shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| musical subwoofer recommendation for 2-ch They have small woofers and so they are fast but do not have sufficient low bass. Large woofers do not have to be slow. It boils down to motor voice coil diameter and magnet size and critical damped in design (basically this adds up to large size... | |
| Music to evaluate Speakers and System Another stress test is this:Erich Kunzel & The Cincinnati Pops - Very Best of Erich Kunzel: Top 20. Lots of variety and almost all of it dynamic. | |
| Music to evaluate Speakers and System Nowadays a delicate female vocalist is the test signal. This reflects how audiophile priorities have changed. LOL...yeah that was my warning too but in those days Wives accepted big ugly boxes. Since the 80's we have been told that tall narrow el... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables Knownothing,FWIW, your strategy as regards a sub woofer seems quite sensible. I believe it is better without one unless you can get something of high enough quality to not do more harm than good to your bass and lower midrange. Producing good ultr... | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround I find the R30 to be the best the band has put out both audio and video...I may have been too harsh. The video is indeed exceptional. The digital sound is impressive as it shows up some warts. Perhaps I am focussing too much on those minor warts.... | |
| Music to evaluate Speakers and System I disagree that one should use whatever one likes. A system should play everything well unless one is happy to predispose what one can play and enjoy to one genre or another. A nasty test is the Sheffield Drum Track - Track 1. Try this at realisti... | |
| Build your ultimate FANTASY system Her symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win me,That with music loud and long,I would build that dome in air,That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !His flashi... | |
| Best New speaker under $5000 Cool - congrats! Now your brother has to find something better!!!! | |
| most accurate loudspeakers.... Dr Joe,Tri-amped Tannoy 215 DMT's ....wow that would be impressive! Where did you hear these? By main monitor, I guess you mean these were permanently installed (in walls?) and mainly used to impress clients... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables I don't believe the article was meant to blame cables but rather highlight the complex interaction of the system due to the cable's connection - and that the cables themselves also contribute to the overall effect to varying degree. Arthur, now I... | |
| What am I missing using a 20 year old CD player?? Don,I agree. Analog was very forgiving. Digital is brutal. A mistake in the recording studio is not forgiven in digital. Digital sounds terrible when it clips or distorts...analog tape machines have a huge advantage over digital when over driven, ... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables hi shadorne. there are two cable interfaces that you may be overlooking, namely the source to preamp and the preamp to amp. what about transport to dac Since these are just signal cables (almost no power or current), they have a specifically desi... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables Dave,Sorry for the caps - too much coffee this morning I guess,As for moratorium on passive speakers....no I don't believe that. I agree that that the vast majority of the best speakers are passive.I believe that for a well designed amp and for we... | |
| What am I missing using a 20 year old CD player?? CD players improved up to the mid 90's but D/A improvements started to hit diminishing returns after this as they were so good, IMHO. The failure of SACD shows that the ordinary CD player is darn good - so much so that most consumers see absolutel... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables Blame the cables. It is the cables fault.Everyone knows that the amplifier and cable and complex speaker load interact. However, blaming cables is a "cop out" to me. It is all too obvious that the distortion products (due to complex interaction) w... |