shadorne
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| Help with a de-emphasis list? Tom Petty "Southern Accents". Nice recording. Tom is quite the audiophile. His digital stuff often sounds like analog. Try Wildflowers - great dynamics.FWIW: Benchmark DAC1 handles pre-emphasis. Many players do - if they do not then they are NOT ... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Touche...I don't consider anecdotal reports of CD sound improvement as a valid excuse to go treating my CD's with car wax or green markers, but you are being persistent ;-) | |
| Directionality in digital = impedance mismatch You cable coax might be damaged (got bent severely?) - it seems you may have ground loop issues getting onto the coax and messing up the digital signals or the clock signal (jitter). Get a new coax it is cheap.I'd also check to makes sure all gear... | |
| benchmark and apogee Any rigid driver of very light weight material is prone to "ringing". Think how a cymbal is made...a rigid disc of metal...touch a cymbal even lightly and it will ring for a long time at low levels but audible. In the case of a cymbal it vibrates ... | |
| Best Canadian Made Whiskey Screech! | |
| Excessive Midrange Energy? This is the design. A 16 inch driver will start to beam at 1 Khz. This will reduce the lower mid energy. Then as the horn takes over at 1500 Hz you will get some strong upper midrange energy. The horn will then roll off the highs - leaving the imp... | |
| Forward sounding speakers that Rock YYZ,Interesting. What he says is very complimentary - in fact he claims that Thiel 3.7 approach "active speakers" in transient accuracy. That is quite an accomplishment with a three way with passive crossover. He says, I prefer Active speakers ge... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Shadorne, surely you're not going to let a lousy buck or two for some soft car polish or Rain-X, or whatever, stop you from such a discovery? True the money would not stop me. However, you would be amazed at the effects of years of scientific con... | |
| Best sounding Krell ? They put it in a nice chassis and made a monster profit. This is most likely your best selling Bel Canto - admit this.Yes and No. Much as I don't want to jump in and defend high priced items.The reality is that the packaging on most audio gear is... | |
| benchmark and apogee I will think of notch filter at 9kHz. Most speakers with metal or ceramic drivers have notch filters built into the crossovers - the frequency, depth and width (Q) of the filter need to be chosen carefully though. You would probably need to be ab... | |
| benchmark and apogee That is a nice tweeter but it rings (like most metal drivers) - see the Cumulative spectral decay at 9000 Hz. Of course a speaker designer will try to notch filter this problem out and being a single frequency that is not hard to do - although at ... | |
| what do you know" David Salz is basically recommending low series resistance and low inductance in speaker cables. This is good advice.In interconnects you would want low parallel capcitance.The pitfall with seeking costly incremental percentage improvements in cab... | |
| Forward sounding speakers that Rock Of course you are not a Rush fanatic. Neither am I. I don't have a long haired wig and large glasses in my closet. I don't even know their secret handshake - . - - - . - - - - . . | |
| what do you know" Cables like capacitors do make a difference....case closed Capacitors indeed make a difference. Especialy when used in passive crossovers or coupling capacitors. There is no doubt that the MIT cable improved the sound MIT cables appear to use man... | |
| what do you know" Baroque_Lover,A suggestion: make sure to mention that you are "tin eared" on any thread that goes in this direction. If you admit to being inferior or just plain average when making these kind of observations then those who are certain of their su... |