Oh, it's definitely not real snow... but even a little bit shuts my area down! LOL

I second this. Electronics are neat, but they are so much less important than speakers. Obviously, you should do what interests you, but I feel like lots of people can cover the user experience of electronics, and enough can measure them. No one else consistently provides the level of value that you do in your speaker reviews.

Absolutely. I concur , any review would be based on subjective sound quality, and there are already too many guys banging on about tiny differences and making them out to be huge to appease the company’s who’s gear they’re reviewing..

I have to say I keep wondering how much amplifiers do. Like I have an Audiolab 6000a play right now. Hooked up to Dynaudio Contour 1 MK2. They're rated for 100 watt. My Audiolab goes plenty loud. Do I really get different sound with a different amplifier? Like meaningful more bass or more treble / different tonality? All these audiophile reviewers just give me big question marks in my head. I can't digest the DAC chasing either.

"The goal of "audible perfection" was reached about 30 years ago. " And yet we see no end of new amps that have audible distortion. I think we need to keep trucking on. The more data the better!

@@Clobercow1 No we don't. At what level does distortion become audible? Here's a simple example for you ... the average "pop music" being released today probably has more than 10 or 15% distortion embedded into the music, sometimes deliberately. Another example... Even the best speakers typically run 3 to 5% distortion through most of the upper bass and midrange regions. Still another example... Most news broadcasts on TV have about 5% or more embedded distortion, due to speech compression. And you're going to tell me you can hear 0.01% distortion in an amplifier? Think again.

Actually that's easy to figure out ... Look at the "Damping Factor". This tells you the ratio between the amplifier's output and an 8 ohm load. Thus... R_OUT = 8 / DF. So for a damping factor of 50... R_OUT = 8 /50 == 0.16 ohms.

Disagree, got 106db speakers with dual 10" PA midranges that cut at 90hz and they are quiet unhearable on denon 6300 avr. I would have to put gain to unrealistic settings to hear noise.

​@@wadimek116Disagreement based on one amp? Suspicious.

@@pulDagit’s an average amp at best so I think it’s a good reference to base his comment on. Anything with a lower noise floor which would be most amps over 5K (excluding valves) would be better.

@@Openeyesopenheart42 one would think.. thinking isn't knowing though.

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I haven't... yet.

@@ErinsAudioCorner Unfortunately, they aren't easy to come by nowadays, especially ones that have been restored. With that said, they sound very neutral with deep bass extension. Known to be one of the more influential speakers of their time.

You might want to consider a couple of things I've done in rentals ... The first is "PE Foam Wallpaper" and the second is "Canvas Art" ... a couple of searches will turn up lots of different colours and designs you can use. The 3D wallpaper acts as a poor absorber but a pretty decent diffuser for behind the speakers and the canvas art works like a limp membrane absorber for other parts of the room. It's not studio quality by any stretch but it is a fair bit better than nothing.

@@Douglas_Blake_579 Thank you.

You can freestand treatments. The difficult part might be the ceiling

wtf

Most cartridge manufacturers already publish frequency response information for their various products. It's not an easy measure because the cartridge has to be connected to an RIAA de-emphasis network and then tested for a flat frequency response with lab-grade test disks.

@@Douglas_Blake_579 thx for the info

They look too bland. Ok, thanks.

I like Klipsch Speakers. Nice appearance, & you can remove the front cover to see the "goldish" colored speakers, if you wish! Controls: Phase & volume. The ports are in front; good, for placement, & as I was in the NAVY 6 years, know that there's a Sailor in every Port, & Port in every Sailor!

@@richardhigginson8811 Yes, at least Klipsch has some distinct design features. Had RF7 and RB81, especially the RB81 were very good in regards of price/performance.

They do look a little bland imo. But if they measured well enough for their price I might consider them. Perhaps I just make a cloth grill sculpture to hide them lol

I mean, did you literally max the dial on your amp? If yes, then maybe, if not, then no. Hard to have even the faintest clue without that info and without the product names

Hey @@lukemcdo thanks for taking the effort to respond. I was trying to hint at a more general gest for Erin, e.g. a lot of people are trying these small cheap amplifiers from FOSI and other brands. Some people say they can break your speakers, is that possible? Is that an interesting video for a broad audience? Since you took the effort, the specifics: - Fosi Audio TB10D 600Watt TPA3255 (realistic more like 70 watt) - Dynaudio Contour 1 MK2 It wasn't cranked full open, more like 60%, with bass slightly over half (unclear what the mid-point is actually)

@@caidNL Fascinating! That 70W suggestion is misleading because the premise is that with an amp like this, most speakers you'd see are either nearfield desktop monitors that you would never pump 70W into anyway or your cheaper 8ohm insensitive bookshelf speakers. At 4ohms (which your speakers are) ASR noted an 88W maximum at their target distortion level, as one example. That isn't enough to damage your speakers outright, but it's dimly possible to have damaged a tweeter with a surprising peak. And it could be worse than that -- that's not the maximum power, that's the maximum power at the selected distortion target. So when forum posters say it's "realistic more like 70w" or when I say "ASR claims it maxes at 88w in your scenario, actually," that isn't the maximum wattage from the unit, it's the maximum "tolerable" wattage from the unit in terms of total harmonic distortion. Both the 70W into 8ohm and 88w into 4ohm numbers say nothing about what the maximum wattage output is on the dial, and given that they claim 300W maximum, chances are that 60% on the dial is past at least the 70W number and maybe the 88W number, but with 2% or more THD (given that 1% THD was at about 100W and THD should rise pretty quickly outside of the sweet spot). You could've hit some pretty high THD numbers for all I know, as ASR did not bother testing past that 100wpc 1% THD number. So yes, you probably were getting close to or hearing some clipping. That said, clipping from the amp doesn't automatically mean the speaker broke or should break, and I'd have to defer to someone who knows more about those Contour 1s to know if damage should've even been possible. For example, the Klipsch R-51Ms I bought before I knew better were rated for 85W continuous but like 340W peak (which yikes, don't ever put 340W peak in there). Your Dynaudios are rated at 100W continuous so I'd expect the allowed peak is at least twice that. All being said, I think those Dynaudios had a problem before you got them but it's technically possible you clipped and damaged a tweeter. I don't think there's any way you damaged a woofer though given the characteristics of the amp. If you can find someone with measurement equipment able to denote what power output in watts per channel corresponded to what dial positions on the Fosi, that would be where I'd go next. It's also worth trying to find the rated peak RMS of the Dynaudios, which didn't come up in a quick Google search and tbh I am not trying harder than I already have on this sorry. And if it turns out that 100W IEC (continuous rating) is a lie and that's actually the peak, then I am very sorry for your loss of speaker because you 100% blew the speaker. Edit: it looks like the MK 3 got a continuous rating of 150W, which is quite low. I'm really sorry but given the age of these things, there's almost no way you didn't damage them unless they were rebuilt.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest your seller blaming the amp is a quick way to dodge responsibility for selling a dud speaker. The test is simple... swap the speaker leads, left for right ... does the problem move or does it stay in the same speaker? If it's still in the same speaker it's the speaker, not the amp. You should know the TPA3255 chip these class D amps are favouring right now is a world class pro-audio device that really does deliver on it's claims. It is used in public address, sound reinforcement, powered monitors, studio monitors, high end home theatre and not a few stereo products. Do a search for "TPA3155 Data Sheet" and you can read about it's true capabilities. Can an amplifier be defective? Of course it can. But that's why we do simple tests like swapping channels, trying a different pair of speakers, trying a different amp, listening at very low levels and so on to track down the problems.

@@Douglas_Blake_579 Meanwhile the speakers in question look like they're 23 years old, so unless they're rebuilt, they're probably pretty damageable.

Might not one say, listen to as many systems as you can, select the one that pleases, YOU! A very expensive, linear system, may not be as good for, YOU, as another one!

I agree a good pair of speakers is primary if the amplifier isn't up to the task you'll know it's time to save some dollars and upgrade . As far as the inputs go you really don't need to spend all that much for more than adequate vinyl playback. I think it's pretty much the same for digital input sources to.

Just bought a decent class D amp. it's as noisy as my 30 year old technics A/B was with the idle noise but much more powerful though.

Not all. I have about a dozen class D amps on hand for friends and customers, they all check out dead silent while idling. The previous generation chips had some trivial noise that was inaudible a foot away. But overall this new batch is as close dead silent as makes no difference. The hissing problem so many people cite was mainly in last generation pro-audio gear where a silent noise floor simply isn't needed. They can sacrifice the SNR to drive for more power... which is what public address and sound reinforcement is all about.

@@Douglas_Blake_579 The Hypex ncore are supposed to be state of the art class D. They are certainly not dead silence. You can easily hear the shhhh noise from the tweeter. It should be silent even from 1 inch away from the tweeter. Show me a class D amp that can do that.

@@ProfessorJohnSmith Okay ... that's actually easy ... almost any amplifier based on the TPA3255 chip. That chip is widely used in pro-audio, home theatre, mid-fi stereo and even some high end studio gear. ... and yes it's in the little mini-amps from China. Those little amps from Fosi, Aiyima, etc. will surprise you, my friend. A $90 amplifier that will wipe the floor with much of the $5,000+ equipment out there...

not even close. the music should make u cry. not your gear…. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

@@rushgush ? what do you mean? when im listen to a JBL Bluetooth boombox i am far from crying😁 People buy the most expensive gear. they put 30000 Dollar speaker and 20000 Dollar amps in a poor room and i have a better experiance with gear that cost a fraction with proper acoustic treatment.

so yeah... it's not all about the money. It is how you use your money/budget . that's why i am a bit shocked that 60 or so percent dont have treatment at all.

before i invest a fortunate for better gear i look what i can do else... and that would be acoustic treatment