shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Why do headphones sound so good... I would add excellent headphones have very little phase shift, as their single diaphragm moves nearly/almost as one solid piston through the range of 200Hz to >8kHz In that same range, most all speakers have hundreds of degrees of phase shift ... | |
| Do you ...Center Channel? Baam23f,Huh? That is an analog device...forget it.You need a DSP....this will allow you to precisely configure what you send to each speaker, including how you roll off each individual speaker and how you treat center information, subwoofer inform... | |
| Leave an amp "on" permanetly Not sure I agree with "on" permanently. Most hi end hi-fi stuff will be tubes or SS amps that run mainly in Class A operationn.....these naturally run very hot and waste huge amounts of energy and besides, tubes have a limited life span...why woul... | |
| monitors/speakers? Monitors are used in the music industry both in live events and also in studios (recording/mixing/mastering). In general, this equipment must handle large dynamic range with a high degree of fidelity (more stringent requirements than for home use)... | |
| Sonus Faber , Should the Tweeter be in or out ? The offset is usually for edge diffraction effects of the baffle. Basically a centered tweeter will see edge diffraction at the same time from each side...this can cause a drop in energy at a specific set of frequencies, as the diffrated energy fl... | |
| measuring output impedance Forget it. Active components such as Op amps cannot be measured with a multimeter - in the worst case you may damage something with your 9 volt multimeter battery. (The impedance is a function of the feedback in the amplifier stage) | |
| Why do headphones sound so good... Headphones move so little air that they usually outperform most consumer speakers in terms of distortion. They also help cut out or reduce ambient noise. For critical listening or adjustments, headphones are very useful....but the sound is awful!U... | |
| Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance Nah - you got it all wrong. The trick is to float your entire sound system. (The water absorbs all nasty vibs)See this StudioAnyone recognize the speakers? | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Drubin,Perhaps this is how you get off the Merry-Go-Round?Getting off the Merry-Go-Round OneGetting off the Merry-Go-Round TwoAnyone care to count the number of woofers? The bluetooth keyboard and trackball are to control everything from the liste... | |
| Subwoofer suggestion to Integrate w/ Meyer HD-1's Thanks! Do you use your ears to adjust the EQ or do you use some sort of analyzer? Both.I use a plot of pure test tones witha Ratshack meter to get "reasonably" flat (+/- 5 db in room) and then I use music to fine tune overall bass. Spanish Harle... | |
| Loss of Dynamic range in modern CD masterings... Chaoticmass,I have much the same experience as you.Examples: Play Blondie's "Rapture" and then try Green Day "Amercian Idiot"....or try George Benson "On Broadway Live from Weekend in LA and then Ricky Martin "Livin La vida Loca"...the difference ... | |
| Joshua Tree Sometimes you just have to meet the music halfway as it is not recorded perfectly. KiD,I agree. However, it can be helpful to pay attention to the guys behind the console in the studio. For example, Doug Sax made some remasters of Aersomith's fir... | |
| Bose 901...really Yikes. A highly reverberant room can be very tiresome and fatiguing. I can't even read comfortably while teh kids are playing in most pool environments ( the noise is just too much ) The problem with traditional sound absorption (lots of wooden su... | |
| Tube amps & warm speakers? I second Pauly's comment - nothing really to add to this good advice. | |
| Joshua Tree U2 sound quality has always been a little deficient. A deliberate "edge" sound to their music and poorly defined bass makes a great sound in a pub or in the car but less so on an audiophile system. Most of it has a real "garage" rough sound to it ... |