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| Little help with REL subwoofers, please? Thank you all. @sns: right on! I hope you do a follow-up post somewhere out here on your experience with the two T9s. @audiorusty, thank you--that may be the most accessible explanation of standing waves, and the link was very helpful. I espec... | |
| Little help with REL subwoofers, please? Thanks, @audiorusty. I'm sure you're right about the room; I could never tame that JL, even with an external crossover, some room treatments, and all kinds of fussing. Boomy, as you say, and sluggish sounding. I've read that multiple subwoofers d... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! @troidelover1499, you might take a look at the forum on the PS Audio site. There are many threads about Maggies. They seem to have a good return policy and have often had fantastic trade-in discounts. I've never owned one of their amps so I can't ... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I've owned Maggies on and off for about thirty years, and as others have said they have a sound like no other. I think all the standard advice applies: more power helps, work with the room, consider a couple subs (I use a pair of small RELs), find... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @tylermunns, I hear you and love your list! That's some history you're putting out there.... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @tylermunns, I'm not joking about Lou Reed at all, but he probably was. He did a song called "The Original Wrapper" (sic) on his 1986 album Mistrial. I love Lou but that album wasn't his finest hour. | |
| RIP David Lindley @tablejockey, thank you so much for posting those videos. I’d seen the SNL performance but I hadn’t caught Henry Kaiser’s "Requiem." It’s WONDERFUL. | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" Of course Lou Reed was the original wrapper .... | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? Widespread Panic: "1x1." Sugarman! I also seem to remember a touching ballad by Deep Purple about a 1971 casino fire in Montreux, Switzerland.... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @simao: I'm in complete agreement with you on the "vague, uninformed, and biased cultural gatekeeping" here. Well said. My point was simply that, as far as I can tell, Ray Charles never said that "rap is not music." The fact that the OP can't even... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" This isn't exactly the most enlightened thread out here. Let's start at the beginning: Ray Charles was critical of rap but did he really say that "rap is not music"? Source? | |
| going from 2 subs > 4 subs Thank you all for taking the time to respond and to offer such helpful advice. Although I understand a bit about frequencies and room modes and non/omnidirectional subs, I couldn't help but wonder if having four subs, including two *behind* me, wo... | |
| Best Amps for Magneplanar 1.7i Speakers What everyone is saying. Let them break in. Spend too much time pondering speaker placement. Work on your room. Your room is close to square, which can be challenging; get them off the front wall as far as you can, 4'+ if possible. I've used singl... | |
| Philosophy of Audiophile Aesthetics As an academic who reads and sometimes writes scholarly articles on aesthetics, I can say that for a work of philosophy this one is FUN. It's easy to tell that the author is just as interested in audiophile culture as in 21st century aesthetic the... | |
| Cary SLP-98 history and iterations Thank you. That explains a lot. I kept finding references to the F1 but not on the Cary site. Cary lists their upgrade options and suggests that some are more bang-for-the-buck than others. I'll give them a call. I appreciate your response. |