shadorne
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| How can you tell when you need to replace tubes? With break-in often reported by audiophiles to be up to 1000 hours and power tubes lasting about 3000 hours it would seem to be a critical question that demands a precise answer. However, precision audio is a bit of a mystery - like cooking a grea... | |
| studio equipment that makes it into home hifi Much of the monitoring in the studios in your link, are relatively cheap, but sound good. I agree they are extremely good value if you can accept the awful and purely functional aesthetics (no nice elegant shapes and no nice veneers). Much of the... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" The living room is rather "live" so I should probably look into room treatments as well. Tile floor - BADCoffee table in front of speakers BADI assume your home is brick block/concrete with reflective walls - BAD (these do not breathe and they wi... | |
| Confessions Pamela's oratorio with Tommy's ensemble... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" You might try stuffing something absorptive into that slot, like a thin slice of foam, or otherwise smoothing it over (maybe just a piece of masking tape would help - or better yet duct tape, for that macho look) I wondered about that - it is an ... | |
| The eternal quandary Violins have loads of harmonics. Many different sounds are possible from pleasant to screeching. Like a trumpet it can sound soft or very harsh and ear splitting - an extremely versatile instrument.How are you so sure that the recording was not in... | |
| Best sounding Krell ? What about Krell build quality? | |
| The latest flavour of the month speaker Personally I never by new unauditioned, but do 2nd hand, thinking I can sell on for minimum loss if the kit does'nt fit in. Positive response to a thread is a strong guide for me Yes but where do you think all the positive comments come from ....... | |
| Confessions Sometimes when I am alone in my home I sneak upstairs and pull out my 12" DISCO single play Lp's You can still find some of these on CD...."Flashback Faves" and "Retro Remixes" and such as Duran Duran "Strange Behaviour"...and yes the sound was a... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Leave your door unlocked. It may take awhile but they will disappear forever. Indeed - like the thread about the economy. It was erased and I can't find Macrojack's wise comments. Just like the $300 billion of taxpayer money that may get erased w... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Are your speakers wired out of phase? Good one! Translation = "Is one speaker wire reversed from the amp to one speaker. I.E. Black amp post to Red speaker post on one speaker while the other speaker is properly wired with black to black and red ... | |
| Confessions My humps - BEP | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Assuming you have not placed them on a table or bookshelf or against a wall or next to a TV (any of which can collapse the sound to the speaker), then you have a problem. Do you have an incorrect setting in your DVD player/amp (is it converting CD... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness Marty,Quad 57 - it seems there is a counter example to every example - this Waterfall plot is about as good as they get - ever. | |
| The latest flavour of the month speaker Good point about JL - perhaps they are too good to be true - so amazingly cheap that something has to give? They are by far best value for money. I have read at least one review where there was a problem - but it might have been a shipping issue -... |