shadorne
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| Looking for New Speakers - Suggestions Look into PMC and ATC speakers. Both brands are capable of high volume and low distortion, but also sound good at lower volumes. Indeed - if you are looking for dynamics and an adrenaline rush but with audiophile sound quality (rather than PA spe... | |
| Normal Practice To Use 6 1/2" Sub With 8" Speaker? Large drivers do not dictate the quality of bass you hear in either 2 channel or home theatre Perhaps not but they sure determine the quantity of good quality bass. Only large drivers (several of them) will get you up into the 110 db SPL at 20 Hz... | |
| Anthem AVM20 remote control buzzing You could invesigate if Harmony can be programmed for this device but it will probaly cost you close to what the Anthem remote does. | |
| What effect will removing a whizzer cone have? I have seen some paper (AES) that had shown the 'wizzer' is useless and does not actually do anything.I would have to agree the wizzer is an archaic BS device, and cutting it off would be a blessing. LOL - try telling that to Zu Audio that use a ... | |
| ATC owners present and former I suspect that people either love ATC or hate them although most people have probably not heard them (it is extremely rare to walk into a hi-end store and see a pair of SCM100's (lets face it - they are old school ugly box speakers). Also ATC do n... | |
| Gallo Reference III midrange COOKED I blew three of four mid drivers from using my 3.1s for karaoke. That would do it - live music (someone singing into a mike) has HUGE dynamic range and clearly this speaker is not designed to handle that. You need either pro studio gear or a heav... | |
| Bass trap in a difficult corner GIK Tri-traps may be a solution that suites your needs. | |
| Room and Placement for Revel Studios You might be better to sit in the wide open part of the room. If you sit at the low ceiling end then you will get reflections from the change in ceiling height and room width (an interfcae that will be all too close to where you sit). It is always... | |
| Deuvel or MBL That is a poor idea for a tiny room - omni speakers need breathing space behind them and to each side. | |
| Gallo Reference III midrange COOKED The speakers are rated a 350 watts; but my PS Audio 250 watt amp cooked the midrange drivers in both speakers. Go figure...I don't think these speakers are designed to play loud despite their "rating".The 4 inch mid range is crossed over at 150 H... | |
| Ipod + Wadia 170i Dock OR AppleTV + Airport Expres I haven't work out the finer details yet but I believe that a music server can't compete with a good digital front. If you can accept to use a Benchmark DAC1 then I am fairly confident you could not tell whether the digital input to the DAC1 came... | |
| How organized are you with your music I have used 5 of the giant CD megachangers for storage and a Mac based software to catalog the music since 2001. This allows you to find anything instantly by "search", sends a command to the relevant player and plays the track - all of this gets ... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker For example here is a distortion plot and cummulative spectral decay of a mid range driver. Nice because it is playing at 96 db SPL at 1 meter (that is real world music loud - so it is playing at useful levels not soft levels for the test - this t... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker Low distortionWide even dispersionFlat frequecy responseWell Damped and Excellent transient response ( & no dull compression) | |
| ATC Speakers...Do you use them with Grill On/Off I am not sure whether ATC speakers are best set up with little or no toe-in, and perhaps current ATC owners can advise. If sound is little direct, you may want to try as little toe-in as possible. In a large space you will not notice much effect ... |