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| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids The new SVS Ultra Evolution speakers are VERY laid back. When I heard them, they were way too dead for my taste, but maybe to others... https://www.stereophile.com/index.html | |
| Recommend a desktop nearfield speaker for me I have a pair of Chartwell LS3/5As that were my neighbors. He used them just as you describe, on his desk at ~2 feet as computer monitors powered by a (IIRC) mid-line Pioneer receiver. When he passed away, his kids cleaned out the house and gave ... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! Even some people that should know better, are often taken in by great looking enclosures and marketing. Just look at all the great press those crappy new SVS speakers are getting. I heard them at the Home Entertainment Show and they really sound... | |
| Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up? My system improves for the first 20-30 minutes. Congestion is diminished and soundstage and imaging improve, | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? "But since human hearing is not flat, a flat response could yield all kinds of lows and highs a particular listener does not want." So if you roll off the highs and your ear is rolling them off further, you take too much away. Natural sound is no... | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? If you think about it, a flat frequency response SHOULD provide the most detail because if you have a dip in the response you loose detail through that area, and if you have a peak, you mask detail in other areas. If you have a flat response to "... | |
| Latest Heil Creation Top insert to reduce turbulance around the top step. Double-sided tape will secure these. | |
| Loud buzz with Marantz receiver preout to amp I am suggesting that perhaps your "RCA cable" does not have long enough positive pins to properly engage the signal through the jack. Are the pins on your cable as long as shown on that jumper? | |
| Loud buzz with Marantz receiver preout to amp OK, it is my recollection that Marantz jumper plugs have an extra long pin to engage the internal connection or such. I had actually considered this, but it seems like you would end up with no sound, rather than a loud hum..., but who knows? Th... | |
| Loud buzz with Marantz receiver preout to amp Sounds like you have no ground connection between the preamp and amp and maybe should be using using that/those ground terminals. Also, some interconnect cables are only grounded on one end, not both, and maybe this is the case here. If you have ... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? If electronics slew rate is a limiting factor, obviously the more sensitive speaker is at an advantage because the equipment doesn't have to slew as many volts to reach the same volume level. Assuming the same electronics (amp), the slew rate is ... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Unless you were to match the 590s and 4367s to the same volume, your test is invalid. I doubt that both speakers have the same sensitivity, so one will be at an obvious disadvantage unless you have the means to match their volumes. | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Life is a compromise. Don’t make the mistake of giving up one desireable parameter for another. For example, while electrostatic panels may provide the the desired transient response, you could easily give up soundstage and imaging because sound ... | |
| Don't do anything! Daily changes in barometric pressure? This affects the speed of sound and therefore the peaks and troughs relative to where you sit. | |
| Looking for a component for ripping and playing CD's. Yes, from my understanding, the OPPO105 does rip. I have the BDP-95 and it doesn't rip. My understanding was this was the primary differentiation for the newer model. Later they added the Darby video enhancement to the 103/105. Of course this ... |