jameswei
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| What started you on the path to being audionut? My parents went shopping for a console in the 1960s. (They settled on a Magnavox.) While shopping, they asked the salesman about some components on a shelf in the corner of the store, and they were told they were very expensive but sounded good. T... | |
| 6 new Totem Hawks vs Used Wilson set-up ? First, you need to audition the Wilson's seriously. While many might judge the Wilson's to be "better," there are some people who do not like the Wilson sound. Best to verify for yourself.If you find you like the Wilsons, then How Much better do t... | |
| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? Geez, Czarivey! That's a great story. You actually caught the guy.I actually had an OEM radio stolen out of a BMW in Greenwich Village before they started employing scramble codes.Glad to hear no one has reported an accident-related loss so far. | |
| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? No. Too much outside noise, inferior source quality except for CDs, too distracting for the driver, inhibition from playing realistically loudly (personally, I would be embarrassed to be playing loudly enough to disturb other drivers), cost I woul... | |
| Hum problem - help How about switching your speaker cable? | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system I had a good experience some years ago in my sunroom system.I ran a Mark Levinson 390s cd player directly into a Pass Aleph 3 amp, driving a pair of ProAc 1SCs. Supplemented at the low end with a REL subwoofer. Cardas Golden Cross interconnects an... | |
| Using two preamps together to use the phono on one Yah, you should be able to just plug it into the Aux input of your new preamp.If you get a new preamp with a "phono" input, then you could plug your phono into that and retire the NAD.But if you still want to us the NAD phono stage, then use the Aux. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Bill Charlap Trio on May 10 at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ. Bill, with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, held forth with his jazz interpretations of "great American songbook" favorites in the Berlind auditorium. Melodic,... | |
| Does anyone love the First Watt SIT2 Is there a significant advantage to having two SIT1 monoblocks instead of a SIT2?Is the key difference that the SIT1 has a control for optimizing the load line setting of the SIT device? And how big an advantage is this? | |
| Does anyone love the First Watt SIT2 Glad to hear your enthusiasm.How would you describe its sound? What did it replace?What speakers are you driving? | |
| One or two subs Marty is right that room resonances will be largely determined by the room dimensions, regardless of the number of subs. Careful placement of the sub or subs can help a bit, but the walls will still be the most important factors. (Like, it's very ... | |
| One or two subs A 50 Hz sound wave would be a bit less than 23 feet long, assuming the speed of sound is 1125 feet/second at sea level.A half wave would be 11 to 12 feet long. If your subs are 11 to 12 feet apart, the peak pressure from one sub would reach the ot... | |
| One or two subs For your application, the single sub might be better.Since much of the low frequency signal is essentially mono in nature, the output of two subs will likely cancel at certain frequencies unless they are fairly close together. | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Music will be stored on cloud servers. You won't use local hard drives or disc media.You will access the internet wirelessly, no more LAN cable, using a device with firmware in semiconductor memory (ala Sandisk), no hard drive.All music will have ... | |
| Are older series speaker cables a bad investment?? Also, materials cost can be a factor.Years ago, I discovered that silver conductors sounded best in my main system, and I was able to afford the conversion to all silver.But some time after that, the price of silver rose substantially, and I notic... |