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| I've discovered an alternate way . Ha!I missed taking accordeon lessons as a five year old by sheer luck that the teacher was Portuguese, and my narrow-minded French-Canadian parents offered me up to the local nuns for piano , and then organ lessons! Close call, eh?So it was quite ... | |
| Sound Absorbing Material Stuffed furniture, with cheap great-looking, thick pillows found at Marshalls, etc. Plop 'em up to absorb sidewall splatter; knock 'em down for instant WAF! Ern | |
| Room acoustics - finished or unfinished wood Nice post, Abstract. | |
| Help, Phantom Distortions and Stumped Again C'mon, Mezmo...a pistonic driver can't store that much energy! Even if you somehow overheated the VC so that there's a scraping going on due to non-coaxial movement it should clear up within a few minutes cooling.(Brings to mind the old trick of r... | |
| "I am there" vs. "They are here" Great thread and posts, guys.Since we're almost totally at the mercy of the recording,is it the case that a moderately dead room with a near-field setup will ALWAYS tend to produce a "they are here", deeper perspective (using the room!), and PERHA... | |
| How could surround sound be used in an audiophile system? Frogman,C'est rien. Je suis un "frogman" aussi! Ern | |
| Speaker cables and their frequency responses Electrical properties and their relationship to treble rolloff are fairly obvious, and well-elucidated again, Sean (thanks); indeed Monster sounds bass-heavy only because one increases the gain to average out the rolled highs...hence a "big bottom... | |
| Speaker Cables? HT only? Nordost's cheapest Flatline will be better than what you're using by a long shot, AND allow you to bury it under the rug. You really shouldn't spend any more on cables unless you upgrade the source or speakers first, IMHO. | |
| Speaker Placement - Vaulted Ceilings Fascinating.I'm of two minds re your setup. I too must listen in the nearfield (7' piano in the front), and thoroughly enjoy the huge stage it provides when there's 8 feet behind the speakers. OTOH I tried 803N in this setup, and experienced sever... | |
| Tell me if i got it wrong.. Asa, your well-crafted post is engaging but wildly built onexagerrated, shaky "factoids". To relegate ss and tube camps to assigned cognition strata is patently absurd.I first took your error in postulating "over-accuracy" with a grain of salt, be... | |
| Speaker length vs. I/C length Oy. I hung my monos (no jokes, guys) under my floor's joists directly under my speakers, mostly to escape heat and WAF objections, thus necessitating 3m and 6m ICs, and allowing 8ft speaker cables. The ICs are UNshielded Red Dawn, but are indeed b... | |
| B&W 803N vs REVEL F30. Which is a better choice?? I've listened pretty carefully to 803N and 804N, as well F30 in my room. The 804N's anemic bass and therefore lightweight balance was unacceptable. The 803N sounded GREAT from ajoining rooms (indicating fine power response balance?), but would NOT... | |
| Tell me if i got it wrong.. C'mon, Fatparrot! I grew up playing a Hammond B (a pre-synth?) for 10 years.My mostly baroque experience may not have met your "soulful" requirements, but I hope Jimmy Smith, et al, don't read your post! | |
| Absolute Power Cords Whose heard them What perchance are said cords, Rcrump?Thanks. | |
| Tell me if i got it wrong.. Hmmm...I thought most folks preferred the tubelike naturalness of the fully Class A Alephs over the more-efficient A-B X Series... well, at least I do.What's an Aleph 6?...and 11% efficiency? Hardly. My Aleph 2 idle at 300watts, yet pump 100/8 and... |