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| Outlets and Wire Gauge? - Please help! @jimf421 You don't need an isolated ground to prevent hum. What may prevent hum is ensuring all your equipment is wired to a ground that is at the same potential. Multiple separate outlets where the ground reference is 30 feet back at the electr... | |
| What are some good things to do when going to an audition Be honest about what you are really getting out of an "audition" at a dealer and what you are really listening to. 90% of the time you are probably not getting what you want, maybe even 99% of the time. Best advice I read here? Get a home audit... | |
| Sound meter + equalizer = problem solved? There are two frequency responses: - Direct to the listener - Room response Which one are you going to fix with EQ? ... and therein is your quandary. | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? @kenjit, The OP is not talking about room response. He just wants to know if flat is right or wrong. I have answered that. You provided an answer that is both correct recognizing differences in rooms, speakers, people, while ignoring or not... | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? @cmcaelestis Sigh ...... This is wrong. Ideally you are trying to match to what was done at the time of mixing and mastering. It is almost guaranteed that was done near field, one of the reasons why a flat direct sound is important, more so ... | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? @kenjit , If you want to change your response, you need an EQ. You can then have whatever curve you like. No you can't. An EQ will change both the direct sound and the room response. Fix one and you can break the other. EQ is not a substit... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Since you feel you are such an expert @kota1, why don't you go graph by graph through the audioXpress review of the Mundorf AMT transducer telling us what is good and what is bad about it, and what implications that may have in a completed speake... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused No offence, @mheinze, but we would take a different view of what constitutes physical compromises, and don't expect either Magico or Mundorf understand in any detail why the construction is flawed. There are several aspects of Magico drivers I res... | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? Flat means that the system reproduces what the musician recorded exactly. Flat on axis does usually, flat room response usually does not. | |
| Oxidation on surface of cable under clear jacket Seen it worse than this .... That looks like it would provide limited protection from ingress of external air, but even if it did, there is a lot of air trapped inside to interact with the copper. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @mheinze, lets start with the only thing definitive better about a wrapped foil inductor. It is more mechanically stable. Does it make any difference in the real world? No, because the inductance modulation is orders of magnitude below even the be... | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? For any normal acoustic performance, the direct sound you are hearing is a flat response. The non direct sound will not be. It is the same with audio. The direct sound from the speaker to you, the listener should be flat. The total response inclu... | |
| Oxidation on surface of cable under clear jacket I have 30+ year old cheap 10 and 12 awg speaker cables lying around, clear insulation, not a hint of oxidation, and I had some cheap 18 awg that was maybe 10 years old that looked like it was outside from day 1. My understanding is the material a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused For the record @kota1, while I have generally respected Magico, I lost some respect for them looking at their crossovers: Foil wounds inductors on an iron core? That is just about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Foil inductors are already s... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @donavabdear , I better hear about you sending those JL subs in for service or I am going to drop a bollock! :-) .... which I honestly have no idea what that means in totality, but I always liked the sound of it and it doesn't get censored so it c... |