bishop148
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| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? The problem is that homes are built with the worst possible acoustics. Walls and ceiling/floor all parallel to each other causing standing waves and their harmonics - all bad. That is the cause, breaking up those resonances is the only solution. | |
| Dog pissed on speaker Ozone generators I believe work well on lingering bad odors. | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! A amplifier driving a set of speakers sees not only the impedance of the speakers that varies with frequency but also the whole circuit including the cables. Thin cables represent a resistance and impedance and thus would degrade dynamics and in... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. I have 2 old but nice Phase Linear pre-amps. However I want a remote and the Emotiva pre-amp for $500 looks ok to me. A friend of mine has Emotiva amps and Gallo surround system in his acoustically treated room - sounds fantastic. | |
| WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection I have wi-fi connection in my home, as we all do. I plan on wiring my home and not using wi-fi at all. It gives me a headache, I know it shouldn't, being that it has such a low power output. Does anyone else have this problem? | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? I've considered bi-amping my JBL 1400's, whenever you bi-amp you need to modify the crossover - I believe. May be worthwhile, although crossover design is a black art IMO. | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? I walked into a hi-fi store in the early 70's, there was a lineup of JBL speakers from bookshelfs to a Paragon. Loved them straight away, always have, tried other speakers but always returned to JBL. | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? Dam! Don't you hate being wrong! However out here in the boonies, lightning strikes are frequent and without a very fast over voltage protection it can and will damage your gear. | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? Electronic components don't wear out like for example mechanical components. But a mains voltage spike or lightning strike - that'll fry your amp and perhaps other components - nicely. Maybe unplug your system if you're not using it for long peri... | |
| Curious to know what you guys think/like about Pink Floyd's early work I loved Pink Floyd's early albums. Umugumma was definitely out there, my favorite and much underrated was Atom Heart Mother, very different and a classic. Echoes was another outstanding album, then they went for a more commercial sound and lost I... | |
| High end speakers at low volume My experience is that small speakers work better at low volume than large. I had a pair of JBL 4350's and they sounded as good as a $10 clock radio at low volume. Horn speakers are efficient and thus produce high volume but for a few exceptions a... | |
| JBL 4367 shoutiness remedies? I've owned many JBL's, and yes the horn loaded speakers are "shouty". The 1400's I own now are an exception. Part of the problem is that JBL's are dynamic - little sound compression on transients, this can be tiring. Exhilarating but fatiguing.... | |
| Modifying Crossovers I had an old pair of JBL 212's with the sub given to me. I changed the capacitors to new Sonus (I think they were called) capacitors. They really sounded great - big difference, so much so that I regretted selling them. Capacitors don't wear o... | |
| What is the proper loudness for listening? That depends on how many glasses of wine you had! | |
| Will increasing speaker cable AWG make a difference in sound quality? You have to remember that not only speakers but to a lesser extent cables exhibit impedance, and together they form a impedance circuit. To lessen that effect use thicker/lower gauge wire. |