shadorne
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| The most romantic jazz ballads, nocturn or blues Try Blade Runner Soundtrack by Vangelis - some good romantic stuff there. | |
| Cable elevators It is extremely important to keep the height even and avoid even the slightest sagging between elevators as this can lead to harmonic resonance. Someone explained to me that every quarter inch of sag leads to 1% harmonic distortion. Alternatively ... | |
| is it worth it? Unless you have a dsp then you will lose the 0.1 channel and center channel info...you need a DSP too in addition to the TV and player! | |
| Significance of different components of audio ... Jerzy,I don't think anyone seriously concerned about sound quality could possibly fail to agree with your four broad categories. Critical, Important, fine-tuning and negligable - the exact order within those categories is perhaps a personal prefer... | |
| Record wear IMHO, dirt and dust are the biggest problem (static electricity makes many Vinyl albums a magnet for dust) followed by natural degradtion of the plastic. My limited experience was that the more cleaning I did the worse it eventually sounded (faste... | |
| House AC Line Variance This is quite normal. If you are concerned or you hear audible differences then I'd suggest the APC H15. | |
| Ceramic Coated Woofers Could someone have cleaned them with a cleaning product? A wood polish? Mr Clean? | |
| active professional monitors for HT I second Bruce's recommendations. | |
| Pre-wired in new home. I expect several people to warn you that it will sound terrible with ordinary wires. Personally I would not worry about it - not even one minute. 80 feet of 16 AWG will lose you about 20% power into a 4 Ohm load. Of course 12 AWG would only lose 1... | |
| Down-firing Sub makes floor rattle Newbee has good point. Ultimately everything will rattle. A plywood sheetboard somewhere could use some extra screws perhaps? A lose air duct mounting? A heavier carpet or underlay may help too. Also try moving furniture around or put you hand wei... | |
| tube amps/low capacitance cables? I don't think there is a rule of thumb. In general, if the speaker cables have a major impact on the sound then I would be more concerned about the amplifier design, how the speaker load varies with frequency and the way the two match...just my tw... | |
| Recommendations for 1000 If you like loud dynamic sound then for under $1000 you are definitely on the right track! | |
| Zu Druid questions Congratulations. I look forward to reading your review of the Zu's (please?). I certainly enjoyed the review you did of the Veritas 2.3i - judging from that review I expect you will be rather sorry to see them go.Great to see that you have such co... | |
| What is my weakest link? how hard is it to stay on track with that? There were three choices.. and speakers wasn't one of them. LOL. I re-read your post and you are quite right. Sorry...my bad. I think the Ayre LX5e would be an awesome upgrade. | |
| Amp problem - Sounds drops out of one channel Sounds like you damaged some transistors somehow (short the amp, over drive it or something). You should also check your speakers carefully or whatever was connected to the amp when you suspect it may have been damaged. In Class AB designs they wi... |