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| Speakers on top of subwoofer If you're not using 4x subs in a dsp bass-managed array, what are you even doing with your life? (I kid, but seriously, if I didn't get the science of it I'd think it was witchery.) | |
| Deals Gone Bad I recently purchased a pair of Yamaha HS80M Studio Monitors (according to the listing title and item description) from Reverb.com using their app for iPhone. If I had been on a computer, I would have seen that the seller's images were of Yamaha HS... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? If you measure distortion in a contemporary music reproduction system on a per component basis, speakers contribute orders of magnitude greater distortion than any other component. At least in solid state and ultralinear tube systems. We are talki... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby I’ve arrived at a place where the goal of the playback system architecture is total transparency. I don’t believe that recordings can be improved in the reproduction process. Eliminating distortion is the key. That includes: - No tonal coloration... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby There are some interesting things here. 1. Define ’hobby’. If you’re not making money at listening, isn’t every interest that isn’t a profession a hobby? 2. Yeah, the original conjecture is the ’Missing the forest for the trees’ argument. It bas... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Didn’t Steve Bannon coin the phrase, "Flood the zone with $H!†" to refer to spraying out an intense amount of information (see: dissembling)? Specifically in the hope that highly rational people will judge the crank too crazy to deal with and leav... | |
| Does Anyone Use Pro Audio Speakers as their Main? @cd318 Just know that studio monitors are pro gear and many, especially the smaller ones, are voiced for accuracy in near field monitoring. So for example, the Yamaha's have non-linear response to gain; as you turn them up, the bass doesn't incr... | |
| Does Anyone Use Pro Audio Speakers as their Main? I did that, starting in 2004 or 2005. I picked up a pair of Yamaha HS80 8” near-field monitors and the companion HS10W 10” studio sub for my computer setup. I had a pair of KEF Q60 bookshelf speakers in my main system. The computer system was driv... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? @daledeee1 : Sadly, I have a full time job and little wiggle room for house calls! I grew up listening to my dad’s records through a Sansui 5000A receiver and a pair of Dynaco A35’s sitting on Muppet brown inch-deep shag carpet and have been hook... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? The first thing is the role of bass in the overall musical picture. All recorded natural sounds and complex generated tones have both a fundamental frequency and harmonics / overtones. The fundamental frequency is always the lowest and the harmoni... | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. Most of the conjecture here is that an increase of listeners rotating out of tubes and into solid state is because of Issues with Tube Availability from Russia going forward. And that might be the final straw for many tube owners. But the reality ... | |
| Aes-ebu vs. balanced cable @auxinput follow up question! What about the opposite? I have a DAC with balanced analog outputs and have a pair of Mogami Gold AES/EBU XLR cables. Is there any benefit or improved performance when using a 110 Ohm AES/EBU XLR cable in as a balance... | |
| Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about The new mix of Revolution 9 on the 2018 Super Deluxe edition of The Beatles (White Album) is phantasmagoric. Like a series of disembodied tape loops floating around you in space like objects in a whirlpool, just out of reach.I first heard this fro... | |
| List your state of art headphones for smart phone use! Mr Speakers Aeon Flow closedPros: Very low leakage. Decently isolating. Have low enough impedance to be driven to decent levels by the amp in a phone. Sound world class when paired with a headphone amp with some guts. Wire based headphone band ver... | |
| RMAF 2019! I was looking down on it from 41,000 ft, crying silently! |