shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Obsessed with room acoustics After assembling a modest system - room acoustics probably has the biggest impact on sound quality.I agree with those that say careful selection of furnishings can really help.I drew the line at a custom designed soffit mounted main speaker and eq... | |
| What is "polite" sound? "Polite" sound is often what reviewers say when they can't define a specific defining characteristic of a component or speaker (i.e. descriptors like deep bass or scintillating highs, edgy, bright, harsh, sibilant or recessed don't seem to apply e... | |
| recommended reading Try Nika Aldrich's Digital Audio Explained. It manages to avoid much of the math that you will find in engineering electronics text books and makes easy reading for a layman. Armed with Nika's long list of audio "myths" you can help protect yourse... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables My understanding was that audio signals could be carried as DC, but that AC was required for speakers to allow them to vibrate in piston fashion. They could be carried as DC but they are not (in fact the sound you hear is alternating compression ... | |
| First cd purchase Schipo,My first CD purchased was Michael Jackson ThrillerFrench_fries,My first CD player was the WDR-50 (Walkman CD player) - all bought the same year it came out (1985). I still have both and both still work and I feel both live up to the promise... | |
| Klipsch Chorus I's tweeters are not working The diaphragm is what vibrates and transfers the sound to the air.The voice coil is the "motor" behind the diaphragm. (current through the coil produces the emf that opposes the magnetic field of the driver magnet assembly and causes the coil to m... | |
| Klipsch Chorus I's tweeters are not working Probably overdriven and fried tweeter voice coils. Those are great party speakers. | |
| Room ratios doubling sheet rock makes for a rigid wall Good point. A leaky room is far better in bass response than concrete walls. Concrete basements rarely sound as good as wood frame walls and wood floors. The only people who suffer from a leaky room are ... | |
| Musicality vs Transparency & Detail Regarding speakers that are developed for monitoring purposes, I agree that there are some that are quite good, but then there are also clunkers like the Yamaha NS-10m. Jcarr,Absolutely agree a real clunker. The purpose and popularity of the chea... | |
| Musicality vs Transparency & Detail How have you been able to achieve excellent detail retrieval without getting an etched fatigue inducing sound. I found the solution was to go to pro studio speakers. Consumers designs are all designed to impress the listener in one extreme way or... | |
| Zu Druid questions If you like the speaker or vegetable or movie, it doesn't really matter what the gauges, meters, formulae or critics say. I understand this subjective view. However, whether you like broccoli more than potatoes is hardly useful to another in help... | |
| Zu Druid questions Sorry to those affronted by "grandstanding" with unecessary detailed discussion here on the Zu Druids. As several have pointed out and continue to reiterate "measurements have no meaning", as the Zu Druids are a fantastic speaker irregardless of w... | |
| Zu Druid questions Shardone - Some of this or that might be related to rainbows and puppydogs. If the driver is breaking up anywhere in its band I can't hear it. You couldn't either. When the frequency response becomes very spikey above a certain frequency cone bre... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2 or Focal Electra 1037 be? Mert,Congratulations. Time to update your virtual system pics!Obvioulsy you are happy but do let us all know how the presentation differs from the electras... | |
| Which Recordings Have Widest Soundstage The earlier days of stereo, for example Beatles Sgt Pepper and Sly and The Familly Stone. Thousands of examples exist. Duran Duran's sound engineers did lots of tricks...listen to "Tiger" on "Seven and the Ragged Tiger"...not great music but the e... |