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A minimum size of approximately 20'x30' works well. At those WxL a 16' ceiling works well. There is something PWK mentioned called the "half-room" principal. It applies well in this situation because few of us have 16' ceilings. So, if you use 8' instead of 16' you'll be half way there. The result being that any modes in the vertical plane will be about + or - 3dB less "ideal". This is just a general guideline. If you have vaulted ceilings all the better.

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You put your left toe in You put your right toe out And then you shake it all around. That's what it's all about.

I had the fortunate opportunity to meet "the man" himself - Roger Waters. For me DSOTM "IS" a "track". However I must admit I'm very partial to That Great Gig in the Sky with Clare Torry on vocals. Another related fav is Roger Waters Amused to Death What God Wants Parts I II & III Echos is a great "creepy" song. When I was having a cardiac ablation, waiting for the anesthesiologist, the nurse asks what kind of music do I like. I said Pink Floyd. She turns on the Pink Floyd radio channel. After a while Echos starts playing (it's what, 20 minutes long?). And I'm thinking "Oh God, no. I hope this is over before they put me under!!"

DING!!!👍 My two cents: Source=Hi_res streaming=Tidal Source=Lo_res streaming=Bluetooth. This might be listening to a streaming local radio station or other Lo-res source (Pandora, Radio.com) Hookup: Router/modem --> ethernet cable --> Player. In my case the amplifier is the DAC is the Player. Probably the same with your Marantz. Router/modem --> WiFi --> cell phone/tablet/iPad --> Bluetooth --> Player. I've found that bandwidth (ie: how fast your connection is), especially with WiFi can have a significant effect on connectivity issues. The faster the better. When my WiFi speed was around 15-25Mbps I always had problems. Sometimes wouldn't connect at all. Ethernet was around 75Mbps. Now my WiFi is typically 75-90Mbps/ethernet 175- 200Mbps. I don't have connectivity issues anymore. I use the ethernet connection. In order to fully accomplish what it looks like you want to do, you may have to add some other "whole house" system like Bluesound which has it's own operating system. Marantz probably has something similar of their own. EDIT: For Hi_res steaming (CD quality or better) you should be able to stream directly from your router to the "player", using WiFi if fast enough, otherwise use ethernet (preferred). Your tablet or pad is used as a "controller" (a hi-tech remote control). For Low-_res streaming your router is sending the signal to your cell phone/tablet/pad, and the cell phone/pad is sending that signal to your "player" via bluetooth.

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In your situation I would get some used Oppo CD player that also has an ethernet input for online streaming Hi-Res and is also MQA compatible. The Oppo's play pretty much everything. After that a speaker upgrade. Many have posted plenty of good ideas - Heresy, Cornwall, maybe the RP8000 you were looking at. I wouldn't go too big in your room. Not because it won't be an improvement or won't sound good. It's just that you won't be getting what you paid for. You won't be able to get anywhere near the performance out of, say Khorns, in your room, that you should be or that they are capable of. As far as online streaming - you mentioned not using Tidal "because of it's dearth of lossless material". I'm afraid I don't understand. Tidal has a tremendous library of lossless material in all music genre, including master quality and master authenticated files. It's actually become difficult not to find something. Finding it however, can still be an issue depending on how Tidal cataloged it and what search parameters you used. It is getting better, but not yet what I'd like to see. Supposedly Roon helps overcome this, but that's another subscription.

For the most part the article is correct from a general rule-of-thumb perspective. Just a few things missing from the article. 😉 The size of the space your speakers are in. A 10000 cubic foot room is going to require more acoustical power output from the speakers than a 2500 cubic foot room. This in turn will require more amplifier power all other things being equal. How the room is treated, what it contains = how reflective or absorptive it is. Doubling the listening distance doesn’t necessarily decrease SPL 6dB Different speaker designs “throw” the sound differently. Line source array for instance do not decrease as rapidly with distance. Some horn designs are specifically designed as near throw or long throw and fall off faster or more slowly in projected SPL with distance. Room gain. Again, depending on the room size, contents, acoustical treatments and playback loudness level room, reflections can make it “sound louder” because reverberation time doesn’t decay as fast at higher SPL. Room gain can contribute +10dB to apparent (perceived – sounds like) louder. The type of music you listen to. Some music like classical typically have more dynamic range than say a recent loudness wars hard rock recording. Peak levels are perceived much different than sustained levels at the same SPL.

Mine definitely have more red in the color. And Willand mentioned cherry darkens more over time. Mine are RF7 II and they have more reddish tone now than these pictures show. They look more like the bottom front right speaker now. A lot the color tone will depend on lighting and room colors/treatments reflecting the light.

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My first question is WHY? Do you have an abundance of tapes? If so, are these tapes you made or are they just from retail purchases (generally low quality)? Any good tape deck, reel to reel or cassette is prone to wear and maintenance (and repair) even with the best of the best. And it's going to cost way more than $100. Nakamichi, Tascam, Revox. Nakamichi made an auto-reversing "flip cassette" deck RX-202, sort of a poor-man's Nak Dragon.

Cats, eggs and cheese. Surely there is a connection

🤡 It's a joke? Actually, it's a line (joke) from an old TV commercial where some giggling lady responds "Oh, I grew it in my garden" referring to the cheese.

"Too lean and it sounds like a smile curve eq. I guess it's like anything, you have to have it dialed in just right." That's because they were designed for electric bass (guitar). A lot of bass players use a "scooped" midrange, especially nowadays. It's almost a requirement for the modern "slap and pop" sound.

From my experience, most musical instrument amplifiers and particularly speakers do not translate well to "high fidelity". They are purposely "colored" to create a sound to the liking of the musicians using them, an extension of their electric instrument so to speak. As a bass player, and having owned Acoustic 360/301, I can tell you this: First of all the 301 is a long-throw folded horn. You really need to get back 20, 30 feet or more to really hear what this cab is putting out. Second, I notice you are using them as bass speakers - up to 100Hz. Not good. The reality is these cabs have a cut-off around 80-100Hz - right where you put the crossover.

WoW Thad. I didn't know you were an egg farmer! Very Cool. I grow cheese, in my garden.

Another one I like is Peter Gabriel's Up This one, similar to Roger Waters Amused to Death has some pretty spectacular effects as well as some powerful DEEP bass with lots of texture. It can be somewhat taxing for most systems to reproduce "adequately" (IMO) due to the usual Peter Gabriel extremely dense "mix". But there are some unusual effects - one the sound literally appears to come out of the left side speaker, swirl around your head, and then vanish into the right side speaker. Originally recorded analog, I have it on the rare SACD but Tidal MQA Master is even better.

So did I 6 or 7 years ago. Do realize that when you rip a CD to FLAC (or WAV or whatever) you're also copying all the errors that are present on that CD, as well as all the errors created during the "reading" of the disc by the laser(s). So what you have is a copy of all the defects & errors. Not quite the same thing as streaming what is essentially a digital master file copy from a source like Tidal. Other than that I wouldn't spend a lot money on a new player. Just get a used Oppo that plays everything. There's a reason Oppo got out of the CD/DVD manufacturing business.

Last I knew, Allan was a set designer/builder out in L.A. So Allan may very well have made that custom cabinet. Hi Allan. Haven't seen you in a while. I still remember that H U G E pork chop you got at Andy's Jazz Club when a few of us went to hear Von Freeman.

FWIW...........My experience with NAD has been similar to Klipsch in standing behind their product - long after the fact. Just like Klipsch replaced a custom ordered unfinished Cornwall cabinet for me long out of warranty due to a veneer issue - NAD replaced a 6 year old C390DD - gave me a full MSRP refund towards a brand new M32 (along with a nice discount) because of a "glitch" that they couldn't fix when using their new BlueOS module. That kind of customer care is always worth something...........👍