When I think back on my last decade of musical enjoyment, I sometimes think about how much the room played an impact in the music I was hearing. Was it “huge”? Or was it rather insignificant? I think the answer is that it was a bit of both. I’ve had systems setup in rooms as …
Nearly six months ago I started this “project” of renovating a new media room in a new house. While I was unable to affect the the room’s dimensions, I could do something about the the sound profile. Incessant ringing, boom’iness, poor sound-staging… all of these problems were classic symptoms of a poorly treated room. Or …
I’ve heard it multiple times some of the best money spent on a serious stereo system is spent on the room itself. While it was always something that I knew about, it was never something I could act on. This was primarily due to two reasons; first, I didn’t have the room for it. And …
How often do you come away completely baffled by a piece of equipment that you’ve heard? Even with the number of components that I’ve had the pleasure of listening to, it happens a fair bit. That’s saying a lot, especially in this day and age where amplification technology has progressed to the point of being …
The last few months have been quite challenging for me. As it turns out, moving into a new house is a lot of work and getting projects done has taken quite a bit of time away from this wonderful hobby. But here I am with a list of things I want to write about but …
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It took me a long time to come to terms with subwoofers and the role they played in stereo playback. For the longest time I held the belief that the only bass you needed was what came out of your speakers. Need more bass? Get bigger speakers. In a sense, I sounded very Texan at …
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In this final chapter to my Advent Calendar posts, I’d like to take a moment to thank my wife who has put this together every year four years running. I know that four years may not seem like much, but when you consider that it’s always beers I’ve never had, I’d like to think it’s …
It’s been a while. And as you might have guessed, I’ve been busy. For those in the know, buying a house and getting ready to move has a way of keeping you busy. We’re a few weeks out yet, but that still means packing away most of the “spare” audio gear. Don’t worry though, that …
Taking a step back into the early days of my vinyl collection, I happened upon this gem. Well, gem in my opinion. Back when I was just getting my collection started, I went into a brief craze of buying albums purely based on album art. I know what you’re thinking. Luckily (or not), this only …
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In my last post, I talked about the yearly tradition my wife started of creating a custom advent calendar of beers I’d never tried before. In short, she picked twenty five new beers and ordered them by rating (in Untappd) from worst to best. In my last post, I detailed the first six that I …
