twoleftears
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| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? Auditory memory is not long. Still, best to play one cable/component for a while, to get thoroughly attuned to it, and then swop in B. Be SURE that the last track you played with A is the first track you play with B. Best chance of putting your ... | |
| most realistic sound from a stand mount Loudspeaker active or passive It's like watching an advert for a new HDTV on a regular-definition TV.No one can ever judge sound quality from youtube videos because of the playback chain. | |
| Bi-Wire Cable Question - Can They Be Used As Standard Speaker Cables Without A Problem? Effectively, this is no different to shotgunning speaker cable. | |
| Anyone heard Schiit's Aegir? So Schiit seem to want to have it both ways. When giving the dry specs, they only quote monoblock operation at 80W into 8 ohms. Then later on, in the text of the description, they say it will give 100W into 4 ohms. If that is solid and reliable... | |
| $1300-1500 DAC MHDT Orchid. Under budget! | |
| Can quality sound be had using the short axis in a medium sized room (12X15) ?? Exactly! Long wall arrangement allows the speakers to breathe away from front and side walls, so long as you treat acoustically the wall behind you. That's what I do and it works well. | |
| I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage Fritz Carbon 7 new version. | |
| Best Integrated, period. Didn't Absolare come out with an integrated? | |
| Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics The corporate identity and the target sound at B&W has changed significantly over the years. For a very long time I used DM1800 speakers (with metal domes) that sounded wonderful. Nowadays I find B&W, especially their more costly offerin... | |
| Open Baffle vs Box Spatial's latest and greatest are the X5 and X3 (larger). X3 has a powered woofer with extension claimed to 25Hz.I heard one of the M series (I think) at CAF and, personally, didn't like the presentation, but it might have been the small and prett... | |
| upgrade from Devore Nines Clearly, the Gibbon line and the Orangutan line exist for a reason (or two reasons). Also, the O/96 is supposed to sound a good deal better than the O/93, so the question is: which models in which lines should be compared head-to-head. | |
| Cconfused... Accurate is as precise and unchanged as possible playback of what the mikes picked up and got recorded. Realistic is feeling like you might have been there, live. Unfortunately, the two often don't coincide, for reasons already discussed above. | |
| I gre out of Be Tweeters Salk uses a SB Acoustics Satori.Only on one of the steeliest examples of recordings of massed violins did I hear some glare/shrillness.Fritz uses Transducer Labs.That sounded the best to me of the ones I've heard. | |
| Problem with Marantz SR7012? a refurbished SR7012 from A4L There's your answer. | |
| What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions? Kenjit |