How Speakers Age: Wrinkles & Restoration

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, May 24, 2016    Articles

Do speakers age more with use or non-use? Are there things to do to maintain speaker sound quality? To enjoy your speakers fully, they need to be performing at their best. You can expect…

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Ohm Goes to the Movies

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, May 10, 2016    Articles

I am a long standing fan of Michael Connelly’s Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch detective series and I was very pleased when Amazon started a TV series based on Harry. I am addicted…

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The Dreaded THD: How Low Can You Go?

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 26, 2016    Articles

The harmonics of a pure tone are a series of pure tones at higher frequencies. These are the frequency of the original tone multiplied by whole numbers. For example, a 1 kHz tone has…

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No Cost Sound Improvement – Move Your Seat, Get Better Sound

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 12, 2016    Articles

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. The ways speakers and rooms interact have a bigger effect than all your choices in electronics combined as long as the electronics are not…

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Break-In & Burn-In Versus Broken & Burnt Out

John Strohbeen    Monday, March 28, 2016    Articles

Brand new speakers are well known for not performing their best until they have been “burnt-in” or “broken-in.” This is true for all mechanical systems such as turntables, phono…

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Your Ohm or Mine? Identifying Legacy Ohms

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, March 15, 2016    Articles

This week I received a call from a woman who had inherited a pair of Ohms from her uncle. She fondly remembered listening to them as a child and wanted to be certain they were working…

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