mkgus
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| Is Anyone Using Subwoofers the Same Size as Their Mids? Thanks for the input. I have the tools to apply EQ with a calibrated mic and a DSP module. I’m not sure how far that will take me because I have some serious issues with the room. For example, if I bang on the drywall I can hear it rattle while it... | |
| How Has Your Finely Tuned Audiophile Dexterity Helped You in Your "Other" Life? I believe that the right music can be extremely healing. There are stories out there about people using music to improve their health. If nothing else, the experience is very close to mediation when you turn the lights down, close your eyes, and l... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. There is no cost of entry. If you had some hand me down speakers, set them up in a listening triangle, hung some coats on the side walls for absorption, and sat quietly intensely focusing on the music, you would be an audiophile. To me, being an a... | |
| The Wonderful World of CD-R's Yes, there’s still a community of CD-R users, for whatever reason. I’ve found that when you can’t beat the sound of your CD player with other digital sources, you’re almost forced to burn your own CD-Rs. MAM-A Silver Digital Audio CD-Rs are excell... | |
| Going Battery Powered Hesitant to reply to such a negative comment, but I will in the off chance you’re actually here to learn something. There are many threads on this forum that discuss the technical aspects of battery powered audio gear, both pros and cons. I recomm... | |
| Going Battery Powered It’s been awhile so I feel like I should chime in with my findings. What I’ve found is that I get better sound with the following setup rather than going direct to a 12V battery with my equipment that can take 12V DC. It seems counterintuitive bec... | |
| Grateful and Thankful Agreed! | |
| How to Modify SMPS Output Voltage That’s a good question. I definitely enjoy DIY and tweaking things. I am somewhat on the fence about upgrading the PS1 power supply as a long term solution. Right now I am comparing the stock power supply vs. my DIY SMPS dual power supply solution... | |
| How to Modify SMPS Output Voltage Erik - I have had excellent results upgrading the power supplies for my digital sources. Both my CD player and my DAC love these iFi low-noise, switch mode power supplies with active noise cancellation. Unlike the cheap wall warts, these were desi... | |
| How to Modify SMPS Output Voltage I’m trying to power a Sony PlayStation 1. The 7.6V is for the motor and the 3.6V is for the chips. I tried using 5V on the chips but the PS1 wouldn’t boot properly. Concerning using a simple resistive voltage divider, I have learned that there... | |
| Can You Beat Simple? I took me a while to get used to Benchmark's sound, but now I would never go back. Could it be you've been conditioned? Maybe it’s a me thing. Maybe my mind needs time to adapt and/or my system needs more burn-in time. | |
| PSA: Short Unused Speakers and Subs in the Listening Room The only other room I heard anything like this was an impeccably acoustically designed and tweaked out room that also had two huge racks of subs, not a classic distributed array exactly but with 4 on each side stacked 5ft high not all that differ... | |
| PSA: Short Unused Speakers and Subs in the Listening Room Here’s my question: If you only care about one listening position, are multiple subs really better? I just can’t shake the thought that multiple subs (4 or more) spread throughout the room wouldn’t integrate that well with each other. Would the ba... | |
| PSA: Short Unused Speakers and Subs in the Listening Room By the way, I think the low frequency performance of my system increased after shorting the unused subwoofers. I was only able to listen to one song (that wasn’t especially bass heavy) after I made the change but it seemed clearer in the bass freq... | |
| PSA: Short Unused Speakers and Subs in the Listening Room Shorting the terminals creates a situation where the same voltage being generated by moving the cone with your finger, is simultaneously putting voltage right back into the coil resisting this same motion. As a result it moves hardly at all. ... |