Hi. In the past few weeks I've been ruminating over the following question:
-- Why fuss over how a speaker's frequency response, off-axis performance, etc. when the room-speaker interaction has far larger effects on those very same things? Why not just choose a speaker for how loud it can go...
Hi. I have a very large room: 8,000 cubic feet (227 cubic meters). I also have Klipsch La Scalas, which start to roll off at 100Hz. I can't have a subwoofer in the room. I can install an infinite baffle subwoofers in two locations in a ceiling and use a attic space as the enclosure. I'll do a...
So, if you were in my position with a budget of, say, $900, is there a small sub that you would recommend? Or does the SVS Micro 3000 sound like a good option?
I have KEF LSX (Gen 1) in an extreme nearfield desk setup in my small 80sf office. I listen to Spotify all day at 55-60dB, so it's a bit of a challenge to enhance sound quality. I added a loudness EQ and it helped. I tried my REL T/Zero on all kinds of settings and meh, it didn't do much. Then...
This was our concert last night. Popular chamber pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, etc. My dad loved it. Our house is a converted church, so the acoustics were really good.
Aaand I stumbled upon a solution: if I connect via Airplay Spotify's EQ works. I chose Spotify's "Loudness" and juiced it 2x and it helps. Now to dial in a sub...
Actually, I’ve hired a professional string quartet to play for my father’s 90th birthday this Saturday. In my living room. It will be interesting for sure.
Today I had the opportunity to listen to a variety of studio monitors at Chuck Levin's in Wheaton, MD. Genelec, Neumann, Focal, Adam and others. At 55-60db all of them sounded the same to me. I believe I need to focus on getting loudness into my existing system. I'm also going to make more of an...
I’ve had my eye on Genelec and Neumann. I can’t say if I would like a really flat response since I don’t think I have heard that type of speaker in person. Although it appears that both have EQ available which could address my loudness issue. Maybe an in-home trial is in order…
-- The KEF LSX have Spotify Connect, so that's the source I've been using. I tried to go out from my headphone jack on my MacBook to the AUX input but there's a loud hum.
-- By "boring" I mean I need loudness or some other compensation like horns. I suspect that my La Scalas don't have a very...
Hi. I'm using KEF LSX (Gen 1) as my desktop setup and I stream Spotify all day extreme nearfield (24 in). I'm happy with the functionality, but I listen at 55-60db and I find them a bit boring. I'm looking at options and I can spend up to $1,700 on improvements. Unfortunately, the Spotify...
Speaker position is limited to the room corners. I use Dirac to tone down room boom. There are a lot of complicated reflections everywhere in the room. It would be interesting to try them in an anechoic environment (like outside) to test the reflections idea. I also have some Mission M71s, which...
I stream Spotify via Spotify Connect on the NAD C628 which goes to the Yamaha A-S301 for amplification and manually adjusted loudness at low volumes and then out to the speakers from there. Spotify has a six-band equalizer if you dig deep enough on the iOS app. It's not very user friendly and...