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| Can I HANG my QUAD 57's? You have my permission to hang your Quads.The best sound I ever heard was from Magnepans hung in chains high off the floor from a cathedral ceiling half way into a very large room.As one audio salesman remarked "Magies in Bondage...I love it" | |
| Rat Shack SPL meter: Analog or Digital? The digital version actually has a bar-graph analog display that is just as good as a moving pointer. And the numeric readout sure makes it easier to log results as you vary the speaker setup etc. The digital/analog issue is just about readout con... | |
| Single Channel Attenuator marakanetz...Perhaps RS parts are not of the quality one likes to have in the audio path, but, as a temporary device to determine needed attenuation a RS pot is fine. (And I have never had unusual problems with noise from RS pots, although all pot... | |
| Step-up/down transformers degrade performance? In these days of the global economy most electronic equipments have power transformers with windings for 120 and 240 volts (sometimes more). Some equipment already has both windings connected, with a selector switch to be set according to where yo... | |
| Single Channel Attenuator A "single channel single ended passive attenuator" is a potentiometer (pot for short) and will cost you about $3.50 in Radio Shack. Throw in RCA plug and jack and you're up to $5.00. Assumng you have a solid state preamp with output impedance of 5... | |
| DVD-A player with best redbook cd playback Voodoo...Thanks for the scoop about "Redbook". Agreed that D/A..A/D..D/A would be stupid.When CD's began I had a Mission player that was just what you describe: a decent player (Phillips) with upgraded analog output circuits. The analog circuits w... | |
| DVD-A player with best redbook cd playback Voodoochile...Am I correct that a "Redbook CD" is just a particular brand of CD having superior audio mastering? No different digital coding scheme? I believe that the Pioneer, and for that matter, all other DVD players, have 24 bit 96Kc D/As, (si... | |
| Were to get fuse box for dedicated line? Fuses vs Breakers. Well I don't know about sonic differences, but as to protection here's something to think about. A tree next to my house was hit by a very strong lightning bolt, which came underground into my house doing damage to all the TV's,... | |
| Best of dvd-audio and sacd discs? I second the motion on Midor/Nobuko Imai (violin/viola) Mozart Sinfonia Concetante SACD Sony Classical.As for DVD-A, so far, the spatial effects are sometimes interesting, while the audio quality is good but not stunning. Try the Bella Fleck disc. | |
| How do you use subwoofer phase control ? Bigtee..Thanks, but I know the X/O is at 70 Hz, and anyway the objective of having both speakers putting out sound is met even if the Hz isn't exactly 70 Hz. I have one idea that I still need to try out. Perhaps the crossover (Audio Control Richte... | |
| DVD-A player with best redbook cd playback You ought to hold out for COMBINED DVD-A/SACD/CD/DVD-V,etc capability. For $500 or less you can get a Pioneer DV-45A that does all this. Decent build quality, and it sounds good to me. I think the sound improvement just due to the new media will k... | |
| How do you use subwoofer phase control ? I need help on this one too. I have three MG1.6 speakers with three wall-mounted JBL 15" drivers for subwoofers. Crossover at the moment is 70Hz, 24 Db. I have no problem getting flat response down to 20 Hz.To adjust the SW phase, I set the warble... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? lucky@.. What the H is a Mi-Horn?I suggest you take any High-End beer, Heineken works OK, and use about one ounce to polish the speaker cabinets. Then, drink the rest, sit back, and enjoy! | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? The original OHM with full range Walsh driver could reproduce an almost perfect square wave... as evidenced by oscilloscope pictures. It delivered an omnidirectional cylindrical wavefront, and the imaging that I heard was superb, as you would expe... | |
| What's the most important speaker attribute...and Since we are all familiar with the TRUE sound of the human voice, it is the best test signal to evaluate the fidelity of a speaker. However, other less accurate speakers may sound better for particular kinds of music. If you listen to rock bands, ... |