toddalin
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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... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "All I can do is report what I’ve observed to the best of my ability." Then I would say make a YouTube video both ways so one can instantaneously evaluate the difference in real time. Then you can actually demonstrate this phenomenon for all t... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Again, get them to the same spot/height/tilt/incline/distance/etc. with and without the pavers to see if that's really what's doing it. I'm thinking that few here actually believe that the material differences of the ceramic clay as opposed to... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "I endured sibilance for a long time. I'm far more familiar with it than I'd prefer to be. It hasn't returned since I removed the pavers. Why would I want to bring the pavers back?" Too see if that was really the cause or was it some nebulous thi... | |
| 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 "... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Anything helps on glass but a heavier weave seems like it would be better. Black matters not for sound but for video reflection from the projector screen. This is our everyday "TV" set. | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "Well, I’ve tried covering the coffee table’s glass top, slate hearth and glass-fronted fireplace insert with blankets and foam and heard no difference. I hate tipped up or otherwise fatiguing sound so if doing these things made a perceptible diff... | |
| 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 ... |