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| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? Doing some quick math here, your Mac and K'horns or LaScalas should hit peaks of over 130 decibels in your room. Should be plenty of dynamic range available on demand. | |
| Are You a Swifty? I think sometimes an artist's "imperfections" can be their most enduring qualities. It makes them human, and relatable. Perhaps even vulnerable. Like the rest of us? | |
| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? Yes, but the speakers will hurt you before you can hurt them. "we often get out an audiometer to ensure the sound-pressure-level is well under 95dBA for sustained periods." This would be less than ONE WATT fed to your Klipsch speakers. I think y... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? @mahgister I enjoy your deep dives into a variety of subjects. Admittedly, sometimes I have to scan over your comments due to time constraints. As mentioned before, I am involved with several "unite", "detoxify" and "depolarize" groups (includi... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? We recently had an item presented for service that we affectionately named: "The Marlboro Man Turntable." It had decades of layered smoke and nicotine stains on everything so thick that it, literally, took Bug and Tar remover to get them off. ... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? I prefer to buy used equipment that has been broken in, burned in/walked in, or even lived in over a "trophy" piece that’s been polished with a diaper every day of it’s pampered life. Give me a turntable that’s been through rehab a few times, spea... | |
| Think I ruined stylus Depends on which album you were listening to. For example, most modern pressings of Bolero have proactively removed the Dead Wax in anticipation of such events. Others, it's pretty much hit and miss. Perhaps an tonearm lifter would be a good inve... | |
| Am I right for this forum? @asvjerry "Stuff Of Transient Admiration" Sorry for weaving off topic, but couldn't help thinking of my Ex here. This text should be standard verb-age embedded in the opening statements of dissolution of marriage defense (justification) cases. | |
| People complain about lack of bass, not enough mid range. Solution? Geting the bass "right" should improve midrange detail and linearity, not detract from it. | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? Okay. I'll give this a shot: As long as our ears are still analog, we'll need to deliver music via mechanical means. These changes in sound pressure, essential for the reproduction of music, are projected into a space and interact with anything ... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @tylermunns "Those two things are not alike. 1) is a radical shift in what popular music sounded like. 2) is more or less just a continuation of the same" Nice summary. | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama Business 101: A 5% increase in customer loyality doubles the lifetime return on investment. So, what is the real cost of alienating 10%, 20% or 30% of your potential customer base? Probably not a good business decision to (intentionally) broadc... | |
| Am I right for this forum? @snilf I'll do my best to save you the labor pains, and just give you the baby. "Yes!" Just because you don't own a turntable that appears to be robust enough to have machined WW2 bomber parts doesn't mean you can be a contributor. My daily ... | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? No. But they should include a warning label stating that their sound can be highly addictive, thus straining relationships, creating an additional financial burden, and many hours of sitting in the "sweet spot" can be detrimental to your health. ... | |
| I don't get it...Exile on main Street-Blue I'm a "fossil unit" compared to many on the forum. 74 trips around the sun for this one. As a younger listener, when we used to light up the Borkum Riff and strap ourselves down in the "sweet spot" to make sure our heads didn't bobble more than ... |