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| Necessary to ground and XLR interconnect? Pbnaudio has it, that's the point of XLR. With three conductor XLR cables/inputs/outputs, the shield of the cable, designed to pick up all the stray RF and EM noise around the cable, isn't inserted into audio inputs. The shield protects the positi... | |
| Words From the Wise Its all about the transducers, the things that change one form of energy to another. Its the things we understand the least, have conflicting ideas about, and spend a lifetime trying to understand. Investing in speakers and acoustics usually yield... | |
| How do I hook up 2 preamps to one amp Herman has it right. Line out to line in always works and tape outs are independent of front panel controls. But based on the rather funky arrangement and weird signal flow, combined with probable tape output selectors, lots of ways to get confuse... | |
| How to "break-in" new speakers?? This argument that seems accepted to the point of "of course its this way-where you been?" has little or no support in the high end pro community of mixers, mastering engineers and others who listen for a living. I would be horrified if a customer... | |
| How to "break-in" new speakers?? Rok2idYou are on to something for sure. When I talk to transducer designers, they thing this "break in" thing is lunacy, particularly with cone drivers. "If a driver changes after X hours it will continue to change-what is to stop it? The physics ... | |
| It's all local now It is very very difficult to make a lot of money in music today, in hi fi, in pro audio, in mixing, mastering or recording. Its become what it was before, a labor of love I think.Brad | |
| Transmission Line Bass Cliff I guess I cannot disagree with the way you say it. But you have to agree there are quite a few larger TL speakers and not so many little ones! TL and ported certainly can and should be compared and they are. Brad | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Say, being new here, I have a question. Has Hi Fi Sound guy had a history of making fun of everyone here and Audiogon with Bose post and capitalized "mod" comments? Brad | |
| Man in need of new music Seek out music recorded in the DXD format (it is released in SACD's and CD form) as this is an amazing converter technology that yields some nice results in dynamics and noise floor. Brad | |
| It's all local now WildoatsIn the 50s/60s, the radio set up the tour, the tour set up the record, the record was the money as you say. Now its reversed. Artists make all a their revenue from tours set up by some vehicle to get them known. A strong record (Train, Dav... | |
| Transmission Line Bass Frommerstop:I don't think TL speakers are overly big, that was not my point. My comment was the TL is not free of cost to the consumer; there is a size "price" for a long transmission line (even folded as much as possible). Brad | |
| Transmission Line Bass I think the appeal of Transmission lines was (when done properly) was they did not have peaky low end boost as so many short port speakers offered at the same time. There were a lot of crappy cone speakers around when Freid was hot in the late 70s... | |
| How do we remember 1970s amplifiers? Some of those old designs were pretty good and while the art has moved forward on a lot of amp features (protection, thermal and short monitoring, metering) sound was quite good in many of them. Just listening to an old mac amp is a good example o... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Don't disagree with Audio Zen, very few make their own drivers. For me all about the drivers. Great drivers are still hard to come by.Brad | |
| How do we remember 1970s amplifiers? So few remember the whole David Halfer kit thing. The Dynaco's were so good, Halfers were equally good to their time in SS. Hafler did OK but eventually got bought by Rockford Fosgate, who also owned Accustat. I forgot his name that designed all t... |