shadorne
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| 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... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? Al,That was good sensible link. Cables can and do sound different and perhaps we can all stop arguing about it. Some believe in mundane ordinary explanations for differences while some, who don't accept the science, feel more comfortable with spec... | |
| Subs & Group Delay I am actually having a hard time digesting this. If you would like to try re-explaining this to me I would be obliged. I am not sure how I want to counter to those statements. My comments are entirely based on equal loudness contours. A deep bass... | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? Could it be the bass response on the DAC coming through clearly on the new sub? One thing consistently written about this DAC is the dynamic bass response - now you have a sub perhaps you are hearing the full impact? | |
| Subs & Group Delay but my assumption is that the same signal in a 15' x 20' room should be perceived as much louder than in the (quasi) anechoic measurement environment used by HTshack. Do you believe that this is a good assumption (at least below the primary cance... | |
| Subs & Group Delay I'd also note that A0 on a piano (typically 27.5hz) registers as LOUD! You will hear the 2nd and higher harmonics of the piano loudly. Now for the weird part.... you can completely remove the fundamental and play just the harmonics and your ears ... | |
| Subs & Group Delay 1)An SVS 13" Ultra with its ports sealed shows app 5% THD at 20hz at 100db anechoic. In a real world listening room, that's presumably a crushing spl, so could one safely assume distortion is no issue? It is pretty impressive yes but a far cry fr... |