toddalin
Responses from toddalin
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? I use no eq or room correction. Great tracks sound great, good tracks sound good, and lousy tracks sound lousy. But you know why they sound lousy. | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? I certainly do get height from my system, but then my front wall is ~16 feet high and the back wall is ~7-1/2 feet high, so there could be some reflection adding to it. If you want to hear height, the best thing I find is to listen to "sharp" per... | |
| How can I establish a reference level? The EPDR does drop to 2.4 ohms between 885 and 950 Hz and 2.5 ohms between 70 and 80 Hz, so... https://www.stereophile.com/content/jbl-4367-studio-monitor-loudspeaker-measurements | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Will anybody be exhibiting the BAACH at The Show in Costa Mesa? https://www.theshownow.com | |
| How you know your system is improving? Things can sound "changed" without sounding either better or worse and sometimes it just comes down to preference. And preference can change. The caveat is that sometimes you just prefer something a bit different because it’s different. Regardles... | |
| Moody Blues founder Mike Pinder passed away today at 82 A tribute to another gone great. https://youtu.be/IXXx8twaDv0 | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Yes, I get it at low cost also. The "Mermans" cost me about $1,500 to build with used JBL speakers and Great Heils, and new crossover components. The Yamaha RX-Z9 cost me $4,050 new in 1993 and now has >30,000 hours on it. The Oppo95 was $300 ... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... I get this without the Baach-spacial. Ever listen to Amused to Death? The guy is talking at the far end of the room over my left shoulder. In this sequence HAL is behind/overhead. | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Actually, the studio version of the L100 was made to try to replicate the sound of the Altec 604 of the day. | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... I prefer the "without" wavetouch. Sounds like you’ve removed the body and dynamics. Similarly, in the thread when the option of the cuts includes the original, the MBLs, and the wavetouch, I preferred the original. The MBLs sounded too thin (m... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... "Every recording has a correct volume, a volume at which it sounds best. This is because our ear's frequency response changes with volume." The "volume control" is to be used like the "focus" knob on a microscope or telescope. | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? The Rhodes on this track is perceived as wider than the 26 foot width of my room, wrapping back into the room, even though the speakers are ~7.5 feet center-to-center. Stuff doesn't get much wider than this. A great test track for your system. ... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Can’t create what is not there, but what if it’s there and your system can’t re-create it? You wouldn't know that it's there when it is. | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Yes! The chosen position of the instrument/vocal is supposed to be exactly where the engineer placed it in the soundstage and you should be able to discern this location/position. It makes no difference whether it is real or contrived, so long as ... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... "As @patrickdowns touched upon briefly with instrument placement I don’t see why so many here look for which instrument is where in a song. Are there more genres than classical orchestras that play music in such a way? Does most everyone here list... |