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| Music from hard drive better than CD? Rsbeck...Until I heard what people say on this site I just assumed that the data from reading the disc went into a buffer register, and was gated out one (16 bit) word at a time. Coming from my experience with military digital equipment it's obvio... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? How about "the ultimate one box system". 1. CD/DVD/SACD transport.2. Hard disc to store the music, with playback immediately (no jitter), or later.3. Video screen for index of library, and control.4. Digital Power amp.and maybe AM/FM/XM radio tune... | |
| Why do mass marketed CD's sound so crappy? Rockethouse...My point was that there is a way to limit dynamic range without the kind of distortion caused by electronic compression..."Gain riding". For those unfamiliar with the term, this means manual gain control in real time by a recording e... | |
| Am I crazy????? Try THIS Albertporter...True, but...with the exception of Klipshorns and some Allison (sp?) speakers that were designed with room boundries in mind I find that the bass augmentation due to walls and floor sounds false to me. I prefer less bass, unless I ca... | |
| Am I crazy????? Try THIS Hanging sceptics will never be convinced until they try it. For those who have a logical bent, the following points may be of interest. 1. The mass of the speaker cone, and the air it moves, is tiny compared with the mass of the loudspeaker enclos... | |
| Am I crazy????? Try THIS Absolutely the best way to locate speakers (from the acoustic point of view). Not popular with wives. Ignore all the talk about the speakers moving. They don't. | |
| Eye-brain effect Absolutely true. Eye and ear senses do naturally work together. In particular, think how much easier it is to understand spoken word when you can watch the other person's lips. Some deaf people can learn to understand speech from lip movement alon... | |
| Using an amplifier with variable gain The best thing (in theory) would be to use a fixed attenuator (couple of resistors) at the power amp input, so that both pots can be near maximum. However, in practice, unless the power amp gain pot is noisy, setting it lower than maximum will be ... | |
| If you had $500 to spend, how would you spend it? High End hookers cost at lot more than $500 (so I am told).Buy some really good Audiophile digital discs... $30 or more a pop. Not only will this be a good use of the $500, but it may save you many thousands of dollars that you will otherwise spen... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... Sean...Any wife will tell you...it is a joke. As NP himself says..."I have to SMILE when I see that all this effort barely gets us below 50 Hz".Somehow the use of a long horn to enhance LF response seems inconsistent with what the FR people cite a... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... I just read Nelson Pass's writeup on his "Kleinhorn". Surely this was intended for the April issue of some magazine. | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... It just isn't fair to force an excellent midrange driver to perform woofer and tweeter duty. IMHO.:-) | |
| 4 ohm 8 ohm Try it. No damage. For a given signal input you will get more volts out to the speaker from the 8 ohm tap up until the point where the amp runs out of current capability. The amp will be capable of fewer watts with this impedance mismatch, but it ... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... Sean...I did learn about the Walsh driver when the original Ohm speakers were introduced, and was very greatly impressed by the sound. I could not afford them then. Their ability to reproduce a squarewave, proven by scope photos, was remarkable, a... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... I was curious enough to review the Fostex line of drivers (used in Gmood1's Omegas). They are not all that expensive (at least some of them) and I have been known to buy stuff just to fool around with. I would use models that do not have any whizz... |