willemj
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| Best standalone music server? If you alreay have a good DAC with optical input, why not try a Chromecast Audio (and its digital ouput)? There are apps for Spotify, Qobuz, TuneIn and many other services. You can also access your computer’s drive/NAS with BubbleUPnP. It will do ... | |
| 70's Receiver and/or Integrated Amp recommendations These Yamaha integrateds are very good indeed, as those in depth reviews show, with for example a load independent frequency response that beats just about any amp on the market. Harbeth used an AS701 at the Bristol hifi show to demo their P3ESR, ... | |
| Spotify goes public. What will it mean for music lovers? It gives them more capital to invest. Whether that means lossless 16/44 resolution remains to be seen. Spotify has thus far argued that their 320 kbs stream is indistuinguishable from lossless. BBC research has come to the same conclusion. Persona... | |
| DAC recommendation What is sounding better, the Parasound or the Rotel? Are you using a digital output from the CD player? Are you comparing the exact same masterings? | |
| 70's Receiver and/or Integrated Amp recommendations I love the retro styling of such units, but it pays to remain realistic. An excellent new 2x100 watt amplifier with integrated DAC like the Yamaha AS701 will only cost you $800. The similar 2x85 watt Yamaha AS 501 will even cost you only $550. Bot... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range I have not found integrating subs and main speakers a hard thing to do. Just remember the REL advice: cross over low, and volume up. What is not so easy is integrating them into the room. Here a combination of multiple subs and dsp room eq such as... | |
| Looking for amp advice (punk, rock & reggae edition) A little while ago I moved up from a 2x45 watt Quad 303 to a 2x140 watt Quad 606-2 (both driving relatively inefficient Quad 2805s in a pretty large listening room). The biggest benefit was a cleaner and more dynamic sound. The old Q303 had clearl... | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room 13x15 is already quite a bit larger, of course, although still not very large. Did you measure the response? | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room And for those of you want to read up on room modes in smallish rooms: https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/listening-room-acoustics-1https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/history-of-multi-sub-sfm | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room No you changed your post to cover that you had misquoted me. And what I said is true: the smaller the room the higher the Schroeder frequency and the frequencies of the room modes. Try equalizing those, and the listening spot gets smaller the high... | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room Ah, now you changed your post: you added the 'good' that you did not include before. That is dishonest and misleading. But now you reinstated the word 'good' your comment is no longer relevant because it does not address the quality of the bass. A... | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room This is what I wrote (and for everybody to see): "Good deep bass in a small room is quite simply impossible." That is simply true for the reasons I gave. | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room Your comment is irrelevant. I did not say you cannot pump deep bass into a room. What I said was that it will not sound right, and for two connected reasons. The first is that the smaller the room, the higher the Schroeder frequency (about 280 Hz ... | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room I love equalization, but in a small room it is not that effective. The reason is that room modes in small rooms occur at higher frequencies. Since such sound waves are shorter, the listening spot where equalization is effective also becomes smalle... | |
| Subwoofer Decision I want to repeat my recommendation to use multiple small subs for a much smoother response. See here for an introduction: http://www.acousticfrontiers.com/20101029using-multiple-subwoofers-to-improve-bass-the-welti-devanti... Good subs will sound... |