Suggestion Box: Give Us Your Ideas for Articles in Hi-Fi+
Tom Martin -- Sat, 05/24/2008 - 07:36
The editors would love to hear your ideas about themes to cover, types of media to review, show report information you'd like, technologies to report on, trends to forecast, new products to cover, different categories of products you'd like covered, or other suggestions.
So get introspective and then post your reflections here.
Thanks.
I know HiFi Plus is a British magazine, and I live in the US. But the products in the last few issues seem pretty obscure (I keep seeing brands I've never heard of, and I've been into this hobby for a while). Maybe the UK market is just different, but could we get more internationally recognized products?
Tom,
this may be a strange reply to a question posted almost 2 years ago. I am a great fan of Roy and HiFi + but I found this site only recently.
My suggestion of a topic that I would like to see discussed is the last component - the room. I really think that we need more than the standard advise about dimensions and isolation. It would be great to have a discussion with examples of real systems in great sounding room.
My interest follows a recent traumatic experience, where I had extensive works in my appartment, building, among other things, a very big room (14 metres x 4; I know, the porportions are not right, but it should work), where a pair of Avalon Eidolons should seat perfectly. Well, it does not. For structural reasons the room opens to a hallway, the sound seems to disappear into other rooms and the sound is dull and unenvolving.
Before the works my system was in a crumped room, with 6mx4, but it worked much better thyan now.
I do not expect to solve this kind of problems by reading HiFi+, but I would like to see how other people solve the room interface issue.
Many thanks
CPC
Well, you didn't miss my post by as much as you think (4 months, not 2 years). And anyway, this is intended to be an long-standing thread.
Your idea seems useful, and I hope others (and Roy) will comment. I had a less painful experience, but still a painful one, with designing a full room from scratch only to realize that I didn't know about one rule of thumb that would have turned a good room into great.
Might not be what the post is looking for, but my middle-age eyes are having trouble reading the thin font, even with reading glasses on!
No such problems with TAS...
The fonts are almost the same size and style, so I'm hard pressed to think of why there would be a difference. I did notice that HiFi+ uses whiter paper that creates more contrast, but seemed to me to be a bit hard on the eyes.
Regarding CPC's query regarding room dimensions and isolation--of course, every room is different so it's difficult to draw any conclusions, but I have a similar problem. On one side the room opens onto a passage way into another room. It's a well damped room with lathe and plaster walls and has pretty good measured frequency response at the listening position. I have been able to minimize the problem with careful speaker placement and with the balance control on my preamp, boosting the left balance. Short of moving, it's the best solution I've come up with and it works better than it looks like it should.
Dennis Davis Hi-Fi+
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