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It is the "Big'Un", high-passed at 110Hz if I remember what he said correctly. The tweeters are back in the main driver frame with some EQ added. I'm sure the effect I heard came from the combination of the driver and the cabinet. So ...
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[quote user="yoshi"]This, seems to me, is like comparing the work of Francisco de Goya to that of Jackson Pollock.[/quote]This made me suddenly think: but I see them both in the same museum, where they use the same lighting and they both hang on...
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From the audio perspective, I heartily agree and understand your point. After all, the system you tuned for me is teaching me so much about audio and music that I'll need some time to access what is really happening.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
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Yoshi, it has nothing to do with Newton and Einstein. You playback just moved from a typical random and brainless stacking up of accidental drivers, horns and enclosures in “as is” order into something that was more or less orchestrated with intentio...
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What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz. The result wa...
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[quote user="yoshi"]What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz....
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Yoshi wrote: It is like the church itself becomes the purpose instead of it being a tool to serve your faith. So when the church is criticized, they take it as if their faith is criticized.That's a very good point.One must at the same time real...
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Yoshi, it is interesting that you associate existence of high-end with Holt’s and Pearson’s publications but not wit the actual audio accomplished efforts. The Holt declared the establishment of high-end market in Stereophile on 70s… many years after...
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...
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[quote user="yoshi"]Unfortunately, we also have the lists of "Audiophile recommended CDs" on every audio related publications in Japan. I refer to them as something I should avoid.[/quote]Avoid? Not necessarily. Yoshi, It is not about the fact ...
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From the beginning, I was drawn into the almost haunted look of 86 years old conductor. His facial expressions and body movements communicate the meaning of the music as much as the performance of the orchestra itself. You can also s...
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beside the title, "Apeal to the Great Spirit", the stature itself reminds me of Sibelius 5th.
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In my experience, for many people, "lyricism" is a key when introduced to new music, no matter what the gene is. In that respect, I'd say 3rd movement of 8th.OTOH, audio people can easily be impressed by dynamic presentation, especially through the ...
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With the Japanese Yen devaluation, stuff in Japan has gotten very cheap. Like 50%+ cheaper vs. USD in the past few years. This, combined with the fact that shipping charges generally drop rapidly for heavier packages would make me look at potentially...
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I almost pick it up on ebay several times, but the hideous cover work always stopped me from committing to it!OK, Sibelius and Munch were both from Scandinavia, Sibelius from Finland and Munch from Norway, but that's the only connection I can imagine...
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I've been having love/hate relationship with Lowther (and its siblings) for several years now. As you all say, it has many problems to use as a full-ranger. Right now, my set up is a 3way multi-amp, Lowther (Reps 1) in Medallion cabi...
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The biggest event in my audio 2007 was Romy's visit/tuning of my system, and the following exchange which ended up with a revelation of how shallow my understanding and practice of audio/music was. It ultimately seems to come down to the a...
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When people ask me what I would like to do if I were not a software engineer I usually reply that I would like to work in Cat's shelter. I would like to be surrounded with hundreds Cat's who will even walk across me like I am a piece of furniture - w...
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Buck up, Yoshi. I get what you are saying about "yellow", but this sort of de-construction excercise can be done with any driver. For one thing, 3 cu. ft is way too big. If you must have a box, try 1/2 that size.I think the Lowther [sic] ...
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Jordi:As another paralyzed (I have a problem in my leg), deaf (problem in my left ear), coma (I take a downer everyday for my anxiety problem) and nearly unemployed (my 2 self-employed business barely covers our household expenses along with the tuit...
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Wouldn't you know it, Jordi has to work weekends, too, and it can only make it tougher for him that the rest of us seem to have nothing but free time, stupid ideas and bad attitudes.Meantime, while $100s burned in my waste basket, I ran across a...
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Yoshi, I do not think you have to be so hard in your Lowther at this point, in fact if I m not mistaken, it was not a regular Lowther that rather some strange derivation from it. It did not sound right nether to me nor to you but I think the very fir...
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Is Yoshi's box ported or sealed? If it's ported.. of course he's going to be listening to more.. a lot more.. of the box... everything below.. 60hz? is box music.if it's not ported then this is a more interesting discussion. when I first read romy's ...
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Well, Yoshi, at least you're on your way to getting your speakers more of a piece.I have for some time warned people against a mix-n-match approach with the DEBZs, based on my early experiments with them, and it is true enough to say, I think, that&n...
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When I wrote that article about 4 years ago, I received responses from a couple of different countries asking about the feasibility of opening and maintaining such establishments today. I had to give them a very negative answers unless they hav...
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Yoshi,What material do you have as damping material in the box and how close is it to the Lowther? These things are incredibly transparent to what is behind them. Some things to consider.If the damping material is within 3 inches of the cone, it will...
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Romy is being very kind to me and not shouting at me for wasting everyone's time.Paul, I really do not think that lipstick on a pig get's to the heart of the DX 4 transform. It's much more like a stick of dynamite hanging from the pigs lips and...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]It should not be a problem for you to borrow one of those plastic 150-200 Hz horns for your REPS .[/quote]I heard it a couple of times in a different settings several years ago. Although I was interested in the application ...
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Yoshi, I knew Frank Reps WAY back, in LA. I have talked with him in the last few years and know a little about his drivers, but I have never heard them.It was my understanding that Frank used the AER cones, or he OEMs them from AER?In...
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Looks like I'm back into this again, since, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Yoshi up and sent me his "neutered" Reps 1 drivers (he surgically removed the whizzers).I started turning my existing Basszilla components and these guys together ...
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