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Welcome Show!! Hello from across the pond in GR Boy, are you in the right place.....hang around and we can recommend some serious setups.... And ... Lions ftw.

My uncle Sid has been in a Barbershop Quartet, the same 4 guys, since high school. For 50+ years. They still practice at a place called Arnie's bakery on the west side of GR two wednesdays a month. It's definitely a unique and fascinating sound.

Sweetness! Big Daddy Mark has/d a pair (of I think 8.1s) What's the power plans? (cuz I always ask)

Sweetness! Big Daddy Mark has/d a pair (of I think 8.1s) What's the power plans? (cuz I always ask)

OK. lots of great information here....I'm picking on this post because I don't have the hang of multiple quotes, yet...

I've owned a pair of DCM-TF350s since the early 90's. Probably my second set of nice speakers I've ever owned. I still have them. Vifa drivers with rubber surrounds. Maintenance free and nice, tight, and clear with transmission line ports for even bass extension. So,about 2001, when offered a chance at a set of TF-600s, the bigger brother, I jumped. They have a pair of front firing Vifas, and three tweeters, 2 time-aligned diagonally to the rear/side and one forward. I got them home, set them up in a shitty sloped roof room, with lots of interference, and they sounded like shit. I couldn't figure them out. I was severely disappointed. Until I moved. They went first. Into an empty room, fed by an old JVC personal disc player, earphone to rca input to a ... a PM-1200 I hadn't even used yet, but knew I needed a couple for the new to me concrete floor. So, JVC personal disc player input to PM-1200 output to a pair of DCM TF -600s. All alone in a room. They ROCKED. filled the whole damn room. Sounded excellent. Unbelieveable. They are currently my best set of fronts for critical listening, fed by my M-500t. So, my question is, For the rear-firing equipped speaker, and for any dipole/flat panel, infinite baffle, how important is 'Rear-field' contamination, and how should it be set up? Are there requirements with new dipoles for rear reflection surfaces? Any proof? Along with my DCMs, and many others, the RS-IIs Bean is picking up have rear firing drivers. This question came to me especially hard after I read the thread with the link from Phil about the designs of the Dahlquists. And how the engineer talked about resonance from instruments going 360 degrees. I thought, 'Wow, he's right' But if you are trying to throw an audio signal rearward to simulate rear ward resonance, what happens to that rear signal if there is rig in the way? Makes ya wanna go hmmmmmmmm

This little baby. A gift from my wife for my birthday. With the OPA627 opamp chip upgrade. Its going to receive my Apple TV, my 300 disc Sony, and maybe my Bluray depending on hook ups. Also the usb from a laptop thanks to some of you guys..... I really need to up date my Member's System thread with some new pics...

This is the way I keep it straight, dano, A simple digital signal path looks like this. Source--CD player or Digital storage --are usually a ((digital production circuit, and a digital to analog convertor)) to rca out, or you can bypass the internal dac using the digital/optical out. Many cd players are a financial compromise between features and good quality dac components. The more expensive the player, either it has lots more features, or a good quality dac circuit, or both. **Feeds** Control--a 'pre amp and amplifier' or 'Receiver' -- which steers the analog signal to the amplifier, and amplifies it. Understand if you have a decent rig, I have found that my weak point was the dac I was using do convert my 'digitally stored media' to analog. I have a 390t with a good dac to play my cds, but I was using an Apple TV's digital output and a cheap dac to play anything stored on a harddrive. So, ironically, d-a-c (dazed-and-confused) smacked me up one day and showed me my dac for the hard drive storage was weak. So I shopped a good external dac for my stored digital media.

Ummm. Me too. I plan on doing some listening first. Maybe track nominations should include mp3 links at least??

Well, allrighty then. Maybe the next step would be to start a thread for each section for selections. And then put a poll on top as soon as there are good selections.

FARTS. I like it. "Hey, I really like FARTS on these woofers....."

But wasn't Napster's main problem sharing tracks without royalties? It was soo long ago.....

This^^^ A common disc at an accepted resolution. So we have a common music bible for gear review. Lets even title it something cool. Gotta be a little careful with song rights.??

Ck this out us Diaz P

Ha! She just played Spirit of Radio for me!! Sweet.

Live on this station....88.1 WYCE. Grand Rapids, MI. Her name is Cassie Leigh, and she's 24 today. If anyone is up, send her a message or give her a call....Listen live, request a song, whatever. Mention her dad told you to mess with her.... edit: I think the live player is at this link

What? Please explain/link? And I wonder who was the first one to try that................??!!

Interesting thing, Kev. SoundStream was and still is huge in quality car audio. Even in the 90s, SoundStream head units and crossovers were the quality pieces. What in the world do you do with 8??