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| Best sounding cd in your collection JENNIFER WARNES "THE WELL" SACD/HYBRID CISCO 2034 George Masenburg, Elliot Sheiner & Bernie Grundman are the mix/mastering engineers involved...no wonder it sounds so darn good! | |
| problems with 24 bit cd players i have auditioned a number of them and something is wrong. i perceive a dip in the 100 to 200hz region and a slight peak in the upper mids/lower treble region. What is your reference? Have you made calibrated microphone tests of what is wrong? is... | |
| Five Monoblocks vs. One 5-Channel Amp Provided the channel separation and power supplies are equivalently good then, as far as the sound goes, it makes really no difference monoblock or 5 channels.... | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? Great speakers. Dunno what you mean by transparency but a bigger three way will definitely allow you to hear much more...if that is what you are looking for. The reason are two fold; Experiments show that the ear can hear a maxium of 120 db of dyn... | |
| MTM vs TM ... advantages/disadvantages ? Two mids driving the same frequencies will have an interference pattern. The response will be greatest when the ear is at the horizontal level of the tweeter (mid point). The off axis response (ear position above or below the mid point) will have ... | |
| Music that has good cymbals Tom Petty Wildflowers is a well recorded album. Ferrone on drums with Sabian cymbals. George Bensen, Weekend in LA, On Broadway, Live - good natural sounding recording of Harvey Mason on drums.CDBaby has a good album, "More Head", Steve Ferrone ag... | |
| Looks like M&K has give it up...Closed Sad news indeed. Building speakers is a tricky business to defend, as the volumes are small. Apart from the design, marketing, distribution and assembly, the major components are often outsourced; cabinetry, crossovers elements & drivers...whi... | |
| Best nearfield monitor? "true deep bass response" & "dynamic contrast and extreme dynamical outburst" ....if you mean fairly accurate but deep bass rather than copious amounts of room shaking resonant distortion then my suggestion would be an active monitor with a re... | |
| AKUS - So Long So Wrong- Time to Stop Upgrading? It Doesn't Matter Anymore is the best sound I have ever heard on my system. If you have a good system then it is worth paying attention to the people who mix and master. When Gary Paczosa and Doug Sax are involved (a couple of what many might ter... | |
| Disconnecting speaker while power amp on - any dan If you short the amp output while disconnecting the speaker wires then there is of course potential for damage to the amplifier. | |
| Which one is best.. These are all good. You will be happy with any of them. So search for the best deal for you. The Proceed and Bryston have balanced inputs which is an advantage. The Bryston has a 20 year warrenty. Specifications are all very similar. | |
| Burning in period Nautilus 800? Tony007By your own estimates, you appear to have spent between two and five years breaking in speaker woofers (assuming that you always have one pair of the 40 to 50 speakers being broken-in continuously, 24/7) Since you have found that crossover ... | |
| Monster pwr conditioners----your thoughts? If your existing equipment has robust power supply then it should adequately handle regular dirty household AC power...after all the power conditioner is just like having a better power supply in your component.So it largely depends on the quality... | |
| Changing speaker cloth Just a word of caution. The grill that holds the cloth may be necessary to reduce edge diffration. You can order speaker cloth from a variety of suppliers. I have never experienced the problem you describe but a slightly different sound is quite l... | |
| if Sony had been around earlier - format wars Tvad,Brilliant. I recall another thread about a 5.1 center channel where someone wanted it to come from the rear instead of conventionally. I am sure they could oblige. |