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Thanks for all the replies! My planned room has some oddities but should work out.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Thanks for all the replies! My planned room has some oddities but should work out. If it's oddly shaped that's not necessarily a bad thing 
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Sep 14, 2015 17:26
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Panty Saluter posted:If it's oddly shaped that's not necessarily a bad thing That's not what she said 
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The biggest trouble with awkward rooms is figuring out the correct audio refractor/clarification crystal locations.
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Sep 14, 2015 18:43
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ColdPie posted:The biggest trouble with awkward rooms is figuring out the correct audio refractor/clarification crystal locations. No it's not. The crystals go in the corners regardless of shape or room configuration. Edit: I know you guys make fun of this poo poo but my very pedestrian hi fi sound 1000% better since I I added crystals to the setup. Not even joking. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Sep 14, 2015 22:19
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Meth?
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Sep 14, 2015 22:24
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KozmoNaut posted:Meth? Pepsi. Even better.
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Sep 14, 2015 22:26
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Let's be real, chemical music enhancements are always the best bang for the buck, even if the effects are temporary.
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BigFactory posted:No it's not. The crystals go in the corners regardless of shape or room configuration.
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Sep 14, 2015 22:32
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Panty Saluter posted:Let's be real, chemical music enhancements are always the best bang for the buck, even if the effects are temporary. Everyone knows cannabis psychosis is permanent though.
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Sep 14, 2015 22:36
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BigFactory posted:No it's not. The crystals go in the corners regardless of shape or room configuration. Sure, that works for your mid-range setup, but when you're ready to take the next step and eliminate the corners in your room, then where do the crystals go? This is what I mean about awkward rooms; perfectly spherical rooms are hard to deal with but it's so worth the improved listening experience.
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Sep 14, 2015 23:49
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ColdPie posted:Sure, that works for your mid-range setup, but when you're ready to take the next step and eliminate the corners in your room, then where do the crystals go? Need to see the rig Obama is rocking in the Oval Office.
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ColdPie posted:Sure, that works for your mid-range setup, but when you're ready to take the next step and eliminate the corners in your room, then where do the crystals go? Did you know forty percent of the most musical sound waves travel upwards through the digestive tract?
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ColdPie posted:Sure, that works for your mid-range setup, but when you're ready to take the next step and eliminate the corners in your room, then where do the crystals go? This is what I mean about awkward rooms; perfectly spherical rooms are hard to deal with but it's so worth the improved listening experience. Not to mention helping with Tindalos-related problems.
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Sep 16, 2015 20:23
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Jerry Cotton posted:Buy cheap-rear end poo poo cables they won't crack in your lifetime.
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Sep 17, 2015 12:39
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It'll work just fine, so long as the resistance is sufficiently low, ie. as long as the cable has a large enough cross section.
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Pilsner posted:There's an A/V webshop in my country that sells cheapo cables that are wired with "CCA", Copper Clad Aluminium. Isn't that a bit too low-budget? The OFC (Oxygen-free copper) cables don't cost that much more. Cca is fine. Just bump up your gauge one notch over the recommendation for full copper.
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Sep 17, 2015 13:29
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
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Here, have another ultra-floral tube amp review: http://www.stereophile.com/content/line-magnetic-audio-lm-518ia-integrated-amplifier quote:I have used and abused this 77-lb machine for more than a year and, more than any other amp I have reviewed, it seems indestructible. Just how fragile does this guy think electronics are? Or are audiophile overpriced amps so shittily made that one of them lasting a full year is an accomplishment?
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Tube amps can be pretty finicky. That's part of why most people abandoned them
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It's official, vinyl is too mainstream http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trendquote:The Phase 12 reveals extremely minute details, the kind of things that only the recording engineers heard on the original master tape," says Greg Beron. In some instances, there’s actually too much detail during playback: "When I was listening to Led Zeppelin III last night, I could hear the pedal squeak every time John Bonnam hit the bass drum."
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qirex posted:It's official, vinyl is too mainstream http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trend Well at least we can start fetishizing a good audio format. e: Cue thousands of clueless newbie audiophiles yammering on about how AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING their 1/4" 1 and 7/8 IPS reel to reel sounds
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Oct 5, 2015 20:05
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It's just a shame that magnetic tape is kinda fragile and extremely unhandy. But perhaps that just adds to the hipster cred.
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Oct 5, 2015 20:34
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I bake my reel-to-reels in the oven and they sound so much warmer
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KozmoNaut posted:It's just a shame that magnetic tape is kinda fragile and extremely unhandy. But perhaps that just adds to the hipster cred. I wonder if I could sell LTO cartridges and a modified drive at a huge markup to Audiophiles looking for a better way to store all those R2R tapes... BRB, filing a patent.
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KillHour posted:I wonder if I could sell LTO cartridges and a modified drive at a huge markup to Audiophiles looking for a better way to store all those R2R tapes... You can sell anything to audiophiles, full stop. Your main problem is you need to license some major artists if you're going to sell a new recording format to them, most are at least smart enough to know that it doesn't "count" as better if it's just a copy.
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Bang & Olufsen basically just went "gently caress all y'all, we were owning this poo poo this since before you were born", grabbed their collective crotches and dropped the loving mike. They just unveiled their 90th anniversary loudspeaker, and I'm not sure whether it's a completely insane or utterly brilliant move from a company that's been on the edge of bankruptcy for the better part of a decade. quote:BeoLab 90 – Vision of sound http://www.whathifi.com/news/beolab-90-bang-olufsens-striking-90th-anniversary-speaker  If you look past the usual self-aggrandizing flim-flam, it's an omnidirectional (15 speaker units) and heavily DSP room-corrected speaker that promises to both fill a room evenly with great sound, basically nullifying the effects of room acoustics, or if you're just listening for your self, to put a well-defined sweet spot exactly where you want it. It sounds kinda nifty (and probably a bit over-marketed), and I'd love to hear them in person. The Beolab 5 is the best speaker I have ever heard, and if this is even better, well I don't know what to say. I didn't even think sound could get any better than that. Oh, and a set costs $75,000. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 16:14
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Oh to be rich.
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Indeed. It's one of those things where I'd be afraid to hit the Powerball because I could definitely blow a good chunk on A/V gear and cars.  It wouldn't be B&O though. While I'll concede that I haven't heard anything from their super hi-end lines most of what I've heard has been excruciatingly mediocre and gets by on flim-flamming people because it's "quirky". It's Bose for people who don't think Bose is overpriced nearly enough.
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I think if I was going to build a "gently caress you money" system I'd use those coffin-sized Tannoys but I'd need a lot of tufted furniture and a drinks globe to match it.
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qirex posted:I think if I was going to build a "gently caress you money" system I'd use those coffin-sized Tannoys but I'd need a lot of tufted furniture and a drinks globe to match it. Also, I think you'd have to feed it from a reel-to-reel deck for Maximum Realness™
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Oct 6, 2015 19:11
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You can get nice reel to reels for under $500 and sometimes a lot cheaper than that, so it's hardly on the gently caress you money wish list. If I wasn't afraid of turning into a hoarder I'd buy one just to loving sit there and look cool next to my stereo.
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Oct 6, 2015 19:43
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It's not a cost thing, it's an aesthetic
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quote:BeoLab 90 is fitted with Bang & Olufsen’s new Active Room Compensation technology KozmoNaut posted:Oh, and a set costs $75,000. I think there's another type of compensation at work for their target customer.
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There's a Sony TC-580 in my area for $100 but it needs repair (FF and RW work but Play is broken). It's probably out of my skill range to repair. I've never had any success fixing regular tape decks. I've wanted to dick around with R2R for a while but never enough to spend more than a couple hundred on it, tops.
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On the upside an R2R is probably easier to work in compared to a compact cassette deck thanks to component size.
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BANME.sh posted:There's a Sony TC-580 in my area for $100 but it needs repair (FF and RW work but Play is broken). It's probably out of my skill range to repair. I've never had any success fixing regular tape decks. I had a great line on a 4 channel Pioneer earlier in the year, it was like 200 bucks for the r2r, a quadrophonic receiver, probably some lovely speakers, maybe a tt, too. But my hoarder guilt kicked in. I think I made the right call. It was one of those where I was actually the first person to talk to the guy on craigslist and I called him back and told him to take the next person in line.
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Panty Saluter posted:Indeed. It's one of those things where I'd be afraid to hit the Powerball because I could definitely blow a good chunk on A/V gear and cars. If I had silly money I'd without doubt load up on some B&O mainly because they're the one company out there combining tech with beautiful looking designs. Yeah for about half the price I could get comparable sound but I'd have a room full of speaker boxes of various sizes, huge monoblock amplifiers, 'transport' and miles of cabling. I'd much rather have something that looks like a piece of art which has the capability to sound wonderful too... ...but then I'm a sucker for minimalist looking stuff. They're the company you go to if you have lots of cash and you care about aesthetics. If you don't have lots of cash or you don't care about aesthetics then you've got plenty of other choice. And before I get accused of rampant fanboyism they've made some awful products over the years and I've played with a lot of them but the general range is decent and the top end stuff really really nice, certainly a long way from the Bose comparison in terms of performance, build quality and design.
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I think B&O is still the only company to release a WiSA [non-sucky wireless surround] home theater system and those ICEPower amps are in a lot of high-end monoblocks and stereo amps.
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I was going to mention the R&D and did in a previous version of the above post. They've produced some pretty fantastic bits of tech over the years.
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