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It’s true. Vertical MTM arrays aren’t good with broad vertical dispersion. If you want to be in the sweet spot, you either tilt the speaker to put your ears on the tweeter axis or else you raise your seating. But there are advantages also to limited vertical dispersion - floor & ceiling...

Wow - lots of people here wanting to pontificate about the Emotiva T3+ speakers without ever having heard them…. Obviously, the things aren’t time coherent, and they only come in ugly black. With 8” woofers (even three of them), they’re not made for 100 dB plus stadium sound. That said, at...

I no longer have the shift work situation. I can play music at any time in my own living room. I DO still choose to listen at very low volumes compared to the preferences of ALL of my audio amigos. My wife also prefers lower volumes. It's fair to say that the Fletcher-Munson curve IS a...

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Hi @OHMisback & @witchdoctor - Yes, my Black Ice F22 integrated does allow custom bias, and I have communicated previously with the crew at Black Ice about how to do so. Although my F22 does not have tone controls, I have several options including using my Schiit Loki or else the DSP in my...

Hi @PENG - You're probably right. I'm thinking of AVRs of five or 10 years ago that were almost uniformly BAD. If I didn't have good stereo gear, I might consider an AVR, but no sense in replacing great equipment with only good.

Hi guys - It's all fine information you're supplying, but not pertinent to the thread. At the volumes I listen to, NO amplifier will exceed two or three watts of output. Most of the time, I listen in the ½ watt output range. At those volumes, just about all amps are "Class A." As I said, I...

Hi @PENG - I agree that Fletcher-Munson curve could play a part. The Van-Alstine preamp I used with my old Dahlquists had been custom-equalized by Frank Van-Alstine to provide a slight bass boost specifically for the DQ-10a speakers. I despise AVRs because of their wimpy power supplies &...

Hi again, @everettT - At the moment, I'm using some (modified) Klipsch RP-600m bookshelf speakers and a Starke Sound S15 sealed sub. But I'm hoping to do away with the sub and end up with one of the three choices below (in order of current preference): Emotiva T3+ towers HECO Aurora 1000...

Hi @everettT - Thank you for the prompt response. I have options as to preamplifiers: Emotiva Stealth DC-1 DAC with variable (digital) volume control directly to the power amps Emotiva BasX P1 preamplifier Either of the above routed through a Schiit Loki equalizer with the EQ outputs to the...

Early in my audio career, I worked shift work at a local chemical plant. The evening before I began my night shifts, I'd normally stay up most of the night enjoying music in my listening room. My wife and new baby were asleep at the far end of the house, so I had to keep the volume very low to...

With a Starke Sound SW-15 on order, I'm wondering if the DSP-LF unit from Parts-Express might be able to flatten the sub's frequency response? Obviously, Starke has used some built-in, plate-amp DSP already to obtain the curve they're producing from this sub but my use of the DSP-LF wouldn't be...

What I'd like to do is compare a Crown "pro" amp without DSP to one of their models WITH DSP. I'm pretty sure I could hear the diff, but won't know until I get some of the amps. Assuming that costs are to be minimized, the XLS-1002 seems the logical choice for the "with" candidate. What would...

My friend, who has the Generation 2 Emotiva XPA-1 power amplifiers, and who is able to swap between Class A and Class AB at the flip of a switch, disagrees with you. Unless you're claiming that Emotiva does NOT have a "well designed Class AB output stage?" I've listened to his system, and to...

You don't see the value because, apparently, you're not basing what you believe on what you hear. Instead, you're convinced that if there isn't written "scientific proof," then it doesn't exist. I think that this is a fallacy. And it may not be simple distortion that I'm hearing. All of the...

Actually, no. Even in "Class-A" mode, the Emotiva XPA-1 amp transitions automatically to Class AB beyond its first 60 watts. So the amp does have two modes: "Normal mode," where the bias is sufficient to provide the usual first 10 watts or so of Class A beyond which it transitions...

That information comes from the Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity website where their reviewer (backed up by measurements) says "The updated model improves on this by delivering 600 watts into 8 ohms and 1,000 watts into 4 ohms. It also offers a Class A mode accessible by a switch on the...

Any DAC beyond the bottom of the barrel and I'd be unable to hear any difference, I'm sure. But unnecessary A-D / D-A conversions I can hear. Further, even the use of DSP without any additional A-D or D-A conversions messes up the sound. I've noticed it in J-River; I've noticed it Roon; I've...

So let's make it real, @PENG - The average loudspeaker these days has a sensitivity of approximately 90dB / 1w / 1m. The average listener uses less than one watt for the vast majority of their listening. So let's compare the AVR and the XLS at ONE watt - this is a real-world comparison...

Well how interesting, @PENG - I hadn't even thought about having an extra A-D / D-A conversion in the Crown XLS amps, but it certainly makes sense - how else could they offer all the DSP functions that they do! As to their converters (both of them) having "lower specs than an AVR," that makes...