How loud do you listen to music?
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manis said:
Actually thats with my SEXy speakers. My Orcas and subs haven't arrived yet. I've been waiting 110 days so far, and still no signs of them. But that's another story.
The stops are set at 7:00 and 5:00 as Grainger indicated. I'm using a MyDAC to feed the S.E.X. amp which is rated at 2V rms output but I haven't actually measured it.
Doc B. said:
I was quite sure I was missing something
FWIW, on the Stereophile website I found some data regarding the HRT Music Streamer II that's my source at the moment:
"It locked to data with sample rates of 44.1 and 48kHz and had a maximum output level at 1kHz of 2.16V. The signal was absolute polarity-correct and was sourced from the same impedance as the Streamer+, 246 ohms, at low and middle frequencies, this dropping slightly at 20kHz, to 226 ohms."
Is this the relevant information? Anyway, I guess I'll just find out first hand how loud they'll go at which setting.
Natural Sound said:
Wow, and I thought waiting 17 days (so far) was nail biting agony. What's the hold up?
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manis said:
That's an excellent question. One that I don
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Molly, I sent you a reply offline via e-mail.
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Nice speakers but not SET friendly. They need lots of power to get them going.earwaxxer said:
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4krow
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Wow Earic(heh heh, I just like that spelling better), I bought a set of MMG's many years ago and the price then was $500. Pretty decent that only a $100 up in so many years.
Hey Greg - The Magnepan folks live by the adage 'If it aint broken, dont fix it'. Those MMG's have remained the same in construction and price for many years. They just recently upgraded the crossover, then went to a full 'pseudo ribbon' design. In my experience, they continue to sound better and better with other upgrades in my system. The speed of the ribbon is fantastic.
cheers - Eairdick.
cheers - Eairdick.
My usual level is ~65 dB. That's for serious listening - I set it under 60 if I'm reading a book.
People ask me what I listen too, classic rock.
Huh? Yeah, it amazes me too.
I have a system in the garage I built with Eminance Beta 10's and Selenium compression drivers driven with a kilowatt not including the subwoofer and that can get to near concert level with the clip lights just blinking at the peaks.
But in the bedroom the 8 inch Tangbands feel the caress of the Stereomour and the soul of the music gets through even better and makes me shiver it's so good.
Really, ~65 dB at 3 meters in bed. I got up and verified, it is ~71 at 1 meter. With rat shack analog (needle) SPL meter. I said "Hi" and the meter pegged. Yup, well under normal speech.
That's what I love about the high efficiency single driver and the tubes, I get all the sound w/o all the volume. It's on every night at bedtime. I look forward to it. Sometimes I wake up at midnight and find I forgot to turn it off.
Simply amazing and wonderful!
I set it under 60 if I'm reading a book.People ask me what I listen too, classic rock.
Huh? Yeah, it amazes me too.
I have a system in the garage I built with Eminance Beta 10's and Selenium compression drivers driven with a kilowatt not including the subwoofer and that can get to near concert level with the clip lights just blinking at the peaks.
But in the bedroom the 8 inch Tangbands feel the caress of the Stereomour and the soul of the music gets through even better and makes me shiver it's so good.
Really, ~65 dB at 3 meters in bed. I got up and verified, it is ~71 at 1 meter. With rat shack analog (needle) SPL meter. I said "Hi" and the meter pegged. Yup, well under normal speech.
That's what I love about the high efficiency single driver and the tubes, I get all the sound w/o all the volume. It's on every night at bedtime. I look forward to it. Sometimes I wake up at midnight and find I forgot to turn it off.
Simply amazing and wonderful!
Oh yeah. I'm serious. Demented even.
Serious watts.
Serious speaks.
All that stuff didn't cost as much as the flea powered tube amps I've bought recently.
Yup, 65 dB. If I want to rock & roll and feel it hit my chest I can always go out to the garage and get 115 dB. It actually sounds good there too. I'm getting too old for that shit -
Serious watts.
Serious speaks.
All that stuff didn't cost as much as the flea powered tube amps I've bought recently.
Yup, 65 dB. If I want to rock & roll and feel it hit my chest I can always go out to the garage and get 115 dB. It actually sounds good there too. I'm getting too old for that shit -
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Good Lord Bro! an' ta think they just use ipods nowa days....they don't know what they are missing. Kinda like some of the little 4bangers driving makin noise.
I've been workin' on that for years now. The Bellari "sonic exciter" was the end. It's got a couple of 12AX7's in it and really helped the sound. Before I would just get the clip lights blinking and then shut it down 'cause it just was loud. With the Bellari I could do the same thing except it sounded so good I could just leave it there until the speaks melted.
It's a baby pro sound setup with some car audio stuff. The 2 half kilowatt A500's feed the Beta 10's and the car amp sends 25 watts each to the co-axial compression drivers. A quarter kilowatt plate amp powers the 12 inch 94 dB/watt sub. Active XO separates the signals and the EQ notches out the resonant peak on the Betas.
But it's the Bellari that makes it sound like bliss. It's that damn thing that got me into the tubes!
It can get really loud. I've never had a problem with the neighbors though. That's what's amazing. I have cranked it to clipping with the big door open and when I walked out to the property line it wasn't that bad. Oh yeah, you can still hear it, but the sound of a car driving by covers it up. And it's not like I leave it cranked all the time. I will "clip out" a song or 2 and then go back to backround level. With the big door shut I don't think anybody would care as long as it wasn't dark outside.
And it takes up zero floor space -
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Mike, 65dBA is like a soft spoken conversation. Are you sure you measured the sound level in the room?
Yup.
Amazing eh? I think so too. It sure sounds louder than that. I think it's because of all the detail the system brings out.
I lay in bed with the mic of the meter pointed between the speaks about 3 meters away.
Like I said, this is a bedroom system and Pops is just down the hall. Can't be keeping him awake -
Amazing eh? I think so too. It sure sounds louder than that. I think it's because of all the detail the system brings out.
I lay in bed with the mic of the meter pointed between the speaks about 3 meters away.
Like I said, this is a bedroom system and Pops is just down the hall. Can't be keeping him awake -
