shadorne
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| slow, funky, groovin' laid back music Medeski Martin Wood - Shack-man | |
| Why do dealers do this? If you tell them you moved to a new bigger house and need a new system they will jump all over you. If you tell them your just kicking tires and you are honest and say you just want to hear something out of curiosity you will usually be ignored. T... | |
| Beatles Without George Martin? LOL - you are just discovering what is behind the music!!!Arrangers and session musicians like Brian Purdie or great producers like Daniel Lanois, Arif Marden etc. It is these musical talents behind the scenes that put the shine on the "poster kid... | |
| Best Monitor Speaker? Energy make great value products often sounding well above their price point peers. I second the above RC-10 suggestion.If you look very carefully you might find a pair of old B&W N805 for just under $1000... | |
| Correction of room acoustics. E-traps? This can be much more effective than passive traps ( at least 10 and probably around 100 times more effective than passive broadband absorbers for equivalent size ). Special specific tuned tubes traps with helmoholtz tuned resonance will not be ab... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? Humps are 50Hz on left channel and 40Hz and 70Hz on right channel, quite severe, somewhere around 8dB That is actually not bad at all, IMHO. If you tried to hammer that all flat then I am not surprised that it might not pass for an improvement. O... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? Sashav.PMC used ATC midrange in the past. PMC are absolutely excellent speakers. I think they use Volts on the woofers but the design is similar to ATC but with more bass (TL design). If you already own PMC then I am not surprised you heard no rea... | |
| Random pop sounds in my system are scaring me Snap Crackle and Pop? Kellog and Rice invented the moving coil loudspeaker while at GE and then went on to invent what they are best known for - breakfast cereal.More seriously - this might be a capacitor breaking down...but it is hard to say as s... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? it robbed music of transients, dynamics and details were seriously affected. I think you have to get used to it. If you have been living with room modes for a while then the presentation seems kind of exaggerated and you can get used to the large... | |
| Most Important? As an example, is the 3% second harmonic distortion of a loudspeaker less consonant with the fabric of the music than .3% IM in an amp? Good point but 3% distortion in a speaker is amazingly good and 0.3% IM distortion in an amp is lousy. You are... | |
| Most Important? Has anyone even considered the room in this thread? About 50% of the sound we hear is indirect--coming from the speaker interaction with the room. Yes I did mention that after speakers, the room acoustics was probably the most important thing. I ... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. If you have speakers that are designed for it then you can reduce distortion. (TYhis requires a speaker with crossover sections that can be separated)See this articleIf you don't hear a subtle difference then perhaps...1) Your speakers are not des... | |
| TRELJA in Denver - 2008 Joe,Awesome job - thanks so much. Some people are givers and others are selfish takers in life. Those who take time to write lengthy thoughtful threads filled with explanations and with as much detail as they can muster are a blessing to these for... | |
| CD players with no or configurable upsampling I second that. | |
| Most Important? Wow - what an insane thread. Some of the polarizeed views suggest that Bose and Noel Lee has been extremely succesful at marketing their cheap speakers and expensive cables. Anyone who thinks that any old speaker will do clearly does not understan... |