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  1. MickeyBoy

    Review and Measurements of NAD T758 V3 AVR

    I've been using the preouts for the main speakers for years with no problems. Your unit is clearly defective. NAD should give you a new one.
  2. MickeyBoy

    Review and Measurements of NAD T758 V3 AVR

    Many thanks, JStewart. The diagram shows that the order of processing is (1) the crossover (including the subwoofer?); (2) filters for the individual speakers based on volume calibration modified by a target curve. The NAD allows for rear and height speakers (not in the diagram.) I assume...
  3. MickeyBoy

    Review and Measurements of NAD T758 V3 AVR

    I use my T-758v3 with Dirac v3 and a sub. The crossover between main speakers and sub is set to 80Hz. NAD tells me that both high-pass and low-pass have Linkwitz-Riley 4th order slopes. My question concerns whether the corrections of the Dirac filters happen first and then the crossover between...
  4. MickeyBoy

    Audiophilia and its discontents

    The current issue of Harper's magazine has a curious article about some fringe audiophiles. Link. The author, Sasha Frere-Jones, apparently a jazz musician, music critic, and naif about sound reproduction, describes his peregrinations among some of the wilder partisans of what he calls triode...
  5. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    Yes, this info is widely available. But I'll give it anyway. The woofers are nominal 6.5" and measure 5.5" edge of surround to edge. The cabinets are 11.5" deep. 9" wide, and 41" high, not counting the legs which raise the box about 1.75" off the ground.
  6. MickeyBoy

    Classical ♫ Music only | Some you listen now or recently, some you love...

    Here's a recent suggestion, the prize winning performance of Rachmaninoff's Third piano concerto: Y. Lim's Rachmaninoff 3 at the Cliburn Competition: https://tinyurl.com/yc3aemep (No Youtube commercials from this site.) I suggest listening to this sensational performance a bit and then this...
  7. MickeyBoy

    Classical Instruments: Historical or Modern?

    Why limit our selves to harpsichord vs piano? How about harpsichord vs organ or positif? Touch is completely different. on each. Harpsichords, clavichords, and fortepianos are way too variable. What about Steinway vs Bechstein vs Bosendorer vs Fazioli - now there is some substance for thought &...
  8. MickeyBoy

    Classical Instruments: Historical or Modern?

    Three comments: a) these debates about authenticity omit the hears, whose expectations are VERY different from ours. b) musical styles were not national, as European society was more local than ours. Most localities do not have documentation about their practices at a given time. We do know that...
  9. MickeyBoy

    Do CD players sound different to each other?

    Yes, they can sound different. I have had Oppo 103 and Oppo 205. The latter had a tad more accurate sound. The data can show why this is the case.
  10. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    Whew - so like a fuse that resets itself. I am about to put a cap transplant and new binding posts on a pair of old Infinity Qe speakers and have been stumped by the fuse. Now you have given me the answer. Many. many thanks, as usual.
  11. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    Many thanks for the advice about mounting the inductors in a T pattern. But now you've thrown in something I am unfamiliar with: a polyswitch. More research ahead.
  12. MickeyBoy

    Choral Music: Best sounding recordings

    Is this not a rendition of Barber's famous adagio for string quartet and then for orchestra? The balance seems tilted towards the treble and way from the middle voices. Real ambiance?
  13. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    Thanks. I'll have to parallel two and figure out later how to orient them on the board to minimize unwanted interaction.
  14. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    Many thanks, Alex. Alas, the 1.0 mH inductor is out of stock at Parts Express until October. Haven't figured a practical way around this.
  15. MickeyBoy

    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    HI Alex, I can't open you Parts-Express order. The message 'undefined' pops up. Could you post it another way? Thanks.
  16. MickeyBoy

    music that sounds good and music that sounds bad

    I suggest you tell us what classical you like and we can fill your drive with tons of similar music.
  17. MickeyBoy

    Electronics for Audiophiles: Voltage and Current (Video)

    Terrific and thanks. Can't wait for you to discuss phase angles, which I never really understood and now in senescence can't even grasp.
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