timlub
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| How to shop for speakers? Methodology????? A great thread on its own... My first impressions are based on tonal balance, is the bass tight, fast, full, boomy??? Is the mid range through the top end articulate, detailed and smooth? I've built alot of speakers in my time, I'... | |
| Best Integrated or Power Amp Under $1K? Depends on budget and your taste, but at an easy budget, the Musical Fidelity A3CR is very nice and a steal. Usually around $600.00 these days. If your taste are more toward big power and forward sounding, The Dussun V6i.If the funds Permit, The C... | |
| How to shop for speakers? I would only throw into the mix, clearly understand your own listening room before listening to any speakers. I know my room, I know how I have to lay out my tunes for best results. I know that very small, very low sensitivity speakers won't do we... | |
| Speaker cabinets: How important is inert I'm with you on that brother | |
| Speaker cabinets: How important is inert "One can model a number of different box volumes and see a significant change in performance under 100 Hz but virtually no impact on the performance above"Hi Mlsstl, I was only addressing cone speakers. VAS affects all cone speakers in a box regar... | |
| Speaker cabinets: How important is inert "but by itself, a cabinet that is simply dense doesn't address the issue"Actually it does address the issue. Not 100% But generally. A speaker has a specification called vas, this is the Equivelant air volume or the volume of air that has the same... | |
| Speaker cabinets: How important is inert With Traditional drivers, The lower the resonance of the cabinet materials used, the less you hear the cabinets in your music. Typically this is achieved by useing very dense materials. Bracings purpose is to reduce cabinet resonance. If you can c... | |
| Vandersteen 3A sigs, whats wrong here. Alot of great answers above, if one of these do not answer your question, its possible a speaker problem. To put this all together, Start easy, check your speaker wires at the amp and the speakers, + to +, - to -. Next, temporarily move your speak... | |
| Goetz speakers......ever heard of them? I had an entry level pair years ago,(1983) nice cabinets, 8 inch 3 way. They had a Seas woofer and mid and an Audax Poly Carbonate Dome. I don't recall his first name, but also sat in front of Some Goetz top end at that time that he brought to St.... | |
| Conrad Johnson, Krell, Creek integrated amp?? Jim, My first recommendation was for a Dussun, because of the sheer value, Unsound is absolutely right about the McCormick, but I clearly understand what you are saying about the integrated, I have fought with it myself. If your budget allows, I h... | |
| Conrad Johnson, Krell, Creek integrated amp?? Hi Jim, Dollar for dollar a strong contender would be the Dussun amps out of China. The T6 ($700.)would be a fair comparison @ 100/150 watts 8/4 ohm. The V6i ($1100.00)@ 150/300 8/4 & the V8i ($1500.)@ 250/5008/4. I haven't seen anything compe... | |
| Preamp to mate with Pass 30.5 Now that I see your speakers. I would also get a few more suggestions on tubes. Good Luck, Tim | |
| Preamp to mate with Pass 30.5 CODA/SANDERS SOUND (both Coda) will certainly have the same flavor or synergy of Pass. Do you prefer ss or tubes? | |
| Sealed vs Ported Subwoofers Duke, Nice accurate explanation. Still unless you have the ability to build your own subwoofer that you can factor your own in room response.... Normally if you built a Sealed sub with a finished Q of .5, most people would say that it had no low e... | |
| Sealed vs Ported Subwoofers Bob, You are correct, sealed woofers do roll off @ 12db per octave. My fingers are faster than my head. Everything else is accurate. I have built several woofers in my time. The best we did back in my old SpeakerCraft/Marcof days was a woofer faci... |