shadorne
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| When is your system good enough-and why? For me the sound is a thrill and exhilerating experience every single time I listen (music or movie). I have no need to add gear anymore. Realistic live music levels and a convincing timbre/soundstage presentation with low distortion is what does ... | |
| acoustic system resonators Physically these may alter the sound in the higher frequencies by adding harmonic overtones that ring well after the orignal excitation. (Studios use all kinds of tricks such as reverb etc. to give richness and provide hearing cues as to the locat... | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? Photon46, I get to listen to live jazz, classical, & choral music in our university's music department several times a week, and I tell you this: live music of all kinds is LOUD That has always been my experience...rarely have I heard a concer... | |
| Helping European Friend Avoid Bose Speakers but travels frequently to the UK on business.1) Why not arrange to meet him on a UK trip and spend a half day auditioning all kinds of stuff on Totenham Court Road. There is at least one Hi-Fi store on every block.2) Stick to audition of UK speak... | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? Shadorne, if your system drops details in the music at 60db SPL, you need to upgrade to a decent system LOL. Yes indeed you are right Pauly. I forgot to mention this is why I have to play so loud (don't have a decent system). Indeed, there is not... | |
| Can you correct nulls with acoustic treatments. I'm with Onhwy61....you probably have typical room bass boost. You need to tone down those bass bumps rather than boost 80 to 300 Hz.Secondly, above 200 Hz...you are dealing with wavelengths of roughly 5 feet...don't expect any kind of smooth resp... | |
| Sub to match PMC TB2+ Mrgman,Considering your speakers it is not surprising that you find a quality matching sub prohibitively expensive. Low frequencies are that much harder to reproduce without excessive distortion (20% and much more at the higher SPL levels which yo... | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? I typically listen about 90 to 95 db SPL continuous and on a good recording I may listen even higher (closer to 100 db SPL). Rarely do I listen to anything but very briefly at 105 db SPL (average rock concert levels). All these are at the listenin... | |
| Can you correct nulls with acoustic treatments. What I didn't expect was 10 to 15 hz. wide nulls (-10,-15,even -20 db.) at several other frequencies. No need to panic. This is quite normal. Do as Plato suggests first (try speaker positioning). You will need very serious room treatments for the... | |
| Krell 400xi Damping Factor I agree with above - don't get too hung up on Damping factor. Above about 10 it likely makes very little audible difference. | |
| Break in period Gregm,IMHO, although high damping factors is a "pushed" feature of SS amps....I think it is really over rated.Frankly the driver Qes and Qms coupled with the box design almost entirely dominates driver response...above a damping factor of about 5 ... | |
| Break in period Methinks that they are hearing differences due to frequency response differences which are quite discernable even over 10%THD of the speakers.Salut, Bob P. Agreed. I expect you are referring to the higher output impedance of a tube (with ouput tr... | |
| Break in period Gregm,I have a very old pdf of a paper that Billy Woodman published which explains his driver construction philosophy. It includes plots of speaker distortion and discusses IMD distortion and the advatanges of active versus passive designs. Unfort... | |
| Room modes are hijacking my music I second Kr4. | |
| Break in period Did you measure distortion levels and how do you know it is harmonic distortions? I did not make measurements but harmonic distortion is quite easily recognized for its warmth, woody or resonant sound.I doubt ATC would make a more expensive big b... |