shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| CD Sound Quality -- please help educate me This was well before they discovered the deleterious effects of jitter.You would indeed benefit by purchasing a well recommended used player that is not more than 5 years old.Cambridge 540c used (from 2008) would be a good choice but there are man... | |
| What happened to my bass? I posted this on Ethan Winers forum as well. His response: "Yes, it is probably one or more deep nulls". And he also says to measure the room. A good track to test in room bass response is Rebecca Pidgeon Spanish Harlem. The bass line should stay... | |
| Braiding vs side by side? I second Tgrisham, good advice Al. Now wouldn't it be nice if Audiogon was organized so that you did not have to answer similar requests every other week?Or is there a deliberate design in the way that Audiogon repeats the same threads endlessly? ... | |
| What happened to my bass? 77jovian,There are several options. Room EQ Wizard (PC) or Fuzzmeasure (MAC) are possible software options. Since you need a microphone and good ones are powered by phantom then you may as well get a E-MU 0202 or some other similar USB box that do... | |
| What happened to my bass? I can only recommend that you perform some measurements with proper software, sound card and microphone.(Assuming of course that you actually want to understand what is going on, which is not obvious as most people here on Audiogon prefer to muddl... | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? hat on some CDs, at background listening levels, sound seemed to come mostly from one side or the other. When turning up the volume a bit, I'd then notice additional instruments coming from the other side (mostly some sort of percussive instrumen... | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? Saru,It is obviously not your choice of music. I doubt it is the amp or preamp.Therefore that leaves speakers or a jittery digital input.One further possibility is your room, if you have tile on the floor and fairly reflective surfaces then this c... | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? It could be the CD. Many modern CD's are mastered so that they sound harsh. Some genres like rock, pop and heavy metal are badly affected and virtually all recent material (as well as recent remasters of old material) can sound harsh.You may be ov... | |
| advice on projectors and screens I'd suggest SeymourAV - they have attractively priced acoustically transparent screens. I did plenty of research and for a projector the Panasonic AE4000 was the best I could find (at a reasonable price, Sept 2010). It has great black levels and w... | |
| A New Believer Stops, I never said any of that. I simply took issue with the grossly inaccurate use of "complex load" to describe a few meters of copper wire at audio frequencies. It perpetuates the myth that cables are critical.In our hobby in general, there is... | |
| A New Believer No hyperbole-just scientific facts. Sorry but to call a few meters of copper wire working at analog audio frequencies a complex load is pure hyperbole. And one does not even need a degree in electrical engineering to know this - because it is com... | |
| A New Believer All cables have inductance resistance and capacitance and they are a complex load by any stretch of the imagination. The hyperbole among audiophiles regarding audio cables never ends. The amazing and endless eulogies to mere bits of copper wire.... | |
| are audiophiles different than non audiophiles ? Musicians call it "GAS" - or Gear Acquisition Syndrome (the origin is believed to be Guitar Acquisition Syndrome).Ultimately the love of music and sound manifests itself in a large amount of gear and there is a constant desire to not merely upgrad... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server Thumbs up on the Mac Mini from me! | |
| are audiophiles different than non audiophiles ? Orpheus, plenty of successful musicians buy high end gear - just look at the user list of many audio equipment manufacturer's. |