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It is excellent that Timbre is described here as color. This is actually how musicians speak about it. The problem with the comparison to photography is that color with a musical instrument is a moving target. If we take my own instrument, the trumpe...
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Today is a first great warm day in Boston and was working at my yard, fixing the fence around the pool. I was good 120-150 feet away from my listening room, pretty much in the forest, the large French doors to the room were opened and the playback wa...
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I need to admit that the unfolding now events around the hardwood floors do extend a rare opportunity for me to rethink the playback in my room. I do not have need or reasons to make any significant changes but there are many minor things, perhaps se...
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I agree the "period" closing needs more words, Roman.The P.A. horns/drivers were mounted in stadiums, convention centers, maxonic halls, cinemas, theaters, everywhere was needed a broad music or speech dispersion, trouble free operation and high S.P....
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Actually, when the string section has to play ultra softly, they use a mute or damper on the bridge. This is a device that limits the ability of the bridge to pass the string vibration to the resonant body of the instrument. http://www.youtube.com/wa...
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‘Michaelz’, I would like to know the answer myself but how to get those answers without spending a LOT of time and a LOT of money? I do not know…. I have quite plenty of phenomenal drivers that I would like to try but… to try in what? I have no...
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Wow, the Definitive Audio is half hours away from London, this is good news. I did look at Google and it said 2.45 Hours but I might look some at something different. We probable will be staging near Royal Abler Hall, which is center city. We are ver...
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I do not mean to set up a discussion about apriori categories, etc. Rather, I mean to drag the notion of differences back to audio and some of my original observations. I am thinking of systems I have heard that seemed to heighten on...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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I'm right there with you, temporarily installed in the middle of a Bagdad intersection.So, one day not too long ago I slipped out during lunch and picked up a pair of decent, closed-back, full-size, fairly antisocial looking headphones (ATH M-50s) an...
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Lamm announced that he introduced a new phonostage: LP2.1. http://www.lammindustries.com/PRODUCTS/LP2.1%20introduction%20booklet.pdf This is kind of strange move. The LP2 was very bad phonostage; despite all industry medals and huge amount of glowin...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I am with great pleasure observe the craziness that “rakeshpoorun” created around the buy of a Fane’s new production run of Studio 8M drivers. The Cat[/quote]Romy, In another life, I would have derived some pleasure fro...
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While seeking for a CD capable of covering a low mid range, say from 300hz or under, I am offered a pair of TOA compression drivers of rather impressive size. Unfortunatelly a seller has no clue what model it is, except "it sounds as seducing as ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might valuable for anybody. It looks like no one use YO186 on West. There are ...
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eyop fellas,Romy wrote: "Here we go! Not we are taking!!! I would not need the S2 tweeter and what it dose now in 400Hz horn is perfectly enough. I would go only for the midbass S2. Something with 6” cellulose diaphragm, low to medium compressi...
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[quote user="JLH"] Even when my horns were still in the rough cut stage (Not yet turned down on the lathe) it was extremely difficult to hear a difference between the rough horn and the finished horn. The sealer and paint made more of a difference th...
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I don't see DRC wines as being Parkerized at all; they are, and always were, simply rich, grandiose, and as extracted as one might expect from 8hl/ha yields from the very greatest of Grand Crus, while at the same time being the last word in finesse. ...
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Well Romy:The format is what it is. And the idea is to encourage people to join in, share experiences, maybe be festive at this time of year...I am not here to fly to the defense of the organisers of the festival although I certainly find it interest...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe
http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%A...
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This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering. There is an army of people out there who would swear by a complete transpare...
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I got this link from I believe AU site that dedicated to some kind of DAC that they have to themselves as another Messiah. I do not know what the DAC is about and made a few posts in there regarding a speaker setup. The link is a French translati...
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We know that distance between a listener and live source in a concert hall creates HF attenuation along with adding of reverberations, changing harmonics/overtones balance and so on. Loudspeakers are in a way exposed to the same rules. If we conditio...
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[quote user="op.9"]the horns come out of a rakk dac with lundahl LL1674 passive outputs the midbass use a behringer DEQ2496 (26cm delay) modified with passive outputs.[/quote]James, if you use this DEQ2496 then you might find this thread worth attent...
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http://horn.hebfree.org
Prices are still in French Francs. That shows how much serious traffic he gets..........
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There is a guy named Ad in Netherland who makes looks like aluminums (but I am not sure) horns for 1.5 inch compression drivers. The first picture it looks like an exponential: W=39cm/15.4Inch. L=45cm/17.7Inch.
I do not know if Tractrix and the Fren...
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[quote user="mats"]Sorry Romy, the broadcast was early in March, and I missed it too.Tonight I am going to the live performance. I think FMT struggled a bit with the sound this first year.Did you hear any of the Lyric broadcasts?
I have been playing...
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Quotes from Romy in blue :I do not see that you imbedded into your plaster construction any tightening points from a stronger material. I mean: the holes in plaster – how strong you will be able to tight the bolts before the plaster will give up? Did...
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Above the Johan Dreyer from South Africa uses a sort of Fundamental Channel for his installation. He obviously lucking one more channel to integrate his LS section and the Fundamental Channel. His Lower Mid charnel should be twice larges and sit on...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Since I speak French, and since I deal with plagiarism everyday, and since NOTHING pisses me off more, I phoned Phil Mundi to ask him about the unothorized use of your artwork on his site, and if this act was representativ...
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I have found a truly wonderful illustration the YO186 sounds. In fact I was laughing when it came to me as the association was so strong that I have no idea how it did not come to me before.
I love strong cheeses, not just strong cheeses but ...
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