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| Your experience of moving to two subs I've got two subs run off miniDSP. I think some kind of DSP is almost essential with subs. I am also running the subs left and right channels. At that point, the subs completely disappear. What I really hate is being able to locate the subs in sp... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities I just think you need to like it. There's so much confirmation bias, escalation of commitment, and subjectivity that it's scarcely possible to say what's really going on here. The continual upgrading turned me off eventually. The system should... | |
| Should I upgrade my speaker cables? No, you should not upgrade them. | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time Country music, at this point, is more of a political statement than an art form. I don't really see the 'country' in it anymore. I don't think there is much left of rural American life. All those 'small town' they sing about are pretty hollowed o... | |
| Really Inexpensive Systems That Sounded Great? I don't like really expensive wine. I feel like a lot of the time it tastes like wine with a bunch of gravel in it. I really don't like expensive coffee. It's too bitter. I've listened to some five and low six figure sound systems and while the... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? Maybe 'wear out' is the wrong word. I don't think speakers are like jeans. Jeans wear out from use. I think the fatigue life of most of the parts of a speaker are going to be vanishingly high. You could probably play most speakers 24/7 at modera... | |
| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... We used to be small time commercial bee keepers. I realized at some point that if i wanted to make any money the honey had to cost a lot. So, we did very nice packaging and branding (i used to be in marketing) and sold it at the most expensive... | |
| After the thrill is gone I solved this by not reading forums and dropping out of my audiophile club. I don't read blogs or reviews either. I glance at the weekly audiogon summary and will sometimes look at a conversation if the title is interesting. Seriously, the pre... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? @roxy54 OK, nobody wants your old full size floorstanders with wide baffles. What's popular now is floorstanders with a tall narrow form factor. These are essentially stand mounts with their own stand built in. | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? I think the principals of design have been well known for a long time. I think if you are asking the speakers to do some very difficult task maybe new speakers might be able to do it better but for normal listening volumes and materials any good s... | |
| Elevating subwoofer about two feet off the floor I know this thread is old but I just raised my subs about 2 feet off the floor. I use small Pinacle subs that are dipolar. My idea was to get the subs out of the mess that is floor level. Right away there was improvement. At first I thought the... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! The actual problem here is: At my price point where is it most difficult to find good value for money? How will it work in my home? I don't think there is any way of saying "allocate x% to source, speakers, amplification, preamp" These things ar... |