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| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! @OP - the Toddalin clip gives a fair impression of what PA speakers sound like reproducing music - and that's a pair of fairly high quality speakers. Each to their own, but PA speakers are built primarily for generating high spls without blowing u... | |
| 15 in full range drivers Every example limps as the saying goes. But anyway, below is Paul Miller's measurements of the Lowther Almira which uses an eight inch DX3 driver supplemented by a supertweeter. I've never hear a "full range" driver which uses a whizzer cone to ex... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @OP Carpet and underlay will not act a mass-spring-damper system. Locating the bottom of the cabinet in free space will not "change" the sound of the majority of speakers since they are designed to be set up in that way. | |
| Vibration Question @OP You don't necessarily want to be coupling your tonearm mount to a large vibrating surface like the oak cabinet. There is mass in your arm pedestals but no damping. The only real benefit from the proposed arrangement is not having the arm on a ... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @tcotruvo Yes! I mentioned this as a case study because there can be a mistaken assumption that just because something is very heavy, it won't move around. However, at the risk of provoking the ire of the OP, the spikes not only stop reactive move... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @tcotruvo - to further amplify your point (no pun intended), I originally had my Wilsons (which weight 400lbs each) directly on my carpeted floor (with thin pile carpet). I subsequently spiked them once I had their position optimised and the impro... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @OP Perhaps you can put your postulated experiment into practice and report back. | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises Thanks Davetheoilguy. I thought from your post that the Frog was gone before the Esoteric arrived but of course the Esoteric arm is a different kettle of fish altogether. The Frog is a great cartridge - I owned one for ten years - replaced by a Cr... | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises @davetheoilguy - the Frog is relatively high compliance for a moving coil and favours arm's on the lower end of effective mass range, so if there is a problem, it's more likely to be in matching of the arm and cartridge than the cartridge per se. | |
| Speaker and amp advice needed @OP - that is quite a large room and definitely there is no problem using a pair of Amati's in it. I spent two days with a pair recently in a similarly sized room and they sounded absolutely fabulous. Obviously, you would benefit from a better amp... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle +1 on the last three posts. To wit, @OP, compressible materials like felt or paper will not work. In fact, even a spike into a wooden floor will not work without being placed on a footer as the spike will distort the wood over time and the speaker... | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises @OP You indicate that there is no rumble when the Aexthetix phono stage is played via your Apogee. It's not impossible that the sub is reproducing frequencies that are below the bandwidth of the Apogees. In terms of fault finding, you should borr... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle Before there was ever conjecture about spikes having anything to do with resonances, the purpose of spiking a speaker was simply to stop it rocking in reaction the motion of the drive units and to keep the speaker level. Since floors are rarely fl... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice @OP - The suggestions for B&W, Sonus Faber, Wilson and Focal and Magico are all on the money. A pair of Wilson Sabrina Xs is in your budget range. Some people are put off by their diminutive size, but they sound bigger than they look. My per... | |
| What to do with a large collection @OP. This post is intended as a positive comment not a criticism. The real value of a music collection collection is in the listening pleasure derived it. Entertainment software of all kinds is a rapidly depreciating commodity in terms of resale v... |