shadorne
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| ATC active or Tannoy TD12? So, how often and when do you play it this loud? I never play as loud as the Sheffield Drums test track example I gave - that was just setup testing. If you can achieve clean audio 10 db SPl higher than you ever need then it might seem wasteful, h... | |
| Why not use mains as centers In specific, horizontal speaker arrays are fundamentally flawed and that is why you see so few of them used for stereo or main channel speakers. Absolutely agree. I have no ATC center channel. There is a reason and it is not budget. There is also... | |
| cable doubter no more ok, "you are wrong" was not intended as an attack, as much as a seeing the light kind of thing with cables Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Another saved. I see the light too! However, my philosophy is somewhat different: any piece/group of equipment that... | |
| What is your favorite recording with a quirck Toto Roseanna - 3:31 - The guys all sing "not quite a year since she went away" but someone throws in a "well is it?" as a bit of a joke (is it Jeff Porcaro?) just after away - "not quite a year" obviously being an awkward lyric but necessary to f... | |
| Why not use mains as centers Kal,You are quite correct. Speaker arrays (same drivers outputting same frequencies) are best avoided except in the bottom two octaves (assuming one cherishes precision). You get lobes in response as well as comb filtering of certain frequencies w... | |
| ATC active or Tannoy TD12? Bob,I don't recall the meter setting 110 or 120 I suspect it was 110 (it is on fast response C weighting and max). Mine is the new digital kind. I have a condensor microphone too but it just ain't worth the trouble to setup with the PC etc. just t... | |
| Optical to co-ax output change You can find these for about $20 - but I would be concerned about added jitter - you might want to test it carefully versus the analog out of the CDP. | |
| Best new loudspeaker Speakers made today are made for HOME THEATER! So true. Small satellites with a bandpass subwoofer or tall narrow elegant ported speakers with small woofers and both designs capable of highly impressive one note bass. Modern audio has made such h... | |
| Apple versus PC PC audio is a bit of a mine field - either with a Mac or a PC - perhaps in the stampede by companies to grab a share of the desktop audio playback market coupled with the inherent "non-standardness" of every PC running together hundreds of thousan... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? That does exist, however you need to have a very good complete set and a perfect - if there is such a thing - room. I think you can have that with different speakers, but so far I've only heard that in two rooms ever in my life. One of them is mi... | |
| New preamps making new claims. If you examine the product history of companies that have been in the business for a significant amount of time you will see numerous changes is design philosophy and many "dead end" product lines. This is exactly what NOT to look for in a compan... | |
| Speakers sound best facing wall???? Dreaming of an Alaskan adventure cruise are you? | |
| ATC active or Tannoy TD12? Bob,I listen around 90 db spl rms most of the time. On a good album I may listen at 95 db SPL rms. On really great music, which would be no more than a few tracks would hit at around 100 - 103 db spl rms at their loudest part - no more than that. ... | |
| Wadia 170i and Benchmark Dac1 - anyone try it? Contact Elias Gwinn at Benchmark and let him know your findings. It is possible others have reported the issue and there is a fix or you can simply confirm the problem and stop wasting your time trying to get it to work. Elias may also be able to ... | |
| ATC active or Tannoy TD12? Rgs92,With ATC you need to think low distortion, clarity and forwardness that you would normally associate with horns but with wider even dispersion of a dynamic speaker. So if tend to find horns are harsh and piercing then yes, absolutely, ATC wi... |