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| To all Klipsch Heritage fans @helomech I’m not a Klipsch apologist in terms of their unorthodox presentation and design; you either love it or hate it. Having said that, I’m wondering if the pairing Klipsch with modern solid state amps designed for different speaker loads ... | |
| An all vintage system I have a pair of 1977 Klipsch La Scala in walnut paired to 1950s Quad II monoblocks. The combination of 104 db/1W sensitivity of the La Scalas with a 15W class-A push-pull tube amplifiers is magical. On the signal delivery side I am fully modern.... | |
| To all Klipsch Heritage fans Thick carpet, unless it’s like 1-ft thick, will have very little effect on SPL in the bass frequencies. Absorption materials tend to be frequency dependent. The higher in the frequency range you go, the more typical absorber materials will have an... | |
| Apple Music on iOS 26 The Apple Music subscription service has had lossless for 4 years, since June of 2021, so I think maybe there are some folks here sharing experiences that go back until before then. Which sort of proves the argument that people remember negative e... | |
| Speakers on top of subwoofer If you're not using 4x subs in a dsp bass-managed array, what are you even doing with your life? (I kid, but seriously, if I didn't get the science of it I'd think it was witchery.) | |
| Deals Gone Bad I recently purchased a pair of Yamaha HS80M Studio Monitors (according to the listing title and item description) from Reverb.com using their app for iPhone. If I had been on a computer, I would have seen that the seller's images were of Yamaha HS... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? If you measure distortion in a contemporary music reproduction system on a per component basis, speakers contribute orders of magnitude greater distortion than any other component. At least in solid state and ultralinear tube systems. We are talki... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby I’ve arrived at a place where the goal of the playback system architecture is total transparency. I don’t believe that recordings can be improved in the reproduction process. Eliminating distortion is the key. That includes: - No tonal coloration... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby There are some interesting things here. 1. Define ’hobby’. If you’re not making money at listening, isn’t every interest that isn’t a profession a hobby? 2. Yeah, the original conjecture is the ’Missing the forest for the trees’ argument. It bas... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Didn’t Steve Bannon coin the phrase, "Flood the zone with $H!†" to refer to spraying out an intense amount of information (see: dissembling)? Specifically in the hope that highly rational people will judge the crank too crazy to deal with and leav... | |
| Does Anyone Use Pro Audio Speakers as their Main? @cd318 Just know that studio monitors are pro gear and many, especially the smaller ones, are voiced for accuracy in near field monitoring. So for example, the Yamaha's have non-linear response to gain; as you turn them up, the bass doesn't incr... | |
| Does Anyone Use Pro Audio Speakers as their Main? I did that, starting in 2004 or 2005. I picked up a pair of Yamaha HS80 8” near-field monitors and the companion HS10W 10” studio sub for my computer setup. I had a pair of KEF Q60 bookshelf speakers in my main system. The computer system was driv... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? @daledeee1 : Sadly, I have a full time job and little wiggle room for house calls! I grew up listening to my dad’s records through a Sansui 5000A receiver and a pair of Dynaco A35’s sitting on Muppet brown inch-deep shag carpet and have been hook... | |
| Why do so many people have problems with bass? The first thing is the role of bass in the overall musical picture. All recorded natural sounds and complex generated tones have both a fundamental frequency and harmonics / overtones. The fundamental frequency is always the lowest and the harmoni... | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. Most of the conjecture here is that an increase of listeners rotating out of tubes and into solid state is because of Issues with Tube Availability from Russia going forward. And that might be the final straw for many tube owners. But the reality ... |