stehno
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| Gingko vs. pucks Sorry, Kmulkey, I did not intend to come across as confrontational and yes I assumed you posted your thread because you were interested in performance gains. That's why I responded. And FWIW, I am not able to debate physics with you either.I was s... | |
| Gingko vs. pucks Why do you wish to add some isolation?Consider the following possibilities: o There are 3 sources of vibration, floor-borne, air-borne, and internally generated.o One of these sources induces far more sonic harm than the other two.o Vibrations are... | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Actually your room is not quite that small. A bit narrow but otherwise I'd consider this a smaller mid-size room. Anywhere you place your speakers is a compromise. The goal of course is to find the least compromising placement. As you can see ther... | |
| Looking for an acoustic guitar recording.. I have to say that "Keith Don't Go" by Nil Lufgren (sp) Live Acoustic CDis one of the most outstanding acoustic guitar performances I've yet heard.Anybody and everybody who's heard it seems bowled over by the performance. | |
| Media Room - flooring Cork flooring can be really cool stuff but based on my audio experience I would pass over this softer material for the media room opting instead for a very hard flooring system with either one quite large or several smaller area rugs (and carpet p... | |
| What's the best power conditioner Mariasplunge, Brf is correct.And though there may be several other top notch mfg'ers of excellent line conditioning I too am only aware of one that meets all of these criteria. I've been using them since 2001 and when I became a dealer a few years... | |
| What's the best power conditioner Finding proper or even the best line conditioner is like looking for a needle in a haystack but it's out there. There are certain criteria that should be met to be considered proper and especially best:o The ideal line conditioner must induce no s... | |
| The value of open space "I have heard many of the great CD players, factory and modded. I still maintain that even the best of them cannot do with open resonant space what vinyl can do."Interesting statement, Chashma1. What's your confidence level? | |
| The value of open space It does not need to be an extraordinary event (phenomena) when a system with a digital source is extremely fine tuned.What you seem to be describing or hinting at is the ambient or reverberant information of the recording hall itself and the music... | |
| The most important word of advise? Every component of every system is directly or indirectly susceptible to and greatly affected by dirty AC coming in from the street and uncontrolled resonance energy. Hence, I would suggest building your system around the best performing line cond... | |
| Replacing feet fitted to ARC equipment Generally speaking, I'm not aware of any stock component footer worth keeping. And though there are a few mfg'ers who make even serious attempts to create better performing footers, even those should be replaced with a solid (rigid) aftermarket pr... | |
| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? Granted there are obviously some speakers better than others in every price category but forget everything else? No component is an island and the speaker is perhaps more affected by every other element of a system than any other component.How can... | |
| The right room. Based on my limited experience, I'd prefer a room size of about 14ft wide x 23ft. deep X 10 ft high ceiling for medium to large floorstanding speakers placed far out from the back short wall.These dimensions should suffice for perhaps all but the ... | |
| Maybe too detailed Dazzdx, you are correct as to how it should sound. But as I'm sure you know there are a handful of bottlenecks present in every last system ie dirty AC from the street, uncontrolled vibrations, tweeters that flatten out or break up under stress, h... | |
| Maybe too detailed There is no such thing as too much detail. That's like saying there's too much darkness in the night.Since you did not list most of your system inventory you are probably experiencing the results of a system exhibiting more detail but not utilizin... |