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| 100W, 200W, or 300W? @auxinput curious, what amps were those? What are you using now with your 805D3s? The 250 watt monoblocks were Emotiva XPA-1L.The 500 watt monoblocks were Emotiva XPA-1Currently, I’m using Emotiva XPR-1 monoblocks (1000 watt) for my front stage (... | |
| Why hasn’t B&W ever entered the ultra hi-end for speakers? It's most likely a business reason. B&W has a set price area for their product. They also have a large amount of capitol in custom manufacturing equipment. Couple that with an already set distribution network. As long as they can keep prod... | |
| 100W, 200W, or 300W? Get the biggest best amps you can.300W RMS, or larger. You need the headroom, said,many times, when crescendos, drum, or guitar solos, or the song ending slam at the end does happen, you will need the headroom. I would agree with this stateme... | |
| Bryston 7B SST Something is definitely wrong with the BHK. It could be one of the tubes that is faulty or it could be the Class A output stage. I am guessing the BHK is not providing gain for the "inverted" signal pins on the XLR balanced output. This is likely ... | |
| Beryllium Tweets I have some, and they are great at making mediocre amps sound as horrible as the really are. On the same system, my woven soft domes alleviate this flaw from crappy electronics. As I said above, soft domes are more forgiving on bad electroni... | |
| Advice Needed Connecting Mixer to Audio Interface & Headphone/monitor playback. Have you tried posting this question on the gearslutz forums? You might have more success over there. | |
| You can't have too many bass traps... I'm going to disagree. I've measured 20 dB peaks as well in a modest living room. That peak prevented the subwoofer level from coming up. Nulls, if narrow enough, may not even be heard, peaks though are ugly to listen to. Not disagreeing ... | |
| digital or analog volume control? You may want to check with the person who is doing the modification. If he places the volume control before the line stage, then you are good. The line stage will have its own gain and voltage to drive the input impedance of the amplifier. | |
| digital or analog volume control? But on your placette passive, the extra cable could definitely affect how clean the sound was, especially if you are using copper cables with gold-plated RCA/XLR (gold-plated will warm the sound and roll off the highs). | |
| digital or analog volume control? If you are happy with the performance of the digital volume output, then just continue to use that. If you want a good analog volume, maybe look into an active preamp. That can get expensive for something decent and it will also effect the sonic... | |
| Beryllium Tweets "Breakup distortion" is exactly the point here. Soft dome tweeters are great and forgiving, but they are not quite as clean and transparent as hard dome tweeters. The problem with hard dome / metal dome is the breakup distortion (the point where... | |
| You can't have too many bass traps... Well, that's why in my original post I said one needs to define what a bass trap is. Generally speaking, people buy "Bass traps" to tame all that low bass output. Whether they are right or wrong, that's what people do..... Bass traps will a... | |
| You can't have too many bass traps... The big/thick bass traps can help some, but they still do not absorb much down low (such as 50-60hz). Also, since they are broadband, they will tend to suck the life out of the room if too many are implemented. I have actually found that Owens 7... | |
| quieter signal from analog xlr than from digital on sacd player There is no real standard on analog output db level or gain. It is likely that your new SACD player does not have a very high output level on the analog outputs. | |
| Is Classe SSP-800 Worth Repairing? The Oppo 203 is likely pretty good, but I don't think it's going to be as transparent as the SSP-800. Some of these older processors still have very competitive and excellent audio stages. The main reason they are devalued is because they don't ... |