shadorne
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| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos Try Marcus Miller M2, trouble is, you won't want to take it off.Indeed - Nils Landgren "Da Fonk" - on the 5000 miles CD has stupendous bass from Marcus Miller - but be careful it could destroy the small woofers (the voice coils can get very hot on... | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos Try also Duran Duran Strange Behaviour, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Homage to Duke by Dave Grusin (Harvey Mason on Drums) | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos Hunter Jennifer Warnes, Maceo Parker Roots & Grooves has a nice Dennis Chambers drum solo lots of bass drum triplets. | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix Only a horn has the transient speed and "air" to keep up with a panel????Any responses? A horn subwoofer would need a huge chamber. If it were folded and made of concrete (so the walls did not introduce distortion) then it might work but we are t... | |
| B&W Rohacell vs woven Kevlar The material is important as you want the cone to be fairly stiff but also to be internally damped. Stiff and light is good but you don't want the thing to ring like a bell. So a weave or a pulp construction or a light fabric impregnated with visc... | |
| Power Conditioning: How Do You Know You Need It? how do I know whether I actually have a problem that needs to be solved? Try a basic power bar conditioner from Monster on your sources and preamp - they start at only around $100 - if it makes a difference then you should start investigating a p... | |
| 1K used monitor with wide/uniform dispersion B&W N805 has a lovely response. A used one might stretch your budget but it is worth it. ATC's are also very even off axis but you simply don't need that kind of power (overkill for 65 - 75 db). | |
| Do you ever wonder? I have many examples but I have deliberately chosen what I think is the worst.Just listen to this and please, please, someone explain to me what is so captivating about Shirley. | |
| I can dream, can't I? Vandersteen Model 7 But hey what do I know - about half the A'goner's implied I was an idiot - so don't take my advice. BTW - it is roughly the same statistic on my technical audio musings...perhaps we all just like to be controversial at least half the time! | |
| I can dream, can't I? Vandersteen Model 7 I second Viridian - I'd try to catch the market a bit lower if you can. I smell another buying opportunity (although we may still get a double dip recession - so be prepared to hang on). I went from cash back in to the market in Q1 2009 (some grea... | |
| subwoofer speaker cables under the house 14 gauge minimum should do it - 12 gauge if you are fanatical. | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? Cam3366,Let me put it another way - many people have answered your posts requesting for information - including myself. Kind of what hobbyists do _ guess - share ideas and advice. Surely it was not all self-serving opinions and a waste of your tim... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? True. Unfortunately, may of the "opinions" on hardware are self serving in nature. And many are disguised as being "expert" opinions. Sad but it is the same (or much worse) with audio magazine reviews. This is why I prefer to buy audio equipment ... | |
| How much does CD player affect overall sound? Agree with Tholt. Modern electronics and digital technology has resulted in there being less differences between source/preamp/amp (once you reach a decent level like a Cambridge CD player) than with room and speakers.Choice of speakers and the ro... | |
| Apple TV vs Wadia 170i? The Benchmark DAC1 is not a "transparent device," This seems to go against the majority of conclusions and test measurements, as well as my own observations. FWIW - upsampling is used in many D to A devices. It would be difficult to explain Time ... |