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| 1/4" balanced analog outs to active monitor XLRs? I don't know your soundcard but there should be no problems at all. Go to a pro-audio dealer and buy two of the most expensive balanced jack ( same as a stereo jack) to XLR leads. This should cost somewhere around $20.Check that the plugs are eith... | |
| Speaker advice please for Bryston B60... Try PMC's.All PMC speakers have been designed using Bryston amplification and their 'activated' studio monitors come with Bryston amps. | |
| Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums No top ten, just two suggestions:Bill Laswell "Dub Chamber 3" kinda electronic dub;Keith LeBlanc "freakatorium" electronic funk dub if there is such a thing.Both recommended because a) I like'em and b) the production is good.If you ever come acros... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question JBL are not the only ones!I quote from the owqners manual of my Tannoy Little Red Monitor:"Absolute PolarityThe convention on all Tannoy loudspeakers is as follows:A positive going signal (ie =ve terminal of 1.5 volt cell) connected to the positiv... | |
| Best customer service? Mondial designs! I don't know how relevant this is to you guys in the States but I am very impressed with Quad ( I live in UK)About 15 years ago somebody I was working with had some ESL's which needed a complete service. He phoned Quad and was given a price and wa... | |
| Early 80's - late 70's best audio products The Studer/Revox B7-- series, all of them, but especially the tuner and the tape machines (cassette and open)For speakers the Tannoy SuperRed range (especially the beautiful FSM), the Klipsch K-Horns or Quad ESL's(of course all of these have their... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Its Ray Charles, of course!The single most influential singer of all time.A great blues singer who kick-started Rock'n'Roll went on to invent Soul and is the inspiration behind ALL of the sixties british bands like the Stones,Beatles,Kinks and the... | |
| How low can one hear Huh?? Say again Granted there are major differences in music reproduction/perception between speakers and 'phones but I fail to see the relevance when it comes to a pure tone (sine wave) as long as it reaches the ear at a high enough level to be perceived.On a di... | |
| How low can one hear Huh?? Say again I've just done exactly that: Fired up my modular synthesizer, plugged my headphones (5Hz-35kHz) straight into the low frequency oscilator (0.001Hz-500Hz)set it to sine wave and turned the frequency down. The result is a hum that goes lower and low... | |
| How Good Can Digital Get? In some respects digital will never be as good as analog and in some respects analog will never be as good as digital.Unless the sample rate approaches infinty analog will always hold more information. For volume resolutioncd's 16bit allows for 65... | |
| Isolation feet for monitors Try Auralex MoPads (www.auralex.com).These are foamblocks made from the same acoustic (high mass) foam as the soundproofing in recording studios designed for exactly your purpose. But most of all they just work! No more rattles and the bass has ga... | |
| ultimate final word what we want out of our system Given that I mostly listen to studio recordings rather than life...I want to hear exactly what the engineer heard.Simple, isn't it? I achieved this for about 800$ all in. | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? Err... prety much all of it!Tannoy Little Reds ('81) mintStuder A727 cdp (ca'85)QUAD 520f ('80something)Technics TT ('80)Surrey Electronics balanced phono pre ('80)This all replaced a fairly recent Arcam system which, in direct comparison, didn't ... | |
| Slew Rate? The slew rate states the voltage increase the amp is capable of in one microsecond. This is important for very dynamic recordings (classical music has the greatest dynamics)and becomes more important the more inefficient the connected speakers are... | |
| How does a good mp3 sound? Short answer: badMedium answer: very,very badGiven that the encoding process reduces the information content by 90%, mp3's can't help to be horrible. Anybody who can't hear the difference better sell heir HiFi and get a Bose WaveRadio.If you get a... |