shadorne
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| Energy damping or energy transfer? Generally it is better to dampen vibrations. Most often blu-tak does the job. Sometimes a very flappy & resonant speaker enclosure (poor design) may benefit from anchoring or coupling it to the stand and the floor as this may reduce certain re... | |
| Speaker recommendations in the $3,500-$4,000 range I don't think you can come close to the finest PMC studio monitors installed professionally in the US on a $4,000 budget at least not new....but I guess you know this.I agree with the suggestions already made on this thread so I won't add any spec... | |
| Music volume? What about your sound level? LOL Bigjoe,If you can achieve 130 db SPL levels then I wouldn't want a stereo war with ya! | |
| I bought the Granite for the base for my .... U 571, Star Wars pod race, Jurassic Park III in DTS, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, AVP, Toy Story I and II...there are so many. LOTR is bas heavy ... I agree with Mdhoover ....it is probably over the top for most home theatres to reproduce... | |
| Music volume? What about your sound level? I have a RadioShack SPL meter also. Average SPL measurements at my listening position, 12 feet back from the center of the speakers is;Enjoyable but loud listening levels: 93 to 96 db If I turn it up (exceptionally loud): 105 to 108 db These are a... | |
| Ruining music with a cheap sub Unfortunately it is expensive to produce ultra low frequencies with minimal distortion, an order of magnitude more costly than for bass/mid frequencies and two orders of magnitude harder than for a simple tweeter. This is why a good sub usually co... | |
| Newbie balanced cable help Any cable from a guitar or music store will do. Yorkville for example. I would not worry about the cables too much. They will be connecting to very high impedance loads and will be carrying very little current....it is hard to justify spending a l... | |
| Is it Audio, or is it Art? Gold, silver, fantastic shapes, exotic veneers and monolithic designs are all intended to flaunt the high cost and high quality of the underlying audio component. They almost never add anything to the audio quality....but they do look nice and mak... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers on Bookshelves? Assuming you can get the right height/position;Isolate the speakers from the shelves with blu-tak and pack them with books on all sides so that you absorb the rearward LF radiation whilst creating an even surface flush with the baffle for forward ... | |
| What CD's do you take for a speaker audition? I am with Eldartford. Any speaker can sound quite good if you happen to find the right material. The trick is to try to test the weakness of the speaker by giving it all kinds of material, at different volume levels and dynamics....choose good rec... | |
| Tweeter characteristics The tweeter is the least expensive driver in most speakers. If it is too apparent, strident or dominant then the mid range may be lacking in the speaker design/driver quality. I would chose a speaker based on the mid range qualities first, followe... | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? All speakers radiate bass in all directions..so you will get some reflections and cancellations from the rear wall....the only way to eliminate this is with acoustic treatments,with soffit mounting or placement very far from the wall. (as someone ... | |
| Speaker Distortion or Room Interaction ? Gregm,Yes I agree 100%. My comments are limited to extremely high SPL, dynamic range and low distortion...but none of this adds up to the live experience. No two speakers could ever re-produce the real thing with a large orchestra and chorus on th... | |
| Speaker Distortion or Room Interaction ? French Fries,I am not sure if you saw my earlier post - it may have crossed with yours earlier today.I have ATC SCM 100 active speakers and an ATC SCM 0.1/15 Sub. My room is similar to your room except for 9 foot rather than cathedral ceilings. I ... | |
| The Law of Diminishing Digital Returns What are "tin ears" missing?In the early days of CD, expensive high order analog filters were necessary. Nowadays, oversampling allows for very simple and cheap analog filters to do the job.In practive this means that even the cheapest DAC's have ... |