shadorne
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| truth about subs? Subs are easy. Very easy. Easiest thing to make. Just very expensive if you want to build a good one. | |
| JL Audio f112 blown speaker? I am also glad I don't hear this compression. JL use a 3.5" voice coil it should not normally compress too much at high levels.However, it appears to be a long coil short gap design which explains the high harmonic distortion (around 10% and some... | |
| CD has laid back and uninvolving sound What album were you comparing? Many modern CD's sound worse than high quality Vinyl. The hyper compression of dynamics in the mastering process makes many CD's sound harsh in your face and completely lacking subtlety, nuance and "life".I have two ... | |
| Listening Room Ceiling You can put pink fibreglass batting behind sheetrock. It may help in the bass - easy and cheap to do. | |
| Home theater without center channel? Opinions? To my surprise it's really not that bad without the center channel in place. Unless you have a center that matches your mains exactly and is placed at the same height then then phantom center is probably slightly better for a small sweetspot area... | |
| Stereo Subs - Do they need to be identical? Duke,Thanks - Earl's paper proves what I said - symmetry in the bass is likely to give you stronger (more coherent) peaks and suckouts than an asymmetrical placement.I would add that Aldavis point about phase is a real concern. I'd prefer to have ... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Tbg,Ok so you are on the science high horse. Well you are absolutely right on. I plead guilty as charged to willfully dampening our understanding of the nature of Rain X and CD treatment. What about you? Are you going to do something about it? Why... | |
| Stereo Subs - Do they need to be identical? Here is the link to calculate the wall bounce from reflections. If you use stereo subs then you can assume the same thing will happen up to a couple of octaves above the crossover (when the effect starts to become negligible compared to the many o... | |
| Stereo Subs - Do they need to be identical? Funnily enough the link I gave above came from a manufacturer... The link also shows up to a 20 DB SPL hole in the bass in some cases due to quarter wave cancellation and a succession of harmonically related cancellations further up in frequency (... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment I am a social scientists and find it quite curious that many who profess to value science, refuse to listen ...science does not value ambiguous individual human subjective interpretation/opinions.Either...Perform a controlled double blind test wi... | |
| Stereo Subs - Do they need to be identical? Again, if using monitors, stereo subs next to them is definitely the general recommendation. And it most assuredly does matter that much The reason I suggest to avoid stereo sub placement like you describe is to avoid quarter wave rear wall cance... | |
| Best high end monitors? Madfloyd,If you are Mad about Floyd as in Pink FLoyd then do try to hear some ATC's. David Gilmour uses them in Astoria (Pink Floyd's studio in London) as does their engineer, James Guthrie, Das Boot Studio. Their stuff has been mastered by Doug S... | |
| "Fun" Speaker As An Alternative To Revel Salon I Since you have a sub that closes one avenue to spice things up a bit. In that case, I'd pick the Harbeth Compact 7 from what you mentioned - a nice change of pace. | |
| Stereo Subs - Do they need to be identical? As you go towards small ported subs you tend to get more harmonic distortion thermal compression, lower overall SPL output and poor transient response. It is just physics and heavy helpings of compromise. Larger is better when it comes to subs. Se... | |
| What channels are heard in a comercial theater?? Assuming the movie soundtrack has only 5 channels, do those speakers on the side play information from the front channels or rear channels? Side channels but they will probably do tricks with frequency response and phasing to make sure the sound ... |