stehno
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| Bright room, help Typically, you want some very thick berber type carpeting with thick quality oriented pad underneath.Sell the leather and purchase a cloth sofa and/or chairs (cotton is nice and cool to the touch like leather). And clothe ottomans. Leather will re... | |
| Speaker match for 75 watt Tenor amps Have you considered the Vandersteen Model 5's? | |
| Any experience w/ Electrocompaniet EC 4.5 preamp? I demo'ed one in my home some time ago. I thought it cheap build quality, a bit gawdy looking, and very subdued sonically and dynamically to say the very least. -IMO | |
| Is there a pre-amp not processor with a sub out? Sorry, Funkydog. I missed your post. If you look closely at my post above, it clearly stated class A preamp.Better late than never. | |
| Sibilance how do I get rid of it? As far as I know every system has a problem with sibilants to one degree or another. But obviously some much, much worse than others.I am confused a bit as you attempt to include your room acoustics and demensions into the equation. Having an extr... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Twl, I'm in over my head here, but I won't let that stop me. Is it not true that for a speaker to be properly "phase-aligned" by default it almost demands a 1st order crossover? Supposedly, that's yet another reason why the Vandersteen Model 5's a... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Some consider time and phase coherent extremely important especially Richard Vandersteen. But then you hear people rant and rave about the Hyperions, the Dynaudio Evidence Master and Temptation, the Krell LAT-1 all of which are not (I believe). Fr... | |
| Sub for Aerial 10Ts The SW12 is excellent, if that is in your price range. It wasn't in mine.I own the 10T's and have a Triad Platinum 18 inch sub that is used for 95% music and 5% movies in 2-channel.As you probably know, the 10T's are excellent in the bass regions ... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? The amplifier is the most important and by a wide margin. Why? Based on my experience, most amplifiers do much more than just amplify the signal. And that's almost never a good thing. In addition, it appears that most amplifiers will only excel in... | |
| What could be instead of side walls? Ensure that speaker cables are connected in-phase. + to + and - to -.I accidently connected incorrectly and my soundstage was all over the ceiling and inside my right ear.And to top it off, I was playing Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon!! | |
| Best used amp 6K;Gamut,Gryphon Krell .. Find yourself a used McCormack DNA-2 for maybe $2200 and send it to Steve McCormack at smcaudio.com who for $2900 will rebuild it into a Rev A. A DNA-2 Rev A should easily equal and perhaps outperform anything else you may be entertaining at any p... | |
| Dedicated AC line with tray cable I believe you would be best served to dictate to the electrician exactly what you desire, and only let him/her override you only if there's a threat of burning down your house.IMO, Glen (the well-known electrician on this site) is very knowledgeab... | |
| What is "critical listening"? To me, casual listening is plopping down in front of an unfamiliar system, listening to some unfamiliar music. And you're really not listening for anything in particular, maybe you're just taking a breather.Critical listening would be listening to... | |
| Quick bi-wire question I believe bi-wiring benefits are entirely system and cable dependent. They say that the best performance gains (if you notice any at all) would be from having four seperate runs each enclosed in it's own sheath.I've tried bi-wiring on several occa... | |
| Where's My Bass? 1. The HT pro silways and magic links are an excellent cable. (at least for some systems) Especially for the money. If you have their Truthlinks, I don't know.The Analysis Plus Oval 9's were the strangest speaker cable I've ever heard in my system... |