shadorne
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| What are the best speakers for 80's hard rock? Best is rather a personal choice.But for sure it should have 15" woofers.... | |
| Looking for speaker base suggestions Congrats on the awesome speakers! Look nice and sound even better.I would not worry about isolation - a shag carpet is about as dead acoustically as it gets.If you prefer the aesthetics of raising further the speakers then ask ATC if they can get ... | |
| What is most important part of a system? +1 for the T shirt.Room and Speakers together are the most important choice and investment you can make.Many if not most audiophile grade sources and amps are very good to fantastic in our modern world.The room and speakers usually leave the most ... | |
| Why Single-Ended? The same old discussions continue because preferences become the basis for a position rather than facts. I see preferences being expressed again here although there are several great posts that do stick to the facts.The facts are clear - fully bal... | |
| Speaker companies with a focus on parts quality and measurements Unfortunately for your budget you are not going to able to find any speaker with speciality in house engineered transducers except a great pair of headphones. Sorry to disappoint you but your budget is firmly in mass market speakers with outsource... | |
| Recording quality... Not true. The golden era of multi-million facilities and record companies sponsoring artists to spend months coming up with masterpiece (assisted by producers and sound engineers who are often great artists themselves) IS DEAD. Telarc folded a few... | |
| Most coherent low volume speaker with very fast bass under 10k used? +1 for ATC | |
| Why are Harbeth speakers expensive while its drivers are not. Most speakers use lowest cost good enough drivers to minimize price point.In general the two way speaker that started in the 70's is really one big cost compromise - one less driver but always of limited performance. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Sorry to hear so many suffer from poor quality equipment that they end up trying half a dozen cables to try to fix it. In my experience, a band aid is always a band aid even if you give it a fancy name after a snake or a Lab or a University in Bo... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Check out Mario Biondihttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12118l97hqQ | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording With respect to Rush.They have never sounded good - Power Windows was perhaps the best sound.I suspect Geddy Lee's hearing is not that good - for example he likes Fleet Foxes which is terribly compressed. | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording Yeah - the Chili Peppers.Other shameful producers or engineers who ruined good soundVlado MuellerButch Vig Tom Coynehttps://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/23/the-loudness-war/Stairway to Heaven has like 35 Db dynamic range!!! Most everything produced ... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? Realization is quite there already : AVI ADM9.1 already have Wolfson DAC's in the speaker. | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording RHCP with Rick Rubin. Producers like Rick crushed the sound and garnered a great reputation for their in you face sound. Unfortunately it went from tasteful compression in the 70's and 80's to horrible lifeless harsh sound in the 90's. Fortunately... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? If bi-amping is excellent then active speakers are the next and fantastic logical step - get rid of those lossy crossovers altogether and totally eliminate intermodulation distortion by asking the amp to only amplify what the driver is required to... |