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I hate most of the speakers in this thread. Literally just give me a box with a really nice wood veneer. Also, I would prefer not to have a glossy finish. It's a waste of good wood if you can't see it behind all the reflections, and it will be a visual distraction if you use them for home theater.

By "L80", are you talking about the 1980s vintage L80T, or something else?

Those seem like great speakers, but "MoFi" is a ridiculous name for a company selling upscale $5,000 speakers. Can you imagine hosting a party with your lawyer and doctor friends, someone asks you what those nice speakers are, and you have to explain "They're MoFi, like hi-fi, but there's mo' of...

Nice to see that graph. I've hear people say these speakers with the 035ti tweeter go bad and sound harsh because damping material in the tweeter disintegrates. But this measurement doesn't show any obvious problem in the treble.

It might just be a potentiometer that needs cleaning. In the meantime, if you turn the amp off and turn the knob back and forth a number of times, it might improve things a bit. I've heard conflicting advice on what to use to clean pots. Some people say to use Caig DeOxit D5. Others say it will...

I have to dissent. I've had the Tivoli radios before. They look really cool and I wanted to like them, but the sound is not that great. It tries too hard with EQing the little 3-inch speaker. You end up with "impressive" but very boomy bass and rough treble. It sounds impressive but it's...

Is the "high noise" actually a problem? Can you hear any hum if you hook it up to speakers?

No, those weren't phased arrays. A phased array uses multiple transducers with different delays on them so they they are in-phase on one particular axis. In this case the idea is that you make a beam far off to the side so that it will bounce off the side walls and create a stereo field wider...

I read somewhere that some of the Bose soundbars use the transducers as a phased array to bounce beams off of the side walls of the room.

Apple's Airpods (or the more expensive wireless Airpods) have little isolation. The sound quality is mediocre and I wouldn't use them for music much but they work fine for podcasts.

Have you had any problems with it? I tried looking on eBay for one, as my dad had one when I was a kid and I always thought it looked cool. He used it just as a preamp. But they apparently have some problems with longevity and often require repair. I never bought one since a fully refurbished...

Advent Model 300 receiver.

I like the Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic. $80 for dual-driver IEMS. I like them a lot, they sound good, they're comfortable, compact and they look good. They seemed to get a lot of bad reviews for some reason. A lot complained of weak bass. I don't know why, as the bass isn't...

I was under the impression that the DS9 set footage was shot on film so AI upscaling of that wouldn't be necessary, just re-scanning the film. The issue is the special effects and space scenes were done in SD, and the 3D spaceship assets were lost. It seems to me that if they don't have the...

My theory is that bookshelves always sound small because of the floor-bounce cancellation in the upper bass. I've never been able to get bookshelves with a sub to sound quite as good as a floorstanding tower with a big woofer near the floor, or multiple woofers. Even if I turn up the subs it...

What model are those exactly?

On the used market, the Energy RC-10 is slightly warm sounding with a 5.25" woofer in a fairly small cabinet . And it looks nice, with real-wood veneers.

That sounds like how Yamaha's variable loudness on their stereo receivers works.

Would this be a significant upgrade from an RX-496? They seem to be really close in power, 6-20% difference depending on which spec you're looking at. About two pounds weight difference. I wonder why they bother to make the two models.

NAD/PSB used to make a boombox-sized, AC-powered Ipod/Bluetooth speaker called the NAD Viso 1 that had excellent sound quality and good bass. Flat down to about 50 Hz. Its main deficiencies are a lack of stereo separation, and the treble is kinda directional so they sound a bit warm/dull but...