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In the Thread: Remedies the Beauty
Post Subject: These are the days of our livesPosted by anthony on: 11/9/2021
 Romy the Cat wrote:
Dynamics and they mostly come from electric relationship between amplification and drivers.


I would certainly add to that the relationship between the driver and the enclosure.  I know I am on the other side of the world and have not heard what you and Bill have heard, but I like to think about "dynamics dynamics", as I envisage your notion, in terms of "tuning".  An untuned box has all kinds of stuff going on that can make the output muddy, congested and compressed, and like tuning a guitar string the output will get better cleaner and better when that other stuff is dealt with, including how the drivers are mounted to the enclosure.  

Back when I was doing my Bass Cannons I played around a lot with stuffing, mainly to attenuate the large reflection off the rear wall of the tubes.  I must have tried and measured more than two dozen different stuffing arrangments and foam types and although this is only the lower bass channel the sound changed significantly with each of them.  I heard all different kinds of muddy, one-note and congested to finally soft and textured. 


 Romy the Cat wrote:
You remember I played to you opening from Bruckner 7 Adagio and it was not an opening of cellos, violas and Wagner tubas but it was some kind of gray homogeneous noise, so my playback did not shred it to individual voices and then combine it via acoustic presentation. I headed in my room when I had Dannoy here and I don't have it now. It is not the property of enclosure.


That so sounds like a box problem to me, especially if listening at higher volumes.


Other than that, it is nice to see the two steps forward, one step back thing happening with the Remedies project.  I can't help at times but think that I am watching a daytime soap opera as everything plays out here and am enjoying the 'warts and all' process thus far.  Can't say I've ever followed anything quite like it in audio.  I have all the drivers here, who knows, if this project come to a head I may give it a go for downstairs.

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