Recent content by raindance

This all makes me chuckle. Many years ago a friend installed a high powered amp in his car and was complaining that it wasn't even as loud as the standard head units 6x6 watts. I investigated and he'd run 18awg cable all the way to the trunk to run it. I got him to upgrade to something like 2 or...

If the impedance, sensitivity, directivity and frequency response matches closely, then you could try the substitution. However, this would be rare.

I actually purchased a U-Turn Pluto 2 and removed the 100pF capacitors loading the input because of reading about the hump that occurs with the 540 at loading above about 200pF. The difference is very slight.

I have it in a low mass arm, the older Pro-Ject carbon fiber arm, and it tracks perfectly and sounds great, even though it is not ideal. It certainly works better than any MC cartridge would. I believe my arm effective mass is probably lighter than the Dual one. If course the Rega would be...

Get an Audio Technica AT540ML cartridge, get it properly setup, and keep the Dual. You'll get more detail for sure and no IGD.

Yes, I have the remaster and it sounds like they did some very odd EQ on the vocals. It's all ghostly and whispery sounding. It is fairly smooth though. The next one was very harsh sounding, but better EQ choices were used for vocals. Some of the later releases were pretty good, but they were...

A little bit of a high frequency droop EQ'd in could make them suit you even better. From 6-8 feet listening distance they're not too bright. Closer up and they get brighter. They're not designed for extreme near field use, hence the suggestion about some EQ (or even just turning the treble knob...

The Studio 530's are absolutely not dull. They sound alive.

The LM3886 is a good chip to learn with. It's fairly forgiving, but you need a large enough heatsink and don't skimp on the heatsink compound. I fried a number of them in the past because of poor thermal coupling to the heatsink (I used 4 of them in pairs (bridged mode) to make high power amps...

The sensitivity and/or frequency response of the tweeters doesn't match well. It's fairly typical for entry level speakers but multiple pairs of Wharfedales I've tried has had this issue and it's been measurable. I'll also say that the chances are that the speakers were in spec, but if one...

Not very extended treble which tends to cast a "plasticky" sheen over cymbals, but still pleasant sounding speakers that need close wall placement. They have a tendency to have significant imbalance between left and right, which is probably fine if you have a balance control. I tried the 220's...

Seeing you already like the JBL sound, the Studio 530 is a good choice. I have them as well as a few pairs of LSR305's and the Studio 530 has better, tighter, more musical bass and, to my ears, is much more refined sounding in the treble. The Elac amp with basic room correction or a Yamaha 803...

Either way will work exactly the same and is unlikely to change the sound quality in any way.

In this situation I've sometimes been able to solve it by using SBIR to my advantage and placing my speakers the appropriate distance from the front wall to achieve SBIR cancellation of the major bass mode in my room. It's also important to have the distance to the side walls different from the...

It is NOT a power issue. Are the link knobs twisted correctly on the speakers?