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| Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation The basic issue is that most speakers are not designed to load into an acoustic half-space and that creates a rise in low and mid-bass most will perceive as thickness or muddiness. Proximity to the rear wall also reduces reflection time from the b... | |
| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? Blu-Tak is my Blu-Tak is my go-to. Other brands can leave an oily smudge or damage the finish of the component below. Gorilla double-sided tape works well and is much grippier, but also pretty close to permanent. | |
| Phono Preamp Gain @tablejockey re: "There shouldn't be any lack of bass with the JBL's." You might want to edit that to say 'mid-bass' as the L100 starts rolling off steeply around 55Hz. It's also a high-Q design with a peak of 6dB or more so an octave above the po... | |
| Crystal Clear Audio Statement -- What Direction? The pointy end. Either of them will do. | |
| Grado Statement 1 Sidebar question: Why would Hovland build a MM phono stages with an input impedance 20X the industry standard? That said, Grado's low inductance design is relatively unaffected by either capacitance or resistance loading. | |
| "I love it when a plan comes together!!!" Having a dedicated room that is optimized for listening is way more than half the battle, and you've won that. Congratulations and enjoy how special that is. | |
| Tone arm length A 12" arm will not resonate more simply because it's longer, it certainly will resonate at a lower frequency. The amount of resonance is far more a function of materials and design. Also a longer arm is easier to set up because it has lower tracin... | |
| Small footprint subwoofer The KC62, SVS 3000 Micro, and REL T5x are all excellent mini-subs. I would add the Sunfire - which I have - but they're gone. In your small room I expect the KEF would work best, but if budget is a determining factor, then the T5/X. The SVS offers... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? The success of the Pass 25 and other small-bore tube amps Indicates that's plenty for most applications. But remember this - speakers are current driven devices and benefit greatly from amps acknowledging that fact. Most modern speakers are less ... | |
| Best planar, elctro......budget and room concerns Anyone with any hope of having true audiophile cred must at some point own a pair of Magneplanars. Until then you simply don't have any idea of what all the fuss is about. The LRS and .7 new fit in your price range, as do a used pair of 1.7s. Olde... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced Digital Cables You have some great gear. And going balanced will make your voice exactly 3dB louder in the ongoing discussions of how digital cables make deeper zeroes and more spacious ones. Seriously, the advantages of balanced connections are very real consid... | |
| Seeking advice for speakers for my Family Room Speaker choice verges on irrelevant until you have addressed the room acoustics. Controlling first reflections is foremost and that includes ceiling and floor as well as sidewalls. Next is reducing the RT60 (overall room reverb time). Regardless o... | |
| Long time lurker looking for HT opinions @maxwave "For Home HT , you want fast clear speakers : Focal , Monitor Audio ." Totally agree. I have MA's in my main system and JBL in-wall for my HT. With more and more music and movies being done/redone in Dolby Atmos having a timbre-match... | |
| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier @jasonbourne71 Ahh, but did the Audio Precision AP-555 have blacker backgrounds and a bigger soundstage? I think not! 🤔 | |
| Looking for a component for ripping and playing CD's. As long as you are ripping to a FLAC file, a laptop or PC will be fine. If you want to 'roll your own' I'd recommend using an external NAS (Network Attached Storage) from someonelike Synology. If you want easy, it's hard to beat the Bluesound Vau... |