shadorne
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| Power conditioner or not? Musicnoise,The scary fact is that some audio equipment does indeed benefit. I blame it on "switched mode power supplies" in many common household items from battery chargers to computers - these can be noisy. In the past everything used to be powe... | |
| Which Sub. Rel B-1 or Fathom F-113 speed of the JL Audio drivers."speed' is a good description of the JL design. What does this mean in practice?It means low group delay - which means critically damped design and generally a sealed box.Compare the Group Delay and response plots fr... | |
| why not use biamped studio monitors? The main negative is you get what is on the source - that is the main goal of monitors - mistakes in recordings and mixing are more obvious as that it what these speakers are designed for (low distortion and high dynamic range). You can hear all k... | |
| Transistor Preamp that sounds like a Tube Preamp? Eric Pritchard has studied this. He has some opinions on the way they sound. It may not be the ground truth but he has tried to emulate the tubes sound in overload with SS. He builds guitar and microphone amps.In the music industry the main issue ... | |
| small powered monitor; Yamaha vs Fostex You should consider these. It sounds much better than most full blown hi-fi's... | |
| does temperature affect speaker performance? Dynamic driver speakers run pretty hot after just a few seconds play - so I doubt if external weather would make much of a difference. | |
| B&W 800d's or MAGICO V3's? check out the ne reference speakers for abbey road studios LOL | |
| How many watts is my system using? Mystang,Yes your calculation is correct... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic A waveguide is generally shallow and has a wide throat with no compression chamber. A horn loaded driver uses a compression driver mounted behind a deeper horn.A waveguide can control dispersion and allow for a much better match between drivers - ... | |
| Can tubes ever be as quiet Solid State you are completely incorrect to state that tubed pres cannot match solid-state for quietness. Paul,Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that designers simply cannot work around these issues.Let me rephrase: I guess anyone who has any experience in tubes... | |
| I've $4k to spend on used speakers for big room I appreciate your thinking, and you may be right. I've just loved the MBL sound.... I did get a very good unexpected deal on the pair, so it's a good way for me to sample the MBL sound Good for you! Sometimes a deal is too good to turn down!Sorry... | |
| B&W 800d's or MAGICO V3's? Firstly you have great speakers so if you never ever changed I would understand as that would probably be the most sensible thing to do. As others have said you are changing for teh sake of changing. However, perhaps you have the 7 year itch.What ... | |
| Your vinyl guilty pleasure??? How about Danny Kaye "Tubby the Tuba"? | |
| I've $4k to spend on used speakers for big room Well, I ended up pulling the trigger on the MBL 121s For a large room with vaulted ceilings and for listening to rock music I think you ignored the good advice here and have made a mistake. I hope you got a great deal as you will very likely be s... | |
| speakers for classical music A live orchestra can reach 115db peaks BTW. Most speakers and electronics would be too oppressive at those levels to be tolerable, and the vast majority would be lucky to get within 10db Agreed and distortion is the primary reason why it sounds o... |