yoyoyaya
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| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? @OP. I have no experience of the Totems but it is certainly the case that certain speakers do not sound right at low volume levels and sensitivity measurements are not always a perfect guide to that. You could try something like a pair of DeVore O... | |
| Declare the correct value on the Customs form? @OP Did you pay duties on receipt of the album and if so, did the seller declare the full value, i.e the price you were paying them, when they exported the goods to the US? | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? @OP If you don't already have a large record collection the answer is absolutely not. It's not just a question of whether the TT will be as good as your existing streaming system but also the opportunity coast. For what you will spend on the analo... | |
| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy @OP. Mr Colloms has long been a fan of Naim equipment. As you can see in the review, he started listening to the W/P with his Naim 250 but couldn't drive them with it. If you are familiar with Naim type sound it will explain why Mr Collom's was sl... | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? @OP - Sorry for the delayed response, my computer was down when you posted previously. Regarding new records, yes, there is mould release agent in new pressings. And I don't know if it is inferior quality vinyl or manufacturing defects in the stam... | |
| Audiohifistore.com is a SCAM There was a scam hi fi equipment site purporting to operate out of Ireland a couple of years ago. They had an address published on their website but when I checked out the location on Google Maps, it was a brass plate operation - no physical prese... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Where's Jason Bourne when you need him :)) | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? @OP - Invest in an ultrasonic record cleaning machine. Use streaming to identify recordings you like and then go tracking down the vinyl. I have heard vinyl recordings that don't sound good on CD but not vice versa. There are differences between d... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - the volume of your room does not indicate whether it will or will not benefit from acoustic treatment. Your room is bigger than a lot of the control rooms in small studios, which, if they are commercial, will be treated. Sound on Sound magaz... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - a lot of what advertised as bass traps are broadband absorbers that have some attenuation at lower frequencies but aren't optimised for that freqency range. If you look at Vicoustic or Gik's websites, you'll see cylindrical and triangular co... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP You need corner bass traps. The panels you have work in the midrange. | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? +1 dynamiclinearity. The "ported speakers have slow boomy bass" is a proverbial old wives tale. @OP, with the K6 being ported through the bottom of the cabinet, I'm not sure that you will find an improvement overall - yes you can reduce the bass ... | |
| Auditioned Wilson Sabrina X vs B&W 803D4 and Shocked @OP - If that is how the Sabrina Xs sounded, they were not set up properly. | |
| Location of compoments. @bdp24 - was he playing a Riccy when you saw him? Great that you had the opportunity to see them then. To be fair, most of his Tele playing was with Hiwatts. | |
| Location of compoments. It is preferable not to have racks between the speakers - mainly on account of diffraction. However provided the rack is even a little behind the plane of the speakers, it's not an absolute disaster. Sometimes, as in my own case, there is simply n... |