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| Quick Question About Power Cables Here we go again. For what it is worth, imo power chords don't do much, if anything. | |
| 4 8 or 16 ohms. I owned a Dyna 70 and still own a pair of Dyna MK IIIs. They had posts for 4, 8, and 16. I was always told it did not matter, but matching them to the speaker impedance almost always sounded best. My Futtermans have only one post. The engineer sa... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops High end stereo shops are dinosaurs because: — Rents are high — Brick and mortar shops have other high end expenses, pardon the pun — young people don't care about audio nor music anymore, they want convenience and wallpaper Why single out high... | |
| Why are speaker stands so expensive?! Speaker stands are furniture that must perform acoustically. You can scrimp on them, and you will get what you pay for. | |
| Shindo vs the world I auditioned Shindo amps at a shop in NoHo in NYC. They are the only amps that I felt competed with my Futterman OTL3s. That said, let’s talk about the so-called Altec Shindos. I was walking home from work one day some 10 or 15 (?, Steve Gutten... | |
| Do my ears deceive me?? My speakers are 68 years old. I recone them every ten years. My ears never deceive me, but the brain that they are connected to often does. | |
| Turntable is the most expensive in the chain, do it make sense @tablejockey ”…I’m aware the VPI philosophy is far from true ‘high performance’…” I am not sure why you would say that. I went from a Garard to a Dual 1229 to a VPI HW MK II, upgraded to MK IV. I’ve had the VPI for 38 years. Built like a br... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Imho, never consider buying a table without also considering the arm and cartridge to go with it as a system. fwiiw, I’ve got a VPI HW MK IV, Sumiko MMT, and a Koetsu Onyx. I bought the store model of the table and arm, the cartridge second han... | |
| Free air resonance @curiousjim — I am not aware that I have any control over the Velodyne crossover setting. It comes at 85HZ. I don't know where you get over 100. The Velodyne frequency response is 18-85hz. The resonant frequency is <4hz — Yes they are great! ... | |
| Free air resonance Good morning @mijostyn - plywood - the “port” is just a rectangular hole about 2.5” or 3” x 12” cut into the baffle in front, below the driver. A wooden block is affixed inside the cabinet that I slide up and down to open or close the port, or ... | |
| Free air resonance @mijostyn "....In order for me to get a handle on your enclosures I need the interior dimensions and the material they are made of such as 3/4" plywood or 1" MDF." I am certain that they are plywood but I can tell you tomorrow. Altec specs f... | |
| Free air resonance @mijostyn - there will be three Moroccan rugs. 🙂 - I use Doug Sax’s Mastering Lab crossovers. http://www.rintelen.ch/download/604xover_SP.pdf I had Jon Specter replace all the caps with Jensen audio grade caps - as for the current enclosures, ... | |
| Free air resonance @mijostyn @erik_squires Thank you both, bunches. I’m learning a lot already. Eric, the room is semi-anechoic, not anechoic. The floor would have to be treated as well, which it most certainly is not. In my last home, I did the room this way... | |
| Free air resonance @erik_squires thank you Eric. I am working on finishing the room. All the walls are 5” rock wool. The gable ceiling is 12” rock wool. All covered with fire resistant burlap instead of sheet rock. The floor is hard wood. Essentially, a semi-... | |
| Free air resonance Thank you @mijostyn @mahgister This is not about a subwoofer. The reason I ask is that I have a pair of Altec Lansing 604Cs and I now, as of last night, was able to get a 604D to match the 604D that I already have. I am currently using t... |