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| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Where's Jason Bourne when you need him :)) | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? @OP - Invest in an ultrasonic record cleaning machine. Use streaming to identify recordings you like and then go tracking down the vinyl. I have heard vinyl recordings that don't sound good on CD but not vice versa. There are differences between d... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - the volume of your room does not indicate whether it will or will not benefit from acoustic treatment. Your room is bigger than a lot of the control rooms in small studios, which, if they are commercial, will be treated. Sound on Sound magaz... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - a lot of what advertised as bass traps are broadband absorbers that have some attenuation at lower frequencies but aren't optimised for that freqency range. If you look at Vicoustic or Gik's websites, you'll see cylindrical and triangular co... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP You need corner bass traps. The panels you have work in the midrange. | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? +1 dynamiclinearity. The "ported speakers have slow boomy bass" is a proverbial old wives tale. @OP, with the K6 being ported through the bottom of the cabinet, I'm not sure that you will find an improvement overall - yes you can reduce the bass ... | |
| Auditioned Wilson Sabrina X vs B&W 803D4 and Shocked @OP - If that is how the Sabrina Xs sounded, they were not set up properly. | |
| Location of compoments. @bdp24 - was he playing a Riccy when you saw him? Great that you had the opportunity to see them then. To be fair, most of his Tele playing was with Hiwatts. | |
| Location of compoments. It is preferable not to have racks between the speakers - mainly on account of diffraction. However provided the rack is even a little behind the plane of the speakers, it's not an absolute disaster. Sometimes, as in my own case, there is simply n... | |
| What were your favorite gear additions in 2024? Shunyata mains distributors - one Everest for the digital side and one Typhon T30 and Denali for the analogue side. It delivered major improvements in dynamics, spatial resolution and that elusive "it sounds real" quality. | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @grunge1000, large scale statistical tests of audio differences are extremely difficult to organise and audio manufacturers are not pharmaceutical companies whose budgets and regulatory environment require them. I'm not sure of you are drawing inf... | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" A lot of the Messiah is eschatological. For example - "though the worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see god" (I know that my Redeemer liveth). The government shall be upon his shoulders makes sense in that context. | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Thanks for the various comments. A couple more observations, if I may. As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to engineering, if it doesn't contradict the laws of physics, anything is possible. Secondly, when it comes to measurements, there are is... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Objectivists say - theory says it doesn't matter, so it can't matter. Empiricists say, observation tells me it does matter. Technically informed empiricists then attempt to find out why, at a theoretical level, it does matter. The latter is how th... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST @Panzrwagn - that analysis is based on the frequency domain. The time domain is also important. |