shadorne
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| Speaker power handling My Classe amp drove them with ease. If I could find similar performance with smoothness my search would be over.The Paradigm's tilt upwards in the treble - if you turn the treble down then they may work better for you. If they sound harsh then yo... | |
| Speaker power handling Although small, they sound surprisingly larger and for a 2 way design they are very coherent.Dynaudio make their own "pro" drivers and are much higher quality than what most manufacturers use. So you can get away with a smaller Dynaudio than you ... | |
| Speaker power handling Athough the Dynaudios have some of the best drivers in the industry the Focus 140 is a midget of a speaker. I'd recommend larger speakers if you want to play loud. I'd also question your logic of having so much invested in amplification and the in... | |
| Good DACs for Apple Airport Express? Or receivers? Benchmark DAC1 will reject the jitter from your Airport Express. I would not put as much faith in older receivers at jitter rejection - although the difference will likely be small to most ears. | |
| hearing tests - where and how? Up to 12K is important. Higher than that is not really that relevant to music. | |
| This is Too Funny Vinyl is Still King It's good to be King | |
| This is Too Funny Vinyl is Still King Interesting theories but they did't stand up to technical scrutiny then and they still do not today. I suspect the main reason that analog works well is that you can actually hear below a noise floor (well known that you can hear up to 15 db below... | |
| Is my room too small I would never sit with my head near a wall. It is better to listen nearfield than sit next to a wall. Sitting next to a wall is about the worst thing you can do. | |
| How do you guys choose between CD releases? Generally the older the better. Early CD's had dynamic range even in pop/rock genres - since the 90's everything has become "loud" and compressed. The first releases of Toto sound great. The recent remasters sound bad - it is the same with most ne... | |
| Best way to get accurate rake angle on speakers If you have good speakers then the dispersion should be such that the presentation is not overly sensitive to rake. I'd suggest to have the tweeters a little above ear level (about a foot) when seated - this means that it will usually still sound ... | |
| Difference b/w RPG Skyline and GIK QRD diffusors Of course, you can easily go overboard with RPG as Elizabeth points out. This studio used TONS of wood and not even ONE piece of wood is the same length. | |
| Difference b/w RPG Skyline and GIK QRD diffusors I would recommend RPG above the listener (in a low ceiling) and on rear wall behind the listener. I would not recommend RPG on the front wall between the speakers unless you are using Bose or other rearward radiating speakers. Frankly the majority... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl I think it is pretty obvious to anyone who is not deaf that the spring drive Victrola was and still is the pinnacle of audio quality.For starters, stereo is just a gimmick. Worse, electrons are not natural sound vibrations and never ever will be. ... | |
| Avalon ,discoloration of ceramic tweeter Light weight small diameter underhung voice coils are more easily overdriven. 1/2" is roughly the voice coil diameter (yep it is tiny - considering most tweeters VC are 1 inch).As you halve the VC diameter then the surface area to radiate heat bec... | |
| Room treatment...what is the goal? The worst thing is to have an RT60 that varies all over the place (drastically different at different frequencies)- this will sound terrible.Look at my virtual system for some measurement examples. |