eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| What LP shows what analog can do? Vannorm...I tried it for-30 plus years.Some CD's are lousy, as you describe, but others are good. Same can be said for LPs. | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? I am sure that EVERYONE agrees that Loudspeakers change (hopefully improve) with initial use. The compliant surround softens up with flexing, so that the dynamic characteristics of the unit change. There is similar logical reason to accept that ph... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Mborner...Semantics again! I took "phantom" to mean the sound image that occurs naturally between two good speakers that play the same sound, and which can be very convincing. I think that a better word for what you describe would be "synthesized". | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Edesilva...I think we have a semantics problem. When I say "center" I mean where the thing is located, and when you say "center" you mean a particular design of speaker. For music I use, and advocate a center (located) speaker that is identical to... | |
| XRCD Technology The message I am getting is that XRCD technology is no different from other CDs, but the folks who are making these particular discs are simply doing a consistently good job of mastering. I have long been aware that audio quality varies a great de... | |
| AV Racks. What difference does it make? Viggen...Shape, damping..AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES is what I said. Some materials are easier to make resonate than others. Bells are usually made of metal, not styrofoam. However, a metal structure can also be non-resonant if it is designed and buil... | |
| Need to wire up my house Maybe you should run conduit, rather than wires, so that you can change your mind about wires from time to time, without tearing up your house. | |
| Another Time and Phase thread Viridian...Say the word and we'll beam you up. | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Chucknms...In discrete multichannel recordings (SACD or DVD-A) the center channel carries sounds that are simply not there at all in the Left and Right channels. No amount of superb imaging can recover this information.You really ought to take the... | |
| AV Racks. What difference does it make? Materials don't have any natural frequency. They have properties like mass, elasticity, etc. Natural frequency is determined by the shape into which the material is formed, how it is attached to other objects or otherwise damped, and the abovement... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy edesilver...When playing stereo source material it is true that if your speakers image well, and you can sit in the right place you can't tell if the center speaker is playing or not...even if you walk up to it and put your ear near it (at least w... | |
| Sutherland PHD Running a preamp on battery power is no big deal, and has been done for years...the circuits draw little power. The idea of using a signal-sensing automatic turn on also is not new...just about every subwoofer plate amplifier has this feature. Put... | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? An interesting idea...that it is our hearing that adapts to the audio system. Certainly this is true for eyesight, where serious defects in the visual system are ignored by the brain. The best example of this is the blind spot where the optic nerv... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy david berry...Today most people drive their center channel using a SS processor, which, as you say, involves digital processing. However, digital processing is not absolutely necessary. My optimum way of getting a center channel is to drive one ch... | |
| Another Time and Phase thread sean...As one who always was impressed by the full-range Walsh driver (and as an engineer, I found the theory ingenious) I wish that someone with the knowledge and experience that you have would undertake to produce these drivers. The labor-intens... |