tcutter
Responses from tcutter
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" Room treatment is my second most expensive component. | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Just lovely. Tube sound was always offset by fear of reliability (had a bad experience when I was younger), but 300Bs in a preamp are pretty unstressed. It's a dual mono class A design as are the amps. In typical Pass fashion, they have a sound th... | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Little physics, little aesthetics, lot of luck. Anal retentiveness probably helps. | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Thanks. It's taken me a long time and is still a work in progress. Cannot stop tweaking. One of the more interesting phenomena I've noted is that while I have been able to achieve an even flatter frequency response, the room modes were far worse. ... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers And my wife not only is happy with my having this hobby, she also encouraged me to buy the 911. | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers +1 Vivid Audio Giya. Just spent three hours listening to the G2 S2 and I am buying them. | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. I've been experimenting with speaker position including toe in. I was listening to a David Crosby cut off "if I could only remember my name", and heard wonderful instrument placement, artificial or otherwise. I went back to what had been my origi... | |
| Audio racks that can handle heavy components Solidsteel. Since 1995 and again in 2024. | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing @carlsbad2 The Environmental Potentials EP-2500-EE whole house surge protector has a reputation of being "audiophile grade" and supposedly does provide some beneficial processing. | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I also vote for a 2.5 way. I disagree with the statement the midrange needs to go to 80Hz since the common definition of midrange frequencies varies from the low end at 250Hz to 500 Hz and then anywhere from 1.2kHz to 4000 Hz or more at the high... | |
| What were your favorite gear additions in 2024? Playback Designs MPD-8 with USB-X4. | |
| Do Audio Hobbyists Commonly Fail to Fully Utilize Their Systems? I assembled my most recent system, a tube preamp with SS amp, incorporating all-analog dual-mono Class A amplification, with an eye (ear) toward reproducing the midrange but not at the expense of the rest of the spectrum. When I felt I had the com... | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume @lalitk I was not comparing digital to vinyl at a given volume. I was noting that my favored volume for analog was at a higher volume than digital. During the course of this thread I went back and attempted to level-match volumes but found I di... | |
| Room is way too bright. Dipoles. Or do what I did but your room is going to be very very dark. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” The Vinnie Rossi Brama mentioned above is way above your budget. His previous series included an integrated amplifier, L2i- SE, which established the design with a 300B tube preamp section and a Mosfet solid-state amplifier section. Depending on ... |