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| High quality high pass filtering for speakers? I would love to try the FMOD, but they are RCA only and I'm using XLR. | |
| Need streaming advice Erik_squires, The Remedy does look like it is the right solution. The price is hefty though.Why, over a decade after the invention of the buffering iPod, are DACs not buffering and then reclocking internally? I get it when Mark Levinson could scre... | |
| Need streaming advice I borrowed the windows notebook, so I don't own one. | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Most rooms have very uneven bass response, so if you tune things to sound good at say, 60hz, and you happen to have a 12db bump at that frequency, your ultra-low frequencies might be 15db low.I originally had an OLD Velodyne. I bought a used Velod... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? Here is the site I was referring to. In their distortion tests, they show the distortion as DB, not percentage. There are calculators if you want the actual numbers. In short, the number of db between the signal (top line) and distortion (bottom l... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? I don't agree with you, elevick. Distortion goes up significantly beyond 90db for almost all speakers. One of the online magazines does a signal-noise sweep using both 90db and 95db volumes. So with small speakers you're approaching the cliff with... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? Assuming that you aren't amp limited...I believe you would increase the headroom of the system significantly with a high-pass. This calculator (below) indicates that the necessary excursion of a driver producing 40hz is 4X greater than the same dr... | |
| Which Budget Friendly Floorstanders Next? Revel F206 used | |
| Full range or subwoofer with bookshelfs for best bass at low to moderate volume? I'm running Revel M106 mains and an SVS SB16-Ultra sub. If you get a sub like the SB16-Ultra, there will be NO SPEAKER that comes close in terms of bass distortion or quantity. These subs also have 3 parametric EQ bands to deal with standing wave ... | |
| Dac options with Chromecast Audio SUB $500 Just as an interesting datapoint for you, I run a CCA optical into a Schiit Yggy. It sounds great, and the "buy better gear" light has never illuminated, so the CCA clock must be decent enough. | |
| Is remastered mainly just less jitter? My experience is that remasters sound worse. I think newer A/D is probably far superior. But even when they don't try to increase the loudness, I think they sound worse. The highly acclaimed, latest remaster of the self titled Dire Straits from Ja... | |
| What is most important part of a system? I think everything is important. In my system, the least expensive component is my Revel M106 speakers. Computer modeling, material advances, and inexpensive overseas manufacturing has dropped the price of quality speakers compared to high end ele... | |
| Kef LS50 - can it handle a subwoofer properly? You should download the wireless app for your speakers and see what controls they give you on the sub output. If you have a choice, I'd start with the crossover at 80hz with a 24db/octave slope.Some subs have parametric EQ (SVS Ultra does) so that... | |
| Will a new sub sound better than my Velodyne F1200? Well, I took a leap of faith and bought an SVS SB16-Plus. In short, it is a significant improvement.My Velodyne F-1200 sounded very boomy by itself.With a Velodyne SMS-1 in front of the F-1200, I was able to get the frequency response pretty flat,... | |
| Will a new sub sound better than my Velodyne F1200? I think one of my integration issues is that my mains aren't high-passed. With the ports plugged, they start to roll off around 80hz but it's a very gentle 5db/octave rolloff at that point, and then there is probably a 12db/octave rolloff around 5... |