shadorne
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| Am I Bad Listener? "this whole stereo sounds like crap" with a CDP really bad. (1989 Circuit City Sony or something)Yikes - I am in your crap category. I have way more expensive CDP's in storage but my tin ears failed to hear a significant difference; simply a slig... | |
| Am I Bad Listener? And, of course, power handling - notice I mention under 95 db. Over 105 db and below 45 HZ there is a huge (very huge!) difference between 5k speakers, 10k, 15k and 20k. Absolutely agree. A $5K mid range and treble sound can often be as good as $... | |
| Am I Bad Listener? Does anyone share my experience or is there something this sad, pathetic audiophile is missing? A lot of the gear you describe is intended to sound correct so it should sound extremely close (often hard to identify in a double blind test). I shar... | |
| Ultimate Demo Disc for Audio Geeks Sheffield Drum track - track 1 - Jim KeltnerSlave to the Rhythm (Hot Blooded Mix) - Grace JonesMan in the Long Black Coat - Bob DylanLast Dance for Mary Jane - Tom PettyDiamonds and Rust - Joan BaezWhat is Hip - Soul Vaccination - Tower of PowerMe... | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround Can anyone comment on Exit Stage Left 5.1 DVD that was issued this year? | |
| EFFICIENCY How important is this difference in the final sound quality? Not as important as how they sound to you. Get the one which sounds better. The impedance of 2.3 Ohms is a wee bit on the low side....this would concern me as it makes these speakers in... | |
| Angriest Lyric/Vocal Firestarter - Prodigy | |
| Rives PARC parametric equalizer This is quite normal. I assume you have installed it or you have heard the impact of the PARC in a friends system.Bass response in 99% of home environments is extremely bumpy due to room modes. Therefore 99% of people with significant bass extensi... | |
| Philosophy used in assembling your system? Best Value overall (from my perspective, of course). Since I use digital, I have tended to go ho-hum ordinary gear with cables and digital sources, as this has the least impact on the sound per kilo-dollar spent. Besides my goal is to listen to gr... | |
| Audioquest cables? More control and fastness is what I need. What Dynaudios are you using? Control and fastness is a trait related to speaker critical damping and amplifier more than a cable. It is quite unusual for people to complain that Dynaudios are slow and la... | |
| Bass--How much is too much? What does your neighbor's wife think of your bass in her house? Or more importantly what does your wife think? | |
| the paradox of accurate speakers p.s. my system is better than yours! but Bob doesn't care even if yours does sound great (no doubt it does), because Bob's sounds good too AND, to top it off, Bob's is WAY bigger than both you and MrTennis and mine combined!! LOL ;-) | |
| the paradox of accurate speakers Well, all I can say is that Dr. Floyd Toole and many other Acoustic Engineers with University Degrees in Acoustic Physics and many with PHD's and many members of the AES would be disappointed to learn from this thread that they are completely wast... | |
| Why so expensive?? If you can afford to buy this stuff, most likely you are buying it for the looks and the good sound is just a perk (IMHO, of course). Agreed. The big effort goes into industrial design. The other challenge is to market and sell perhaps only 50 mo... | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround C of S was still part of the transition to a true RUSH sound, IMHO. A journey they started and completed with the polished and complex arrangements in Xanadu using synthesizers ....the final RUSH sound of their OWN had arrived on Farewell to Kings... |