Perfect Path "Solutions" (PPS) eMat

The best thing to do in a terrible room is a near field system if the person will go with it.

Just a remark coming from my experience...

I already have a small room 13 feet almost square...

Near listening help in a bad room in the sense that it "seems" a little less worst and it is in some measure...The direct sound coming from the speakers help.... Thats all....

My acoustical experiment worked improving my near listening (3 feet) also...

Then EVEN in near listening a room must be treated and under control acoustically... It is a myth that with near listening you are free to let your room untouched...In a non treated room, even in near listening the "timbre" experience will not be so natural and the imaging not so good....

It is my experience....

By the way i never pretended to have more experience than you for example in using an equalizer... I dont doubt your expertise with that and will ask you help when i will need to...

But i have also my experience and some unusual devices or materials did unexpected things for me...I dont want to be trusted on words but i dont want to be mocked either....Thats all....

mahgister ...

• oregonpapa,
• What are those four remote controls for?
• What model is that little Nakamichi?

Remotes: 1. CD player. 2. Line stage. 3. Phono stage. 4. Teac CD burner.

Nakamichi DR-3. I bought the Nak here on A’gon from a kind soul for $100 in like-new condition years ago and it still works perfectly. I like to burn some of my favorite LPs onto cassette and play them back on my Mark Levinson car stereo to listen to while driving. Analog in the car sounds just lovely. And by the way, cassettes don't sound too shabby in the main system either. 

Frank

oregonpapa,

Thanks (it was me, not mahgister)!

I figured TEAC out, but could not guess the other three. Most of the time, multiple remotes have a TV somewhere around so I was puzzled.

I have DR-2 (I think) I got for $20 at Goodwill. That is why I noticed Nakamichi. Even mine plays really well.

I agree with tapes in the car.

My preferred medium would be cassettes made from records (singles, preferably). Well, they are, when it comes to realistic sound, probably two steps ahead of short wave radio, but it is ok to like the ugly duckling at times. Love has no eyes. Or ears, in this case.

Ampex > TDK > Maxell.

SA before 1988 or so.

Mark Levinson? What Mark Levinson? Unless it is Becker Mexico Electronic Diversity, it has to be Blaupunkt Mannheim 24.

Now, you could have an older version of Mexico with tubes, if that floats your boat.

Becker Mexico tube radio for Mercedes 190 SL | Königs Klassik-Radios (koenigs-klassik-radios.de)

Here, for all the tube lovers of Audiogon. Check all seven of them. Tube rolling anyone?

Behind the White Wheel: Becker Mexico Alive

As I said, Mark Levinson? What Mark Levinson?