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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker by Amir on 2009-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker seems to be good in today hifi market.i never listened to it but i like to know your idea if you listened to it.I do not like to promote any brand in this forum but i like to know any idea about these speakers.http://...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Wilson wat puppy by Amir on 2009-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
I think correct positioning the watt puppy and maxx model in room is not easy and each time i listened to them i sensed a bloated sound, I guessed bloated sound refer to acoustics. i know these model drivers are not fast but i guessed in a good room ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Jung by N-set on 2021-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Gentlemen, working with mathematics as a tool all my adult life I cannot understand your fascination with Goedel's thm here. Yes, it is catchy but I think it does not apply here, it's a rigid math/logic fact, and what's more even leads astray in unde...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: Got it by N-set on 2021-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Ok, got it. I second Paul's experience that trying to retrace own footsteps is the best strategy in such cases. Esp. that Dannoys + B3 didn't perform at Bill's place....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Why should a midrange horn have an octave or two bottom? by MusicLover on 2005-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL2440 on a round 300Hz tractrix horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Romy, I understand you are saying that a midrange horn rated flat to 300HZ should really be crossed at  600 or 1200 HZ. That claim doesn't make sense to me, esp. with a 24 db or higher crossover (active). Unless you are saying that hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Barcelona by N-set on 2013-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]London is very fine but the Londoners are even better! I really enjoy to people watching here in London. People behave so different in here and in a way so much freer from thos stupid hung ups that so much oppress unfortuna...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: SE SS Class A by IslandPink on 2011-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
RomyHow about some sort of scaled-up PassLabs F4 or F5 amp ?ie. Class A solid-state with no feedback . You'd get most of the characteristics of valve (tube ) SE in terms of spatiality and low-level info ( esp. in the bass ) but with less of the (daun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: 2nd video by N-set on 2013-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An educational Eugenie’s installation. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
I didn't make it to the 2nd video before and it's indeed interesting.Esp. how he describes the result of his trick: "addition of HF transforming into more air and resolution in the MF instead of more glow at the top"(around 2:30 at the video). It's s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: Question marks by N-set on 2013-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Yes, my question above was not without a reason.Esp. why Mr. Heisig decided to copy&paste his postingon Omnigone from so-much-hated WBF here, 1+year after?  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: M2-12R? by N-set on 2011-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SME M2-12 tonearm in Analog Playback  10 Replies 
I've got  a reasonable offer on this arm.Has anybody tried it, esp. comparing to 3012?Strangely, the arm has already been around for some timebut there is hardly any info around, not to mention good info.Cheers,N-set...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #395: YO186 by N-set on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Somewhere earlier last year I searched for some tubes in ex-USSR and YO186 did pop up, esp. in Ucraine IIRC, with not unbearable price ~$100/tube, although in unknown condition (I did not buy any)....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Zubrowka vs. Zoladkowa Gorzka sound by N-set on 2010-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Polish Autotech steps up to Universe in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
...and we will start some little Polish mafia here, explaining to the morons the benefits of soaking not only our brains but also the diaphragms of our speakers with premium Zubrowka,Chopin or Zoladkowa Gorzka vodkas ;-)Seriously, nice initiative, ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker by Amir on 2009-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
ESP Concert Grand SI Loudspeaker seems to be good in today hifi market.i never listened to it but i like to know your idea if you listened to it.I do not like to promote any brand in this forum but i like to know any idea about these speakers.http://...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: PostScriptum: Propaganda by N-set on 2011-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
Somehow by my profession I feel I have to do some propaganda at this moment (feel free to remove it).For those seriously interested in a more enlighted and mystical side of science, esp. physicsI recommend reading an old Master David Bohm. He was an ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: DHT driver by N-set on 2012-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tube...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Bias by N-set on 2011-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
Paul, again the diodes are there not because they are diodes and one needs a diode action there, but because they wanted to substitute cathode bias resistor with something that would have a big static resistance (to set the DC point and stabilize) an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Observations and Thoughts from the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest by MusicLover on 2005-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Observations and Thoughts from the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
It's dead. Nobody cares about sound anymore. Esp. not about passive listening. The few music lovers left there, are usually immune to their systems, and lack the knowledge to build their own. Most high end audio is a fraud anyway. I agree with Earl c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Just a few more ideas, following fm above by Gregm on 2006-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
IME (i.e. some pm's one dx), the Ex-4 sounds the most civilised -- and this, only up to ~10kHz or 1-2kHz lower.It doesn't sound bad in a tractrix, unlike Paul S' experience with a dx4.A horn is also useful to provide some extra spl (106 spl at 1+m wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Tribute MC iron by N-set on 2011-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Hi all,I'm slowly progressing with my assault on the pussyfied 834.I'm looking around for an interesting step up.I've happily eliminated SU-1 (I'd rather daydream about a night withMonica Belluci instead of those ugly steel boxes), said fuck off to S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Indeed, no bananas here by cv on 2009-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Superior electric binding posts in Melquiades Amplifier  26 Replies 
Hi Paul,Completely agreed - I clumsily said plugs, when I meant spades - was simultaneously looking at some proper lemo plugs for signal and got confused.... Bananas, esp. for big hog woofers are - well - exactly that.I've also used the technique you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Circuit instability by N-set on 2012-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: 833 DC to 833? by N-set on 2011-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
Actually those fantasies may come true one day...I may be wrong, but I thinkthe tube-speaker interface is more important than sticking to 2 stage topology?2 stage => high-mu output tube => high Rp, low controll over the array.But, if you insist...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Em-bedding by N-set on 2013-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Paul, I've been definitely looking at the DIY CNC "market" for ideas!! Esp. regarding the frame construction.The problem is that they are happy once all the frame resonances go to 3-5Hz, so they usea lot of mass loading. Here, my airsprings resonate ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: 30H & EL34 by N-set on 2010-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
Paul, would you think 6336 will be more stable/predictable?Have you had any experience with it?30H: sorry, forgot to mention that the PP pair is autobiasedwith a common 900R resistor...EL34: indeed it's a very popular tube for driving Stax electrosta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Visual hearing by twogoodears on 2010-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Harmonies for Bosch’s Garden needed.... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
Hyeronimus and his lysergic masterpiece has been an obsession for generations... I remember and still have in some ESP Disk issues by Pearl Before Swine's, Sun Ra's, Tuli Kupferberg's a beautiful, foldable, high quality repro of the HB's Tryptic whic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: bass horns delay by cv on 2006-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Srajan, 6Moons, sex industry and sapphire horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
One thing to bear in mind with the bass horn delay - I thank Tom Danley for explaining all this a while ago - if I understand it right, a small direct radiator (ie small in relation to the wavelength - which will obviously be the case with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: A phase dither? by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An educational Eugenie’s installation. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]I didn't make it to the 2nd video before and it's indeed interesting.Esp. how he describes the result of his trick: "addition of HF transforming into more air and resolution in the MF instead of more glow at the top"(around 2:30 a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #397: I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]Somewhere earlier last year I searched for some tubes in ex-USSR and YO186 did pop up, esp. in Ucraine IIRC, with not unbearable price ~$100/tube, although in unknown condition (I did not buy any).[/quote]Yes, I have seen the YO18...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Delays and a typical rant... by cv on 2005-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
AlloWell, I hope I wasn't threadjacking too much; as far as I see it, the best case for digital processors is for messing around with the time domain, not for x/o'g. Ah, so you feel a bit of phase shift at LF is beneficial... interesting. I've a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Ad hoc fixes by N-set on 2013-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Again, you might gain something by fastening the rack to adjacent walls and adjusting the tension and/or damping of those connections. In any case, you'll want to prevent swaying of a TT support, and likely a CD transport, as wel...
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