sogood51
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| tube amp sound more engaging I would think that very, very low powered SS amps could sound great with horns...something in the 25 watt range if used with a volume control with a slow ramp-up.Dave | |
| Best software to burn a CD from a computer. I use Exact Audio Copy to extract music to my hard-drive. As far as burning software...I have Nero, Musicmatch Jukebox Plus and a couple of others.I have not found any to be better..all very good as far a the burn goes. The free ones I have tried ... | |
| Concrete or Wood floor in listening room? Sorry MikeI should have been more clear. You have nothing to lose from the benefits that cement floors offer over most wood floors which are raised and set over a foundation or basement. Most have spring to them (not a good thing) along with other... | |
| Concrete or Wood floor in listening room? MikeThink of your floor as another wall. Concrete walls absorb nothing. A well constructed sub-floor will be just as good as cement in isolation from vibration.Q_manWhile I don't agree with your choice of sound room construction...ie> all block... | |
| Krell amps and Tube Preamps - enemies? You can always check your pre-amp for DC leak. I use an tubed pre with my Krell and read the same thing you did about the internal tweak..I didn't bother with it and have no problems at all.Krell Ksa-250Krell Kav-500There was a thread about BAT pr... | |
| Concrete or Wood floor in listening room? I took 2x4's and laid them on their sides, this will raise the floor 1.5 inches above the concrete (glue and nail them down). Then I put 1.5 inch thick foam panels between those for insulation. After that I laid down .75 inch tung and groove floor... | |
| Ultimate list of guides on how to get good sound. Here is my advice: Read anything and everything you can find on acoustics...and then keep re-reading untill it slowly begins to sink in.While this approach does not have the glamour of that shiny new component we have just added...it gets better r... | |
| How important is the Centre Speaker ? Depends on your room and seating, if you have poor seating arangement with few good seats...a center is very important. Nothing worse than watching a movie and having the voice come at you from left or right of the screen.In larger room with great... | |
| How to equalize a bi-amplification setup? I don't remember your gear...it's been a while. Can you switch inputs on the amps so that the extra gain from using balanced is on the upper freq's and not the bass. 3db is not a lot and may be able to be smoothed out a little from speaker placeme... | |
| How to equalize a bi-amplification setup? I don't remember your gear...it's been a while. Can you switch inputs on the amps so that the extra gain from using balanced is on the upper freq's and not the bass. 3db is not a lot and may be able to be smoothed out a little from speaker placeme... | |
| How low can one hear Huh?? Say again golixelephants also hear (feel) through their feet from many miles away. I was watching a show the other night regarding this and at one point all the elephants in the herd would raise one front foot off the ground at the same time in response to ... | |
| How low can one hear Huh?? Say again " Any other ideas?"Headphones and in-room are not the same so kind-of apples and oranges. The ear does not respond in the same way to each and is the only reason why tiny headphones can do deep bass.Dave | |
| Source to two Preamps question: I use my Sunfire theatergrand with my Linn Axis turntable in that way. My tubed Audioprism pre-amp does not have phono pre-amp...the tape out on the Sunfire works fine and sounds great.The tape out idea does not work for multichannel though becaus... | |
| Krell KSA 50 vs. todays ss amps? YuriThere is a guy at the Audio Asylum forum (Abe Collins) that has an Ksa-50...It my be the mk-2 but I'm not sure.Anyway, I read a post of his the other day that stated he may replace it because it is to large to fit into a cabinet and he wants s... | |
| New kit for small room speaker advice needed Find some speakers that sound very good in the near-field...Quad comes to mind.Dave |