shadorne
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| Wide dispersion tweeters It helps if it can play loud but clean A lot will depend on your crossover - the higher it is the louder your tweeter can go. If you aim two tweeters upwards then there will be a space between the tweeters of several inches in the horizontal plan... | |
| replace a full Cello System? congrats to all who guessed the situation. Is she planning to re-marry? The situation reminds me of Combine Harvester...not that I am suggesting that one should marry someone simply for their woofers, tweeters and bass response. | |
| Another Cable Burn-in Question I must be missing sojmething or electron flow theory has significantly changed in the recent past somehow.Just how is the current/voltage being allowed to return to the source component if the downstream preamp is not powered up?Simple. You just ... | |
| 16 Bit vs. 24 Bit for Mac OSX Benchmark have a wiki page on this - have you checked there? 16 bit or 24 bit should make no difference in sound (just adds eight 0's)UNLESS you are using digital volume control or digital EQ (quite likely)- in this case how the software handles t... | |
| Used monitor under$600 with good bass low levels If speakers were designed and played back suspended there would be a consistency that the designer will know will be heard through out I have used these Omnimount to suspend speakers. They have various models for weights up to 300 LBS - they are ... | |
| Can't Stop Grinning... Good for you and well done getting it all second hand - very savvy. Now lets see some pics and a virtual system... you know pay it forward - try yourself to help someone the way A'gon helped you ;-) | |
| benchmark and apogee apogee vs benchmark, lets just say that both are very good and highly regarded units, and it really depends on ones setup and ears. For sure - when I decribe Benchmark as thin and detailed with precise and narrower soundstage I was trying to desc... | |
| Tinny sound accompanying cello on recordings ? Mental strings versus gut strings are TOTALLY different, as the string players above can attest to. It is always great to sit down and compare are 17th century consort of viols to a modern chamber ensemble playing the same piece For those interes... | |
| AC/DC Black ice Indeed those April storms bring down trees. Thunder. ACDC wrote a song about a road trip through Texas - now I know what they meant. Thunder. Man I am starting to look forward to their tour ;-) | |
| The best CD Player for the money Guys I happened to come across this interesting transcript of a well known high end audiophile manufacturer's annual board meeting. They are discussing how much to charge for the "best CD Player money can buy". It starts with a proposal by their CEO. | |
| AC/DC Black ice For those in Southern climates - "Black Ice" is a deadly winter situation on a road surface in the North that often leads to a pile-up or at the minimum several vehicles off the road. Producer Brendan O'Brien is from Atlanta so he would be familia... | |
| Tinny sound accompanying cello on recordings ? I never heard of adding weights on bows per se. Is this a known technique? No it is not normally done that way - usually the bow is balanced so you select the bow based on its feel and weight to help produce the desired sound. Sorry if my narrow ... | |
| replace a full Cello System? Her needs are a fraction of the equipment's ability, and always thought the two should be matched Then sell it all - what a waste of good equipment - sell it to someone who can appreciate it for what it is and get something aesthetic looking that... | |
| AC/DC Black ice Absolutely impeccable sense of rhytm and melody, if you will.Music is stripped down to it's bare essentials, as truly great rock supposed to be like, IMHO.There is nothing there, that detracts from the musical message, not a single slow down, no a... | |
| AC/DC Black ice Couldn't possibly be the recording desk. Or the machines. Or the processing. Or the mics. Or the room design. Or the talent of the engineer. Or a dozen other variables Sure there is a lot more to it - these studios cost millions. However you don'... |