fraterperdurabo
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| Audiogon member suggestions for a speaker that sounds good at low volume!!! When I had to share my house with an elderly parent and needed a bedroom system for quiet late night listening I got Quad ESL 57s and they were great.But the levels you're suggesting are REALLY low.I suggest throwing DSP at the job and adding a ge... | |
| Spatials = Done for now! Yeah, dipoles handle your room better than box speakers - listening to a DIY pair as I type this. | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Moving your speakers closer to the corners will load the low frequencies and increase their volume. Too much and it will muddy vocals and destroy the stereo image. For a 36" tall speaker in a 12' X18' room with 8' ceilings, start with theses n... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? There are tons of interesting ideas on this thread.But I'm going to reiterate: you can't fix what you can't measure.Get a USB measurement mic from Parts Express. Use it, and post a FR plot.Let's see exactly what we're dealing with. Then you'll a... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? "You can't fix what you can't measure" is what we say in QA.Get a calibrated mic and Room EQ Wizard software (it's free!) and measure your current system.My guess is you'll be appalled. Most systems sound TERRIBLE in actual rooms. (Check out the... | |
| JBL - almost nothing for sale, why? I'm currently using a pair of 4311s. They were curb finds by my flea-market selling house mate. Combined with digital room correction, they're the best sound I've had since my Quad ESL 57 system.American audiophiles pigeonhole JBLs as "rock" spe... | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" MathAudioRoomEQ and Room EQ Wizard are both free. I use the former and couldn't live w/o it. My living situation requires the stereo to be in a small bedroom and the difference between raw and treated is dramatic.There may be other trade-offs, b... | |
| Help me replace ancient speakers - or not The Allisons are designed to work with your room boundaries in ways very few if any modern speakers are.Dipole speakers like the Spatials with their cardoid radiation pattern are also very room friendly.I'd approach upgrading cautiously, if at all... | |
| New speakers for my system IMO the Vandersteen 3a is very great speaker with a self-effacing personality that makes it easy to live with.Vandersteen's dedicated subs use a 1st order crossover, which you can simulate digitally if that's what works the best in your setup. So... | |
| I just inherited 800-1000 CD's and a lot of them are filthy Worst case, ie badly scratched, rip them to your PC using Exact Audio Copy, which if you give it enough time, will do what the name says, assuming a disk is readable at all.Otherwise, what everyone else - cleaner + microfiber cloth. I've never tr... | |
| Room correction, DSP for dummies. I use the MathAudioRoomEQ plugin for my music player, Foobar2000.The good: it's free. It works way better than not using it.The bad: I don't know; haven't tried any of other solutions.REW plus minidsp looks interesting, since I could use a turnta... | |
| Best sounding "budget" integrated amp for Vandersteen 2C. Consider this a strong second on the reccy to call John Rutan at Audio Connection ... nobody makes Vandies sound as good as those guys do. | |
| A HiFi newbs Elac Adante review I'm using digital room correction (an open source version, my music is PC-based) and the difference it made in my far from ideal room is HUGE.Yes, you should also treat your room, but things like bass peaks are VERY difficult to treat with anythin... | |
| Coherent Speakers from Canada Unlike many of you posting on this thread, I’ve always preferred solid-state—high-power, high-current solid-state—to tubes.The most amazing speaker demo I’ve ever had was Tannoy Churchills driven by a Krell FPB 300.The night before we’d heard Le S... | |
| Coherent Speakers from Canada Coherentguy:Here's an example: my personal website: www.steve-fretz.com. It took me a couple of hours, tops. It's for my fine art photography, so not exactly your line of work, but I think it's cohesive and advertises what I do accurately. I di... |