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| Alternative after Soundlab. Horns? Heil Tweeters? The metal grill is a great idea. Hook it up to an electric fence charger. | |
| rca and xlr inputs connected simultaneously? If you connect both, the (-) line of the balanced interface becomes ground, so the "balanced" interface actually becomes single-ended (regardless of using XLR conncetors). I don't understand Kal's description of this setup as "crude". It's just no... | |
| Best sounding Broadway recordings? The best renditions of Broadway shows are the original stage cast recordings. I think this is because those who do revivals are always trying to be different. Usually the original performers got it right, so "different" is inferior. IMHO the great... | |
| A trick with Scotch Whisky Put a jigger of Port wine into a bottle of cheap whisky, (like 4 Roses) and it tastes like good stuff. You need to try it to believe it. | |
| Help Speakers trapped on bookshelves Rogercmd...As the saying goes..."you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". | |
| Help Speakers trapped on bookshelves Rogercmd...Tone controls are useful to modify particular recordings to suit your ear, but they cannot duplicate the function of an equalizer. The DEQ2496 has 31 boost/cut bands vs two boost/cut filters for tone controls. If you heard any improveme... | |
| to base or not to base. Most "Bass" is above 30 Hz. Most Pro sound subwoofers are rated only to 30 Hz. The bass you hear at a live pop concert is not very low, but there is a lot of it.The small drivers used in home audio systems can reproduce low bass, but not at the ki... | |
| Help Speakers trapped on bookshelves The rear channels of my system are (for reasons you can imagine) relegated to bookshelves in two alcoves, which is worse than an ordinary bookshelf. Furthermore, they are rear-ported Madisound "Odins" (a 7" MTM configuration) and they are horizont... | |
| whats your idea of loud music. An interesting fact is that the human ear perceives "Loud" by when distortion occurs. In other words, a system overloading at 85dB will sound louder than clean sound at 95dB. (Don't quote me on the exact numbers).Some music needs to be felt as wel... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Dwl...Your mind, it seems, is definitely open. May I suggest that any matrix multichannel system (and I was heavily into that once) is very inferior to true discrete multichannel like DVDA or SACD. Also your two channel setup is excellent. I think... | |
| Biggest bang: add Behringer or replace CDP? The DEQ 2496 will make an amazing improvement to any system because, as your equipment becomes better and better the listening room becomes the dominant flaw. Even if you don't pass your signal through it, and use it only as a RTA, it's worth the ... | |
| New Digital Switching Amplifiers I understand that my digital amp output has some ultrasonic signal that would not be expected from a linear amp. Last time I checked "ultrasonic" means you can't hear it, but it does keep the bats away. :-) | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Dwl...Did you know that there is a rather extensive genre of music called "antiphonal" where several groups of musicians are situated around the audience, some behind? This music got lost when artificial recorded sound was invented because that ca... | |
| tweaking cooling fans Slowing the fans down should be OK. The fans are designed to deal with continuous full power operation which does not occur with home audio use. I have CarverPro ZR1600 amps, and there is a low noise fan mod that is recommended. Reportedly these f... | |
| Speed bumps as a cause of hearing loss. Mint604...Slamming car doors, as you suggest, could produce stong LF pressure wave. However, some cars are tighter than others, and car manufacturers pride themselves on how well the car is sealed. Toyota, which is particularly good, during design... |