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| what is good music? good music is like good sound | |
| what is good sound ? good sound is like good music | |
| How flat should my room response be? FIshboat,Great Article. | |
| what is good music? IMHO the answer is 42 | |
| How flat should my room response be? Bass frequencies radiate in all directions and interact heavily with the room....making it very hard to achieve a flat response in the bass without equalization and extensive room design and treatments.Furthermore a lot will depend on the system a... | |
| Best low cost speaker cables for my system? Great choice of components. I really like your system. IMHO you might consider to devote the money to a beefier amp with higher damping factor and just go for ordinary speaker cables (wire from the hardware store) ... your speakers can probably ha... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 HELP Does the DEQ2496 have an expander? This might interest me given that most CD's are intentionally mastered with 1 to 3 db of added compression compared to the studio mix. Unfortunately a lot more compression is often used (especially on rock) to ac... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 HELP Warnerwh,That link you gave is very good advice. Could not agree more with the authors criticism of many speaker designs.I would only add that even if serious room acoustic treatments can be disappointingly ineffective for very low frequencies....... | |
| alternated method for storing compact discs I use Sony CD Megachangers and Titletrack Jukebox software to control them from my Mac Mini. It is great. I get to browse, search, select, play and cue music from any CD ...it will even stagger music for continuous play. I have the album art also.... | |
| Audio Physic Virgo III break in time? There might be material applied to the inside of the mid range cones in order to dampen them. Hard material cones (ceramic and metallic) have a greater tendency to ring like a bell (=distortion) than fibrous paper cones or fabrics . Paper and fabr... | |
| Speaker Channel Burn-In Offset tweeter and mid is mainly to reduce edge diffraction so that power distribution remains even. Most manufacturers do not specify a left or right (even when tweeter or mid is offset). | |
| Caps as high-pass filters Adjusting the filter between sub and speakers can make small differences and improve the match. Most DSP amps will allow you to do this. (Filter slopes are typically between 24 db/octave and 12 db/octave.) However, adding a capacitor in order to m... | |
| Mixed Results from My Hifi The albums you name sound best in a car but they should still sound very good on your system; they will sound slightly boosted in the mid range and overly compressed. As with many CD's lately, they have been mastered to sound loud (meaning somewha... | |
| Speaker replacement advice SC-V's were a popular mastering monitor. You might want to check out this review>http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_highend_studio_monitor/index.htmlTo summarize, the review says ATC 300's have an advantage in dynamics and SPL levels; rockers liked... | |
| Why is Monster M1000i interconnect overlooked? Dave_b,I am not surprised something more ordinary from Monster cable sounded better. I have always been suspicious of $20K cable rigs that change the character of the sound. Happy listening with your new cheaper cables. great that you get enjoymen... |