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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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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? What data do we have on how power supplies should be built for the 21st ce...
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Practically, a modern orchestra plays more "safely" for a recording. This most certainly limits the tonal palette from any or all of the instruments. There is less for audio to reconstruct.If we are talking about more "vintage" recordings with a gain...
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Even if we assume that this thing really "works" - does it not show fundamental problems in the design of the equipment usually placed north and south of these cables? Maybe highest end audio is wrought with impedance/reactance/capacitive and resista...
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Paul,at least from my moronic standpoint, using a couple of closed boxes with wide band drivers (I have some JBL LE-8T2 without the aluminum domes) in a L-R/R-L connection, should give me the power to widen the stereo basis. Adjustable level could ma...
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When listening to stereo, we initially have 4 images to deal with. Th right speaker to the right ear, the right speaker to the left ear, the left speaker to the right ear and the left speaker to the left ear. Broader images can be made when we “cance...
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If I have learned anything in my time with audio, it is that EVERYTHING can make a difference because we do not understand all of the interactions. The question is where do the differences come from? The level of perception where these things become ...
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If one is using multiple in phase drivers, they are spread out over space and help reduce resonance by interference. Another possibility would be a B&W like lightweight matrix enclosure to move resonance UP, where it is more easily damped. A thir...
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Romy,you have often advocated the ULF channel not having a sharp lower knee. Maybe something like the Thigpen rotary woofer with response to DC would be worth considering....
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My wife also does not ever treat listening at home as a special opportunity. If it is choral music, she will often sing along. If it is orchestral music, she will talk to me about unrelated issues. I listen alone. Nothing else works....
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This was written by a retired horn player from the Chicago Symphony (Fritz Reiner period) and deals with intonation as a musical tool and how performers can be fooled. Those that have been "challenged" by a historical performance practice concert may...
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I too often wonder why people feel challenged on the internet. I see Romys site as primarily his diary on events around building his system. His very lucid descriptions show a deep level of thought about things before getting the soldering iron, ...
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What makes the organ so special is truly not the what, rather the how. Each pipe is not just tuned to the correct pitch, it is also "voiced" to contribute the proper color for the particular register and room that it belongs to. Some registers are li...
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It is only available here for purchase from ORF. Blomstedt's artist agency has no access to the recording.http://oe1.orf.at/kontakt/mitschnitte...
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There was some noise from them about releasing a CD of the tour. I am not sure how seriously the Bavarian Radio treated the recordings however.My daughter works at the artist agency representing Blomstedt. I will ask her. He personally likes the Gewa...
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Herbert Blomstedt had a tour this past summer with the Bamberg Sinfoniker. I didn't get to hear them in the Stift Church in St. Florian, but in Würzburg in the Dom which also has a very nice "bloom". The only disadvantage was that the horns were sitt...
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The order does not matter if you have an accessible database. You can just randomly give them a catalog number and sort in the computer. It could also mean that you discover treasures that normally are not even on the radar. The degree of database ma...
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http://www.dansr.com/wick/resources/me-myself-and-i-are-orchestral-brass-players-losing-the-concept-of-being-team-players...
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You have to consider the latency in DSP ULF solutions (regardless of filter settings). It is considerable and if the rest of the system is phase aligned, there may be some problems in location of the ULF drivers.
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Romy, you have documented elsewhere here that a port can be useful IF you crossover above the port frequency. I have had similar experiences with well damped, high passed transmission lines. Some woofers like room to breath!...
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Do proper horns "suffer" from K2? Do you not think that the back chamber loading is part of the engineered concept? Are you sure that reflections from the room that travel through the horn to the diaphragm would not cause more trouble? How can yo...
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It seems that brainlessness knows no limits. Both Mr. Hansen and Mr. Rankin speak nonsense. Wasting time on text like this is like reading the brochures from extreme audio equipment. All the things that "audiophiles" expect someone to say, get sa...
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Remember wirewrap with the sharp cornered posts? The amplifiers that I built that way are still noise free after 40 years. 20 turns or so per post work just fine and those connections can be shellacked....
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http://hifiknights.com/reviews/speakers/rdacoustic-evolution/I think that David should search here about full range speakers. As he obviously can't hear the difference, maybe reading about it will help improve his designs.David, just for your informa...
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I read an interesting post by Martin King, the MathCAD wizard that created some sheets to predict driver behaviour in different types of boxes. He had 3 groups of speaker enclosures: boxes so small that standing wave resonances (sealed and vented) ar...
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The music world has lost another great. Her thoughts on listening would benefit audio people everywhere!
http://www.factmag.com/2016/11/25/pauline-oliveros-dies-deep-listening-composer/
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http://twogoodears.blogspot.de/2009/12/goto-from-japan-drivers-and-horns.html
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Some drives do not get along with certain reflective surfaces. I had a Philips that played just about everything. Then I bought a Yamaha and all of the "gold" colored CDs would not play. I think that your dirt issue is not the real problem. If th...
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Interesting history!https://vimeo.com/179471456...
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All the best to the big family!...
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Amir,you have now posted twice that "proper" USB is better than SPDIF. The problem is that it isn't, unless someone makes up rules to define their own sense of better. The problem here is that they have not defined anything that is better. Both metho...
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