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Thinking of building a wooden sunken table for my turntables and mixer
Jason Moore
Did anyone check out the Klipsch pilgrimage event this last weekend? They had their entire Heritage lineup available (Heresy, Forte iii, Cornwall iii, La Scala, Klipschorn (future AK6 model not in production)), RF7 iii, headphones, wireless selection of The One, The Three, and The Sixes, and even the soundbar they aren't selling quite yet. But these Jubilee's were god damn amazing
Hope, Arkansas at the warehouse. Pic related is their 1802 subwoofer. I couldn't imagine what this would sound like inside. You could peel paint off the wall
I'm not much of a Klipsch fan, but these look nice. Really, it looks like a fun event and more than just audio.
That guy should try lifting those subs around.
Eli Perez
Neat. I toured JL Audio once which was pretty fun. I've also been to Meridian in England.
Do you hang on Klipsch forums or something? How did you end up here?
Elijah Ortiz
Friday was the warehouse tour morning to afternoon. Everyone was fed ribs and pulled pork for lunch. Afterwards most everyone meets up at this other guys place about 30 minutes away who has 600 acres of land. Giant pole barn, private lakes, basically a party place until Saturday night. Fishing tournament on Saturday morning also. I didn't take any pictures of the setup at the pole barn but there was 4 stacks of these setup
Oh so Klipsch let you forum mouth breathers in and then there was an unsanctioned event put together by the hobbyists on some rednecks land? Sounds like fun. Do you live locally? Where did you stay?
James Young
You ever been to nightclubs with Funktion One's? You'd probably like that, they are like Klipsch in that they are horns only they sound good. R1s actually don't use compression drivers and really sound nice. Of course it is setup dependent, but the great nightclubs sounds fantastic with those systems.
Oliver Hughes
looks like such fun thanks for sharing. i wish there was stuff like that near me.
>unsanctioned event put together by the hobbyists on some rednecks land? It's part of the weekend event and even the Klipsch employees go there. They hired a band to play on Saturday too. Lunch and dinner served both days and the entry fee was only $60 for all of it
>Do you live locally? Where did you stay? Drove ~950 miles and stayed at a hotel between both locations
I don't do the club thing
Connor Martin
I've had this urge to build a 3-way full-range compression system, even though I have absolutely no use for a solo speaker that can put out 130+ dB peaks at 1 meter. For those of you who bought into compression horns, what drew you to them?
Liam Martin
Higher efficiency = less distortion of all types. For me it was the clarity they offer vs "normal" speakers and the benefit of being able to use a 1-10 watt tube amp and still make some thump if you desire. They can be much more picky to be setup well, but when you play around and figure it out I feel it to be a better experience overall. But if your room is hardwood or tile floor with bare walls it will be fatiguing and harsh as hell for sure. Not for everyone.
What would be your plan for the bass bin?
Alexander Price
>plans I'd like to repeat that I am not going to build this thing. Way too big, and frankly, too expensive. I found a nice driver, and the fun of planning kicks in.
Low end driver would be the BMS 18N862. 200 liter range, port tuned to 22 Hz or so. Parameters are in between the stiff pro woofers and heavier home audio subs. Very low distortion, high excursion, clean into the low midrange.
Ian Williams
>uturnaudio.com/pages/turntables good reviews overall not too expensive nice webms on website but vinyl has serious drawbacks
>but vinyl has serious drawbacks interestingly even with all drawbacks it sound better than digital
Hunter Evans
Holy fuck couldn't they at least get a decent piece of wood?
Bentley Powell
>New subwoofer just sits in the box because you can't carry it on your own RIP.
Aiden Morales
blanks are becoming somewhat expensive other than that, get a nice model not some cheap ass entry model
Jose White
I don't think vinyl sounds good at all
Angel Gray
I have some vinyls that sound better than their CD counterparts, mostly rock and synthy stuff. Vinyl is mastered differently than CDs, you can't mash the compression as hard so it forces some more dynamic range. I have some old King Tubby and other reggae albums that really had a lot of care put into their mastering also and when they did the CD release it was bought out by the brits and they didn't give a fuck so they just kinda slopped a CD together. In my experiences, that's where vinyls can sound better. If care is taken when mastering both a CD and a vinyl, I'd prefer the CD. Or, in modern day, just a digital copy. People can jerk off all they want over their record collections but if recording a modern record, I'd prefer to get the high res digital copy.
Liam Allen
that's because you never heard how vinyl really sound
Jacob Rogers
but the dynamic range is half drowned in noise anyway, just try to listen to some classical on vinyl, it's pretty sad I do, though
Liam Howard
What record player are you using? It's true the noise floor is higher, but, it shouldn't be drowning anything out. That said a lot of classical is well mastered to CD and I don't have any examples that are off the top of my head where I would pick the vinyl counterpart over the CD in my collection. Not saying there aren't exceptions to that.
Xavier Barnes
>drowned in noise anyway That's why you need to spend an outrageous amount of money on a good turntable. Has to have a good needle, good arm, good chassis, you name it.
The point was that isn't the industries only horn loaded 18" driver.
The second gripe is less valid and more shittalky, but it is that the subwoofer is being marketed for cinema and for cinema you want extension below 20Hz. Granted most liemaxes don't. This is a half space measurement, still probably in room you get reasonable output below 20Hz if used in multiples but for flat response you'd be wasting a lot of the bandwidth where this sub is more efficient to get that bottom octave. So the next question becomes why not tune it for lower peak output but more extension. -10dB at 21Hz is a pretty steep drop.
You look at that Danley that goes to 10Hz and the peak output is less but the ultra low frequency is much more within the bandwidth of cinema.
Julian Reed
keep going!
Zachary Foster
Let us know how they are, I'm considering the alpha 65s for my desk
Where do you guys get your speaker wire? I was just checkin ebay and found some cheapo wire 50' 16awg for $6. Thinking of buying some.
Jonathan Campbell
usually amazon about 23$-28$ for 100ft of 14awg ofc
Bentley James
I just get the cheapest 4 conductor 14 AWG. Think I payed like $25-$30 for a 250' roll off of amazon. You don't really need 4 conductor, but I just like making nice looking wires.
Michael Perry
Newest acquisition, sounds pretty nice. Pretty overkill for rears, I guess.
Do you guys think surround sound is ever coming back to regular music and not just vidya and movies?
Henry Peterson
no
Joshua Gonzalez
>Rega RP1 turntable >in the garbage
the fuck m8
Ian Williams
There is bluray concert disks you can get. That's about it now
Luke King
>Moom don't touch my records!
Jace Sullivan
>Anyone heard of UTurn audio? Their turn tables are cheap, but are they hidden gems?
If you like built-in pre-amps, noisey motors and Chink engineering. Buy a VPI and stop being poorfags.
Jaxson Foster
Can someone explain why people are so nostalgic about minidiscs? They're literally just mini CD-RE's.
Dylan Roberts
>Made in US >Made in my state I think I'll take that chink's advice and try to find a used one.
Alexander Diaz
The only thing here that's worth a shit.
Ethan Ramirez
Most people have never heard a clean LP on a good table. I've got a Clearaudio cartridge that sounds identical to FLAC if the record's clean. Don't get me wrong though, vinyl is still inferior. I just have a lot cause imma oldfag.
Chase Wilson
Idk man probably a bad breakup lmao The amp/radio is great though, 1974 top of the line model from Norway
Jose Fisher
Why do most subwoofers seem to have two RCA jacks or 4 speaker wire connections? Shouldn't they only need one channel? After all every PC just has one 3.5mm jack for center and sub combined.
Nathaniel Jenkins
They are typically summed to mono, so you can use either one, but consult your manual. There are a few reasons though: a) Sometimes if the output voltage is very low out of the amp it is useful to use the L&R b) if there is no subwoofer output on the pre-processor and you want to use a subwoofer this gives you the ability to use the subwoofer as a crossover, with the left and right channels bass handled by the sub and then from the outputs the bass is high passed so you can send the rest to an amp and then your mains / or powered mains.
9/10 you just plug a single RCA into the right input and call it a day. If your receiver is handling the bass management then make sure to turn the crossover on the sub all the way up or select bypass if that is available. You don't want to overlap slopes.
Liam Phillips
>And call it a day Using both helps with the sound quality. I would recommend that over going mono on the right input. Made a significant difference on mine at least.
Oliver Hernandez
What speakers should I get?
Cameron Lee
Focus are next level Monitor Audio Silver 300
Hudson King
i personally can't listen to vinyl because snap crackle pop
>you can't mash the compression as hard so it forces some more dynamic range i thought vinyl had more limitations to dynamic range
a friendly reminder that 24-bit/192kHz audio is snake oil unless you're a recording/mixing/mastering engineer
16-bit/44.1kHz is literally all you need
Christian Martin
I'm gettin married in late August and am thinking about buying two Teufel Rockster Air (teufel.de/bluetooth/rockster-air-p16561.html) for the occasion. Reason being, that I would love to have one of those and could resell the other one with minimal losses. Combining that with the fact that I could save the money for renting a PA for the wedding makes for a promising deal, I think. There will be around 80 people there and we have a room with high ceilings about 10x30m big. I will buy one of them outright and finance the second one. Am I stupid for attempting this or is it a good idea?
How are the jbl lsr305? I need some studio monitors and they seems the best option price/quality wise. Also, what cables should I use to connect them to my pc?
Anthony Morris
MA Bronze 2 vs Diamond 220 vs Zensor 1? I just want good imaging.
Justin Thompson
>a friendly reminder that 3840x2160/HDR video is snake oil unless you're a video editor
1366x768 is literally all you need
Nathan Sanders
Wrong, you don't need any more than 640x480.
Anthony Price
Not that user but that comparison isn't equivalent.
192kHz digital music files offer no benefits. They're not quite neutral either; practical fidelity is slightly worse. The ultrasonics are a liability during playback.Neither audio transducers nor power amplifiers are free of distortion, and distortion tends to increase rapidly at the lowest and highest frequencies. If the same transducer reproduces ultrasonics along with audible content, any nonlinearity will shift some of the ultrasonic content down into the audible range as an uncontrolled spray of intermodulation distortion products covering the entire audible spectrum. Nonlinearity in a power amplifier will produce the same effect.
24 bit depth doesn't harm fidelity, thankfully. It just doesn't help, and also wastes space. Professionals use 24 bit samples in recording and production for headroom, noise floor, and convenience reasons. 16 bits is enough to span the real hearing range with room to spare. It does not span the entire possible signal range of audio equipment. The primary reason to use 24 bits when recording is to prevent mistakes; rather than being careful to center 16 bit recording-- risking clipping if you guess too high and adding noise if you guess too low-- 24 bits allows an operator to set an approximate level and not worry too much about it. Missing the optimal gain setting by a few bits has no consequences, and effects that dynamically compress the recorded range have a deep floor to work with. An engineer also requires more than 16 bits during mixing and mastering. Modern work flows may involve literally thousands of effects and operations. The quantization noise and noise floor of a 16 bit sample may be undetectable during playback, but multiplying that noise by a few thousand times eventually becomes noticeable. 24 bits keeps the accumulated noise at a very low level. Once the music is ready to distribute, there's no reason to keep more than 16 bits.
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Benjamin Turner
you're late. People moved on from vinyl a long time ago
You forgot a discord, shitty pastebin and some random FAQ.
William Wright
High resolution video DOES matter, but only when you are sitting close to a large screen, so a projector or maybe computer monitor. From about five feet away, you'd need an ~84-inch TV to see the benefit. With a more common 42- or 50-inch TV, you'd have to sit about two to three feet away.
So for most, 4k doesn't matter. But HDR does. HDR boosts a display's contrast ratio, which is the difference between the brightest and darkest colors your TV can show. It allows for much finer detail in the shades in between those light and dark colors. HDR also usually comes with another feature, called wide-color gamut (WCG), which lets a TV produce more colors than most displays are capable of.
That said, an issue a lot of people have with HDR is brightness because they are used to SDR, which has relative brightness, versus HDR which has an absolute brightness standard. That means you cannot change the apparent image brightness, specifically for different viewing environments. The PQ based HDR specification defines reference white (normal diffuse white) as being 100 nits. Versus SDR most people crank their brightness up, since it is relative. With HDR, above 100 nits is for spectral highlight detail only. Regardless of the maximum peak brightness the display can generate, diffuse white will always be around 100 nits. So a lot of people go "oh shit my HDR looks so dim!" and want to try to crank it up like they did their SDR, but they can't.