wanderingmoo
Responses from wanderingmoo
| Sound quality vs. volume Lhansaguy: Good points. I’m trying out the Diablo tomorrow. I’ll let you know what comes of it. I think I have a little bit of a lot of things going on with improvements possible on multiple fronts. To your point about speaker placement. I di... | |
| Sound quality vs. volume Foam plugs are in. 100%. It did improve the overall sound quality. I didn’t realize how overpowered the room was with low-frequency energy. I pulled out the frequency analyzer and it appears I have a bump from about 125-350hz. I think I might try ... | |
| Sound quality vs. volume It would be a nice experiment to move the system off-axis but unfortunately the home theater and layout of the room prevent rearranging the system. I have explored hanging large blankets and do believe, while not perfect, I can make improvements. | |
| Sound quality vs. volume Agree with the comments on loudness. Very rarely do I push things 90+db. There are those few "classics" that demand to be played loud but that's usually more of a party than critical listening. We are having some electrical work done in the nex... | |
| Sound quality vs. volume Been away a few days - I pulled out my SPL meter and mushy stars right around 80db. (A-weighted) I know someone asked. I took your advice and plugged the ports completely and the sound improved. Less but much tighter/cleaning up the lower few oc... | |
| Sound quality vs. volume Trying to respond to a few of the comments: I’ll try experimenting with Rockwool panels. Sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday. I will also try wiring in a power Amp to see if we have a power shortage/amp headroom issue. As for ports, they a... | |
| Sound quality vs. volume @glupson: definately not that loud. About the place on the knob where you start to feel the music but way before my ears start to bleed ;-) | |
| Sound quality vs. volume Excellent recommendations, thank you!I’ll start with room treatment. I figured as much but wanted some validation. WAF is a very real concern so I will have to see what can be done. The egg-crate look is definitely in the no-fly zone. If anyo... | |
| Speaker recommendation thread (Organised by tiers of price) (5-10k) Dynaudio Contour 60 | |
| peachtree amp vs. traditional amp Warning: Another Peachtree endorsement.I picked up a Nova500 in December. Plugged it into a pair of Dynaudio Contour 60s and a streaming box and it’s been a simple answer for great music . Can you get better? You bet. Will you need to spend a ... | |
| Integrated Amp ideas for Dynaudio Special 40's I have Contour 60s (can’t speak to Special 40s) but assuming similar, I don’t think you can go wrong with Luxman, Naim or Hegel. I’ve heard all 3 and wouldn’t have any complaints. After all of this, I decided on a simple setup with a Peachtree No... | |
| Recommnedation for the BEST SOUNDING integrated amp up to $3500 Another vote for a Peachtree. I have a Nova500 hooked up to Dynaudio Contour 60 and really like it. I get 90% of “best sounding” at a great value if you consider it comes with gobs of power, a very nice DAC, headphone amplifier and MC phono stage... | |
| Peachtree Nova 300 I’ve had a Nova500 in my system (Dynaudio Contour 60, SoTM SMS-200 Ultra, Marantz SR7011 for movies) since December. The USB connection I find sounds best out of the SoTM but to be fair I haven’t critically compared each input. Im still tuning the... | |
| Streamer upgrade recommendations I picked up a SoTM SMS-200 a few months ago and with a quality linear power supply (I have one from Small Green Computer) it sounds seriously good - I’d recommend looking at one. I compared it to the MicroRendu before going with SoTM. It require... | |
| Peachtree Audio 2.0 I’ve had a nova500 since mid December and (finally) really like it, it took a long time to run-in but that was with new everything (speakers, source, etc,) so I don’t think it’s fair to say the Peachtree is all to blame. Initially it sounded HOR... |