steverw
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| certin speaker makers harder to get dissounts fro Chadlnliz: Hmmm. Hearing about Audio Visions in Ohio selling ML for 20% off makes me wonder about my local dealers. Sorry to ask, but are you 100% sure about your information? Are buyers at Audio Visions giving something up in return for the disco... | |
| Subwoofer and bare floor Kal: thanks for your response, I did indeed google Auralex, thanks for reference. I wish my problem were as simple as a resonance, which would manifest itself, perhaps, as a booming or suckout in certain frequency bands. My problem is more across-... | |
| Subwoofer and bare floor Each speaker has two 10" bass drivers in the same enclosure, one driving down, the other driving forward. Each has it's own internal amp.The two drivers clearly must interact with one another, and on the bare floor it seems the forward-driver does... | |
| certin speaker makers harder to get dissounts fro Cj1capp:Caveat emptor! After all, the dealer doesn't have to listen to you daily for 10 years, but you have live with your system. Nobody has the stake that you do in investing your hard-earned money.I have recently bought a system and have learne... | |
| Which Mono block amps for ML Summit Speakers? Electrostaticman: how are things going? I myself have had Summits for few months. I've tried various SS and tube amps, but I've found that speaker placement seems to have quite an effect, especially on the bass. My advice would be to hold off on a... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Pabelson: yes, I have seen that, thanks. I'm still curious what it sounds like. I mean, there are filters in most other components, why not in the cables? ;-( | |
| Say it ain't so... I have to agree with Dennis_the_menace. Lately I've been upgrading my system to match some new speakers, and I can't believe the attitude I've gotten from about half the high-audio dealers I've talked to. They have been rude and dismissive, and un... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Cables that have larger capacitive or inductive characteristics than plain old speaker wire could act as filters on the audio signal, shifting it's tonal balance.If you've ever messed around putting caps and resistors in a phono stage to match a c... | |
| Why do new cables needs to be "broken" ??? This topic reminds me about the story they told us in college pyschology 101 about how they put prism glasses on some test subjects that turned everything upside down. After some time, these people's brains flipped the image back again so they cou... | |
| a great take on big$ cables I should make a disclosure: I will shortly be introducing a new cable that smooths out the quantum time smearing effect. This effect happens because there are many parallel universes where our multiple selves are listing to music at the same time,... | |
| a great take on big$ cables You guys act like it's all real, as though facts and truth are the same thing. Rocks are hard, that's a fact (yes, yes, I know that not all rocks are hard, but let's pick nits later). But truth is a concept, like beauty. Its really all in your hea... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Differences in copper or silver should be relatively small, as Mr. Russell's website shows. Their sonic impact should be subtle.But my ears tell me that with many cables there is an immediate and not very subtle impact on the sound (I don't need a... | |
| using two Mcintosh MC2102 in mono parallel mode Hello Bigjoe,When I talked to Mcintosh Labs Tech Support, they said that using mono parallel would be the right way to go. The MC2102 has two mono modes: parallel and bridged. As I understand it (might not be technically correct), in parallel mode... | |
| using two Mcintosh MC2102 in mono parallel mode Thanks for the replies. I did call Mcintosh directly, they are indeed helpful (the input impedance does not change in mono mode, and they agreed there is no need to match the tubes or age of the amp).Re the speaker impedance, yep, I'm sure about t... | |
| Anyone heard of Martin Logan's new speaker Has anyone listened to them yet? I'd have bought Odyssy or Prodigy by now but they are too darned big due to the bass cabinet. I've wished for a while that they would come up with a subwoofer-oriented solution. Is that how they are positioning thi... |