shadorne
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| Anthem D2--Audiophile Opinions I use an old Anthem DSP for both 2 and 5.1 - it seems to be a good solid product and great value. Remember the purists will always shun 5.1 systems! As long as you can accept to have criticism from two channel purists and ignore the doubt that it ... | |
| Advice on first HT equipment and setup. If you get a DSP you can phatom the center channel and save yourself trouble trying to find a center to match the timbre of your excellent speakers. (Centers are over-rated IMHO unless you have large audiences watching movies all the time. Plus ce... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? No real answers so far....hmmm... I agree...it is all pretty vague. However in fairness there are infinite possibilities and (for those who bother to study this) that "masking" is a huge factor in our hearing ablity...and sounds in proximity to o... | |
| Size matters...need smaller speakers I agree with Launche NXT's look awesome...plenty of good suggestions so far. | |
| Size matters...need smaller speakers Notwithstanding the great suggestions above - perhpas you should add ATC active 20's or 50's to your audition list - you will be surprised - lots of big loud transparent clean sound in a small (but heavy/boxy) package. Neither will win any beauty ... | |
| Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi Here is some more info on what you heard at your friends house. Bob Stuart on DSP SpeakersI am surprised that you heard a system designed by Bob Stuart (at your friends) and loved the sound and were awed to the extent you want to throw away your o... | |
| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? Looks good to me. This is nearly identical to my setup. However I use software on a Mac Mini to control multiple CD players as the source rather than iTunes/hard drive source...of course my setup is 7 years old and, at the design time, ripping a t... | |
| The most important link in the chain... I agree with those who say the room.The two biggest factors (by very very far) are Room and Speakers.Digital Sound and transistor electronics have made the differences between other components to be several orders of magnitude less important. (The... | |
| audiophiles get mention in today's WSJournal No surprises here. It is indeed extremely difficult to hear such small differences (for most mere mortals)I did extensive test with Sony's Atrac compression and concluded I could hear a difference but it was not at all easy. The same result for iT... | |
| Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi Active speakers are NOT 1000 times better, IMHO. They're not even two-times better than a well matched conventional system. I agree - Twice as good for Active vs non-Active Speakers is closer to the difference and I agree that room acoustics/spea... | |
| Spikes between speakers & stands, up or down? I'm with Jeff and Cytocycle, I prefer blu tak or rubber...so that less vibrations travel to the stand and floor...to me any vibration that is not coming from the speaker or through the air is unwanted. My exception is when you have thin-walled spe... | |
| Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi Dave,Perhaps it is all hype - certainly there is some marketing! I once shared your skepticism too. However take time to Listen to what Bob Stuart of Meridian has to say"Active Speakers are 1000 times better..." | |
| Spikes between speakers & stands, up or down? They are very heavy 1" plus Thick walls, relatively braced MDF with internal damping.. They are ported as well.Then I would be careful about spending huge sums of money on spikes....rubber pads should be fine. Since the box should not be adding t... | |
| Spikes between speakers & stands, up or down? If you have thin wall speakers like Harbeth's then this can obviously make a big difference.If you have very heavy braced speakers with thick walls and a highly damped cabinet then it probably matters very little what you use...So it depends mostl... | |
| Actively bi-amping B&W Matrix 800's I read somewhere that B&W allows you to Bi-Amp but you still go through one half of a passive Xover...at least you reduce IMD distortion that way but you don't make it a whole lot easier of a load to drive. Full Actives are possible but are pr... |