shadorne
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| Room Treatment: Whatcha Got? Roughly 15 - 20K worth of treatment. Soffit mounting of main monitors and rear wall behind the listener treatments were the most costly probably because I tried to get an aesthetic result. It may not have been enough as I still use a PEQ to tame t... | |
| Recommend speakers for a restaurant sound system I have been very impressed with Westlake audio monitors in their ability to fill up any room with superb fidelity sound.I agree - they are the cat's meow but you are talking mega-bucks to buy even a pair. A modest sized BBSM-6F is like 3K. | |
| Recommend speakers for a restaurant sound system Stick to something like JBL pro series or JBL EON - don't spend a fortune on great sounding speakers that sound great that your staff will all too easily blow up when cleaning up after the late shift. Consumer speakers are great sounding but they ... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Two way bookshelves are often best value in the under 5K category. For some reason you need to go quite expensive to get equivalent clarity in a large three way. It may be a masking effect, bass notes masking higher frequencies so it is best to go... | |
| Review: Audiokinesis Planetarium Beta Speaker Have you considered that the room triangular cross section shape might also create some interesting and unusual refections on the rearward directed polar radiation pattern - especially with bipoles heavily toed in? It might even prove an interesti... | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier Here are some photos of field coils. | |
| importance of dac versus transport digital interfaces tend to produce jitter - this is a fact. That said - a good DAC can completely compensate if it uses asynchronous re-clocking or other clever techniques to reject the inevitable interface jitter. Depending on the Wadia's DAC;s j... | |
| Cost Efficiency of 7.1 analog Shadorne, that's an interesting solution; do you then measure the room response manually with an SPL meter? I suppose if it's only done once, then I could handle that and avoid having to invest in costly automatic room EQ Yes I have done it that ... | |
| Cost Efficiency of 7.1 analog What kind of P (Parametric, I'm assuming?) EQ do you have? Do you find adding additional boxes in the chain obscures soundstaging or imaging? There is no soundstaging or imaging from a subwoofer so I have no worries putting a modest priced Behrin... | |
| Overshadowed by bandmates Drummers and bass players are most often overlooked - to me they form the foundation for much of modern music. IMHO, a good drummer and bass player can carry the whole band with a solid foundation of great grooves even if the antics of lead guitar... | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier But they're not constant-directivity (which was my main point), and since as it does indeed very much depend on what "driver" you have to begin with . . . these behave fundamentally very much like a standard direct-radiating driver. I agree absol... | |
| Cost Efficiency of 7.1 analog If your pre/pro has bass management then you might want to go optical from Blue-ray to the pre/pro. Bass management can be just as important as eeking out that extra wee bit of clarity that you might get by running analog from your oppo (and avoid... | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier Kirkus,Thanks - you make some really interesting points. I'd like to point out that a lot of the discussion depends on what "driver" you have to begin with. Let me explain.To me the TWO main ideas of the short open waveguide are as described by K_... | |
| Shakti Stones Do they actuall work guys. I would say it would be system dependent. My local dealer did an in-store demonstration with his Musical Fidelity equipment and there was an audible difference. Looks like Musical Fidelity have some work to do in improving the EMI immunity of tha... | |
| Review: Audiokinesis Planetarium Beta Speaker I'm not sure "better" is the correct word. I've traded one set of strengths for another, but at the end of it all, I am quite happy with the choice. Because of my personal biases, typical box speakers don't do it for me over the long haul. I miss... |