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    More Gender Angst

    in Lounge

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    21 hours ago, Dave A said:

    I think there needs to be a new type of xlr connectors. They must have the same number of male and female components and you are not allowed to categorize the polarity nor assign artificial man created names to them. They will be allowed to be what they want on any given day and whether it all works right does not matter as long as the  xlr's can plug into each other some kind of way. The laws of electricity are a cisgendered construct and have no bearing on reality.

    What are you, God?

    Jubilee advice needed.

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    On 2/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, Chris A said:

    The effect that you mention--that they sounded better as they were turned up--is usually due to the ratio of reflected to direct energy flipping over as the SPL goes up. That's very easily controlled using room treatments, but pretty limiting in terms of what you can say about the performance of the loudspeaker if it's not yet accomplished. That's why I commented. That's not a particularly good way to judge loudspeakers (of any sort) and certainly not at the performance level as Jubs, IME. IIRC, the pair that you heard were very newly installed--as mentioned in advance of your visit on this forum that I remember reading--and perhaps without room treatments/sufficient floor coverings and/or dial-in time (i.e., the owner mentioned more than once that he's pretty busy and presently that time is in short supply to tinker with them).  I know about that situation as I had to learn about it myself over the years. 

    @Chris A thanks for reminding me about this. I was listening for a bit this past weekend (imagine actually having time to listen:)) and was definitely made aware of what @Schu and you are saying. These speakers sound better at high volumes for sure. And what is needed to tame this is room treatments. I certainly cannot listen at 95 to 110 dB continuously.

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    50-60Hz hum in my system

    in Subwoofers

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    13 minutes ago, stepher said:

    Moral of the story....don't assume a familiar sound indicates a familiar problem. The shortest distance between two points is almost always never a straight line :)

    Cool, thanks for sharing this. The whole thread I mean but I did not want to quote the whole thing.

    Denon and Klipsch does not seem too loud

    in General Klipsch Info

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    8 hours ago, ODS123 said:

    Whereas a volume control on a traditional analog device may reach 90% of it's maximum non-distorted gain with only 1/2 of the knobs rotation, a digital volume control may need much more of it's incremental range. 

    To clarify. Regular analog volume controls are "audio taper". At 12 o'clock position the resistance is approx. one tenth of the total meaning only one tenth of the voltage is being passed downstream. This is done because human hearing as far as loudness is concerned is logarithmic in nature. Once an analog signal has been digitized and is being controlled in a DSP the volume control can be programmed to do whatever taper the programmer wants.

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