I'm a research Audiologist doing work on the effects of signal processing and speech perception. Technically, however, I'm still a student since I'm working on my PhD right now.

 

Very cool. I do bioinformatics - I could probably help crunching some of your numbers or storing the data!

 

Brains:
Outlaw 950 Pre/Pro

Brawn:
Pair Bryston 7BST monoblocks (driving maggies)
Adcom GFA 555II (driving subs)
Pair Onkyo M-501's (driving surrounds and center)

Pretty Face:
Sharp Aquos LC45GX6U

Voices:
Maggie 2.7QR's (mains)
Definitive Mythos Three (center)
JBL S-36's (surrounds)
Counterpoint Carlsbad (subwoofer)
Dayton Titanic MKII 12 (subwoofer)

Sources:
Sony DVPS9000ES (music)
Oppo 971 (video)
XBox 360 (gaming)

 

The Maggies always have such an impressive floor presence.

 

"Speakers so loud, they blow women's clothes off" -Italian Job

 

Yeah, that is so true. To me it's kind of creepy sitting in an anechoic chamber, no noises to give any depth of field visually.

I went to a listening event for, I think Bob Greene's Room Tunes, and the way the room was set up you had a very small sweet spot. If you slouched you lost it and if you stood up it was gone, and forget any side to side movement. The room in the shop was extremely live, and made listening very fatiguing, and on top of that the speakers were very bright, my friend and I went home very disappointed and quite literally worn out. Yet there were people in there saying how good it sounded.

I use a tweaking CD (Chesky) for setting up my speakers, I just moved everything into that position in the picture and I need to move the speakers around yet, to get the imaging just right for my seat, but acceptable through out most of the seating area.

 

I use this with a speech shaped broadband noise.

 

most of this stuff I picked up when I was in high school around 97-98, the TV and receiver have been replaced though. I'll get the specs tomorrow.


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and another 15inch sub in the back.

 

I made the transition from 2 channel stereo to surround sound formats kicking and screaming, but it did provide an excuse to upgrade some equipment

B&K AVR-202 receiver for preamp & signal processing functions

(2) Citation 7.1 multichannel amplifiers (bridged to 2x450wpc)

(1) Citation 5.1 multichannel amplifier (bridged to 2x300wpc)

Cary 308 HDCD player

Nad T572 multi format DVD/HDCD player

B&O Beogram 3404 w/MC20EN cartridge

Magnepan MG3A's (on MYE stands with Zero autoformers)

Magnepan MG1C's

Magnepan MMG's

Klipsch surrounds

AR center

Energy XL-S10 sub

My wife is very musical (we met while playing in an orchestra) so has no qualms about trying to accurately recreate live performances at home.

Life is good,
Brian

 

I'm at that stage in life where, now that I have the money to afford a really good system, I don't have the desire to get smart on equipment again or the time to sit down and listen to music.

So I have a nice system, not esoteric, but nice. Denon turntable with (I believe) Ortofon cartridge, Sony ES CD changer and recorder, Nakamichi LX-5 3-head cassette tape recorder, Yamaha top of the line receiver (115 w/c into 8 ohms) from about 15 years ago that I use to power my subwoofer. I use an outboard Sony ES amplifier (115 w/c) to power my main speakers. My speakers are Ohm Walsh II's (vintage 1984). They have a very smooth sound and a sweet spot a mile-wide, but since they are pre-CD, they are not very efficient.

I mainly listen to classical music, blues, world music, classic rock, or jazz when I get the chance to sit down and listen to music. It seems that every time I sit down and listen to music and get it to the level where I am really enjoying it, my wife comes in and asks me to turn it down. Then she starts asking if I have fixed something around the house that has been needing repairs for awhile.