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[quote user="Doug Eisemann"] I have stopped by your site from time to time over the last year to see what interesting things have been going on. I generally do not say much, however I finally decided it was time to register and add a few commen...
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Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...
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[quote user="horny"]… me too would like to achieve as good as possible violin reproduction without spending a fortune on exotic or vintage drivers.[/quote]
I have voiced my frustrations about many contemporary compression drivers. People who manufac...
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If you are still looking, there are a pair of vintage JBL 2482 Drivers with JBL 2328 horn throat adapters attached currently on Ebay. The guy says he also has another one he could sell as a single if you are still interested. http://cgi.ebay.com/VI...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Try as I might, I can't get my sme3012/shelter 901 combo to do tubas . My ortofon309/vintage mono cartridge does it magnificently the tuba down low makes me goosevumps all over just likenthe cello. I think my stepup for she...
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Being a Russian by birth and inheriting all typical for Russian masochism I sometime visit the High Efficiency Speakers Asylum, laughing me sick tail off. Between the fresks in there patting each other and the mercantile cretins who pose themselv...
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The paper drivers, at least, look like the best of the vintage stuff. Of course it's hard to say without hands on how GIP products have translated from Vintage WE and, judging by the literature, either the "vintage market" is irresistable to them or...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do use some vintage elements in my playback but I use them purposefully. I recognize their strengths and weaknesses and I capitalize on the strengths only. I think this is the only sane approach I see; when some vintage ...
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I went to eBay and searched for his diaphragms. If you look for the rest of the items he sells then you see that he sell vintage labels of Altec, Western Eclectic, JBL, Rogers, Studer… Well, in my books the people who sell it and those who buy it hav...
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Hy Paul, I agree with your comment about the tone of the passive radiator if it runs to the mid range. This is the point of the SS8565. the combo of the crazy stiff cone and the special surround works phenomenally well to stay linear. It is even bett...
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For instance one could use this Eico preamp from the early days of stereo to get the center and Hafler surround channel:https://skyfiaudio.com/products/eico-hf-81-hf81-vintage-tube-integrated-amplifier-fully-restored-1960s-magic...
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As an alternative to this nonsense, consider an old, used Neumann microphone:https://vintageking.com/neumann-u47-dual-pattern-tube-microphone-3883-vintage?cr_campaign=PV%20Shopping%20-%20Lowest%20Priority%20-%20Brands%20-%20Used%20and%20Demo%20Deals&...
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Herr Wolf von Langa is a gentleman from Southern Germany (look at the link here http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/03/great-site-from-germany-field-coils.html).He and his sister are dealing in modding vintage speakers, speakers woodworking and vint...
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Just another paging stuff, or something serious?http://cgi.ebay.com/ALTEC-VINTAGE-290E-GIANT-VOICE-COMPRESSION-DRIVERS_W0QQitemZ170189928173QQihZ007QQcategoryZ73372QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem...
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With regards to the links, as it happens, I totally agree that 15in Tannoy Reds struggle to handle complex music. The crossover is too simplistic and the cones too hard to control with a low power amp. Reds can be lovely in a simple vintage system bu...
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As late as the 1960s every self-respecting hi-fi nut had a "secret recipe" for "speaker dope". My own guru would not give me his exact recipe for speaker dope but insisted that developing the stuff was a rite of passage I had to go th...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]I think they could could make the sound more pleasant with an overkill of second harmonic distortion. But for people who prefer that kind of sound a relax-horn like Anima would be better anyway. No real solution. Maybe they should...
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Actually, for me it works differently. I do not read a lot about horns and try do NOT learning anything about horns. I very much do not take seriously also most of the things that people talk about horns on internet. People run mouth on any subject ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, knowing what I know and understanding why some WE sound in the way they sound I would not expect that you will be able to touch the core of the WE Sound. I know the answers and I know that they are not possib...
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Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...
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No mater how ridicules the title of this article sounds on my site but I was quite glad to see the in the May’s issues of Stereophile the Robert J. Reina review of Advent loudspeakers. I do not think that Advent’s review is a sign of some kind of sin...
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I have heard vintage tannoy red (driven by 30w push pull EAR 861) and vintage tannoy gold (driven by 20w set ongaku japan). I think for 92db the 20w is not good idea.http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=3746#3746T...
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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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other "super arms" (in terms of price ) do have some , "stand by itself" inherent intellectual value which Schroeder totally lacks. And also personal prejudice seems to blind his objective judgement. Apart from that the question remains if the ar...
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Romy, does the REL use capacitance or inductance tuning? I was thinking H. Of course all the old caps are shot. That's another case where the True Vintage Believers (TVB) are really too funny, when they insist on "original" par...
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[quote user="Stitch"] But then it gets worse dramtically, the Speakers Corner Deccas are foggy and really bad compared to original Deccas. But their vinyl is silent. [/quote] Wll, I have my theory about the silent play of contemporary vinyl. Did anyh...
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I would say that there are advancements where you would get far more unanimity on the progress that had been made than one would do for audio after the development of tape. I don't think anyone would want to go back to cylinders. So there are advance...
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Tokaji Essencia, Mosel Eiswein, some of the Massandras and the best BAs and TBAs are pretty much indestructible, but this is not to say that the bad vintages of Sauternes last forever (the other wines I list above are only made in great vintages) alt...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Speakers: I built a version of Dick Olsher's 3-way Diamond Edition BassZilla (hard to find at www.blackdahlia.com), and I tricked it out considerably from his mule. Bass is BR, 15" Audax P380MR, which is a nice semi-...
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