CM, Once you found the footprint where you want the sub stick a speaker stand under to get it at least 30" off of the ground. If you don't like it drop it back down.
Nuck, are you wearing your tux to Nick's affair?
Nick, ditto what Patrick just said and get it in the pre-nup. LOL
Congrats! Look forward to hearing from you in 6 months or so....
I cant say that the month of June, 2008 won't be a month to remember. Moved into my first home, got married, went to Puna Cana. Just got back, and I look pretty dark, actually more red.lol. Pics of the new place to come soon, as I am moving the Bryston/Rega/MA setup upstairs with the new Sony LCD and getting something to complete the downstairs. This will be done hopefully this week. Also have to run Cat5 and RG6 wire for the camera's. Its going to be fun.
Hey Ed, yup, I'm running two subs (two cheap assed subs which really have no business being part of my system), but I like the rumbling bass for movies.
Eventually I'll upgrade to Outlaw or Hsu subs. Something that can keep up with the music.
Nuck is right - I really don't have a lot of space to experiment with placement. The setup will have to do for now.
They're actually not all that bad. I think they're the PSW-10 (10" driver, 100 watt plate). Pretty good rumble for watching movies, but for music I find them a little slow and sloppy.
I'm really considering picking up a pair of Outlaw subs. I'm sure even their smallest one will blow away the Polks.
I paid $700 for a nice Velodyne on AudiogoN but got robbed. The guy lives in California and I will pay him a surprise visit some day He better just go into witness protection now!
I've had several conversations with the tech at Velodyne about JM lab speakers and brands or subs.
Great & knowledgeable guy. Bottom line, he recommended a few brands that would work in my case and never giving me the Velodyne is the "best sub to buy" kind of attitude.
From what I've found sor far for performance and price Velodyne is at the top of my list.
I have a REL R205. Good music sub not so good for special effects in movies. Since I don't use a sub in my 2 channel systems it's almost being wasted in the HT...oh well...I'l find an application for it someday.
At this point, Dave, I don't know what to think. Remember, I am running speaker level, straight from the stereo amp. I don't get the response that I want, tuning the freqlower just removes spl, so I run it higher in volume, making it somewhat directional. Just a clusterfuck, pretty much, and it doesn't sound fast enough to me, but that is variable.
I've been perusing Agon trying to find the right one so to speak. My stimulus money will be here soon and I'm making plans. Either more camera gear or stereo gear or paln ole savings.
That's what drives me nuts - the directional bass. I don't mind if it's dual directional (coming from left and right, near the speakers). But hearing the boom from one corner drives me to distraction.
The Beresford is working well enough. I realize it is not the best source possible, and i cannot wait to improve things there.
But for under $200 it is the best option out there.
And it sounds good enough that I have not tried to replace it yet.
The grounding issue is another thing. Stan thinks I might need a regulated linear power supply to improve the earthing issue.
As far as I can tell it is really not that big of an issue. I only experience the "noise" issue when the DAC is off or not being fed a signal. In those cases the preamp is muted anyway. All is well.
Thanks Art, I am fairly pleased with the kit's aesthetics.
You know you are somewhat responsible for me having the Arivas... and you know I like they way they sound. Well I must admit the are quite easy on the eye. I just took some really nice pictures of my kit, well my friend did. His camera and lens are top notch. Ill post some more when I get a chance to crop them.
The cherry looks so nice on the speakers...
You should come give them a listen the next time you come over the mountains.
Get your aass over here. We can go demo Empirical Audio DACs at Black Butte.... are you a golfer?
Ed,
Computer to DAC? I have two options. One is USB to M-Audio Transit (24/96 convertor) to Toslink to DAC.
The other is going straight from my Turtle Beach Riviera (Toslink) soundcard to my DAC.
From the DAC to my Naim preamp is a Chord Crimson RCA-to-DIN.
The reason I have two methods is because the soundcard only supports 24/44.1 or 48.
So i sourced the M-Audio Transit which is supposed to pass thru bit perfect 24/96. Unfortunately I cannot get the thin to stop crackling and popping. So i stopped using it.
I could never properly dial in the latency/buffer settings I suppose. It seemed to happen with both ASIO output and not.
Hence my search for a "better" DAC that runs straight off the USB. Ideally then converts to I2S, and then into modded DAC.
Well the theater downstairs is almost put back together, just waiting on my new AVR coming to me this weekend. In the meantime I snapped a few shots of the two channel system upstairs. My highlight room is hands down the recroom with the theater. But I definitely like the audio system upstairs better.lol Work in progress. Some pics with Flash some with out.
a couple more.... OH! and the new Paradigms I completed the theater with last weekend. Did an A/B comparison with some Diana Krall and a few others against the MA's.
Anytime Dave, anytime man. Beers, Poker, Music and Rock Band.LOL!!
The rec room is where its at. Just finished by the previous owners a year ago, and it is by far the nicest room in the house. The room acoustics down there though just weren't cutting it for the two channel stuff, and this room I have it in now sounds wonderful. I just bought a new AVR and speakers and will have the theater system full again this weekend and will post pics probably Sunday. Cheers guys.
Thanks Nuck. Tonight is the first night in over a month I get to relax and enjoy some music. Maybe play with my new puppie, and perhaps smoke a big fat Cigar.lol I dont smoke but got a few cases from the Dominican. Novelty thing..u know how it is.
Nick, How is it sitting on those small boulders on your coffee table when finding the sweet spot for the MAs?
Very nice room BTW.
FWIW, although I respect the view you get from the sofa, you should try swapping the location of the chair to where the sofa is and moving the sofa to where the chair is, albeit centered to the speakers. Perhaps when the Misses is otherwise engaged and not available to reckon with your madness. It is still honeymoon ya' know.
Very nice setup Nick. Glad to hear everything's going according to plan. Now get ready for the 'When are you going to have kids?' routine. I've been married for 2 years now and I'm so tired of hearing it. Thanks to Frank Abela (who unintentionally gave me the line), my line is 'We're practicing, but I've been wearing a cup.' The facial expressions vary, but they always end up walking away shaking their heads.
Also, Mike has a great point with the couch and chair placement. Like so many things in life, the sweet spot is where the magic happens.
Mike and Stu- thanks for the compliments and info. I hear ya loud and clear though. If you could write that up in some form of letter and perhaps mail it to my wife, that would be great.lol. Not happening though...unfortunately..the room stays put for a while as the WAF factor takes hold very quickly. She is happy with how it is.lol. I actually have two small eat in chairs at the eating Island in the kitchen. On my lunch hours or alone time I bring one of them out and sit it in the sweet spot. Or I just stand during the short periods I listen to it in the morning. It still sounds good no matter where I sit, but you right...sounds real nice in the sweet spot. Ive been hitting a lot of sweet spot lately.hahaaaa that was a honeymoon joke. Im on the ball. Stu- we just got a baby pug...hopefully that keeps her mind off the kids idea for at least a few more months.lol. Back to the sweet spot, when I first moved in I had that system downstairs and had a sweet spot seat, but the room accoustics for music downstairs was too bright for me. The room was too hard like I had predicted. The first impression was good but like Art's Epo's experience, it just got really hard on the ears.
Also, good to see you guys both back Stu and Mike. Don't think you ever left, but good to see the posts. Cheers.
My work computer blocks all the ads, yet a blank banner is still there. The side banner is where its supposed to be, but there's a bunch of text underneath it.
My home computer is supposed to block ads, but doesn't.
Both are PCs running Windows XP and use Internet Explorer.
My experience mimic's David's and I too use Firefox. There is a banner that flares out at the top of the list of posts but it goes away almost immediately. Now if I can only get rid of those green underlined words...
No underlined words here, just a banner consuming the right hand side of the page, inte................................. rrupting the text and conte nt
Ok I'm just back from Firefox and it is better in some ways the banner being one. I'll use it once in a while...I hate their bookmarks and a number of other things so I certainly won't use it often...but to read you guys posts it's certainly worth it to me.
