Thanks. Most of us simply upload our phone videos to YouTube and then share the link. It is quite easy to do.
Ron’s New System
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Thanks. Most of us simply upload our phone videos to YouTube and then share the link. It is quite easy to do.
I am not sure Ron. Have you ever compared the two formats playing the same video? I have not. Some on YouTube sound really really good, so IMO, it is sufficient to convey system quality.
I hope Marty gave you extra strength holy water spot remover after the exorcism.
You can not listen to a component standalone to say it is edgy or bright, you can listen to a complete system not a single component so all components and setup condition and also the components relation together affect on the sound.
When the setup is not ideal (speaker position, grounding, ac power quality, …) you may find a polite tweeter or more polite amplifier is better but the trust is more polite sounding components are not always better in absolute terms.
Proper Audio judgment is not a simple subject and sorry to say that most of those audio magazines reviews are wrong information.
Everyone knows that speaker position change the sound but very few knows DPOLS can damage all of your opinions about the speaker position.
Good. I have sold mine long time ago as I don’t really need them.
If one gets the subwoofers well tuned in, like Ron’s Pendragon subtowers, you rarely need the use of active bass traps. Most of the time it will more than enough with some passive acoustic tube traps where half of the tube is diffusing.
Also you don’t want to kill the acoustics in the room, but have a ”live” acoustic room suitable for the music and sound one is listening too.
/ Jk
Also you don’t want to kill the acoustics in the room, but have a ”live” acoustic room suitable for the music and sound one is listening too.
/ Jk
Ron seems to be removing accessories (Tubetraps and electronic bass traps) from his system and preferring the results.
Hello Peter,
I know you like this because you see it as validation of your skepticism about accessories such as TubeTraps and electronic bass absorbers. But you are dismissing incorrectly the efficacy of these products.
I am not removing these products because they don't work or because they make the sound unnatural. They do work, and they don't make the sound unnatural.
I am removing them only because I do not need them anymore. The problem which they addressed has been mitigated.
A patient takes medicine to improve the symptoms of an illness. The illness goes away, and the patient stops taking the medicine. Cessation of the medication does not mean that the medicine was not effective in improving the patient's symptoms.
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A friend alerted me to this video you posted.
Thank you -- I have benchmarked the voice in this video as being dry, menthol, electronic and unnatural.
Ked often states such things as benchmarks that are really not...I wonder sometimes if he is trolling with this or not...
i had a double height RPG Skyline diffuser center middle on the wall behind my speakers for a number of years. i put it there to clean up the center image....a net gain i thought. but once i tamed some reflections here and there, i needed to check to see if the Skyline was still helping. so i covered it in plastic sheeting.....better. then i completely removed it. much better. it had been a band aid reducing excess reflections, but once i got those under control it was deadening the music energy and confusing the music focus.
i had window inserts built in 2011 but could not hear the difference in or out, i liked the view, so kept them out. 4 years later in 2015 as i cleaned up reflective glare i brought the window inserts out of storage and tried them again, now they competed and filled in my sound staging and added coherence.
my sidewalls along side and behind my speakers were bare. but as i tuned things that was one area i could not quite figure out. i tried a number of things. it either was too much hash, or too dead. finally i tried some Aural T-Fusor diffusers. perfect. i had not understood the problem; my 36 inch long, 7 foot tall bass towers near that wall had a resonance going on between the wall and speaker cabinet that higher SPL's excited. the T-Furors quieted it. this is something i would never have figured out if i did not methodically chase the fine tuning process. you open a door, and then see another wall in front of you. then find the door.....open it, and see another wall. until no more walls.
as you fine tune things previous perceptions must again be checked and proven and keep your mind open.
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