Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofers from a high-end perspective?

2009-09-29 Thread ccrome2
FWIW, below roughly 300-500 Hz, your room dominates the frequency response of your sub. Imagine your room in 1 dimension -- it's like a guitar strings natural vibrational modes. No matter where you stick your stimulus, you *will* stimulate the fundamental and harmonics of the string, and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SeeDeClip/TxtDeClip

2009-09-29 Thread Phil Leigh
ntom;462237 Wrote: Interesting thread Have you reached any further conclusion Phil? I'd be interested in knowing whether you are now putting everything through DeClip? Actually...no. What happened was it started me on a quest to hunt down down better masterings of my favourite

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SeeDeClip/TxtDeClip

2009-09-29 Thread cfuttrup
Phil Leigh;462635 Wrote: I think the software is clever and it works. But it doesn't turn rubbish into gold. Good point. I guess it also means that applying such a process to Squeezebox could be good, with improvements ... but don't expect a miracle. -- cfuttrup

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofers from a high-end perspective?

2009-09-29 Thread muski
Caleb -- Thanks for the interesting post. I put Floyd Toole's book on my amazon wish list. From a implementation standpoint, I took away two things: 1) At least two subs 2) That, at a minimum, the subs be equalized ( ~100Hz, though 500Hz would be better). Now, if I understand correctly, you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Subwoofers from a high-end perspective?

2009-09-29 Thread Mnyb
On a side note I use an MeridianG68J as processor preamp it has a digital filter for subwoofer (of some kind) and DRC below 300Hz and a measurment program to use with it :) So sub works well with stereo to. My own slant on this i don't really believe in satellite speakers so I use sub in