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| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers The great expense may be worth it for marketing purposes alone. I’ve never heard the speaker, maybe the diamond midrange is something special, but the B&W diamond tweeters don’t sound any better than the beryllium domes or RAAL or Aurum Cantu... | |
| Hidden Treasure The album Tantilla by House of Freaks. Bare-bones rock duo with some incredibly vivid lyrics and some inspired musical composition and energetic performance. Tragically the guitarist and lead singer Bryan Harvey was brutally murdered along with ... | |
| power There are pro audio amps that get into the extreme output range. The Lab.Gruppen FP14000 will do 7,000 watts x 2 channels into a 2ohm load. The Powersoft K20 will do 9,000 Watts x 2 channels into a 2ohm load. | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls @erik_squires You could try RoomEQ Wizard, it’s free software and there’s a Linux version. It’s not automatic like Dirac, but it will let you do a lot of tweaking. | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers @erik_squires Yes, I believe the coating is Aluminum Oxide, which is a ceramic material. I'm not sure how they apply it, or what the difference is with the new Revel drivers. The benefits of paper drivers and soft dome tweeters are that their br... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @daveyf Part of the massive depreciation of luxury vehicles is the 'image' issue, driving the latest and greatest is a status symbol, and part of it that many of those brands lean heavily towards leases vs purchases (not sure about Bentley or Roll... | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers Are the Accuton ceramic midrange drivers pure ceramic or are they sandwich type?I found this paper regarding Harman's CMMD drivers that were used in the Infinity line for quite a while: https://www.excelia-hifi.cz/infinity/data/ceramic-metal-matr... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls @erik_squires There's the MiniDSP DDRC series that does that. They have a version with digital inputs/outputs (which I use since I don't have any analog components and don't plan to purchase any) and one with analog inputs/outputs (balanced XLR).... | |
| Rental of 4K movies... Gamechanger I’ve been using 3D-Blu-ray-Rental for a while (despite the name they have a wide selection of UHD discs as well). Their pricing looks better compared to the service you mentioned (the $8.99 tier includes 2 rentals whereas they’re an additional $1... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls @steakster The biggest things HEA is ignoring right now are subwoofers, real bass management (I.e. a true active crossover built into the preamp or integrated amp to high pass the mains, low pass the sub, and correct for distance and phase) and ro... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls I’m not a fan of the broad ‘bass’ and ‘treble’ knobs because they’re too imprecise, like trying to perform eye surgery with a sawzall. On the other hand, I’m a big proponent of digital room and speaker correction. I use a Dirac-enabled MiniDSP D... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( There are a few factors at play I believe:1. Many younger people are still saddled with student loan debt and while unemployment is nearing record low numbers, wages haven’t risen as they should have so money is tight. Boomers who got caught out... | |
| Speakers Bought Brand New For The Cost Of A Good Night Out, That "Kick Ass". Guitar Center often has some nice deals on traded-in studio monitors if you go to the local store (they don't seem to always show up on the online search). | |
| Spotify for classical music lovers I'm a Tidal subscriber, not Spotify (yet) and while Tidal has a nice selection of classical music, their search function is nearly worthless for it. Classical has very different metadata requirements than pop, rock, etc, that search functions des... | |
| Stand mount loudspeakers @soix Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Pearls sounded bad, they were perfectly pleasant speakers, they just didn't reach out and grab me and make me say 'wow'. Under $10,000 the Revel F228be is my hands down favorite, and I'd rank them solid... |