toddalin
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| How competitive are you with your system? @isellgoodgear @cleeds If you make a recording, it should be true to the original direct transfer, regardless of what you are listening on. This is your point of reference and you are not comparing it to ANYTHING else. This is also what your ... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Mihorn, I assume that you’ve seen the Oppo-95 with WaveTouch built in that has been on the local C/L? Not there now, but been there for a while off and on with a substantial price drop and probably will be back. | |
| How competitive are you with your system? As I noted, the contour control adjusts the "forwardness" of the midrange. This is not a simple midrange volume control. As set (20 ohm "default"), I like the vocal detail it affords and when I listen to direct cuts, it sounds similar to me. I l... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? That's the purpose of the "Contour" control if so desired. The recordings were done in the "20 ohm" position. | |
| How competitive are you with your system? This one is for Carlos269. You certainly hear a difference in the quality of the original recording where here you hear the "digital grain". (And I probably recorded it a bit "hot".) These are the problems of having a really revealing system. (... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? The idea is to get the performers to come over to my place and do their thing. Luckily, the room is big enough to accommodate them. Again, this is an Oppo-95 though a Yamaha RX-Z9 RECEIVER in "Pure Direct" and my Mermans with no eq or room corre... | |
| A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player? The early Pioneer SACD/DVD-Audio/DVDs suffered from the "chroma bug." I had one and the shop spent 3 months trying to fix this inherent design flaw. It would also insert "extra space" where it shouldn’t be. It used to bug the heck out of me whe... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? The cut determines the decibel level. When listening without any eq, the F-M curve is allowed to kick in and the volume control is used as a "focus knob", similar to a microscope or telescope, to determine the listening level. | |
| What's ideal size for a listening room? 14' x 20' x 8' or some multiple thereof. | |
| Extreme Toe In Well the video is a bit extreme and if you go that far off axis, with most speakers you start loosing the highs making things sound dull. | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Thanks, Consider the room and electronics and recognize, what are those high dollar systems really going to sound like? | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I don’t have it and I don’t stream to the audio system. I am lucky that my computer monitor is a classic Advent system that does a really good job with nearfield monitoring. And the reason I can tell that it does a good job is that when I liste... | |
| Extreme Toe In Works for me. I use a laser and I set it along the outer wall of the speaker cabinet and aim the cabinets so that the laser points right at the center of the couch. This means that a laser beam from the inner wall winds up beyond the center of t... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Not bad, but not great. There is a hollowness that is not in the original. Also it sounds more "thin" and "brittle." (There is an upper bass missing.) https://youtu.be/dQi_ao5F71s I’m assuming this is the original. https://youtu.be/Uwq7LIxYblo | |
| Speaker crossover capacitor & inductors values: schematic & implementation? "47s" are used because they are a much more common value to obtain = <$$$. |