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I have finished both big horns enough to listen in stereo, and the throats are now much smoother.I'm not using the MF horns, and have been listening all night. It has been a remarkable experience! (well, the inner-me objects and claims there's nothin...
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The answer is dynamic balance. It's objectively easy to prove too. Let's say you are in a room behind a closed door. In the other room is a musician playing an instrument. Even an easier example -- a person talking in the other room. You know that i...
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Hi Romy,Well maybe it is that the answer. My mono is pierre clement eb 25 broadcast cartridge, the original not the contemporary remake. The output is extremely high, almost overwhelming my phono amp I have the impression. Also, it tracks very heavy...
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[quote user="anthony"]My RAAL Lazy Ribbon has ended up needing a 1st order high pass filter to match the midrange S2 which is so much more convenient than third or fourth order as initially intended.[/quote]
In my case I found that RAAL ribbon wit...
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Was invited over to Romy's today for a listen. In the last two days, he made several small but critical changes in the time alignment, crossovers, and room damping, and the sum of them has brought his system up by several notches producing the best a...
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What is the difference in audio? You spend day of you live in your listening rooms trying to make that cable elevator between your phonostage and cartridge to “sound better” and someone after listening your setup inform y...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] your diver might be a very good MF diver but it does not go to region where the “tizzing” live.[/quote]You may not believe me, but the driver start to roll off (very smoothly) after 14kHz and at 20kHz is at -6dB. I intent...
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[quote user="drdna"]It is funny since they are identical digitally recorded tracks you would think they are the same. I would very much be interested to know if the binary code is identical or not for the two tracks. [/quote]Drdna,Do not even s...
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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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Actually, the M2-12 turned out to be a good arm. It really does Sound very good. I used it with Denon 103M and 103D. It has very “interesting” midrange in a way more interesting then SME3012 but not as dry as the SMEV. I detected just 3 limitations: ...
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Morning Mr. Natural Brian - be careful - you never know who's watching ... "Why, wasn't stock *H*I*F*I* enough for him? "You're getting the wrong idea about this . Anyway , it's not ruby , more sapphire, but I agree they're similar . ...
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Dominik, in terms of technology advancement, it seems their new driver is better than their other models. But despite this, I’m not sure their transducer engineer knows how to make the drivers to be valuable in terms of sound/tone. I’m saying that n...
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[quote user="de charlus"]In short, the driver units I allude to above are the best I have heard within their frequency ranges[/quote]De Charlus, would you please share how does ALE 45Super sound? I’m interested in several aspects: Does it change its ...
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The mini skirt analogy is a great fit. That is my experience.Or maybe like that stunning girl has small breasts and one has know the joy of a good handful. There are ways for enhancement and while one could get more, the girl is no more beautiful and...
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[quote user="Murataltuev"] anthony wrote:It is a compression driver with an 8" cone. If you want authority at 300Hz you will need diaphragm area. The Fane Studio 8M that Romy and plenty of others use for 100Hz up to 1kHz is an 8" cone driver on a 4...
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I've been thinking about this matter for a while but could not find a better excuse to formulate my theory then in this topic. My simple theory is that if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference ...
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Thanks Romy, very interesting thread.I've never tried the analogue inputs for the DEQ2496. If I want analogue in (which is rarely) I use a mytek a/d which sounds quite nice (but oneday when I get the time I'm going to modify it with i/p transformers ...
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I am not quite sure what is going on but wherever is going on is wrong. I was listening this morning Shostakovich’s second cello concerto by Berlin and Rostropovich and I detected that something was not right. It was too direct and “too stereo”, if I...
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Well, never say never and what I said that the Injection Channel is done it meant that it WAS done. I am experimenting now with other way of use Red injection. The application as is at the picture practically had no impact to imaging. However, I need...
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well i never thought i would be opening such a pandora's box with this combination.firstly,the drivers have the plastic surrounds(whew,lucky!i know the diaphragms are potentially harder to source than the drivers)what indicators or criteria would mak...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Are any of those new tubes besides the Chinese tubes are single plated?[/quote]I believe they are all single plated.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have bought some very nice 2A3 and 6A3 double plated from 1942 and 1944 an...
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[quote user="rowuk"]What connection do we have considering the spectra of signals on the mains and sound quality? What data do we have on what part of "mains contamination" affects sound quality?.[/quote]No body knows answer of This question and you ...
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Folks,Before we discuss "high distortion" amplifiers, lets us ask what kind of SPL Romy's system produces.I don't know, so let me make some eduacated, conservative guesses.Let us assume his midrange and treble Systems are both 100db/W/m and he listen...
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It's interesting that the most variation is in the upper bass, lower midrange. By eyeball,the peaks look like 240 and 480 Hz. or about the 2nd and 3rd harmonic of 60 Hz., although there is only a slight peak at 60. Is that a fluke or related to some...
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We should define some borders here; LF, when you have an UBH, should be from around 100 hz down to 30 hz, where the last fundamental tone of an instrument is played. ULF should be under 25-20hz.I would say that a driver playing 25-30 hz should...
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[quote user="zanon"]Romy:I was not aware that manufacturers of multidriver system let you attenuate individual drivers. I guess if you multi-amp, then you have control at that level. I have never encountered such a system so I cannot say, but if it i...
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..... he he :-)Seriously, I listened some months ago to the LL1 sig. /ML3/Alexandria combination. A perfect example for an expensive mismatch. These Wilson Speakers are a grave for those amps, midrange is ok, but no high frequency area and absolutely...
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[quote user="Paul S"]For the Reps I will use a 2,200 Hz notch filter for its peak[/quote]Paul, why don’t you try to fix the problem of the Reps driver instead of notching it? There is a reason for the peak and I do not consider the problem could be s...
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Romy, I picked up a pair of FX120 and F120A drivers over two years ago. I initially spent some time with the FX120 in a small 10-liter ported enclosure (similar to Fostex' recommended one but altered dimensions). After many months of liste...
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