jacksky
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| Worst Speakers Ever?? I had a Sansui SP-5….something, don’t remember exact model. Weighed a ton. Beautiful cabinet made of solid wood with a lattice front. Must have had 5 or 6 drivers. Considering how wonderful my Sansui 881 & 9090DB receivers sounded, I was astou... | |
| Costliest Brainfart Oh yeah…dropped speakers…lowered tone arm/stylus on the part of the platter that has the speed calibration notches…turned volume up…up…up still no sound? Oh yeah, I hooked up to speaker B this time, turned speaker selector knob without lowering v... | |
| Vinyl Lovers Yeah, demagnetizers have different directions….squeeze trigger and slowly approach the vinyl careful not to make sudden movements…hover and slowly withdraw….. test by holding it next to your arm to see if the hair rises. If only you could do som... | |
| Vinyl Lovers OP; back to your opening statement, you’ve gone through a marathon session of cleaning. I too have about 500 more to clean. I got fed up around the 15th album. The process of allowing them to ir dry takes a tone of stand up space and time. I don... | |
| Really Inexpensive Systems That Sounded Great? My surprisingly good sounding simple inexpensive: 12x13 room w/8ft ceiling, carpeted, otherwise no treatment. sansui 881 receiver NHT 1.5 bookshelves samsung CD player off the shelf 12 gauge wires a friend that worked in studios….wanted to... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? @prof “:The other thing with the Thiels is the insane imaging prowess. There is a focus and precision and density to the imaging I have rarely heard before.” I had the Thiel CS5 monsters, had to work at placement really hard to get imaging an... | |
| Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording One of my favorites for crash cymbal / decay is Creedence “heard it through the grapevine”. To me it requires a bit of focusing because the recording Seems to have the mics slightly at a distance from the drums. Again, to me it’s one of the most... | |
| Green Mountain Audio If you picked up the pair in south NJ, I’d like to hear how they turn out after repairing. miller sound is your best option for quickly getting them up and running at/near close to original spec. regarding resurfacing the exterior, I would sugge... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior I haven’t used cable risers but I did try suspending the cables off the ground. One lift point at edges of audio stand was enough to lift entire cables off floor. I didn’t notice a difference. I’m willing to try it again using wood blocks , if i... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Ahah!,,,, I swapped every conceivable... switched every permutable..... flipped pos/neg , reversed flow... AND THEN: switched the speakers again. Sound field moved to opposite side! shook all connecting items, and then shook the speaker. dar... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior sorry, a little delay in getting back tot he nice folks that took time to offer help... I thought it best to be methodical in carrying out changes so I decided to start at back end. switch left/right speakers, then cables, and so on. first think... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Ok, lots to do today: clean cable terminations with Flitz try an alternate set of cables SPL test each speaker ( someone please recommend an ap I can load on my android Galaxy phone) get my ears flushed and tested (Dec 3 so results will have t... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Ghdprentice; I switched L with Right speaker. I swapped the tower speaker (Thiel CS5) and put Egglestonworks Andras in place. Now have Martin Logan Monoliths - this didn’t help. MC; I have 2 other sets of speaker cables, I’ll try those. I’ll ... | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... One more point reg cardas method, placement is based on center point of woofer. My woofers are not in the center of the speaker and are not mirror image. So in my case one speaker is 20” from side wall, other speaker is 26”.That may be right for... | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... Cardas method based on OPs link seems to address tempering bass response in the room....only. Based on multiple reads, some people feel once you take care of bass all else falls into place.I agree with previous poster, following cardas puts my sp... |