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I'm a phono moron, but having had several phono preamps, I think I can understand what finds Romy right in the EAR 834P, which I love. I'm not as skilled and crazy as to try to make all the Thorsten mods in it by myself, but I've tried some tube swap...
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Another Ear Academy course ahead for me then.
Just got to summon up courage to try to solder wires on those pesky little ali vanes.....
Brian.
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No idea how one blends in a random passive radiator, and I gave up on it after a year or two, many years ago. But if you can put your ear to the passive radiator and hear it plays up into the midrange, then you will probably want to use something wit...
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This type of the “time alignment” has as much to do with time alignment as if they whistle into the horn and observe the re-entering echo. What they do is perfuming the ritual dance in front to the loudspeaker that called “trade show ballet”. The Sit...
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Wojtek wrote : "...haven't seen any other fane 8M for sale in months anywhere..." I just checked and found a pair of 8Ms on eBay... item numbers : 310021284113 And : 310023127933 (I hate it when a pair is broken up over two separate listings!). You s...
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Jessie, as it happens, I find my own best listening position varies somewhat these days, depending on what I'm listening to or for. For the best overall energy in my fairly energetic room, it is with my ears about 1 1/2 m off the...
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"The imaging of omnidirectional bass radiated from a single point might be also very “interesting”",stupid? no not known?Bass are between 3,4 m up to 20 m long waves, ear brain can get it afterthe 4th wave, so 40 Hz is than 32 m and ~100 ms...
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A few years ago somebody, I think it was “drdna” from California, told that he has a habit to listen the mechanical noise of the tube hold the tube at his ear by hitting the balloon of the tube. I did not exactly acknowledge it at that time as it was...
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...IMO, at least. I strongly believe the name of the publication game is entertainment and the vehicle is audio-visual hardware "news" & "opinion" & pictures.[quote user="guy sergeant"]I stopped paying any attention to the ravings of magazine...
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Listening to the horns, it seems that they indeed die somewhere below 120Hz. I was surprised, and a little disappointed that it seemed so steep. Good to hear that it's to be expected!!Yes, I'm using a 30-something-Hz 1st order high pass on them ...
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I wonder if you could hang a secondary driver in a dead box, without baffle, or perhaps more usefully, with a shaped baffle and use it to provide the "resonance" effect of many vibrating panals of tuned length and specificshaped radiating areas...
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Yes, when I move the drivers or for that matter if I move my listening position, I realign.What I hear and measure about the drivers relative distances to each other is this. When I first set up the drivers, one horn ended and the next one started, t...
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[quote user="Morfeas"] Fs of the driver is measured at 32HZ matched for both channels. [/quote] Manolis, if you have 32HZ of loaded driver resonance and a large throat in such a short horn then I would propose that you have your 50HZ not from the loa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]He use Magico monitors and with 91dB sensitivity and 4R impedance I would be very surprised it I see any SETs in there. It even more interesting that his Magico speakers are sitting right next to the wall. I do know how Mag...
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Yes, Thorsten was the man
that made the initial modification in the EAR 834 and I need to note that it
was not redesign of any kind but juts basic modifications and admitting the unnecessary
things. Even though Thorsten is the industry p...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Though the frames have wheels and roll very easily, my room is cursed with an elevated platform smack in the middle of everything (about 14 inches higher than the main floor), and to move the horns up on to or down off of...
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[quote user="Thorsten"]Then it does exactly what is asked of it, I asked JB to design it for me PERSONALLY as a "wire with gain". I have been on previous occasions been unconvinced of many stepup transformers, be they sowter, amplimo, EAR or jensen. ...
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Romy wrote :"...I have no way now to look at the right number but how I “feel” is you shell be arriving under 8’ of length and 40Hz cutoff with 8” throat. With 4” throat you will be looking at 12” or so…"For info : In my case, I am using an 8" throat...
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Many years ago, Peter Moncrieff (of IAR fame) built some Bose-like, multi-driver speakers, and some of the drivers "pointed away". These were heard and hailed by no less than Numero Uno Audio Guru, JG Holt. I never heard these speakers, but I have ...
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I know the standard logic is that everything needs to be time-aligned, but essentially the lower the frequency seemingly the less critical time-alignment should be, at least on paper. I've heard of studies where it is suggested at low frequencies th...
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After much listening and measuring I convinced myself that there is no way for me to escape the use of the 24dB per octave slope if I want to keep the sound of my midbass horn not violated. I also have to admit that I will not be able to render 4th ...
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Here are a couple of measurements of S2's (not taken at the show).Both are taken at the listening chair, ear position in my system.This one is on a 2nd order passive, spec'd to cross at 1.25KHz.(This was Coco's S2 with new surrounds on a Le Cleach 55...
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Ok, I ordered this a day before making the thread, and got them yesterday. These are overall the best headphones I've used, having neutrality, details, and natural sound. What's important to note is that when you touch the back or inside, you don't r...
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Thank you Antonio. I now believe that those natural resonances were what I was hearing, and that they are very painful when the loudspeakers have limited bandwidth!I've listened to Caballé again, now with MF and LF connected, and now the resonan...
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[quote user="angeloitacare"]romyif a "wrong" approach does make a consumer happy, so (...) be it !![/quote]I wouldn't expect anyone to argue against consumer happiness even with a "flawed" system. However, I'd say that this consumer happine...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]I think I should to give some break-in time to Sylvania 0a2.50 hours is enough? Previously I used in my EAR the next set of tubes ECC83: 1-Amperex (red print), 2-Amperex (red print), 3-Sylvania 7025 (yellow print).When I ...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]I tried Amperex ECC83 "Bugle Boy". They sounded bad in the EAR RIAA. I like more modern Amperex ECC83, Holland made with orange-red prints.[/quote]Yes, the Amperex "Bugle Boy" are horrible tubes. They have huge publicity amon...
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Romy, I believe the cartridges are manufactured form Decca by JS Wright in London.The suspension is less of an issue since the Decca cartridges use a novel transducer. There is no cantilever. The stylus connects directly to a metal foil w...
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Hi All, 103 or 103R + mass loaded SME headshell + 3012 or a 3009 + Seiki 1500 + hagerman opamp phono stage (good only with select parts and battery power) or an EAR 834 (with some mods) and some old Altec mic t...
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Well the idea doesn't actually come from Fremer. He credits Wally Malewicz for it. Not sure how you feel about him.In any case for me it was helpful because I just don't have the patience to play a track over and over trying to find the best se...
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