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I suspect that your negative views about on axis listening due to sensitivity to listening position must be to some narrow angle on axis frequency anomaly of the driver/horns you tried.If you insist to use chromatic aberration as a working hypnosis!!...
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I've been at Munich High End Show, too.Listened to the Cessaro Horn, too, and last year- 2008- I was in that room for longer time...But honestly, based on the money you had to pay for the whole System (Raven, TW electronics, last year it was an expen...
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Romy,let me step up to the plate and get shot in the foot or what ever. A lot of what you relate is of course right - BUT, 'where the is smoke - there is a fire" as the saying goes.So, there must be a reason for this 'abnormal' notice of honking horn...
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The horns are painted with final coats. 240 feet of superb 6ga cable laid out to connect the horns (on the picture below). The sand bags sealed. The final bridges on the attic are built. The horns are almost ready to move up. I just need to hang the ...
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There's only one thing worse than trying to assess the merits of something from what it does at a HiFi show and thst's assessing it based on a recording at a HiFi Show made using a telephone. :)...
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[quote user="rowuk"]The subject of line filters and uninterruptable power supplies is one that has been pretty free of amateur DIY myths. No one seems to know what makes one sound good or bad and when. The subjects getting attention are IsolationReco...
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Rick, as I "remmember", the PP output waveform was a "perfect" squarewave, in terms of shape, but it's pulsed. And I think Romy said it worked with a load of up to 60% of "capacity". Does a different regenerator have to "work the same" to "sound as g...
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The peruse the similarity of “live” sound and the sound reproduced by a playback system is one of the most foolish notion that the audio marketing people implanted into the feeble brains of audiophiles. Never, under no circumstances compare “live” so...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I never heard SS that could match a 45, but I have heard SS that has "less SS sound". Given your stated objectives going in, I "recommend" finding a more polite SS amp for the tweeters. Not much EMF, and I suppose not much power ...
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Bill, it sounds like you have made a significant investment (time and resources) into (re)producing reverberation with your entire system, also setting time alignments of various drivers, across the board, and I assume you would not have gotten this ...
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Bill, of course I supposed the DSP-free sound would sound better than processed to me, based on my experience. I just wanted to know how you felt about it, when it was put like that. I went to big SS amps despite I prefer the sound of small SET amps,...
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Paul,
Thanks for pitching the Johnson capacitors. They do not look “large enough” for me. I used in past the following caps:
http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p96.htm
They have very good size to value ratio. The ironic part that I just called to th...
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I'm sure there are many bad implementations of the 845 and 211. Almost all of the commercially available ones are pretty mediocre. However I have heard good examples of both so I know it can be done. I've yet to hear an impressive 6C33 amp so it...
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It sounds like a lot of the circling has to do with which 2A3 "sounds better", outright. In any case, I'm guessing everyone would agree that it is specious to argue about which 2A3 sounds most like some internally-estab...
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Fulcrum , sure it helps to get better sound but the curves you have just made is not sufficient to any serious improvement.if you are serious about room treatment and acoustics basically you should know what happens in corners ... it can get complic...
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I always felt that my demands for quality of Audio Sound might be to degree be moderated by conducting efforts. The true enigma for me is this aspect is John Barbirolli. Barbirolli is one of my the most admired conductors of mine and he is one ve...
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Listening a lot of recordings lately I keep thinking about my Sound. A few weeks back my visitor characterized it as “stressing drama by idiosyncratic use of texture and colors of sounds”. I find it accurate description but not my style of descriptio...
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Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]T, it you feel that Sound is subjective then explain it to the thousands fools who compose, conductor and perform music, trying to communicate thier subjective ideas unrig perfectly objective universal language. When ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I don’t know what other people respond to as “music”, but I certainly regard sound itself as very important... I do not get an analogous art fix from looking at, say, prints of Pollocks’ paintings, compared to looking at the orig...
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What happens when we say "Yeah man, that's what I said, the sound of your system sucks"?
What makes people so sensitive to criticism of their decisions regarding audio?
What makes audio different than other realms open to criticism?
Here are...
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This looks a bit like a giant ear canal, but in a way, it's the
opposite. It's the largest horn in the most powerful sound system in
Europe. The system's maximum output, according to the European Space
Agency, would kill any human exp...
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Hmmm...
I like my tweeters +/- "matched" in terms of efficiency, but I am not starting out at 115 dB efficiency. Sure, headroom, practically speaking, is more than a mere luxury. However, is it really that hard to wring out a tweeter, and how muc...
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Hi, no absolutely no! But question is why should we be able to achieve same sound with our home audio?...
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Well what was special in the sound?In general it was very good - my favorite of the whole exhibition, 3 days, and many dozens of the best commercial installations of this planet. All the big usual stuff - you name it.Now, the dry base meant to me: it...
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Sorry Romy, dont say i said how it sounds. I did not. In fact i was just about to take back the statement of not doing better than a K-horn.
Let me put it straight. Above shows what is possible (more or less) i...
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I guess the tricky bit would be to customize sound to someone else's "objectives", "taste", whatever.As an architect I deal with a similar problem every day: trying to idealize what the customer wishes (from a messy mishmash of the input and preconce...
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Note that I am responding late to the post about the "closed-down/dormant" '89 Bordeaux. For those who do not know, some great wines can be brought (back) to life by beating the hell out of them. I use a large Burgundy glass for about everything, an...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] steverino wrote:If you went to a concert with chamber music and closed your eyes how would it be different? Steverino, I think that the main difference between listening quartet recording and blind listening of live quarte...
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[quote user="noviygera"]Could it be that the SoundDock gets the basics of sound reproduction right? And if the basics are attained without fussing around (and it matches your values of basics) then why trick yourself to search a better rightness. For...
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Hmmm... I guess you have to start somewhere, and it did originally seem to me that the "headwaters" of the divergent projects were the "original accidental" Dannoys, with the disconnected Scanspeak 10" riding shotgun in a weirdly-connected chamber of...
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