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Well that was my father. We founded the company together - he invests, I researches, mostly. Bruce Edgar and Sam Saye taught me how to design, and we built our first prototype system in California.Think I need a bit more clarification on the five tim...
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Yes, the exit look like WE 555 exit and if they use the original
type of diaphragms then good luck to get 80Hz from it. You need to go with very
long slow opening neck to raise more EQ. I do not like this approach. From Western
Electric 15A and a ...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I have just listened to it - you are right - very very good. I will send you a recording Asahina made of the 5th in 1960. I think you will enjoy it very much as well. .... dare I say it is even better t...
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[quote user="drdna"] It might also be instructive to have Joe visit Boston and listen to Romy's system, but I bet he would not go either. [/quote]
Probably, it would be instructive but I really do not want it to be as some kind of competition betwe...
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I am in academics. In this world it is no challenge to find people who want to tell me that they are right and everybody else is wrong.The problem with any scholar stuck in his/her theoretical bubble is that there is no room for that person to change...
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[quote user="haralanov"] Now back to the topic. Most of the WE drivers are full of compromises but unfortunately no one speak about it. People just create hype about them, but they do not recognize what is wrong with their sound, and because of t...
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While I would agree that modern construction should be much more robust than that of 5-6 decades ago, actual machining and manufacturing costs today are significantly higher than they were back then and there is much less of it going on. Look a...
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The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wouldn't call it an "open baf...
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Wait...are you saying that FOUR people who have been to Camerata wrote you offline (within two days!) and they neglected to enter into this relevant discussion?Strange! H'mmm? If I were the guy mentioned above, I would have been in here screa...
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I like to stress a point that the mammals that write thier doodles for audio publication are not juts ignorant fools but also the cheap, low class, falseificators. No wonder that the audio manufacturing companies do employ the so-called reviewers as ...
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[quote user="de charlus"]Ok, understood, at least somewhat. Are you suggesting that the S2 operates at the frequencies between 1000hz and 3.6khz? I am not insisting upon using the driver at the frequencies that I was initially suggesting; far fro...
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[quote]I do not know certainly
how the Western Electric L-9 was made but I think it is not sealed
enclosures. Some of the drivers of the period used the semi-transparent
cloth enclosures that you, Joe, might recognized as sealed.[/quote]The L-9...
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Paul,
The idea of the not threaded forum is good that it is always there is opportunity to go back to all there and update own views, or to extend them. In many moths/years when the ML2 stop be a novelty for you, you might return to this thered and ...
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A few years ago playing with my favorite Vitavox S2 driver I was asking myself how it might sound if instead of the Alnico magnet the electromagnets would be used. As many other driver of the period the Vitavox did not utilized the only one magnet ty...
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Perrew,
I would take RL filtration ageist C filtration any time and under any circumstance. If you look at the circuit of 600R LCR classic Tango filter
http://www.vinylsavor.de/lcreq.gif
…then you will see that the serial capacitance al...
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The Valve Technology Milestone Timeline Courtesy to the National Valve Museum
1640
The first vacuum. Otto von Guericke's air pump
1643
The barometer first demonstrated by Evangelista Torricelli
1654
Magdeberg Hemispheres a d...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.[/quote]Oh, sure, Mike is perfectly sincere and this is BTW might be ...
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[quote user="Kcct82"] Hey guys, I bought the Goto 505TT with S150 horn brand new over 2 years ago. Guess what? I'd still be in sonic shit if I followed the 200-1000hz "recommendation". The 505TT does not perform well below 400hz and when I final...
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- I did whatever I could, I whispered to him the most seducing, but he refused it.- Whatever you whispered to him I know, - replied Voland, – but it was not the most seducing. However, I would say to you, - smiling he referred to Mas...
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I think it is a simple case of different strokes for different folks.
Drdna writes about communicating the essence of sound - I write about the essence of music. He writes about wondering what Coltrane was thinking. I write about hearing him looki...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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Go today two emails from the site readers with two links to the CES comments.
First one is from Jeffrey Jackson who looks like was recruited by Joe the Uninvolved Archeologist with the room:
http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/01/ces-...
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Stefano, welcome to the club, not the GoodSoundClub but the club of understanding of what is going on.
The subject of drivers in Tailored Audio™ is complicated and one of the biggest problems in this complicity is to defeat the attitude of judgment ...
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Hi Roman and thanks for your interest in my journey and first-hand impressions... I'm back after about a three weeks long Japan (mostly audio related) trip.
I'm still digesting the several systems I listened to, so a bit overdosed and not really w...
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Gera, if you would
like to incorporate the Western Electric 13a with 555 then you need to make a decision
how low you will drive it. You chose the 120Hz but it might
not be useable frequency, it might be much higher in order to get “better”
sound...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I wonder if any new interning horns ideas are present at CES. There is a post at the hi-fi-heroin site:
http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/01/ces-preview-you-actually-want-to-see.html
… that depicts a...
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Lamm introduces a new product, the LP1 Signature phonostage. Vladimir was planning to do it for a long time as his parley into “reference” series and after his from my point of view failure with LL2 phonostage.
The new LP1 Signature phonostage...
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Thanks, Stitch. I looked through the pictures. This guy is known to travel audio events and do very nice images, I call him Asian Federated Mike. I did not find a lot of stimulation in the images, at least by juts looking at the images of the pro...
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Joe, I do appreciate that that invitation is open-ended and I might take advantage of it sometimes. Frankly I do not feel any specific temptations that I need to “drop everything” and to run to another side of the globe to audition the Silbatone. The...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.
The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be abou...
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