wolf_garcia
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| Bob Carver LLC has been purchased by Emotiva THAT is hilarious! I wonder if they're clawing back whatever they paid Bob, and I wonder how the Emotiva tube amps will sound...cool...so now Carver tube amps have no support? Interesting...Absolute Sound just recommended a couple of 'em. It's a s... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I have a hot girlfriend, so it looks like it's you Mapman. | |
| Two Subs? Bo...you should perhaps familiarize yourself with audio terms..."flatten" in this case simply means to straighten a frequency curve using EQ and volume parameters designed into room correction devices. This is based on device measurements that "se... | |
| Two Subs? As an audio engineer, I can safely say that room correction absolutely "flattens" bass, because that's what it's designed to do. And Bo, you have no idea what my system sounds like, as I have no idea how you "played" Kodo drums with room correctio... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? See? I mean really...there is too much here to not have fun with it. He competes and is supposedly a perfectionist in a subjective arena utterly lacking any motivation from selling anything, although he sells things for a living. The Dutch Mountai... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I refuse to stop picking on BO because it's too much fun, and he doesn't understand my posts anyway. | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? Weimaraner Beau? TMI. Also, how are we mere mortals to listen to anything on the same level as a person with "photographic memory of sound?" Although photos are silent, I get it. Luckily, I was blessed with photographic detection of bullshit. Or i... | |
| Two Subs? Martykl...I understand. And I also understand that room correction "flattens" bass, resulting in flattened bass even if the music has large bass as in a giant bass drum (for example, one of those pops up here and there in a fave Scofield/Frissell ... | |
| Two Subs? Sub measurements schmeasurements! I get lots of clean bass, because if I didn't I would be unhappy. Unclean bass indeed! Not sure what "smoother" sound means, but whatever I'm getting from my little REL seems smooth...I think it's dialed into mayb... | |
| Two Subs? I don't think you need 2 subs unless your mains are extremely challenged...summing the left and right signals in the "high level" input of a REL and setting it at around 55 hz or so (or wherever your mains start to drop off) is all the bass you mi... | |
| Volume seems too low My preamp levels with LPs go up beyond other line level sources (noticed it more when I switched to a lower powered tube amp), but since the preamp and phono preamp are so clean it doesn't matter much. Your issue seems extreme though so I agree th... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? What part of the "live event" is the reference? Certainly not what the musicians hear unless it's a string quartet sitting around in a circle. If you can't detect an oboe you might want to put the Kraftwerk away for a while. Most musicians would t... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? Bo's response is, again, even if read closely, useless, if only because of his annoying disregard of the fact that people hear things differently. That is the Monkey Wrench of personal opinion that trumps all else in audio appreciation. Opinions o... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I think personal taste rules the day in this discussion. An analogy I think might be useful (or not) regards guitar amp speakers...the tonal coloration that exists with various brands becomes extremely important to a guitar player with any reasona... | |
| New KT150 tubes? Curious. My Jolida 502 handles KT120s fine (although not necessarily designed for that tube), but I have to wonder if I'd be pushing my luck with 150s...I have no need to go beyond 120s but since my quad are getting older I'll have to change 'em e... |