and weren't real expensive. It was a way for me to get more power with out spending a lot of money. I found that I had less separation l... | |
| Integrated amps, need some help I'm not sure how set you are on integrated, but you could pick up a rotel pre amp for less than 200 bucks used and then a little 50 wpc solid state amp that is 8 or 10 years old. It'd be fun to play with and leave you with plenty of room to upgrad... | |
| Am I the only one? I wouldn't really consider the item I had for sale as odd ball. Maybe it is, and I just don't know it. The price is within the range of others listed. I actually like talking audio with people. Even if they write me to ask about the ad and then sw... | |
| Are cracked speaker cabinets repairable? Being into woodworking as much as audio, I have made my fair share of repairs. Cracks are always repairable, it just depends on how much work you want to put into it, or how much you want to pay someone to do it. Durham's Water putty does do a gre... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions Yes, the amps are pretty far apart | |
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| Speaker cable suggestions Just so everyone knows, I am not biwiring here, only biamping. I could use the same cable on tweeter and midbass, but I have different amplifiers on each. So I have to find cable that works well with both amps. Currently I am working on the midbas... | |
| Rolling your own I've built a few of my own speakers before, they never worked very well. VERY inefficient. It's pretty hard to get a good design. I never did copy someone else's design, like you mentioned. That may work to your advantage. Although, if it were so ... | |
| multiple amps 1 pre amp? Biamping is when you use two channels of power per speaker. For example, I used a Rotel Preamp that powered two parasound amplifiers. One amp ran the tweeters and one amplifier ran the woofers. (Known as horizontal biamping. Vertical biamping is w... |