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No telling anymore how good these amps can get. Today the re-configured phono stage finally "burned in" and I used the ML2s for almost 5 hours. Although I have read that they keep improving as you use them, I was not really...
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Hi all,In my experience it is VERY hard to get anything resembling realistic bass from a vented box, particularly with a Q of around 0.9 or 1. There is too much stored energy in the system and too much overhang. The best bass I have heard...
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Hi everyone,First, thank you for all your advices. The university take many most of my time, so listen to speaker had been difficult.So......I come back with many things too tell, i have made some listening sessions to find a good speaker to work wit...
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The "better" 5751s got here and I took advantage of wifey's absence to listen at night. It was cool and the electricity was pretty good, just a little "dry", but no "cotton". Lazy boy, I still haven't fixed my DAC, so I have had only viny...
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As I have shared several times here, I happen to regard the Lowther as nothing more than a means to an end. Partly because of this, I have taken my lumps with this marque. Today, I am pleased to have finally made the speakers I imagined 6 years ago...
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There has been a low-ish buzz in the hi-fi rags for a while now, to the effect that perhaps we should reconsider "neutrality" and return to the musical-instrument-type speakers of yore. Of course any sea change is good for the Hi-Fi Industry, just a...
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I am just reminded of the long-since-superceded (naturally...) 10" Tannoy "mid-field" "pro" monitor. I think it was the TM10, which also used it's cabinet to very good effect, at least in terms of voicing. You want "bubbles", I...
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Romy, I recognize and appreciate the very specific points you make but I am instead referring only to your last observation about "the harmonic deficiency of playback in the melody range", and I was just trying to shoehorn this idea in...
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Similar experience but I get to keep my "old" room. I have just changed my 5 way horn loaded down to 140 hz speakers to a friends room twice as big as mine, with an open back area into the house as your new room has and one side and the front have hu...
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I usually tell people the basics, then add "If you hear a set of speakers that you really dig, then by all means buy them. If they make you happy, then they are just fine".IMHO, there are so many variables to what people like and dislike, it's almost...
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I had no idea that DPOLS was such a controversial topic! While I do know a local stereo dealer that believes in setting up speakers based on where they look good (and he sells AvantGardes BTW), I think he does so many other things right to twea...
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[quote user="Hugh"]The best advice I can give to those willing to seek out the location is to put away your calculators and measuring tapes. Also, I'm convinced this ideal location tends to float around a little over time requiring slight speak...
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Hi Romy,It is with great interest that I frequently visit your site and enjoy your observations on audio-moronity. While I have to admit that I am at a loss wether I could be qualified for being an audio-moron, I can live with the fact that others ob...
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Romy,you did not disappoint my expectation in your reply. Who can argue with the take: "bugger off and do some home-work"? On the other hand, when looking through that "Knowledge tree TM" it's more of a "forest" as far as horns are concerned. So it's...
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Well, congratulations, Jessie, and welcome back to the Surreal World!For a while there your posts were reading like a dime novel!I hope you will try the doubled ML2s to see if you also hear the unusual effect the ML2 has on bass.What I get is th...
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[quote user="Paul S"]
The more-driver/more-power method has in fact been used to very good effect in rooms that +/- eat bass. The set-up I remember had about 8 515s per side and LOTS of power that I suppose it did not actually use very often; but...
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Romy wrote :"...Do what I did. Stop experimenting with horns and begin to actually USE your playback..."If I am in the house and not sleeping, the system is on."...If you still have an itch to “think horn” then insult others about their wrong horn mo...
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The main trouble I've had with any sort of wave guide - including horns - is their audible-to-me signature shaping of the sound, like speach. I just have a hard time shaking my awareness loose of the shaped sound as I try to listen to music thr...
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Hi Roman... you know "... but Twogoodears normally prefer a do not go to depth..." it's not an hide & seek kind-of-thing, but a necessity;-), as I'm not technical inclined or taught enough to discuss in depth of circuits designing... I'm only a u...
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It is a good question that I also asked when I saw this speaker. Afterall, everything being equal using the same materials for the drivers is more optimal from a coloration standpoint. My guess is cost. They already had splurged for...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
One more tip. The “least dynamic compression positioning” mostly managed by upper bass and bass channels while in the “imaging positioning” the MF and HF channels play more dominating roles. Therefore, if you use a typica...
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Thanks again for further explication, Bill. I appreciate that you are heavily invested in all this. Taking into account not only what I have been told but also what I've heard for myself, I think I can squeeze a bit more soundtage from my current set...
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Roman,
I can't follow most of your arguments. There are many ways to do things and to lay out the architecture of a system. This line/phono combo was designed to work together and to the given requirements. 75-85 db of gain ? Remember thi...
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We are so overly familiar with the music of the Romantic era (and to a lesser extent with some 20th century orchestral music) that we tend to overestimate the importance of dynamics overall in music and in listening. Obviously, abrupt and frequent dy...
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I would think that one would opt at least for a cartridge able to distinguish between different violins (well) recorded in different spaces. Although aural memory itself remains suspect, still one does want to entertain an illusi...
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Stringreen, what an interesting series of posts. I generally enjoy musicians' takes on hi-fi, especially as these relate to sound (versus music). In all performances there are so many things to listen for and to. What I have mo...
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Great listening session today. Nothing too demanding, but some seminal jazz performances were included.Since the Telefunken tubes I was trying are well-used, I stuck in some 60s Amperex SQs, just to check for any possible changes.&nbs...
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Dear Harlanov,For me the most impressive thing about this driver was its ability to simultaneously render soft/crisp sounds of similar frequencies distinctly, without muddling or other compromise. Additionally, at low volumes musical detail was not s...
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Romy,I've been reading your site sporadically for some months: to educate myself and formulate some next steps. Anyway, I saw your note on visiting San Francisco, and would be happy to host you for some music listening. What I offer from a system s...
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Until people actually start to listen to and correlate well-determined sound with pieces and parts, they are going to continue to spend money on BS "engineering" ideas rather than listening their way through Musical options. "Underhung" and "Per...
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