fas42
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| How close to the real thing? Weseixas, " ... has a Holodeck" -- nicely put :-)Timlub, unfortunately the key phrase in your comment is "distortion is so far below our hearing that it was unconceivable to hear" -- of course distortion is easy to hear! My system distorts, your s... | |
| How close to the real thing? Timlub, glad to hear how you're doing! If anyone here could see my current setup they would laugh hilariously, it looks a mess... Speakers roughly 2 ft from back wall, about 6 ft apart.What I learned to concentrate on, is eliminating all, and I me... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Just noticed this thread has been running since the beginning of '06, really shows how this topic of analogue versus digital is such a biggy, but unnecessarily so. I have only read the last page of comments, but what stuck out was the comment by E... | |
| How close to the real thing? Timlub, as notes of interest I have had almost the same number of years as yourself wrestling with this bizarre and at times excrutiatingly frustrating "addiction", and also my room is almost a perfect size match to yours.For me, when the system i... | |
| How close to the real thing? Pubul57, it gets tricky talking about different powered versions of particular amp types, it's almost a how long is a piece of string conversation!Theoretically the higher powered amp SHOULD be better because its power supply needs to be bigger, a... | |
| How close to the real thing? Weseixas, I'm sorry but my figures correlate very closely with Atmasphere, 96 versus 98 sensitivity, 120 versus 140 good watts, my sound level of 117dB at 1m, his of 110 at 3m. Check out a text book, you lose 6db per doubling of distance -- from 1... | |
| How close to the real thing? Shadorne, your Sheffield labs drum track test would be a very good one, but as regards the sound meter reading you refer to a "SUSTAINED 108 to 112 db" value, which would not be the same as the the actual peak dB reading. From Wikipedia: "'Peak so... | |
| How close to the real thing? Pubul57, it is quite remarkable the enormous number of terms used to describe system sound, which ultimately are only ways of categorising the types of distortion, or lack of it, being generated. To me, micro dynamics simply means, as in real life... | |
| How close to the real thing? Weseixas, in your last response to Atmasphere you acknowledge that 110dB peak is easily attainable at the listening position, which is exactly what my figures were pointing to. My 117dB number was peak, not DIN, average, RMS or anything else. By t... | |
| How close to the real thing? Weseixas, the term "ear splitting" immediately gives away the game -- what you are referring to here is a system that is overloading, lots of nasty system generated distortion hammering away at your ear drums, of course it sounds terrible! The oth... | |
| How close to the real thing? >I would think high efficency speakers with powerful amps >would make distortion and noise worse -- no?No, systems typically either use powerful amps and low efficiency speakers, or low powered amps and high efficiency speakers. The outcome ... | |
| Are my ears just fooling me? As Shadorne pointed out earlier, number one requirement is big headroom for your system. This means highly efficient speakers, say better than 95dB sensitivity, Klipsch are a good bet; and powerful amplifier. Yes, just what a pro or PA gear setup ... | |
| How close to the real thing? Interesting in this discussion is that virtually no mention is made of that nasty stuff, "distortion", by name. My experience is that ALL systems distort, some nicely, adding a soothing patina to the sound, but the majority inject varying amounts ... |