Now that virtually all of the United States has “reopened” after many months of COVID-19 lockdowns, audiophiles and music lovers are gradually resuming the practice of visiting each other’s homes to celebrate their shared passion for fine music playback. Movement restrictions reduced our spending on dining and travel and increased time spent at home. As…
Month: June 2021
Unlocking Great Sound (part 5)
Having worked through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound, in this next part, I’ll describe the process I followed to integrate the excellent SVS 3000 Micro subwoofers. I’ll wrap up by building FIR filters for use with Roon’s convolution engine. Here’s a link to the start of this series. Polarity It’s…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 4)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. I completed all of the listening position and speaker placement tuning in part 3. Later in his book, Paul touches on room treatments, cables,…