shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Any problems with MBL101E speakers Thanks - I have also wondered how they manage to dampen these lamellas sufficiently. I'd love to see a waterfall plot... | |
| Active Speaker Recommendation Lots of good suggestions here. NHT M-OO and S-00 might be good is the speakers are right up against a wall (provided you can move the sub out into the room a little. | |
| Room matters Agreed - the room is the elephant in the room - possibly why many of the regular contributing experts here will not even share a few pix. Nevertheless there are differences in speakers that are significant too. | |
| XLR waste of time ? Sounds like more philosophy to me, unconfirmed and untested by experience. Yes you are right. It is mostly the tin-eared folks in pro audio that exclusively use balanced XLR for everything. The philosophy of head bangers with PA speakers is meaty... | |
| XLR waste of time ? I share Ralph's philosophy on this one. If you buy the right equipment and match it correctly then who cares about cables.Some equipment designs do not need $100's or $1000's of dollars of cabling to perform perfectly - nor is this type equipment ... | |
| What floats your boat, sound wise that it? I like to be able to hear the musicians. I am not really into coloring the sound in any particular direction - too often this muddies the details on a good quality recording (distortion adds frequencies that are not there and unwanted system reson... | |
| Driver matching vs break in period That is odd. Normally a 2 or 3 db shift should not move the image. Are you sure it is exactly the same driver - something else may be wrong.The image is based on the time arrival of the primary sound at the ears - it takes a LOT of volume level di... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Let me rephrase the question: What XLR connectors do you (or anyone) view as equal to or better than an Eichmann silver RCA? Ignoring for a moment the preference for exotic materials such as silver and gold (and equipment failure, contact or desi... | |
| Why can't all/most recordings be this good? Generally the Doug Sax masters are in the top quartile (he has a huge list of credits on Artists Direct). Other good engineersBill SchneeChuck AinslayAl SchmittAlan ParsonsJames GuthrieMark BishopGeorge MassenburgEd CherneyElliot SchienerThere are... | |
| Verity Audio midrange drivers? Verity Audio is a small Canadian company, and to have almost their entire product line discussed or reviewed recently in Stereophile makes a very strong statement. In the October 2009 issue they included the Parsifal, Sarastro, and Rienzi in thei... | |
| XLR waste of time ? I second Nrenter and the others here. | |
| PMC and what electronics ?? Mvwhiting,Are there measurements published for the GB1i. The predecessor appeared to has some strong resonances on the mid/woofer, possibly due to the TL?I must say that my favorite two way speaker from the 80's was Energy Pro 22 which also has a ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Upon careful reading and re-reading of Byron's well written initial post, it seems to me that it makes perfect sense, and that it proposes an evaluation criterion that will often be useful.Al, We agree (as usual) - see the first posted reply in t... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I've been doing critical listening lately from 12-24" away. You can hear a lot more hash and detail from the driver than the normal 6-10 feet. You may have an issue with room acoustics (extremely common - so don't worry) - if your space is fairly... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? If neutral system could be really defined we could hire people with best hearing ability (conductors, musicians etc) to rate systems or pick them for us. Isn't that what part of what these talented people do? They have the know how to create musi... |