ohlala
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| Paradigm Titan v3 They say speakers drivers age, but I have a pair of 18yo DM302s that sound good. If it were me, I would fix the tweeter. I have heard the Titan. It is a good speaker and I personally don't like throwing stuff out that be fixed easily. The opportun... | |
| In Memoriam: Bobby Palkovich of Merlin Music I already posted in AA, but his passing is tragic. At the shows I enjoyed listening to both him and his speakers. | |
| To isolate or not to isolate, that is the question "Solid" and isolation are not necessarily opposing designs. I have first-hand experience with other components but have only read (a lot) to find a good design for a stand for my own turntable. The possible issue with isolation techniques you are ... | |
| Is Vinyl Worth It I am in the slow process of re-doing my entire system; only the preamp will stay. I have to say re-learning record playing geometry and setup and cleaning and on and on is less painful and way more straight forward than computer audio. As far as p... | |
| Why are so many people trying to sell Harbeths? In the UK the 30.1 are about $4175 using google converter. I like harbeth, but the the import cost gives me pause for sure. | |
| Repair my Sony CDP 608 ESD? "I have a very clean Sony 608 ESD, I bought it brand new in 1986. So I can not complain that it has been a good sounding and flawless performing player all these 29 years."That is good run. My Cary CDP went 10 years before replacing the laser. Not... | |
| Request for assistance please room treatment I have gone so far as to reading Master Handbook of Acoustics, watching lectures and doing room measurements. For the novice, like you and me, it takes trial and error. The initial big deal seems like speaker positioning, then addition of acoustic... | |
| My stereo isn't doing it for me. Need advice Tough room. D/C the sub. Then experiment with speaker position. Some panel treatment will help with high frequencies but very difficult to control room modes. I've had a small room in the past. I would rather have good headphones than wrestle with... | |
| JBL Project K2 S9900 Speakers Anyone Know ??? What happened to preferring the perspective of a 2-way?Changing your mind is okay if you know why. I think 2-way is generally an inferior design to multiway myself, but a three-way horn/hybrid is really different from the others. Can't just plot o... | |
| 2-Way Advice: Magico S1,YG Carmal,Diablo Utopia "When I added JLaudio subs Xed over at 35, perfection. "I asked GTT audio at Axpona about adding a subwoofer. They didn't care for the idea. I'm paraphrasing that they generally did not like the idea of contaminating the make-up of the speakers (i... | |
| How important is a good rack? "I'd be very interested to hear accounts of people doing serious ABs comparing a "merely competent" rack (say like my homebrew rod and block) with a SOTA rack, say like a Finite Elemente, which costs 10 times more."I went from Flexy to ikea lack t... | |
| Axpona You all may be right, but strong conclusions were hard for me. A lot of rooms played too loudly (like MBL to get over the sound of the HVAC), so there was too much room interaction with sparse acoustic treatment. The antidote for the dry sound at ... | |
| How important is a good rack? I found the difference to be night and day. I had now idea how bad my first two racks were until I tried a better one. No turntable here, but the difference had nothing to do with rigidity of the frame. The worse one was more rigid. The better one... | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? Just thought. Line sources are more efficient as distance, dropping -3db at double distance rather than -6db for point source speakers. The guy/girl in the back row can enjoy. "Or am I barking up the wrong tree?"Some designers also attend to the c... | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? I also like Marty's post. Another advantage is there are no cabinet colorations caused by resonance and reflections.Small panels have less bass and often employ a dynamic driver that is difficult to integrate in to the sound of the panel. Although... |