martykl
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| Subs and the quest for bass. Nem,If you're looking for the least EQ, my guess is that the corners wide of and behind the speakers will work well. I tried pretty much every combo of corner/corner, corner/midwall, and midwall/midwall (note: my room has no wall behind the listen... | |
| How low is a piano? Ojgalli,Right you are. Should have said "about half an octave" lower. Digitals with a pitch wheel, however, do go a full octave lower.Marty | |
| How low is a piano? The Bosendorfer 96 key piano (rarely recorded) extends an octave lower than A0 on an 88 key instrument. Many digital pianos and keyboards (much more commonly recorded) also offer an octave of pitch control for each key, so they can also reach down... | |
| West Coast Jazz? BTW, I think you're safe with anything from Baker and Mulligan. AFAIK those two only recorded West Coast style. Just AFAIK. | |
| West Coast Jazz? Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker are the first two names that come to mind. | |
| The most haunting music you ever heard? No one for "Tubular Bells"? | |
| Cary 805 AE Feedback Request I own these amps. Due to a change in speakers, I haven't run them for some time. But, IIRC, the character of the sound MIGHT change a (little) bit over the first 20 minutes or so, but nothing really dramatic. You can listen happily after 2 minutes... | |
| Subs and the quest for bass. I see that I dropped one sentence re: my specific set-up.I always sit in 1 spot - no variation. If you move around in your listening room, the second sub will definitely provide benfits vis a vis an EQ'd single sub.Marty | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? It's funny, this could be a (GASP!) new thread: Tiger Woods, fidelity and Ohm.I recently ended an 8+ year early retirement to (GASP!) go back to work. As a result, my music time has shrunk from app. 4 hrs a day (split between listening and piano a... | |
| Subs and the quest for bass. Nemesis,As you probably know, I use exactly the same set-up, but with 2 Rythmiks. If you go this way, you will definitely reduce the amount of EQ you deploy but:1) I didn't hear much/any difference between a single sub and dual subs with the SMS. ... | |
| Subwoofer guys - House curve or flat? NemesisI filter subsonics because the odds are very very low that any such info is deliberately "on the recording". I don't need to hear the subway that happened by or,more likely, mechanical noise from my source (rumble)I understand that some pur... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? A favorite couplet from August Darnell - AKA Kid CreoleHaiti. I love your sweaty passionate rythmsI love your twisted French neologismsNot too many people would try to rhyme "neologisms"Marty | |
| Subwoofer guys - House curve or flat? Start with perfectly flat response and experiment with incremental adjustments toward your choice of target curves.I ended up with a perfectly flat curve to 35hz and a gentle rise (+2-3db) down to 25hz, followed by a steep "subsonic" roll off. The... | |
| Modernists Unite, or: saying no to room treatment Elizabeth,I wish I still had photos of my old HT room and listening room. These were the result of a "gut" renovation, were starkly modern in design, and thoroughly treated behind the "wall" surfaces. Wall is "", because I used cloth on the upper ... | |
| I had no idea I've had that happen a bunch of times.I liked the two monster Fleetwood Mac records when they were released in the 1970s, but thought they were just fun, well crafted pop records. It was only when I heard Lindsey Buckingham's 1992 solo effort "Out... |