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| Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is. Lush,They don't make 'em like Gordon anymore. In some way he reminds me of Canadian Hockey icon/legend "Don Cherry" - also a straight shooter - take or leave it - he says what he has to say and you get the message loud and clear (even between the ... | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. Tubes are generally more prone to microphonics when they are exposed. For this reason alone, they should be inside the chassis. Raquel your comment makes the mistake of assuming that audiophiles care primarily about the sound quality. Remember th... | |
| What beats the Evolution Acoustics MM3 ?? This leads me back to the opening comment about the MM3s and their ability to let you just enjoy the music. Congrats. I know exactly how you feel. The speakers you mentioned having owned in the past do look like a solid progression from "hi-fi" e... | |
| Room tuning Pepp111,Size matters.Unless you are an acoustic engineer and have performed some precision measurements and know precisely which frequencies you want to absorb then you probably want a broadband absorber. I would not be too concerned. Both your ch... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? We cannot hear less than 1 cycle at very low frequencies, and by the time 1 cycle has reached us enough time has elaped that we're past the direct sound and into the reverberant sound I agree fully with that.I guess what sounds best to your own e... | |
| James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all Do you plan to conduct a blind test like Mike Lavigne?It would be interesting to get your impression.Or do you accept the cable manufacturers logic that 300 hours of cable break in (synergy with the other equipment etc.) is required to hear differ... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? The other issue I did not mention will be cancellation or a dip in the crossover region on the one speaker that is wired out of phase. | |
| Diffuse Front Wall? Absorb rear wall? FWIW, you will almost certainly benefit from moving your listening position another 2 two or three feet from the rear wall. (towards the speakers) Also if you place more broadband absorbers behind you (closer to the listening position) then it wil... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? What nags me is whether or not this is the way to solve the problem. I got this idea from owning a Rel sub where they suggest in hooking up the sub out of phase which may reduce bass boom. Of course it is not correct - you are changing the impuls... | |
| In-ceiling Speakers whole house system going in Your choices look good - the larger Paradigm in walls can rock. The standard in walls are necessarily very shallow speakers and not that good (I have B&W's everywhere and they are kinda ok for what they do). If you want to buy some used some b... | |
| James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all This ain't Randi and no million dollars at stake but kudos goes to Mike L. who bravely tested some Opus MM versus Monster and was unable to tell the difference in a fair but rather "crude" test that required several minutes to change cables each t... | |
| If you started over what would you do differently? I would go all PC based (Mac actually). That is still my current plan...another project for when I get the urge/time. Upload all the CD's to a lossless RAID server system and junk my mega changers and go with a high quality low jitter DAC or DSP s... | |
| Quad 12L active vs Wharfedale Precision 8D Active Oncable,I don't know the two you mention and I am sure they are good but to add to your list I suggest you check out NHT SOO/MOO, which is a popular active option for a desktop PC audiophile quality sound.Chuck Ainlay , Producer/Engineer of Dire S... | |
| Use computer UPS to power source, good idea? APC make Audio type stabilization devices, which include high current capability on certain outlets. They have crossed over from their much bigger IT business (clients like Sun, IBM, Google etc.) where they protect data from power nasties (brown o... | |
| Assymetric speaker cable lengths? Speed is not the issue. For a tube setup, however, it can be quite sensitive to load. The slight difference is still unlikely to be audible but if you are driving low impedance speakers or speakers with a bumpy impedance curve then it is much safe... |