eldartford
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| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Ritteri...It's a bit hard to follow your logic. Your analogy to a violin, where the wood body is what makes the sound, is one that I might use to explain the function of the sound board in a piano.Your preference for cone drivers in boxes is just ... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? A_e_watkins..IMHO means In My Humble Opinion. The question asks for opinions, and that's mine.And yes, Quadophile, Beethoven wrote some really good stuff, but I think that his Symphonies are overrated. | |
| Differences in SACD channels Good point by Sogood51. You do need to select the stereo mode if you want to play a multichannel disc that way. If you don't do this you may be listening to only two of the five signals. Although the rear channels might be considered a minor loss ... | |
| Carver ZR 1600 drives low impedance Unsound...What the Carver does may not apply to other digital amps. Remember that the Carver is a ProSound amp, and those guys often place unholy loads on their amps. The Carver is designed to live in that environment.I had heard the thing about d... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? The fifth is OK. The others are so-so. The ninth proves how deaf he was (IMHO).On the other hand, Mozart never wrote anything that isn't wonderful. | |
| Advise requested on cleaning the laser in a CDP Elizabeth is right. Keep your grubby hands off the laser. The laser is on something like an arm which is servo-controlled and very delicate. Also the laser shines through a miniature lens system that is continuously adjusted to maintain focus on t... | |
| Best SACD for under $1200 I am happy with my Denon 2900, and a mod available for about $900 can replace the analog circuitry for audio quality described as second to none.It is a universal player. One practical advantage of a universal player, which I never thought of befo... | |
| Differences in SACD channels Don't draw conclusions from one particular disc. I do not know any reason why the stereo area of a multichannel SACD should be inferior. (The CD layer of a hybrid is another matter). Given that I have multichannel capability, the only reason for m... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? A casual look into a piano will reveal many stings that get hit by felt hammers to produce sound. One might think that the sound source is the strings. Actually, behind the strings, and below them in a grand piano is a sound board. This is a large... | |
| I have a general question about surround sound. Here is what I wrote for a previous posting.Multichannel discs, and why. There is a limited selection of Multichannel discs, and some controversy regarding the merits of multichannel. Certainly there are some inferior discs, but there are also a ... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? Ffontan...Fuzzy logic may be OK for some applications, but when you are delivering several H-bombs you really want to be sure. (Good thing that the Chinese embassy was not our target!) We are incredibly conservative in our technology, and perhaps ... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Khrys...I think that your "going subless" is certainly reasonable. As I have observed, most of the time the SW cones are doing nothing. And "doing nothing" means exactly that. There is no subsonic hall sound that somehow gets reproduced without an... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? Ffontan...Actually, not elliptical. It's an "oblate spheroid" with many anomalies. (We get into this in the field of balistic missile guidance). And the shape changes several inches during the day.."land tide", and thermal effects. This science is... | |
| What causes clipping? Robotman....If the amp is external you could easily check for "crosswireing" using a battery, but perhaps you can do this by observing the cones during music. The battery is just a more definite method. Agreed that this would be unlikely.Reversing... | |
| LP shelf recommendations? Psychicanimal...Believe it or not there are some people who haven't got around to a digital camera yet. Just visualize a "bin". Or a 3X5 card box. |