shadorne
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| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers I'm with Uraniumcommitte's 1/2 to 2/3 of total component spend, as a rough rule of thumb for speakers/sub (excluding room treatments and very small rooms). Distortion figures for speakers often make them the weakest link in the chain. | |
| Break in period I am rather enjoying your astute game Glad to here it. This hobby should be enjoyed!These forums are consistently bombarded by fears of significant detrimental effects on the sound quality; (jitter, cables, break-in, warm-up, house electrical wir... | |
| VSA VR4 jr's with Bryston mono's? Nice amp! I agree with Cyctocycle that clean power is usually never a problem except in a ridiculous mismatch. However, if you are looking for a significantly louder more dynamic sound then you won't get much extra by exceeding your speaker rating... | |
| Break in period Dopogue says, Shadorne has missed few opportunities (in the related posts I've seen) to repeat his break-in-is-all-in-the-mind nonsense It is your prerogative to believe that it is all nonsense.Dopogue adds, It clearly takes a lot to penetrate HIS... | |
| Break in period I am also somewhat amazed as to why you equate the phenomena of burning-in to something that is deliberately engineered? I assure you that engineers do have to worry about these kinds of things when designing equipment and not just the performanc... | |
| Break in period The components' tolerances can affect the de-emphasis; many of the ("good")resistors used are +/- 5% i.e. 10% total rated shift... Just a clarification for others reading the thread (not a correction);These are manufacturing tolerances between in... | |
| Break in period Guidocorona,A kryton is an example of a high voltage application of a tube that is all; an application where a tube is a more reliable device than a transistor. I was trying to qualify the meaning of my previous comment of "low voltage application... | |
| Break in period Drubin,What I was trying to say was that designers will try to minimize the effects of individual resistor, transformer, capacitor & inductor drift due to age and thermal effects. Where a component is critical then a designer may choose to use... | |
| Break in period Atmasphere, 'low voltage applications' - do you mean like phono signals Actually I meant in general run-of-the-mill electronic industry applications, as transistors are not very reliable for high voltage applications where for example krytrons mig... | |
| Wow CDs everywhere...What to do? Why wasn't I doing this before?! Hey BigBucks...welcome to the club of people who play music rather than fiddle with jewel cases, sleeves or mess with "ripping"!I have been doing this since 2001 using a product called Titletrack Jukebox, orignall... | |
| Can you correct nulls with acoustic treatments. BTW: 128+64 = 192 HZ may also be another problem null area with speakers at 53" from rear wall...of course given other room modes/rear wall effects you may not clearly see every one of these dips, as the rear wall quarter wave cancellation effect,... | |
| Can you correct nulls with acoustic treatments. Jim,Check out this Standing WavesIf the speakers are 53" from the back wall then you will get a first dip at around 64 Hz followed by another at 128 Hz and another at 256 Hz...This is a common problem for all freestanding speakers. Of course, your... | |
| Break in period so, the perception of a change in sound of a component is anecdotal and subjective. Any electrical design engineer will tell you much the same thing. No respectable engineer would deliberately design an amp with a significant drift in electrical ... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Whart, What always gets me is the sheer explosiveness of the kickdrum at my local club, even when the band is just warming up. I don't know of any system that recreates this effectively- it is not just a question of 'loud,' or 'dynamic' or 'deep' ... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. As I said before. If you do not really care much for music, CDs are fine. Vinyl is for people that really like and enjoy music to a high degree. You obviously don't. I often agree with your astute comments Pauly. However, this time you have me be... |