shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Novice ears or unrealistic expectations? Rob,Your comments are quite rational - apart from the TV hum from the cable connection all your observations are exactly as I would expect. The principal benefit from a big power amp is NOT sonics but MORE POWER....it will not and should not be ni... | |
| Racoon fried my Monster AC Powerstation Just consider yourself lucky Dan was there - otherwise another Racoon would have snuck in the house and stolen your awesome system whilst you were out inspecting the line - that was their plan no doubt! | |
| Stereophile review of Escalante Fremont Seems our international respectable Stereophile magazine has a lot of degradation in their quality If the measurements are completely wrong (incorrectly and incompetently made) then I agree...but where is the evidence that Stereophile measurement... | |
| Looking for the "better sub" "I am not sure that something linear is a good thing with panels".....you kidding right? Dave,I was just considering that panels don't play extremely loud and at some SPL level (as with all speaker designs) they inevitably begin to compress (the ... | |
| Looking for the "better sub" I am not sure that something linear is a good thing with panels. You may struggle with different SPL levels ....a match here but then a mis-match there. A small sub might be the optimal fit- something with limited excursion/small woofer and which ... | |
| B&W 703 - How to tame the highs? Change the type of music I listen to. Not likely to happen as I grew up listening to the popular music of the 70's, 80's and 90's which was mainly Rock. Actually most of the 70's and 80's rock music is fairly good - apart from Steve Lillywhite st... | |
| B&W 703 - How to tame the highs? Speakers do not have to be overly warm or inaccurate to play compressed music without ensuing listening fatigue. I am not sure if I was clear - I don't mean compressed as in iTunes or MP3 - I meant compression of the sound by the mastering engine... | |
| Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings Try Steve Ferrone "More Head" and Tower of Power "Soul Vaccination" => two great sounding live albums and very funky. Ferrone really has the Groove and David Garibaldi needs no introduction.Also try Black Eyed Peas "Vegas to Sydney" DVD - (perh... | |
| Thoughts on adding a Super tweeter . Most likely the benefits of adding inaudible content are inaudible.It is known that sharp filters to remove out of band noise can effect the "in band" sound, however, that seems to be the only convincing argument for greater bandwidth (well beyond... | |
| B&W 703 - How to tame the highs? When it comes to using these speakers for HT purposes, I honestly can't find any fault - even if I try. It makes me wonder if designing speakers to reproduce movies and music requires a compromise in one to benefit the other. What you are discove... | |
| Best new loudspeaker That replication is either faithful in the areas that matter, or not. Now as to which areas matter and how much - well, that would be a topic rich with diversity of opinion. Agreed - this type discussion might be worthwhile but it requires a cert... | |
| Best new loudspeaker i wish they would remove the word "best" from the english language, as it engeneders arguments. Exactly...becuase to yourself you see everything as an argument....instead myself and others are trying to concentrate efforts on furthering knowledge... | |
| center channel I'd recommend phantom in your case... | |
| System sounds different at different times Why? Perhaps power sags during the day - perhaps there is an industry nearby that is on the grid - is there more light during the day - this may affect your mood?.My system sounds the same day or night. | |
| why my speaker can not play louder Unless there is a thermal protection circuit for the tweeter then you must be cooking them too much. Basically speaker voice coils get VERY VERY hot - 200 deg Celius!! ( sorry ....Celsius ) is not unheard of.See thisApart from the obvious problems... |