shadorne
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| Power amp Suggestions for Dunlavy SC-IV I read a review that used a pair of Pass Laboratories 300W Aleph 1.2's to drive Dunlavy's. I think these will be way out of your budget range even as old as they are and used. I second the Pass Labs suggestion though (as a less harsh or unforgivin... | |
| Next up... new speakers... All you have given is a price range. And that you have a large room to fill. This suggests you should look at larger three ways - however you will find it tough to find something as good as this monitor. It is one of the "gems" in B&W's line u... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? For sure there is some leakage and more so in the bass (which penetrates wood walls but less so with brick), however, bass frequencies (with long wavelengths) are the most susceptible to modal effects, which makes the problem quite acute in the ba... | |
| Holographic imaging I get the feeling that a lot of these holography systems that have appeared over the years are aimed at those who have a lack of resolution in their systems- and can stand listening to an effect, rather than the music. FWIW: It is easy to add hol... | |
| SONY TA-N9000ES I'm with Kal - why big differences? The extra power you get in BTL mode may be overkill for your small monitors - you may be already pushing the limits of what you can eek out from them. Speakers compress when driven really hard and will start to ... | |
| Variable plasma picture quality Digital TV is compressed. Some of it is good some is bad. Chances are you are not looking at an uncompressed HD quality picture like you would get from a BD player (so you see artifacts from compression or worse you are actually watching an upconv... | |
| The focus and air lie shadorne, using terms like "circular argument" fallaciously hurts whatever point you are trying to make. Quite right. I think Dpac996 got it. I realized I wasn't going anywhere - but have you? | |
| DIY cable elevators But perhaps I'm missing something. You sure are missing something. None of this will have any effect unless you have the right kind of source.I'd recommend soy sauce. | |
| Our home system: How good it is? you may leap to the assumption that you have, but I propose that it is not born out by science, facts or acoustics. No leap here. It is a fact that walls reflect acoustic waves - as shown in the animation on the first PrimeAcoustic link I gave yo... | |
| The focus and air lie It would be a bit condescending to suggest that they do not or cannot appreciate music as a result.Agreed. I feel bad. What do you suggest - should I sell everything and buy a Bose wave radio.... ;-)Rush had a good song about this "The Trees" - t... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? BTW - please forgive my lousy typing, and one more thing on Point 2) => you will notice listening position in studios tends to be far from the rear wall behind listener - most often with the engineer sitting in the front half of the room.A good... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? Halcro,This link will help you understand. Just watch the animation and bear in mind that the reflections cause "comb filtering" making some frequencies disappear altogether. Notice the rear wall "purple wave" has a stonger arrival at the listener... | |
| The focus and air lie Sineburst - there is an interesting paper in the latest AES journal on concert halls - you will be pleased to know that Boston is rated very highly and its dimensions are based on a famous hall in Europe ( also Sabine from Harvard got involved in ... | |
| The focus and air lie OMG, we are on an audiophile website and people are actually arguing that a boombox is better suited to appreciate music to the greatest possible extent....go figure!Perhaps we don't even need ridiculously expensive musical instruments to really a... | |
| Room Question Thick carpet with thick underlay is absolutely the best! The shortest dimension is usually the height. A carpet is absolutely the most important thing in any room.If you can't do at least a third to half the room in carpet then get a big rug and r... |