Search results

Hi Floyd, I should have been more specific. I was specifically referring to low frequencies only regarding the MiniDsp Dirac live. Haven't read your latest JAES paper but will do. Thanks for letting me know.

Hi Floyd/Gene, How are you guys doing? Floyd, I wanted to ask you if you were perhaps familiar with MiniDSP products for room correction. In particular this : Dirac live Wanted to get your thoughts on the product. It seems like a very powerful tool. You can shape the response curve in real...

Floyd, if you're still posting on the forum, I have a question I'm hoping you can help me with. Do you think treating the early reflections off the ceiling was a good move, in a small room like mine, all things considered? Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to do any blind listening sans/post...

Thanks for your feedback, Floyd! Thanks again for participating on Audioholics.

Floyd, if I may ask - do you use any room correction in your own system/room? If so, only for the bass range or full frequency correction?

Done the measurements at the LP. Used my trusty UMIK-1 with REW. Ringing is pretty bad below 100 Hz, but then my entire FR is pretty bad below 100 Hz. I have a peak in the 100-200 Hz region as well, otherwise it's smooth sailing, relatively speaking. The solution I've been considering is the...

Hi Floyd, Thank you very much for your feedback and comments, much appreciated! If I could do it all over again I might have opted for diffusion/absorption, but then I'm not sure if diffusion can work effectively in spaces as small as mine. Interesting to know that your listening room doesn't...

Hi Gene. I have an SVS SB2000 hidden on the other side of the couch. : ) In my previous place I had dual MFW-15 subs, but I downsized and had to sell them. :( Problem is, bass response (to me) is still crappy. Bass still booms, even above 100 Hz. I can't employ any additional broad band traps...

Hi Floyd, Great admirer of your work and I've read many of your papers. Since we are discussing acoustics, I thought I might show you a pic of my room : My room is quite small (apartment) so I've added 4" thick absorbers on the rear wall, two for the front to tackle possible SBIR and two for...

Nope, that was covered, ie the usual... ;)

It would help if the subjective commentary had some connection to audibility as opposed to daydreams and imaginations as a result of critical long term peeking, what you read in the magazine, expectations etc, the usual. ;) Sure, assuming people used just their ears while listening as opposed...

Yes, hear/peeking, but small distinction really. Your perceptions are your own. Enjoy them. Yea, I know what you mean? What's "high end" mean? Possibly, depending on ones definition of "high end", but that's usually a moving target...

Doubling the power from 125W to 250W, in idealised conditions, would result in a 3 dB difference in maximum output. March over to your amplifier, turn the volume up 3 dB and let me know if you think it's a major difference. Assuming the differences were accurate 125W vs 105W = less than 0.9 dB...

Bench testing as a whole is not predictive of "real world" operation so it's useless for 'real world operation'. In what real world condition is an amplifier required to output maximum power into all channels concurrently with typical program material? The ACD test criteria is perhaps the most...

Since I can't help myself, do you think fatigue, loss of focus and second guessing does not apply in casual sighted listening where strenuous critical listening peeking is involved? :) If you can hear a subtle difference in a sighted test, what mechanism allowed you to hear the subtle...

You are posting on Hydrogen Audio right now, aren't you? Of course you are! ;) Your objections have been dealt with over there in detail, over the course of 50 pages. No need to retread the same points yet again.

REW kit? You mean with a condenser mic? So you did an acoustical measurement?

There are plenty of examples of positive results that can be found for subtle differences in blind testing. Of course, whether the results agree with your preconceptions are another story. Subtle differences of what? I never said that subtle differences are irrelevant, but to claim that people...

For the record, I'm firmly of the belief that amplifiers can sound different, so I agree with Gene and others. Whether amplifiers *will* sound different or not is an entirely different question that is conditional on so many variables.

If the differences were so small that simply 'not knowing' would mask them, then how significant do you think those differences were to begin with? It's an illogical objection that is more related to the fear of failure of substantiating questionable claims, which is why placebophiles dredge up...