djones51
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| Will I benefit from a subwoofer with 20Hz speakers? To get a better picture of what's going on use REW and do a measurement with Dirac on and off. | |
| Commonly mentioned speaker brands? Mostly the favorites and very few I would actually own. Magico is one that lives up to the hype but overpriced. Of course I’m an outlier here I prefer speakers designed to be very revealing with smooth off axis and flat FR. Probably why I've drift... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? DSP in active speakers. Drop a Dutch and Dutch 8c in a lousy room and get good sound. Genelec W371A with the Ones and you have directivity control down to something like 50hz, really amazing speakers. | |
| Tweaks, money pit or real value? Money pit but it's your money spend the way you want. | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Everyone has their opinion and that's all it is including mine. The only way to get beyond opinions is with vigorous testing including our ears. You may hear better than I and 90% of the population but that tells us what? When you hear good enough... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing What's the matter? Pill stuck in your throat? Correct, your subjective opinion using your ears and 'eyes' you conveniently forgot those , contributes nothing towards furthering knowledge about a product. I am always amazed of the hilltop pontifi... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing I don't know where this notion of ears being a great tool, they're "tools" cobbled together by millions of years of evolution they're simply good enough for us to survive. There are tools that hear way beyond human ears just as there are tools th... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing and this includes the best tool of all, our ears. IOW, some use their ears better than others. Some, because of experience, training, open-mindedness, or simply physiological advantage hear better than others. Hard pill to swallow for some, but t... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing You just have to have an open mind and be ready to embrace the new. I have an open mind. I’m perfectly willing to admit my ignorance on high priced cables, dacs, power "regenerators" , amps and how much improvements can attained with them. If a... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing He is probably making good money (YouTube + Google) telling people with limited funds what they want to hear: money doesn’t make one happy. Can show me the advertising on his YouTube. Thanks | |
| Amir and Blind Testing I read somewhere Amir is a famous Egyptian movie star who grows prize winning watermelons in his spare time. It's a confirmed fact. | |
| Power Distribution This is probably overkill but looks nice in a rack. I've used Panamax products for 20 years. https://www.crutchfield.com/p_299M5300PM/Panamax-M5300-PM.html | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Amplifier is only a black box between the PC and the speakers. PC provides the juice. You might want to research how an amplifier works. | |
| Warning for Revel lovers This is a strange story. I've often looked at the Salon 2 on the USA tube site and wondered how they were still selling these as they were discontinued over 2 years ago. I assumed they had some in back stock or something. I see they have a floor ... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Make sense? No, I think there's an amplifier between the power cord and speaker terminals. |