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| Best speakers for a small room? 10'X14' Check out the Epos M12 monitor. What HiFi, a British audio magazine that rates equipment against other equipment in its price range, gave it top honors amongst strong competition (Dynaudio, etc), including floorstanders.It's been updated somewhat ... | |
| Speaker Mods? I wouldn't change the driver. The speakers are voiced with these tweeters for overall balance and realistic timbre, which you might distroy.Careful selection of mods should not decrease the resale value of the speakers. I've gotten more for ones I... | |
| Tone Controls I too feel tone controls have been given a bad rap. Sure, they might degrade transparency somewhat, but if the overall effect is net positive for your listening needs, room conditions, etc...well, a net positive is a net positive! Tone controls us... | |
| Harmonic Tech Vs Acoustic Zen Rjcaero1,I spent quite a bit of time on the phone today with Acoustic Zen. While both use continuous crystal copper, Robert Lee's designs at AZ are new, and quite different from those he used at HT, and are yielding better results. He is rather se... | |
| SOLDER Help Just a note...lead content solders tend to look very shiney and silvery and smooth when done well. Lead free solders are usually duller (grayer, by your definition?) and don't look as liquid smooth, even when properly done. They have a very high t... | |
| Room Acoustics Agree that an active EQ trim at the problematic frequency can be an effective fix, if you've covered the other fundamentals (speaker placement, securing vibrating room elements, etc.. Rooms all have their own resonance, and few approach near neutr... | |
| Great sound from CD Changer? I understand your desire for a changer...I have both a specially modified transport for critical listening, and a 5 disc changer on my rack, both hooked up to an MSB Gold Link DAC. The two used as transports have distinctly different sounds. I wou... | |
| D.H.LABS CABLE New Soundstage! review on the Q-10 & Air Matrix available at:http://soundstage.com/revequip/dhlabs_airmatrix_q10.htm | |
| D.H.LABS CABLE Johnny, the Q-10 is a terrific cable, especially considering the price. The characteristics of the sound can be bright at first, which some people complain of, but it goes through quite a change when well burned in...they'll suddenly open up big t... | |
| Dielectric? I read Jadem's post (though haven't gotten to the others). He describes why systems that supposedly burn your cables in before hand are of little use; particularly in mail order, where after going through the burn-in machine are then coiled up, sh... | |
| CD Recommendations I've got some of their recordings, but you really have to hear and see this band live. One of the best performing bands I've ever seen. | |
| Speaker Cable Terminations Hi Ernio,I work terminations mainly with heavily silver plated wire (see feedback under Valueaudio for some comments about our workmanship. If I go with unterminated cable, I feel much more comfortable going with a heavy silver plating or an all s... | |
| ZCable Impressions The correct name is ZuCable, rather than ZCable. I tried contacting them as a dealer inquiry, but didn't hear back. I am sceptical about their all copper spades (no plating). What I've heard they believe, and it's pretty much true, is that where t... | |
| XLR to RCA? It's not that big a deal for most cables that can be used in both single ended and balanced configurations to have an XLR applied to one end, and an RCA to the other. Keep in mind though that it will NOT function as a balanced cable this way, thou... | |
| D.H.LABS CABLE I'm quite certain Smholl meant he purchased them from us at Value Audio. There is a Jeff's Sound Values which we are sometimes confused with, but I checked with them and they do not carry DH Labs. The custom assembly mentioned above describes us a... |