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House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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He is in preschool 3 afternoons a week, so I listen instead of sleep, at least for the next little while. I have given him my ear muffs, but he doesn't like them either; so 3 days a week for 2hrs, not too bad, as long as I don't fall asleep and miss picking him up!
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Hey Mojo, I just realized all I did with the M82 strapless, was turn my M82 into an M80 minus one tweeter. Care to try disconnecting one of your tweeters and have a listen? I am curious if it makes them more neutral than forward. If so I may go with the M80's....
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Hey Mojo, I just realized all I did with the M82 strapless, was turn my M82 into an M80 minus one tweeter. How exactly did you do that? When you unstrap them you separate the woofers from the mids/tweets. I'll try to find some time later today to try. Are the tweets quick disconnect?
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Hey Mojo, I just realized all I did with the M82 strapless, was turn my M82 into an M80 minus one tweeter. How exactly did you do that? When you unstrap them you separate the woofers from the mids/tweets. I'll try to find some time later today to try. Are the tweets quick disconnect? Very interesting thread guys! I'm curious to the results from this as well. Any luck Mojo?
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Anybody with the M82 setup use burnt CDs? I don't mean copied CDs, but rather MP3 or wav files. I like Mojo's suggestion for the M82's but I am worried about the imperfections I experience with virtually every burnt CD. I'm afraid the M22's will reveal the aforementioned, as they are not a commercially recorded CD.
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Hey Mojo, I just realized all I did with the M82 strapless, was turn my M82 into an M80 minus one tweeter. How exactly did you do that? When you unstrap them you separate the woofers from the mids/tweets. The driver numbers become almost the same: M80 2 6 1/2, 2 5 1/4 and 2 tweeters, the M82 strapless is now running the same number of drivers less that one tweeter. the M22 has the one tweeter and 2 5 1/4 mids and the M60 now lends its 2 6 1/2. So I think they might sound very similar just as the M80 and M82 sounded very similar with the edge going to the M82.
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Wheelz, I tried burnt MP3 cds a while ago with my M22s and they did sound somewhat hollow, although I have since found the highest possible bit rate yields decent results, but still less than CD quality. They still seemed a little hollow to me. The M22s usually reveal badly recorded material in the mid to high ranges, the speakers speacialty range, with MP3s removing some of the highs, as we are not supposed to be able to hear it that well, tends to leave the music a little lifeless to me. The M82 might liven it up a bit with its lower range, but I no longer use MP3 material with my system if I can help it. I will try some later and let you know what I find.
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This may sound like a joke, but it is not. LAME has many settings allowing the user to have fast conversion or higher quality. I found that iTunes, for example, is using a fast-algo that yields not that good results. MP3 coming from emusic.com, for example, are VBRs scanned at low speed. Those files sounds very good on my system compared to 320Kpbs with iTunes.
Settings for emusic.com "To encode the files on eMusic, we used LAME version 3.92. The import option that was used is -alt-preset standard"
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Thanks for the tip. I don't download much, prefer to have the real thing here and then rip it myself.
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