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| How are McIntosh C46 tone controls different? If you look in the manual pg 22 it shows the frequency curves for each adjustment. I think the highest frequency tone control is centered on 8 kHz. Some say that's whre the typical harshness is. In my experience it wasn't or at least it didn't tam... | |
| What matters most in speaker design? Shadorne, I appreciate your posts and especially some of the links you've provided in the past. I know you're a big fan of Active speakers. Could you elaborate on the reason for that a bit more? From my perspective, how does moving the amplifier f... | |
| What matters most in speaker design? I have a friend who designs speakers. I'd describe him as brillant - his dad is a department head at UVA. My friend has advanced degrees and has written at least one very thick book on signal processing. I watched him build some speakers a few yea... | |
| Confessions I bought George Michael's Listen without Prejudice after hearing him sing Praying for Time on American Idol. Great lyrics but the disk is for lack of a better word weirdly recorded. I don't know how else to describe it. It's sounds like hi-fi AM r... | |
| What matters most in speaker design? Duke, a lot of the Klipsch Heritage speakers used to have the 3 dB point at 17.5 kHz. I assume this level helped smooth out the sound and mitigated some of the horn harshness. I noticed your speakers quote the same number under the category of sys... | |
| Derek Trucks Band I believe Dickey says he's basically the reason Dickey's no longer in the Allman Brothers band. | |
| Bel Canto Ref1000mkII stock issues? Swanny, have you done any A-B'ing between the Is and IIs? I haven't, but hear the IIs are a bit more forward in the treble. In another thread someone who had A-B'ed said he preferred the Is and that while the IIs had their strengths were not worth... | |
| Jeff Rowland Brian, I agree. I got my answers on the JR "classic" JR products and kind of steered the thread to a class D discussion.Guido, I think you miss my point - meant to be mildly humorous - about Krell and McIntosh. I was simply acknowledging the fact ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Guido, when you say the modules are analog devices, I think that paints with too broad a brush. The actual switching controller and output stage still put out a series of variable width pulses or rectangle waves that are subsequently fed into a fi... | |
| Jeff Rowland Chad, I am a tube fan, just don't want the longer term maintenance issues. You can read threads and reviews and time after time the highs are always mentioned as not being quite right on Class D. Maybe it doesn't bother a lot of people. I've certa... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Kate Bush, the whole metaphysical thing, the voice, great! | |
| 128kbps AAC files... Almost any lossy file removes information to a degree that you'll notice. There's software where you can take the output of each respective file and subract the signal from each other and play back the result. The closer the two formats are to eac... | |
| Best speakers for tube amp looking for suggestions I ran Heresys with a tube amp and the setup sounded good. I would go with the IIIs though. Having owned both Is and IIIs I thought the IIIs were an improvement. You can get them for around $1000 new now which wasn't the case a year or two ago. | |
| Anybody tried Naim integrated with ATC speakers? How similar is the M3 to their regular products? I owned the c272 amp and the c162 pre a while back, wasn't impressed. Not that bad in sound but nothing special either. Best thing I can say about the pair was they didn't have the irritating etchy ... | |
| Levinson 3XX Amplifier Repairs Thanks for the info. I almost bought a 383 with "a hum in the right channel" a few weeks ago. Called Pyramid and they told me $1000 plus "it could be more." Frankly after reading this thread and others about the Levinson "cap problem," Levinson is... |