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| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! Double Advents Ortofon 445 DIY 2 way Audax Woofer + Peerless Tweeter PSB 6T PSB X2T with 4 12" subs Magnepan 1.7i (subs yet to be integrated) | |
| Results of Actual Hearing Test and Next Steps One point of consideration is that it is apparently harder to adapt to hearing aids the older you are. Best not to leave it too long. I have relatives who waited till their late 70s and could not adapt, even though their hearing was quite bad. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? +1 for Blue Jeans Cable | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? There is a learning curve for REW, but a very powerful tool. Also a couple of youtube introductory videos from GIK Acoustics and Music City Acoustics might be of interest. | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? @bigtwin , didn't mean to trigger anyone, just expressing my opinion. I followed Acoustic Fields for a while, but didn't find it useful in the end. I'm sure his consulting service has tuned many rooms successfully. I use the approach of measuring ... | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? I wouldn't place too much faith in Acoustic Fields. He is promoting his own solutions, and flies pretty far from a lot of the accepted acoustics theories with little in the way of real data. Having said that corners are the most effective place t... | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? I wouldn't place too much faith in Acoustic Fields. He is promoting his own solutions, and flies pretty far from a lot of the accepted acoustics theories with little in the way of real data. Having said that corners are the most effective place t... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations Blue Jeans Cable offer good quality very well made custom length speaker cables at a reasonable price. https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/indexmob.htm | |
| ? about Smoking Power Amp Nobody has commented on the preamp and what might have caused this. You said the filter was passive, right? No active components? So the input of this filter was plugged into the power amp input, and the output was plugged into the preamp. The tw... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. Topping Pre90 - very clean and balanced or single ended options with stepped relay volume control. | |
| Really Long XLR +1 for Blue Jeans Cable, I have had several balanced & unbalanced cables from them & always been pleased with quality & price. Their website has some great articles on cable construction, trade-offs, and choice. | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? Re the comments about fast vs slow switching in A/B testing. When I was at university I was involved in many A/B/X listening tests. The point was not to say which sounded better, but rather to say which of A or B was the same as X, which was rando... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? A couple of points. IPhone apps can be quite accurate, as they all are calibrated to the same standard. Android phones, unfortunately, are not. On my Samsung I had to use a 15dB! Sensitivity adjustment to match a calibrated sound level meter. +... | |
| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? I believe that imaging and soundstage are primarily impacted by the design and performance of the speakers, their positioning within the room and relative to lhe listener, and the room acoustics. The contribution from the amplifier falls far down... | |
| Why do speakers improve with more powerful amps? I don't believe damping factor has been mentioned. Higher power amps tend to have a higher damping factor. With bass in particular, a higher damping factor provides better control of the driver and depending on the impedance of the speaker can res... |