What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
LOL - can be if you have them in the proper in wall boxes, which they did sell.
Better than nothing, but still not great. You need them seriously isolated from the house and you can't really do that in wall. If you've ever looked at what it takes to do bookshelves properly, no way to do that in wall. Your speakers belong 1/3rd of the way out into the room and not pointed straight forward. In wall, even with great boxes, puts speaks behind the wall rather than out into the room. And there is no way for them to breath properly. It's all about "making due". Which is great if you want nice sound and looks matter. But for audiophilia, you don't take looks into account.
In the same way that the cabinet makes the most difference to speaker design... room design and speaker placement is 100% the value of a speaker as well. A cheap speaker set up well will keep pace with a B+W in the wall.
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Those B&W's you left us were pretty great.
I think overall, if I had to prick a brand that I like the most, I'd go with either Magnepan or Acoustic Research. Maybe KEF. I got to play with a few pairs of Q-100's in an array, all bi-amped and set for different frequency ranges, and that was fantastic. But above all, I love it when speakers have a good soundstage, and good instrument placement. I've not ever heard anything that images like a pair of Magnepans. Even their cheapest model, the MMG, images better than any box speaker I've personally heard, and better than most Electrstatics costing upwards of twice the price. My current favorites are the MG III-A's, but only because those are the best ones I can afford, or find the room for, because MAN do Magnepans need space to breathe.Magnepans are pretty great soundstaging, that's very true. I'm so jealous that you have those. I want a pair like that and a Conrad Johnson or Sonic Frontiers to drive them.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The only place I consider in ceiling speakers are for the surround speakers on a surround sound system... because who cares at that point... its just extra sound effects.
Even then you still want the back speakers 1/3rd the way in the room, ear level, identical to the front speakers.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The newest fanciest smanshiest surround sound tech actually has speakers that are supposed to be ceiling mounted. Just to make matters even worse, lots of companies designed speakers to reflect sound off the ceiling to emulate that/those channel(s).
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@scottalanmiller I use my totally custom electrically separated dual monoblocks in my Denon PMA-550 chassis, which has ridiculously good quality switches in it, and dual tube-based phono preamps. I love that amp, I'll never sell it.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The newest fanciest smanshiest surround sound tech actually has speakers that are supposed to be ceiling mounted. Just to make matters even worse, lots of companies designed speakers to reflect sound off the ceiling to emulate that/those channel(s).
Yup. Even high end (non-hi fi) has done this for decades to get an effect. Check out old dipolar and bipolar and other back channel speaker designs. They have always done some funky things.
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We've got heavy rain in the back yard and bright sun in the front.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We've got heavy rain in the back yard and bright sun in the front.
Sounds like spring time around my house.
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Finally getting back to a computer during the day. Kiddo has kept us busy the last couple of days!
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IKEA had a section sofa piece on floor model sale. So picking it up.
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We have to go coat shopping.
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About to spin up my OSTickets VM to start customising it, might start using it in Jan
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We have to go coat shopping.
Once we got there we figured out that my wife is delusional and had no idea why I would own a heavy coat. So we came right back.
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Drinking my morning coffee, reading @scottalanmiller 's SAM Learning Linux Admin segments like a morning paper..
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Just switched from my phone to my laptop as the phone died. Watching my SIL play Tropico 4.
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Getting ready to take my puppy to the vet for his yearly visit.
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OMG, some new poster on SW can't figure out if the so insanely obviously free SpiceWorks software is free, or if it is $500,000 a year to run.
Really? How can you not figure out it is free, just go to the site. And seriously, what software cost $500K a year for one user AND shows ads! This guy actually things that millions of people deploy software at half a million dollars a year? SpiceWorks would be earning TRILLIONS in profits a year. TRILLIONS!!! They'd be doing weird things like funding their own space exploration program and buying other planets. They'd have entire development teams working from undersea research stations in the Mariana Trench... just because they could. Their spokesperson would be the Queen of England and Donald Trump would make them coffee.
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How do people get confused by this?
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Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it. Only one phone though.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
I hve heard of them,... but never looked at them. Had Vonage for years, and when we moved into the house, didn't renew. That was eleven years ago. We have our mobile phones and that is it.
