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yeah i'll be getting the davis and evans boxes. good stuff.

cheap bass traps. SH Forums - View Single Post - Monitors for 10 x 13ft room, ~$1500 with stands

the CD credits Tony Dawsey, but Diament claims he did the mastering. SH Forums - View Single Post - NIN - Pretty Hate Machine, different masterings?

nah, he didn't do "heartbreaker", its just my other reference recording. He did do the Def Jam Slayer stuff and the original TVT Pretty Hate Machine.

its hard for me not to listen to the guy who mastered the atco japan genesis "a trick of the tail". it and the MFSL Heartbreaker are generally my reference discs.

let me also say that I am a basshead as well. I crave impactful, deep bass, not a floppy sloppy mess. Today I tried removing the subwoofer and moving my listening postion 5 ft from the back wall (38% of the rooms length). So at this point I was a few feet from my speakers, truly "near field". Didn't like what I was hearing, things got to bright and wearisome. I achieved much better results by moving my seat back to a foot or two from the back wall, bringing the sub back in, and plugging the ports with socks. I inched up the sub crossover a little and things were sounding nice. The bass coming from the sub sounds good, and I've eliminated some of the bass coming from the 22L, which sounded bad. I'm willing to try the Diament suggested cardboard boxes full of crumpled newspaper in the corners method, just need to get the supplies and the time.

sweet, i'll go with that and give it a shot.

define nearfield then, because some would already describe my current listeninh distance of 7ft as nearfield.

but really the whole idea of a smaller speaker is that a smaller enclosure moves less air, so less opportunity for boominess.

ok ok, i'll try room treatments! geez, you and barry diament. next thing you'll be pushing mmg's and outlaw amps on me.

i bet mike gets an amp!

Hi All- I've been using the following setup in a 10 x 13ft room now for the past several months: Quad 22L Cambridge Audio 840A Cambridge Audio 840C Technics SL1200MK2 Cartridges used include DL-103, AT440MLa, KAB/Ortofon ProS30 Phono's used include Hagerman Bugle (60db gain 100 ohm loading for DL-103) and Bottlehead Seduction (for MM) SVS 20-39 PCi Cylinder Subwoofer Blue Jeans LC-1 interconnects I only recently added the subwoofer to combat bass issues I was having due to what I guess is room compression. The bass from the 22L floorstanders has always been a bit boomy and unsatisfying in the lower regions. Adding the SVS and keeping the crossover at 40hz did worlds for adding to bass extension, but I'm still having boomy bass issues, no matter where I place the 22L in the room. I'm finally accepting that a floorstander just won't work in a room this small. So rather then fighting it by spending on room treatments, I'm considering just selling the 22Ls and going with a stand mounted monitor more appropriate for near field listening. I'd rather have a speaker that does well closer to the back wall, but if its something I have to pull out thats fine, as long as it somehow works in my 10 x 13 ft room. I plan on keeping the SVS to mate with the monitors. The 840A does 120W into 8ohms and 200W into 4ohms. Price range is ~$1500 with stands, cheaper is better, though I'm willing to stretch the dollar for great deals. I am fine with buying used. I've been doing a lot of searching and have plumbed through many older threads, coming up with this rough list of options, which I admit stray wildly in price: Epos M5 Green Mountain Europa Quad 12L Harbeth HL-P3 series Magical, accurate midrange and non-fatiguing treble are crucial. I listen to a lot of rock and a lot of jazz. I get a kick out of nice soundstage and imaging when listening to jazz, with rock I love rich and pure male vocals and some guitar crunch. I'm at the beginning of this journey, so any advice or recommendations you can give would be appreciated. Please feel free to throw out any other small speaker names that I can research. Thanks! Addendum: I posted this identical post over at AA and the Paradigm Signature S2 v.2 and Energy RC10 were also recommended to me.

SL customer service update: Sent in my faulty Domkirke vinyl a month ago, still no communication from SL, no new vinyl, and no t-shirt that was supposed to be included in my order. Also no Boris LP that I paid for last January and never received. I'm picturing their customer service department as this one guy in a sweaty Sabbath t-shirt laying under his desk with a needle sticking out of his arm. I'm thinking in the future I'll avoid buying direct from SL and just go through a retailer instead.

a 1200 sounds like an excellent idea!

Looking forward to responses on this. I think its the Horizon I've read very bad things about, something about a noisiness that was fixed in the SE version?

Great write up! Sounds like The Cards are doing some kind of combination of blue cave/red cave from the tours a few years back, with the darkness of blue cave and the anger of red cave. "Come Pick Me Up" is of course a favorite, some of the best relationship lyrics I've ever heard. and "i taught myself how to grow old" is one of my all time super duper absolute favorites. beautiful, brilliant song. I can't wait for Ryan to come around again. I love this channeling Garcia thing he's been doing for the past few years. I'm sure all the hanging around with Phil Lesh helps that. The last album was originally billed as just The Cardinals, but I don't think the record company would let them take Ryan Adams off. I honestly think Ryan is trying to keep his ego in check, as he's allowed himself to destroy shows in the past. By thinking of himself as more a part of the group, he's seeking to curb those arrogant tendencies.

The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope Iron Maiden - Powerslave vinyl

hell yes! i love mine. cost around $215 if I recall correctly, and I pretty much have all the beatles I'll ever need. great sounding stuff.

i'm enjoying watching your sig pic there morph, al.

yeah I'm a sucker for collector's editions books as well, as you know. so I've at least added it to my amazon wishlist. grats on the ecd-1 sherwood! i've never heard one, but it sure does get talked about a lot around here.

let me type them from the acoustic sounds catalog: horace parlan - movin' and groovin' johnny griffin - introducing johnny griffin cliff jordan - blowing in from chicago hank mobley - dippin' duke jordan - flight to jordan kenny burrell - on view at the five spot cafe grant green - grantstand hank mobley - workout herbie hancock - maiden voyage the horace silver quartet - blowin' the blues away freddie hubbard - hub cap freddie hubbard - hub-tones the 3 sounds - introducing the 3 sounds jimmy smith - midnight special jimmy smith - back at the chicken shack hank mobley - no room for squares jackie mclean - new soil ike quebec - blue & sentimental hank mobley - peckin' time lee morgan - the sidewinder lou donaldson - sunny side up lou donaldson - the time is right stanley turrentine - up at minton's vol. 1 walter davis jr - davis cup dizzy reece - soundin' off

and I see that Acoustic Sounds is doing another set of 25 Blue Note titles. This is ridiculous, I'm going to have to start delivering pizzas at night or something.

neat!

looks pretty cool, but I'm not really an HP fan. haven't read any of the books. the movies I've seen are fun though.