shadorne
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| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? I wonder if treble beaming could be a factor as well, assuming the tweeters are pointed straight ahead. Should be easy enough to check, by toeing the speakers in a little, and re-measuring. Only very high up (at 10 Khz and above), however,the 804... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? SPL meter readings could be a LOT worse - a few observations.....No kidding. The bass response is superb - almost to the point of being suspicious - hardly any room is ever that good without being treated.The broad dip in the midrange is probably... | |
| What's next for the ultimate sound quality? Also jitter and phase can affect soundstage. Again I'd recommend you try out a DAC rather than rely on a PC and a sound card and an interface to your DSP. Also check your PC settings very very carefully - many people think they have a bit transpar... | |
| What's next for the ultimate sound quality? Given my ideal sound description (a wall of clean and powerful sound), I've got clean and powerful, but the "wall" is missing.Are your speakers uncluttered well away from any side walls or furniture? Any sharp edge obstructions can kill soundstag... | |
| the grills It depends on the speaker design. | |
| What's next for the ultimate sound quality? probably due to silk/paper drivers vs metal ones in MAs Yes that is probably why your speakers sound good and "thin". Paper and fabric drivers tend to be much more internally damped compared to metal drivers and therefore you tend to get a waterf... | |
| Blue Ray Quality with a 1080i / 720p HDTV? I would say the improvement feels about 25%. The quality of the movie still counts as much as anything. Blade Runner on Blu-ray is absolutely outsanding compared to DVD but that is not true of all re-releases on BD. For example, Cars is pretty goo... | |
| Best DAC that has a balance control Is there a way to control balance in the software? Try Utilities => AudioMidi and adjust the settings. | |
| What kind of active speakers? Musicnoise,I listen to everything. I don't think active speakers have a preferred genre. Active speakers are almost all SS design (for obvious reasons), which would be a limiting factor for some users. | |
| Hi Wilson W/P8 owners, best amp ever to drive WP8? If is a large room and you play rock then you might be easily overdriving the WP 8's with that amp? | |
| What's next for the ultimate sound quality? Wow - scary website on Zaph Audio. He says, How often has someone said "Forget the measurements and tell me how it sounds." Or "Learn to listen with your ears." Well I hate to say it, but stubborn and uninformed is rearing it's ugly head again. A... | |
| sealed vs vented subwoofers Hawksford is an academic [as am I] but the serious work in sound reproduction is mostly being done at the practical rather than the theoretical end. Stan,It is a pleasure to have an academic researcher in audio engineering on these forums - what ... | |
| sealed vs vented subwoofers I have never heard of Floyd Toole.Then you might enjoy reading up and learning a bit more on the engineering of audio equipment. There are University accredited courses in the physics of applied acoustics and electrical engineering. It is not all... | |
| Subs & Group Delay This is a review of an important AES paper on subwoofers that appeared in Stereophile - The Science of Subwoofing.Subwoofer distortion guidelines are offered: Harmonic distortion will not be audible if the second harmonic is below 3%, the third a... | |
| Subs & Group Delay Bob,The general idea is that low frequencies are much less audible compared to midrange frequencies...with the biggest loss as you go down from 60 to 20 Hz. I may have exaggerated it some but it certainly "significant" whichever way you look at it... |