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| Tweeter placement The whole "tweeter at ear level" thing is overblown. Just sit at a height where it A: Sounds good to you and, B: Presents a deep and largely horizontal soundstage. This is speaker dependent. I sit with my ears a good 12-20 inches above the tweeter... | |
| Mirage M7si bass bump how to deal with it?/ Hmmm. I'd just pass on them if you've tried everything. Sounds like the bass is a deal breaker. That graph was showing an 8db hump between 40 and 100 which is ridiculous in my opinion and suggests some bizarre design decisions. There are better sp... | |
| Mirage M7si bass bump how to deal with it?/ Good advice above. Decouple them from the floor for starters, then play around with distance from the rear wall. You'll be amazed at the difference this makes. Start from three or more feet out (woofer to wall) which should tame the lower bass, th... | |
| Hegel Amplifier The voltage may form some manner of dialectic if you plug it in and let rip, although I would personally use a step up transformer. | |
| Hegel Amplifier I love that there's such a thing as Hegel amplifiers. | |
| Why do my ears ring with my new amplifier? My guess is you're turning it up subconsciously because it lacks bass, and the ringing is due to odd-order harmonic distortion. Once the amp has broken in properly it might get a bit better, but 100 hours is usually enough to know if it's going to... | |
| Why do my ears ring with my new amplifier? Tape some tissue paper over your tweeters just to make sure it's not excessive energy in the 2-10 khz region. | |
| What is Musicality? Schubert, agreed, the mid bass is crucial for classical music. I mainly listen to alternative rock/ska/punk but love your namesake's first and second piano trios, as well as Mahler and St Saens' cello concertos. With live classical the cellos both... | |
| What is Musicality? It doesn't matter how technically proficient a musician is, if their soul isn't intertwined with what they're doing there is no musicality, which is also why recording music is such a challenge in the first place, i.e. getting musicians to repro... | |
| Has anyone in Mi.acheived holographic imaging? I was obsessed with holography for years and found the following things helped: Bugle Boy 12au7s in the linestage of my preamp, a single-ended power amp, decent noise-cancelling cables in a kimber-style weave configuration and, most crucially, spe... | |
| Does NOS Highend MC carts 'expire'... Rubber starts to deteriorate after five years or so but my experience has been that this doesn't matter much when it comes to the miniscule amounts used on cantilevers. I had a stanton from the eighties that sounded great, although maybe it sounde... | |
| Does NOS Highend MC carts 'expire'... Rubber starts to deteriorate after five years or so but my experience has been that this doesn't matter much when it comes to the miniscule amounts used on cantilevers. I had a stanton from the eighties that sounded great, although maybe it sounde... | |
| Do I really need a preamp? In terms of gain you don't need one. And having no preamp will make your stereo sound more lively but only a touch. What a tube preamp does really well amongst other things is allow you to voice your system. If your speakers have a benign impedanc... | |
| Do I really need a preamp? In terms of gain you don't need one. And having no preamp will make your stereo sound more lively but only a touch. What a tube preamp does really well amongst other things is allow you to voice your system. If your speakers have a benign impedanc... | |
| Inexpensive tube amp The APPJ PA0901A is surprisingly good for the money. You'll need efficient speakers, over 90db at least, and you'll have to retube it with nos before it sounds any good. So you're looking at around $400 all up. I can recommend using a GE triple mi... |