shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Speakers for Rock Music UREI 813 speakers (A B or C lettered). Big dynamics, time aligned and used on plenty of mixing consoles. Of course they need to be played LOUD to sound best. Not everyone's cup of tea, with the right electronics they are the most dynamic speakers... | |
| Johnny Cash...Sounding Better Than Ever? The soundtrack from the movie "Walk the Line" is also good. (Phoenix and Witherspoon) | |
| Toe-in or NOT toe-in ?? This is highly speaker dependent - well designed speakers (that do not beam like a flashlight at certain frequencies but flood the room evenly with all frequencies) will not really give two hoots for toe-in (except if the speaker is too close to a... | |
| PMC and what electronics ?? He is contemplating of getting another two units of 4B-SST since the speakers can be tri-amped. That would be overkill. The Vifa midrange on the EB1i has a very small magnet (240 grams) with low Xmax and FOR SURE the tweeter does not need 200 wat... | |
| Lost - Your combined experience required Loose,Instead of buying cables, amp and new speakers - try listening to a pair of audioengine 5's - you may be surprised - for a small space they are well suited. | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K How about a few Hallelujahs? Very nice to see a good discussion showing a sensible approach...of course, many audiophiles will continue to blame their interconnects and keep spending when their problem is simply a matter of a poor impedance match ... | |
| Bel Canto CD-2 and Benchmark DAC1 Bob,I suspect you have identified Capq's most likely problem. PC audio is a minefield. iTunes defaults with the EQ on and some versions of iTunes are buggy (sample rate issues and volume control issues). The best way to get transparent is to make ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? MrTennis - your are right that flat frequency response is essential. However that does not reflect the time domain or transient behavior of a speaker/system. For example, resonance of underdamped speaker drivers or amp/speaker systems can also pla... | |
| Amplifier Power Ratings & Speaker Sensitivity I think the 8" driver of the SHL5 must be able to handle up to 102dB since the max SPL I would be pretty sure it can handle that SPL at 1 meter. My guess is that the max speaker output will be around 105 db SPL at 1 meter (with still some headroo... | |
| Spendor ST vs. B&W 803d vs. PMC PB1i ??? It would seem that after some thoughtful responses that Mark has gone. | |
| Are We All Going Mad? Seems in tweak land, silly prevails, especially at high prices.Like health and beauty products you can find every kind of imaginable snake oil and superstition to help cure the worst fears of paranoid audiophiles... | |
| Wedding toasts... let's hear them A toast to wives and mistresses...may they never meet! | |
| Need settings for importing uncompr.CDs to Itunes Maker sure CD Error correction is on and use a non lossy option (like apple lossless) to store what you burn (if you want to preserve the sound quality perfectly) | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? This is correct. A system that makes different recordings sound more distinct from eachother is more neutral than one that imposes its own sugar coated coloration on everything. | |
| Woofers getting workout, but no bass Do you know what is the port tuning? My guess it is between 25 and 35 Hz - otherwise you would not have such a problem even with vinyl, which I agree does tend to have some spurious LF due to the mechanical rotation of the disc once every two seco... |