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| Speakers "Disappearing" Achieving the disappearing act is a combination of all 3 things: speaker design, your room, and placement. If you have a speaker with an identifiable coloration, like a hot tweeter or a cabinet resonance, then the speakers will never disappear. ... | |
| Speakers least affected by room acoustics If possible, check out Tannoy speakers. The coincident tweeter is horn loaded, and dispersion is controlled to about 90 degrees. You get minimal high frequency splash off the ceiling and side walls. Plus, being coincident, the midrange is coher... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? So what you like the discussion to disintegrate into?? | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? My home studio speakers are 15" Tannoys with 97db efficiency. Out of the 4 good amps I own, the best match is my 300w/ch Bryston 4B-SST2. That's way overkill on power, but the noise floor is inaudible when using the balanced inputs, and tonally ... | |
| Any Bryston 4B3 amp owners out there? I own a 4B-ST and 4B-SST2, and both sound quite different. Sort of a good thing though, as they match better or worse with different speakers. The ST sounds more exciting, and maybe less refined. It's lived most its life powering my B&W 801... | |
| Can cables of any cost and quality provide bass response missing in my B&W speakers? I've never, ever, EVER been satisfied with the bass from woofers of 8" or less. Yes, the sound can be great... but not "satisfying"... to me. Even when you stack dual 8's or three 6.5's... it always sounds like little drivers working hard to me.... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 I've tried several times to replace my 20 year old amps with something comparable in price... only to be disappointed. I own 2 Brystons... I just had my 4B-ST restored (by Bryston... an amazing deal!) and am very happy to have it working again...... | |
| Best looking reel to reel As a teenager in the 80's, the 2 machines I dreamt of owning were the Technics RS-1500, or the Teac X-2000M. I had neither the funds nor good reason to own one at the time... but now I do, and had just had a Technics 1500 refurbished by J-corder.... | |
| Come on people....BASS! I once found on a boutique microphone manufacturer's website, the misspelling of "base", and wrote them a semi-sarcastic email about it (attempting humor). The company owner was not amused, and proceeded to list me his extensive credentials in th... | |
| What exactly is colored sound? You could listen to a dozen different $100k audiophile systems, and guess what, they will all sound different. You could go into a dozen different recording studio's and listen to their monitors, and guess what? They will all sound different. T... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world Having heard at least a dozen Wilson demos over the past 20 years, they never fail to bore me with their lack of colorations. For me, they just seem to suck the life out of music. Only once was I impressed, but i think it was with just the right... | |
| Why are tweeters so high off of the ground in many tower speakers... We're gonna need a bigger couch! | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Sota Sapphire w/Sumiko MMT arm..... for nearly 30 years!!I am a gear nut, and I have replaced everything else in my system many times over, but I have never lusted to replace my SOTA.And let's please stop arguing if LP or CDs are better. Neither... | |
| Is there any advantage to lower efficiency speakers? 87 or below? Everyone is sort of missing the real cause & effect..... It's not impossible to make drivers and speaker systems that are 97dB efficiency, but they will have far from flat frequency response or tight transient response. (though they can still ... | |
| Why So Many Raidho D3's ? The important question is..... "What are they buying to replace their ex-Raidho's?? New Raidho's? Or something else?If they buy the newer ones.... that must mean they were pretty happy with the old ones, and simply have enough money to upgrade... |