toddalin
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| Open baffle speakers coltrane1 According to the video they are Lii Audio PT-10/W-15. I know they are certainly far from cheap, but they just don’t do it for me. Maybe it’s the track. IIRC, I have that one on CD and will have to listen on my system. | |
| Open baffle speakers Does it get better than this, because it really doesn’t do it for me? I’ve heard similar live and..., meh. The peak in the vocals here would drive me crazy. https://youtu.be/eB6ZJvLICVo | |
| Open baffle speakers I don’t believe that Dalquist DQ10s really qualify as open backs. The woofer is in a separate sealed container (closed back). The lower midrange has a thick piece of padding that covers the back of the cone to remove any rear radiation/reflectio... | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? Another way to look at this, does “reality” have too much detail? Barring the use of excess hallucinogenic drugs, the answer is “no”. But in music, what is reality? Just one example that we’ve probably all heard. When I listen to my system, I o... | |
| 15 amp circuit VS. 20 amp Circuit I rewired my home entertainment system when I saw a good deal on a 125’ spool of 8 gauge wire. There are NO splices along the line and it terminates in a 30 amp plug that feeds the industrial surge protector for equipment in the entertainment cent... | |
| Open baffle speakers When Dizzy is blowing his horn, certainly some sound goes to the rear and bounces around. But with open back, were talking essentially as much sound going "backward" as is going forward, and it’s out of phase. Maybe this is proper for a Leslie, a... | |
| Open baffle speakers They’ve never really done it for me, but I’ve heard few. Also, I am of the opinion that when sound is coming from the rear and bouncing willy-nilly about the room, it may give a sense of depth to the soundstage but can’t really be good for imagin... | |
| Happy listening in SoCal To reduce the background noise, I tend to turn off the a/c and fans when listening to music unless it becomes too uncomfortable. The a/c units consume far more than the stereo. We also have solar, but SCE still finds ways to screw us. | |
| When I listen to my system....... Claiming a recording IS real music is analogous to saying a photograph of my dog IS my dog (without the fur :-). Really not the same thing at all. No not at all. It comes down to your definition of music and I choose to agree with Wikipedia’s. I ... | |
| When I listen to my system....... Agreed "music" does not have to be live to be music. But even a live performance performed though any sort of public address system is subject to many of the same "flaws" as a recorded track. What of the music that is performed simultaneously wi... | |
| Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied? Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied? Maybe not. But even if you do get things sorted out, maybe not. Some people are just of the mentality that it could sound just that much better if I could just... But the reality is that no matter how good... | |
| When I listen to my system....... As I listen to SRV, just as an example, there are three musicians working together to create a "performance". How is it that anyone can put tone, sound staging, or anything else with the "sound" before the performance. Because the engineer worked... | |
| 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... |