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| Great classical pianists Thank you for this video. Ms. Dovgan plays "The Tempest" beautifully, if just a bit slowly in the first movement. She’s beautiful, too, and so young. And so poised. Too bad she wipes her nose at the beginning (1:10). My favorite young pianist no ... | |
| Wall Art Make your own! It's fun. | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? Thank you, bdp24, for the best brief subwoofer tutorial I've ever read. I made a screen shot of it for my now extensive file. It's humbling how much some of you know, and really understand, about the technical side of this hobby. FWIW, I've got a... | |
| Is There A Device For Home Use That Can Measure How Low The Bass In My Speakers Is? Thanks, dgluke, for the John Atnkinson Stereophile link. The whole article is interesting and informative. In any case, I did not know about "B weighting"; my SPL meter only gives me a choice between "A" and "C". There are, of course, several othe... | |
| Is There A Device For Home Use That Can Measure How Low The Bass In My Speakers Is? dgluke complains that suggesting SPL meters when the OP had asked for Hz is "braindead." But--duh!--Hz are audible as SPL. And then dgluke suggests the Hsu test tone CD, like everyone who mentioned SPL readings also did (even if not the Hsu CD spe... | |
| Is There A Device For Home Use That Can Measure How Low The Bass In My Speakers Is? hypoman is the first, and only, contributor to this thread to even mention an essential parameter relevant to almost every other suggestion: that the SPL meter must be properly "weighted." The meter elliotbnewcombjr actually provides a link to wil... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? As has been noted already, everyone knows that their speakers, no matter the design, can project an image in the center, where there is no driver. Obviously, speakers radiate sound: to the left, the right, above and below. Why would this not creat... | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? Not likely I can add much other than a brand that hasn't yet been mentioned: the NHT SubOne. Besides sounding clean and tight, it has a very useful "controller" that sits on top (or can be placed in your rack) that controls volume and has a switch... | |
| Cable curmudgeon bruce19: +1. Your post came in while I was writing mine; I wouldn't have bothered had I read yours first. bruce is the Boss! | |
| Cable curmudgeon This is actually a very revealing thread; maybe it would benefit from better cables. The OP may be trolling, or may be just bewildered by audiophile fetishism; hard to tell. But the vitriol his post inspired is revealing. Those who calmly respond ... | |
| Constructing songs "What's He Building In There?" by Tom Waits. | |
| Inside the Iso Acoustics mechanism I've tried the Gaias, and Nobsound springs. In my system, isolating the speakers rather than coupling them to the floor is definitely the way to go. BUT...after the dust settled, I've gone back to simple sorbothane disks ($24 for a set of eight). ... | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? I love the way some audio gear looks, and visual aesthetics is part of what creates desire for a given item. Pintrest keeps sending me photos of beautiful listening rooms, and I do look at them. Audio porn. But...as it happens, my large listening... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings If "Tea for the Tillerman" is your thing (several here have mentioned it), here's one of the best deep dives into alternative masterings of any classic record I know of: https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/the-best-version-of/the-best-version-of%E2%... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings Thanks, tisimst, for this thread. As many have pointed out, it is unusually civil and constructive for this forum. My two cents: First, I agree with zgas-music about the general principle that "small ensembles" (and, by extension, solo instrumen... |