eldartford
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| What happened to the loudness control? Spatialking...Turning the volume all the way up is not using 100%of the range. In practice 50% of the range (eg: from 40% to 90% would be typical) and with a two knob loudness circuit tracking Fletcher-Munson very accurately over such a range is n... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Drubin...So let's turn this question over to the psychologists. Electrical engineering has no explanation. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? A digital waveform can be very badly distorted, as viewed by the eye, but a well designed line receiver will still properly distinguish ones from zeros. Furthermore, if an error is made, or even a group of errors, perhaps due to some unrelated pow... | |
| low resistance and highest quality Speaker cables Why low resistance? If you biwire, the first thing the tweeter signal sees after the speaker terminals is a tweeter padding resistor, usually in the range of 2-5 ohms. The first thing the woofer signal sees is about 100 feet of (usually) smallish ... | |
| What happened to the loudness control? Spatialking...No one uses 100% of the volume control range! The twin control scheme described by inpepinnovations@aol.com works very well. | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? In this thread we see the assumption by some people that multichannel is the same thing as HT. Not so!! The most significant difference is regarding the center speaker. With HT it is desirable to have a center speaker with limited and shaped frequ... | |
| 8 Vs 4 ohms Atmasphere...Right about the impedance ratio. (I should have known that). | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Landok...Perhaps I have an unfair advantage because I remember when stereo was introduced, and the outcry from some audiophiles was a lot like what we hear today about multichannel. I can look at this thread with some amusement. In time you will c... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Landok...Somewhere there is an audiophile with a monophonic system, who doesn't want to confuse his sonic image by having it come from two places :-) | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Landok...I disagree about your theory that a center speaker is good only for centered sound. The center speaker can combine with a left or right speaker to create a phantom halfway between. For example, if in a matrix multisound system the Center ... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? The so called "sweet spot" is the quite small listening location where the two speakers of a stereo system produce a very convincing "phantom" image of a centered soloist. In a multichannel system there is no need for a "phantom" image because the... | |
| System Gain, Volume, and component matching? Ngjockey...Having a standard, like 2 vrms max, assures compatability. Good thing for the industry. When standards are not observed problems may arise. In this case a high signal level problem can be dealt with quite easily using a fixed attenuator... | |
| System Gain, Volume, and component matching? SPL vs Distance for Maggies vs point source is something I just recently looked at. From anpther thread...Here are some SPL measurements.Planar is a MG1.6. PS is a Dynaudio Gemini (small MTM).Signal is pink noise generated by Prepro (intended for ... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? And let's not fixate on the surround or rear channels. The center front is the most important of all. | |
| Whaat does Consumer Reports say? I don't know if it is still true, but the CU evaluator people used to be jacks of all trades. They might be doing tomato Katsup one month and audio receivers the next. For example, in one famous review they rated loudspeakers strictly according to... |