shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Do you ...Center Channel? Of course you have to be sitting in the sweet spot and you must not be using a discrete mutichannel source Most DSP's handle even discrete data and will allocate the information to the speakers as necessary.Obviously if you don't have a DSP and y... | |
| Do you ...Center Channel? OTOH, creating a phantom center when there is a discrete center signal creates inevitable phase/time errors in the process. This is noticeable even on-axis but mostly with music sources. Really? How? | |
| Do you ...Center Channel? I'm with Rives & Sid 100%. Many sound engineers don't like mixing for a center anyway. At the end of the day Phantom works very well provided you are directly in front and not far to one side or too close to either left or right channel (small... | |
| The best mini monitors you have heard? Shadorne, I don't think the Magico Mini has a ceramic driver. Sorry, I meant to say rigid drivers. Titanium is a very stiff light weight material, ceramic is another....they all suffer from ringing and need some form of damping to control severe ... | |
| The best mini monitors you have heard? You mentioned Magico Mini fatigue from prolonged listening....you also mentioned you liked the Dynaudio C1. I may hazard a guess that you might be finding the ceramic driver audible ringing to be fatiguing. There are a couple of ways that the inhe... | |
| Zu Druid questions If I were to compare them to my Ushers (CP-6381) and describe them in audiophile terms, they would not hold up. They don't have the bass extension or detail, they don't image as well, don't have the soundfield width or depth, don't have the separ... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Dlanselm,Nice suggestion...or, alternatively, stick to gear that is selected by Pink Floyd, Mark Knopfler, Sting and many other famous recording artists and simply assume that these people know what they are doing when it comes to music and can af... | |
| On-board subwoofer amps - limited shelf life ? My speakers have active amplification and are 12 years old. My subwoofer has active amplification (1000 watts) and is 9 years old. Both work perfectly with never a problem.On the other hand, I had a 240 Watt top of the line Sony power amp fail aft... | |
| anyone care to comment re: WP-8? Great speakers as everyone surely already knows. The consistent narrow bass bump from 80 to 100 Hz (and very sharp roll off) in the WP series is my only concern but then again "big bass" sells, as it sounds impressive. I call this kind of colorati... | |
| Power Conditioner APC S15 I have the APC H15 and the power cord is one of the most substantial I have seen (bigger than my power amp). APC quote 12 Amp rating because they are extremely conservative.Frankly I can't see how a power cord can make a difference to any gear ( u... | |
| 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... |