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Yeah but, many full range home speakers are more like 6 Ohms than 4, and barely 50W into 8 Ohm rating, true, or otherwise, is not enough power. Especially when considering just how many of these speaker designs are mid 80s or less in sensitivity. This skirting 4 Ohm or less madness is more about...

The industry is just super determined to change home audio speak into 4 Ohm terms, and to that, I flip them the double bird. Each time one of these little pony amps comes on the scene with seemingly high initial claims, there I go, scrambling thru the specs so as not to get led down the path to...

I think if I were to have some casual type setup like that, I'd just buy a few of those JBL Flip 6 speakers and put them wherever. They sound great and can be paired up for stereo. I simply installed little Fosi bluetooth amps with regular speakers in each room. That way, I get to use my...

Frankenstein. The "Live At the Galaxy" version has drum solos that will rattle the windows of the neighbors across the street. My 'go to' for when I want to hear someone shredding an organ.

I don't know about decline but it seems like the technology has hit a wall. I personally find what is being offered as new, is pretty yawn worthy. You get a sense of it having eaten itself out of house and home when they start pushing $4k DACs as the new frontier. I also find that new speakers...

On the way to upgrading, The plastic on these mid range cans is a bit thin. About the thickness of thin wall PVC. I had sound deadening material leftover from my truck. It's 80 mill bitumen of sorts it sicks really well, but can be removed and it's clad with thin aluminum. It definitely changes...

Vinyl used to irk me back in the day. The music covered most of the noise but not all. The first CDs to me, were like vinyl with all the surface noise removed. There was a certain richness of higher quality with cds, for not having that noise. I was even more tired of 8 track and cassette. Liked...

I still have my old basic Hitachi TT from back in the day. It's direct drive and still in time. Cartridges are likely to offer the most sonic difference, if your predisposed to notice such differences and depending on what condition your records are in. I have the 70 or so albums I had by the...

We're out of the woods with the dreaded part of finding the original recesses for the drivers and trim. Before I had applied the veneer, I drilled the driver fastener holes thru from front to back. After I applied the veneer, I simply flipped the baffles and drilled the holes back thru to the...

First consideration to audio upgrade is to consider the acoustic of the room, over the aesthetic. Compromises with the alternative ends up usually being a waste of time and money, and is possibly the highest source of bad reviews. I'd at least consider the possibility that I might have to have a...

I may get one too. I have most of my music at my desktop PC and that's pretty much where I hang out when I am indoors. It's essentially like a studio console with nearfield monitors and other speakers I own rotating into that role, along with two subs. I have software EQ on the PC, and EQ for...

I only ever used EQ with 2-channel. Even then, some people had a good ear for adjustment, and some couldn't EQ their way out of a wet paper bag. Then came the plug'n play era where everything is done for you and most people nowadays just haven't had to develop the skill or the want. EQ'ng tracks...

I definitely like having EQ/tone controls. I imagine it's somewhat difficult to get an onboard EQ circuit right when trying to get the lowest noise #s, audible, or otherwise. Not to mention the added expense of adding extra circuits haunting the penny pinchers of the marketing world. What better...

I'm at that point where all the little tedious side details have come together that I need to address before gluing the baffles on, such as, revealing the original driver recesses and reinstalling the inner chambers for the mids. Each one of these tasks takes a day somehow, either waiting for...

I've had mine on lately on the JBL monitors. Even immediate near field is hard to hear a difference. If there is one, it's not wrong, either way, and whatever subtle difference there may be, it's lost on me 30 seconds in and the music cancels it out. In other words, it's too subtle to focus on...