williewonka
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| What is your experience with the law of diminishing returns ? I'm with Rich - it really is subjectiveRegards - Steve | |
| Anyone's DIY Bested Brand-Name High End Speaker or Power Cables? @tomask6 - Take a look at these...http://image99.net/blog/files/category-002ahelix-power-cable.htmlhttp://image99.net/blog/files/category-002ahelix-interconnect-cable.htmlhttp://image99.net/blog/files/category-002ahelix-speaker-cable.htmlPersonall... | |
| Help with phono amp upgrade Why not try another canadian product ? - Simaudio MoonI have the LP5.3 RS phono stage and it will probably be the last one I buy- silent operation- nice balanced sound- very detailed- exceptional dynamic performance- very configurableThe more rece... | |
| Need help solving a system problem @polkalover - What kind of woofer vibration?...- does it pulse evenly? e,g, at a partucular frequency (which freq)- is it spiradic? e.g. only happens when you walk around it- are all the pulses of equal amplitude or do they vary?Since this only oc... | |
| Who Here Makes Their Own Power Cables? @captbeaver - the Helix cables take three skills, other than cutting and stripping wires and using a screw driver...1. use of a variable speed drill - i.e. at different speeds2. solder a reasonable joint (but that is only mandatory for the Interc... | |
| Who Here Makes Their Own Power Cables? @captbeaver - Try these - hopefully the last cables you will make/buyhttp://image99.net/blog/files/category-002ahelix-power-cable.htmlAnd also Interconnects and speaker cableshttp://image99.net/blog/files/category-002ahelix-interconnect-cable.html... | |
| Going back to basics @mtj - I have also dome something similar for my own A/V system.I purchased a Bluesound Powernode 2 which works for me.. I have an Apple TV + a TV streaming box with PVR capability. - Both these boxes feed into the Smart TV via HDMI cables. - I ta... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? I’m not sure if it is the same for all Tannoy speakers, but this is from the Kensington manual Locate the loudspeakers so that the favourite listening position is approximately 15¡ from the axes of the cabinets. Theaxes of both cabinets should int... | |
| Bi-Wire with two pairs of speaker cables @thyname - nope - you install the jumpers across the red and black terminals as normal (red to red and black to black). But when you connect the actual speaker cable, you conenct the red wire to the HF RED terminal and the black wire to the LF bla... | |
| Bi-Wire with two pairs of speaker cables @thyname - I have tried this, but to my ears the only thing that improved the sound was replacing the little mettal strip-jumpers (those generally supplied with bi-wire speaker terminalss) with a quality jumper made from wire.Bi amping ia a diffe... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? @mulveling - youmentio the tannpoys are backed into an alcove - are they right up againt the wall/corner?Cheers | |
| Silver plated copper I have built many cables which have employed copper, solid silver and silver plated copper.For my ears...Stranded Copper was the least dynamic of the threeSolid Silver provided the best dynamic performance and provided more details than the plain... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? There is a good reason why tannoys cost so much - enclosures are what they seem to excell at. They may look simple on the outside, but...https://www.google.com/search?q=tannoy+enclosure+pics&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CeKpLE5U2wHlIjiCmXQ-...I steer... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? @islandmandan & @mulveling - for the benefit of the OP could you provide the dimensions of your rooms please.The room I auditioned them in was approximately 24ft x 22ft and the speakers were on the 24ft wallFYI...The only speaker (which I no... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? @bache - perhaps a few of the Tannoy owners above can confirm/deny the following statements which was conveyed by an audio store that sells them.Tannoy speakers sound their best if they are toe'd in such that the center line axis of the speaker cr... |