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The cat had managed to get it under the sub. It came out unscathed. It appears to be some kind of plastic, and so does the place it goes. Oh speaker builders - any glue to seek or avoid?

“You have the wrong digital assistant for that question, Tim.”

The dust cap on one of my LSR 305 woofers is missing. I suspect the cat. Calling JBL, first they told me they don’t sell the caps, just replacement woofers. I found this frustrating, but understandable, and went searching for third party suppliers. I quickly realized I was going to need exact...

This was too great a deal to pass up. A friend decided he needed white and didn't need a sub, so he sold me a pair of JBL KSR 305s and an SVS sub. I'm waiting on some longer cables to get them set up right and already they sound really good. At $2k to upgrade to the next level, I'm good. The...

This was too great a deal to pass up. A friend decided he needed white and didn't need a sub, so he sold me a pair of JBL LSR 305s and an SVS sub. I'm waiting on some longer cables to get them set up right and already they sound really good. At $2k to upgrade to the next level, I'm good. The...

https://www.audiophilenirvana.com/audio-companies/goodbye-american-icon-jbl/ Tim

If I buy a pair of JBLs new monitors, to keep my current user interface I'll need to convert optical, coming out of my Apple TV, to AES/EBU into the JBLs. Is there anything I should out look for in a converter? Any significant risk of increased jitter or noise? I would keep the volume on the...

I'll admit to my compulsion: I have a thing for small, utilitarian objects that are beautiful and very well-crafted. Actually, I have a thing for large objects of the same description, but I can't afford to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright full of Stickley furniture, so I get by with guitars and...

Last week, I bought one of these: And this may be a little off-topic, but I think some of you will find it interesting. You plug a guitar into one of the jacks, hit the "band" button and play a chord progression in a simplified rhythm. The box "learns" the progression and the timing. Push...

The title says it all. I don't want to buy a AV receiver to accomplish this. I don't want to fiddle with software any more than I have to, and most products seem to be targeted at wonky tweakers (or is that tweaky wankers?). A bit of EQ I could use to build pre-sets for old recordings would be...

In August, I'm moving into a small condo with hardwood floors. What is the best thing to put under area rugs for absorption? Tim

Too many years knocking around this hobby has turned me from skeptic to cynic. Many of the people who seem to think DSD is the greatest thing since toilet paper on a roll are not people whose opinions I trust. But there are a few here whom I do. What say you? Tim

This is an issue that was introduced in a battle over in Fight Club. There, it was just a diversionary tactic. You know, kinda of like when you ask a politician about birth control and he tells you how bad your tie is...it had nothing to do with the conversation over there, but it is a good...

First we had a handful of true believers invading every thread with religious nonsense. Now the grownups are fighting tooth and nail. I find myself scanning for links, because it seems like the only place to learn anything. Tim

In a discussion of forum's purpose and the kinds of positions that are appropriate here, J Kenny just asked, "Amir, are topics to be avoided which "accepted audio science/engineering" have nothing to offer? Topics like soundstage depth, timbre just to name two. Are topics only allowed if...

This is currently working its way down the east coast to me in a big brown truck... Why "General Audio?" Well, it's about as general as it gets to me, but it's related here, because it was custom ordered by the original owner, and the specs read like an audiophile amp -- the hardware is not...

I understand the basic concepts of matching gear properly - making sure the amp is a good match to the speaker load, getting a good impedance match between the output of one component and the input of the next (though this shouldn't really be an issue outside of tube gear, should it?), etc. But...

I know some of you. Maybe most, with a few posting here under different handles. So maybe it's time, in the immortal words of David Crosby, to "tell 'em who we are, man." I'm Tim Farney, Phelonious Ponk, and I'm not here because I'm an engineer, but because you guys always had the most...

Forgive me if you don't get the reference to the old Traffic album. Though if you don't, you may want to listen to it... Several years ago, I just completed my final digital transformation (ripping many hundreds of CDs to lossless files), and at the same time, I was captivated by reviews I read...

In the early days, WBF had a few industry experts who had their own subforms, and were regular contributors. I haven't spoken with them to confirm, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet most of them stopped hanging around because of the dominance of subjectivists who would argue any datapoint...