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| Amp Power Conditioner or not? This thread raises the question, what exactly is "bad" power? Voltage fluctuating beyond some limits? That's a common criterion I see frequently cited as something a power conditioner can fix. What else might characterize "bad" versus "good" power... | |
| Is Kind of Blue the Best Jazz Album Ever I'd definitely put in a word for Kind of Blue as the greatest jazz make-out album of all time. Not to denigrate it from a purely musical standpoint (because it truly is amazingly good playing, especially the miraculous way Miles turned this group ... | |
| Keeping Out Street Noise / Sound-Reducing Windows Smata67, thanks for that idea ... however, I live in one of those traditional, old Chicago buildings that has a "thrust" sunroom at the front of the living space (an example; not my place but similar, just remove that arch). The exterior walls of ... | |
| Keeping Out Street Noise / Sound-Reducing Windows Vandermeulen, does the bats' sonar affect your systems' performance? If so, for good or ill? | |
| Who R U? I am an environmental attorney and also partner in a brownfield consulting company. I live in Chicago (Logan Square neighborhood ... thus my imaginative handle). I'm 43 years old and have been a fan of stereo music reproduction (not necessarily "h... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts I really only have one fav rock concert to list. R.E.M. at William & Mary Hall (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia) in 1986. Let's Active opened. It was open seating (standing) on the floor, and with that type of patience on... | |
| Power Cables which take the soundstage back I'll chime in here as a recent convert (but not zealot) in the "power cords make a difference to the sound" camp. Over the past two months, I have gone from using all stock power cords and a Home Depot surge protector to:PS Audio Perfect Wave AC-1... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 2000 VW New Beetle, yellow, 5-speed manual transmission, 2.0 liter engine. Hecho en Mexico. Owned it since new and just passed 80,000 miles. | |
| Best speaker stand for PSB Synchrony 2? Yep, I have them about 7 or 8 feet from the front wall, 3.5 feet from the side walls, and for the reason you state. That certainly tamed the bass in my room, but I'm also looking for a good, solid (literally and figuratively) way to deal with (1) ... | |
| Best speaker stand for PSB Synchrony 2? Synchrony 2, not 2B. Floorstanding speakers. | |
| Power Conditioning: How Do You Know You Need It? Hi, and thanks to all who have posted responses; much appreciated. Since making the OP, I have done a little experiment to determine whether I have a noise problem -- practical,not theoretical. Here is what I did. With my playback source on pause,... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I had a pair of Celestion Model 100s for 17 years. I loved and hated them in turns, and for all the same reasons, from day one to day 6,205. (I also married someone in 1992, and that relationship only lasted through 2001, so draw your own conclusi... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Homemade speakers my cousin gave me -- 1980 to 1983(plywood boxes with no back on them)Radio Shack Mach One -- 1983 to 1992 (but not the original, good ones; the cheap imitation model sold after about '80 or '81)Celestion Model 100 -- 1992 to 2009... |