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John Hasquin showed up a couple days ago and suggested that many of modern compression driver manufacturers design thier products to get the "best" publishable parameters while completely disregarding any basic horn design rules and actual sound resu...
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I put together a hot tube amp channel, and gone is the sound of shattered glass.All three of my receivers were distorting equally horribly.Beware of never-been-serviced vintage solid state, I guess!Anyone know if it is common for old SS gear to devel...
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Just a lazy-ass type question, really, motivated by nothing more than curiosity.Today, since it's "time to change the V2", and also out of curiosity, I will break in some "vintage" 6C33Cs.To tell the truth, any logistical "issues" with ML2s actually ...
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Here is another one, quite serious... only this one is 109 dB efficient.http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/pdf/TH%20221%20spec%20sheet.pdfThink about this for a minute...Sure, those motors will still need some current, but you might be able to rev 'em up...
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Romy, I must be missing something, because this suggests to me an old studio sound board. I think the serious "good stuff" is mostly re-built and back in service with Vintage-Style recording/mixing guys; but maybe you only need parts?Or, what about ...
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FYI: Talked to a vintage specialist/repairman about old dried caps. Compressed sound and lack of space are the two things he mentioned straight away....
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Actually a N.O.S. EC-8020 "diamond" is worth EUR 500+ ea., an STC 3A7167M is fetching EUR 750+ ea. (I own one N.O.S. sampler with original carton box, bought by chance for cheap, years ago) and WE 437A is at "only" EUR ...
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"whatever that means" is that most rooms at a trade show are not good. You know this Rommy, I've seen you write it in past posts. I like that Silbatone was trying to demonstrate to the "Wilson Audio" crowd that vintage horns can surpass the latest mu...
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The 3012 is actually a fairly "flexible" arm, but to "develop" any arm/cartridge pairing might take a long time, and during this time you are pretty much on your own. The truth is, you may or may not EVER hear a cartridge the same way someone else h...
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Don't you have one which you could use as a transport to asses your DPA dac and make up your mind for yourself? (it may happen that you'll like cheap DVD player better sounding by itself) 90% of cretins who own Bidat do it only because Romy prizes...
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[quote user="vuki"]The best sound at the Show (to my ears, again) was in Hiraga/Melody room. [/quote]Hello Vuki!To my ears this speaker has a very smooth-sounding compression driver that hasn´t deserved being combined with a 15" cone ...
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[quote user="vinylithicum"] Here are some of my observations regarding the Wolf von Langa RCA 1428 replica. I long time wondered where mr. von Langa gets his phase correction elements and the diaphragm for his RCA 1428 replica. It's obvious that ...
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Cat:First off, the Silbatone Aporia is $30k/pr not 100k. You could do 6 speaker surround with Aporia for well under $100k. Hope you feel better now."So what," I say. $30k is already too much for my pocket. I am on a fellowship this year and cheapskat...
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Here is an interesting, atypical nowadays, attempt to get 45Hz. With massive (not plywood construction), use one diver instead of two drivers, use better drivers and with proper tuning of the back chamber (it is wrong there) it might be a ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"] P.Q is not a designer nor he is an "electrician" but Andy Grove who designs circuits and transformers for AN is. I'm sure he'd know very well what you're talking about. Whatever your opinion of AN sound is they have lots of expe...
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Hi Roman, hi all...... very interesting topic... I recently made the contact between Josh and Klaus and his Goto system... I experienced Klaus' system three times and also if someway blaming his choices about using only and exclusively "liquid music"...
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Hi Romy,I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone. The reason why is this: They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty resonances as the reso...
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This is a very good question, but there is a lot involved.Tying "expressive/drama" factor to frequency range is very real. With a trumpet (and a soprano voice for instance) I would say that we change from dramatic to spectacular above the soprano sta...
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[quote user="haralanov"] Now back to the topic. Most of the WE drivers are full of compromises but unfortunately no one speak about it. People just create hype about them, but they do not recognize what is wrong with their sound, and because of t...
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I was thinking about it in past. I do not particularly believe too much in point source. We have no vertical resolution by our hearing and if drivers located strictly in a vertical line then in longitude domain they are single point source. Of course...
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[quote user="coops"]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 ...
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Romy Wrote: Can you
define what do you mean “HF is not as clear as I would like”? The HF sound is very quick and weighty , which can be quite nice on classical guitar for examlpe, but the tone is not clear enough, meaning for example cymbal at...
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[quote user="horny"] Those used to vintage gear might find it laughable…[/quote]
Well, do not be under impression that vintage drivers are an assurance of some kind of quality. They are not; in fact in most of the case the opposite is true. I always...
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[quote user="zako"]I dont get it,,,Why introduce a system thats been around in all the CINEMA theaters for the last hundred years,, I guess what goes around comes around again,,,[/quote]
Well, they did not “introduce” anything as I understand...
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Thanks for the kind words Romy. I am enjoying taking my time with this project and getting things just right. It sure helps when there is little development involved, just duplication more or less. Development may come later as I impose my exp...
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Sorry, I have a better understanding of the purpose of this exercise now.Are you making 2 new platters or is one to be the existing Micro Platter?Given that your RX 8000 appears to have a platter made of phosphor bronze (gunmetal) what is your s...
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Jarek, my experience affirms that many “listening rooms”
are overdamped, and you can always put a rug or rugs on the wooden flooring
where you want it/them. And I have been able to get good sound in weird rooms.
Basically, regarding rooms, “to...
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Clark, as long as the d'Yquems have been well-cellared - and this is easily determined by looking at level, seepage and color - they should both be very good right now, although the 67 is the star. Most 62 Sauternes are over the hill now, but fortuna...
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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 shelter is incorrect choice, t...
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Excellent point about in-the-day expectations and results vs. the best contemporary expectations and results from "classic era" LPs. Mining this same vein, who knows what future audio maniacs will get from today's soft and slippery "audiophile" LPs ...
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