shadorne
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| Room size for Cornwalls? I tend to prefer a near field position with the speakers brought well out into the room in this smaller room situation. Smallish monitors on stands seem to work well. This way you minimize reflections from side walls and the wall behind the listen... | |
| Burning cd's for my modestly high-end system... I'm with Elevick. Your quality may already be compromised. Furthermore, downloading music without paying is illegal. Don't do it. Everything you do can be traced and is backed up and stored on servers somewhere => your IP address identifies you... | |
| To tube, or not to tube, that is the question Isn't the sttaf one of the warmer sounding speakers in the Totem line up...if it is then try it first with what you have at home and see how you get along with it.If after some listening in your room you find it is sounds to thin (especially in th... | |
| Why so expensive?? Why is oil near $100 a barrel? This is why.Now back to regular programming...... | |
| whoom instead of BOOM Ahhhh I get it...Clouseau: Do you have a WHOOM?Inn Keeper: I do not know what a WHOOM iz!Clouseau: ZimmaInn Keeper: Ahhh.. a RRRUUUMMM!Clouseau: That is what I have been saying you idiot! WHOOM!You mean your Zimma is small and you want more vavoom... | |
| Analog vs. digital segment on PBS Eldartford,If you are listening to classical then it sounds like they are simply making the music fit on the CD as loud as possible without clipping the signal. The peak being close to the max 16 bits. That is normal procedure. There is nothing wr... | |
| "popping" when moving to balanced cables on Amp I would start by checking the wiring of the XLR leads with a multimeter from radio shack...perhaps you have a crossed or open wire, Did you leave the RCA conected too...perhaps you should disconnect the RCA? | |
| Analog vs. digital segment on PBS Eldatford,Actually the mastering engineer will compress (squash) the hell out of music first and then boost the average signal to usually within as little as 3 db of the maximum that a CD can digitally represent with 16 bits. This means the CD wil... | |
| most accurate loudspeakers.... i have yet to be in a studio big or small and seen 'any' post work on 'any' audio track done with anything that resembles something considered 'audiophile'.....the 'room' must truly be the thing, and the mixes (and opinions) from engineer to engi... | |
| Analog vs. digital segment on PBS No one mentions that Pro Tools (the digital company) set up the test for PBS. Interesting. Perhaps the whole thing was faked and the band who claimed they could not tell were all paid to do so (or more likely the music was all from the good sound... | |
| Class "A" s.s. vs. tube amps Both tubes or transistors can be Class A - it is a design choice. Tubes that have an output transformer are likely to sound the most different from s s amps (assuming a quality implementation of both and assuming no clipping)Class A ensures no cro... | |
| Favorite reviewer? BUT it would be irresponsible in my opinion to NOT remind the reader that brand-Y- which might be homely looking in comparison- for a fraction of the cost, will give you 95% of the performance. i can't remember names that well,but take out some o... | |
| Quad ESL 57 are there better speakers out there?? Shadorn you are on my case again! LOL, Could not resist a little dig about how long this will last...;-)Peace... you indeed have an impressive system and no doubt have owned/auditioned far more than I have ever done and these Quads are absolutely... | |
| Analog vs. digital segment on PBS Edo,Thanks I missed it by ten minutes on TV last night. So I am glad you posted that link.This was very well done.=> Analog and Digital can both sound excellent!!!In this case it seems they were indistinguishable in a short listening test...alt... | |
| Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones Headphones have much lower distortion than speakers, especially at modestly loud levels. You need an extremely good speaker to begin to compete with headphones. However, the sound is in your head...it really is a rather unnatural sensation - no de... |