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| Parasound JC1's vs. Sim Audio W10 Downunder: Nordost's "design formula" for cabling can work well for interconnects, but it is simply electrically out of place for speaker cabling in a perfectly balanced system. This is not to say that their speaker cables are horrid, but that the... | |
| Any heard of Porcupine Tree? Alephman: With all of the raves that this band gets, i was tempted to buy another one of their discs just to give them a second chance. Then again, i bought Lightbulb Sun as many others suggested over at AA, so i didn't want to end up with two dis... | |
| It's funny how records are still best. We all know that a dog has FAR superior auditory capacities as compared to any human. Having said that, if the Edison cylinder was good enough to fool Nipper the dog, how much better does it have to get to sound like "real, live music" with a cd o... | |
| RPG Room Optimizer and other software rives, etc. The RPG Optimizer is pretty much useless in all but a rectangular room. Don't waste your money.The CARA program is capable of very good results, but as mentioned above, can be very demanding of your time and quantity / quality of data that it requ... | |
| Any heard of Porcupine Tree? Musical artists and performances are probably more preferential than gear is. Having said that, i purchased Lightbulb Sun by Porcupine Tree based on many of the raves i read about the band / disc on the net. After listening to it at least a dozen ... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables "What can you say about a pair of cables that cost $32,000???". I can say that they are WAY over-priced : ) Sean> | |
| Parasound JC1's vs. Sim Audio W10 Downunder: I would not have expected the Pass amp to be a good match with your speakers. Most Pass amps are a little "round" sounding in the bass, albeit in a pleasant manner. The problem is that, when you combine it with speakers that lack dampin... | |
| Straws in ports? Port noise or "chuffing" comes from increased turbulence within the port. The best solution is to either avoid using a port or to use a port that maintains a more consistent flow velocity and level of turbulence across a wider spl range. As Goroi ... | |
| Is Odyssey Power amp Stratos better than Krell? It is possible that some people prefer "tube based distortion generators" to SS based equipment that tries to reproduce the input signal with a higher level of linearity. If one doubts that this is possible, try taking a look at this link to a pos... | |
| Room size and Dunlavy SCIV/A The lower ceiling height may actually help low frequency reinforcement and isn't a problem with the Dunlavy's controlled vertical dispersion. The width mentioned may be a bit on the narrow side at 9.5' apart, but it should work okay so long as you... | |
| Why aren't component active XOs more popular? Serus: As mentioned, my Brother went from using a 6 dB per octave passive crossover using very high grade parts in a passively crossed multi-amped system to an "antique" active crossover that was used professionally and beaten to death. After hear... | |
| Classe DR-9 vs Sunfire Signature Schipo: The closest thing to what you are refering to is a Sunfire Symphonic Reference amplifier. It does not have dual AC power cords and it was a "budget" model from Sunfire. For a view of the products that Sunfire offers and has offered in the ... | |
| Source for schematics Thanks for the attempt Greg, i do appreciate it. I had tried one website already and was unfamiliar with the other. No luck at that one either. Sean> | |
| Why aren't component active XOs more popular? Suits me: I've recently been talking to a couple people that are attempting to run active crossovers on commercially built passive speakers. The more that they dig into it, the more that they realize that this is going to be a lot of work. As such... | |
| BAT vs Pass Labs Amp Jwin: My comment above was based on the fact that many "bottleheads" won't look sideways at an SS amp, regardless of how good it sounds. The Pass amps are SS and Mdominick specifically stated "am hooked on tube gear". Sean> |