twoleftears
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| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers Are you talking about listener fatigue (can't/don't want to listen for very long) or actual physical pain? | |
| Bryston BCD-3 Display Not on mine. You'll get more responses over on Audio Circle. Find the Bryston forum. | |
| Salk Audio Sound And all this with a beryllium tweeter! (From SB Acoustics.) | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Having played through a few recordings that were pleasant but unexceptional, here's another one more than worth mentioning: Ignazio Albertini's Sonatas, performed by Helene Schmitt et al. Albertini is right up there with Schmelzer, Uccelini, Pand... | |
| Salk Audio Sound The Encores use a larger diameter of the same Satori woofer, and a different midrange; they plumb the depths further, but I preferred the Audio Technology mid-range on the BeATs. Interesting that in the SS 9.5 he uses the tweeter and midrange fro... | |
| Speaker Height / Tilt So there’s a "right side up" for raw tweeter drivers? If the mounting housing was round or square and symmetrical, you could actually position it 4 different ways and create different frequency responses?? Same true of mid-ranges? | |
| Speaker Height / Tilt Measurable output decreases off-axis. Just look at any of the Atkinson measurements of speakers in Stereophile. Because of numerous variables, each model will differ in how a tweeter output decreases.Also, some speakers are actually designed to ... | |
| adante Cage match! White elephant vs. elephant in the room. | |
| ARC Ref 5se better than ML #28? "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."More or less...if you are emotionally attached to the ML and are kind of reluctant to make the change, you probably won't, and even if you do, you may be subconsciously biased against th... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? There's a strong, though not absolute, correlation between being overrated and the size of the publicity budget the company is devoting to promoting its speakers (e.g. B&W, Focal, etc. etc.).And the corollary is true also: Fritz, Salk, Daedalu... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? Mmmmmmm… g-r-a-v-y. It sounds delicious... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? The only reason small woofers proliferate these days is that designers can orient them front-facing and still make the cabinets slim, and hence decorator- and spouse-friendly. I've heard multiple small woofers in speakers vs. a 12", and preferred ... | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp Isn't there a difference between phase and polarity? What do these switches on preamps do vs. swapping the leads on one end of the speaker cables? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados After being blown away by the first disc I heard by ACRONYM, of Bertali's sonatas, I immediately ordered some more of their recordings, and the first in, of Valentini (entitled Oddities and Trifles) in no way disappoints. This is lively, exuberan... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? Huge mono speakers used to be mounted in walls. When people started making sealed boxes, any half-competent carpenter could whip up an enclosure. Many speaker companies originated in garages. Wood, mdf, etc., remains easily to work with, so lon... |