shadorne
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| Room Acoustics overkill or worse? Unless you have dipoles or panels I would suggest you do the wall behind your listening position more than the wall behind the speakers. Doing all corners with superchunks will probably have the biggest impact....3" thickness is barely enough to d... | |
| The Most Realistic Speaker Technology? Realistic sound that makes you feel you are there = dynamic with correct timbre, low distortion and correct balance across the spectrum and even natural dispersion to load your room evenly at all frequencies - all at extremely high SPL's (remember... | |
| Center channel to match Wilson Audio Sophia's? Go phantom for center channel info - nothing cheap will blend properly - you can't turn a pigs ear into a silk purse ;-)More seriously - there are plenty of good reasons NOT to go with a center channel unless you can use the SAME speaker as your m... | |
| Classical speakers that do violins well?? Honest1,You give but one example why you should leave recording to professionals and keep amateurs away.You are completely correct that a recording using a microphone will record NOT just the acoutic instrument itself but ALSO the reverberation re... | |
| Soundstage...How to determine what's right? Your description on tube miking in order to add harmonics brought up questions. Does the same type effect occur with amplification, processing, etc.? Is this why so many people feel that tubed components sound so much better? It would be very dif... | |
| Best sound on classic rock cds The Boy From New York City - The Ad Libs - 1964 - amazing sound quality. | |
| Who else wants to keep their system secret? Some people give and others take - that has always been the way society works. As far as I am concerned, those who share their systems (and risk considerable scorn from self anointed experts) are more of the giving type - confident and open rather... | |
| Which movie would you most like to see in HD Dunno - but if you have not got Blade Runner then you must - absolutely stunning cinematography. | |
| What is the most demanding on an amp? woofer always works hardest....tweeters rarely need more than 50 watts max, | |
| Soundstage...How to determine what's right? Here is a link that which explains what audio engineers do to drums Is it any wonder that so very few recordings sound realistic and like live music?If you want something that sounds like live music with excellent soundstage (if your system can h... | |
| Soundstage...How to determine what's right? Congestion is closely linked to a lack of dynamics. Live music is highly dynamic and there are all kind of peaks that stick out and act as cues to the ears about position and detail. Our hearing suffers from an effect called "masking" (a loud soun... | |
| Speaker driver efficiency, series vs. parallel etc Link...note that this is only true if you multiply the box volume by the number of woofers...otherwise you will lose some of the efficiency gain to acoustic damping. | |
| Guitar Hero or Rock Band: Admit You Play? Got Guitar Hero III for the kids for Christmas, although the wife says I really got it for myself. Anyway, got through "easy" fairly quickly, then passed muster on Medium. Got through the 1st bunch of songs on Hard and pretty much have turned the... | |
| Classical speakers that do violins well?? Since we're talking about microphones, does anyone have a copy of the first Stereophile test CD? On it, J. Gordon Holt reads one of his articles through a series of changing mics. It's only a slight exaggeration to say that he sounds like a diffe... | |
| Quad Active Speakers 11l and 12l history/future Nice post. I think audiophiles are beginning to accept the benefits of Active designs - it is a slow process though -as pure performance is only a very small factor in most audio purchase decisions. A lot of purchase descisions are driven by aesth... |