shadorne
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| Are dome midrange better than cone designs? Metro04,I am not sure about the general poor imaging of dome mids. This may be one of the design challenges, I don't know. The ATC's image as well as anything I have heard but that is not what really differentiates the dome mid sound. The easiest ... | |
| How Much Is Too Much? I find that the better the speaker and amplficiation the more natural and effortless a good recording will sound; the end result is that the music inevitably gets turned up. I agree that most systems distort on transients and begin to sound awful ... | |
| Are dome midrange better than cone designs? As far as I know, the principle advantage is excellent dispersion. This produces a very even sound field in the room and will result in a more natural and balanced mid range compared to almost all other drivers. What you actually hear is the direc... | |
| What's your favorite audio codec? AAC 128 is darn good...AAC 256 is almost undetectable from uncompressed CD quality, IMHO | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? i preferred the original quads--2 pair in stacked mode, to any other speaker system i have heard.Agreed but the Maggie 1.6 will do more justice to Shostakovich, IMHO. | |
| Power Cords on a $1000 budget what would you do? going from a cheap lower guage power cord to a giant 8 guage power cord for only $500.00If it's really so significantly superior, why not make it yrself for $5?There no magic to making a reasonably good wire connector.Indeed. Furthermore, many com... | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? No there is nothing better for your taste. This is the best. | |
| Why does this old tube gear sound so good? Interesting...have you considered that your "modest" but newer gear might not be suited to your high quality taste for vintage sound? Alternatively it may be either the euphonic tube soudn or the way the tube output transformer reacts with your sp... | |
| More speaker or more power I'm with Jaybo and Duke....speakers. If you go pro speakers they won't sound so dull or lifeless at higher volumes. (thermal compression and as the cones exceed Xmax)(BTW: Due to the prevalence of compression in speakers you don't neccesarily need... | |
| 4 or 8 ohm tap - is this a good way to tell Whatever sounds best to you. Either way the impedance of the output transformer stage of the amp will be modifying the frequency response of your speaker in accordance with the impedance variation of the speaker with frequency. If you have some te... | |
| Modern CDs are mixed too loudly - a demonstration INTERESTING. THIS VIDEO CLIP WAS ALSO POSTED ON BOB KATZ HOME WEBSITE. I READ THE LINK TO THE ARTICLE ABOUT RUSH. NOW I KNOW WHY I DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC ANYMORE. IT EXPLAINS THAT POWER WINDOWS WAS THE LAST REALLY WELL MASTERED CD AND... | |
| 3 way vs. 2 way Ryder and Pubul57,We are in total agreement. [Shadorne ] I just saw your second post on the this thread. Given your room a good two way is your best option, IMHO. | |
| System psychology, or just psyched out? Now my question would be is this for psychological reasons, or purely objective? Purely objective. If you look at my system then you will see that I use some very cheap stuff (similar to your pawn shop quality) alongside some not so cheap gear an... | |
| How To Tell Fake Cardas Cable Just listen - it should be immediately obvious. | |
| Horns vs Ribbons vs Dyanamic Damn it Jaybo, we're only audiogoners here not trekkies! We go where no audiophile has gone before. Horns and planars just do not compare to warp drivers! |