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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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My playback is specifically for ME. I am not so much interested in hearing if the trumpet player farts, but am very interested in the orchestral fabric and how players move their instruments in and out of that. Row 15, refers to my favorite row at th...
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[quote user="Paul S"]...Certainly, in the end, I have "rated" my own systems on Musical "Satisfaction", which I put in quotes because what keeps my interest at any given point in time seems to vary, at least somewhat. Hard to imagine stopping on one...
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The crossover will be determined by the room and NOT the Tannoy. I remember a post where an 80 Hz room issue was covered by the crossover - I think from the woofer tower to the midbass back then. Then another post came where the woofer towers were di...
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Jarek,I am a professional musician, and am very much in "tune" with creative processes.A random result is not automatically "bad", but because of its "randomness", there is a lot of ground to cover BEFORE one can even think about further steps. Case ...
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In Macondo/Melquiades thinking, random process means random result - and that is exactly what happened with Dunnoy. A random driver was placed in a random cabinet with a random passive radiator and random cabinet damping. All subsequent attempts to r...
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It does not surprise me that your current setup is "missing" so much. I am positive that if you get 100 pieces of exactly your model of Tannoy, they will ALL sound different.I do not have a test for this, but feel that point source in this context ha...
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IF the Remedios cabinets have more volume than the Dunnoy, you just put bricks inside Remedios until you have the same volume. I assume that EVERY Tannoy Red will have a different resonance frequency. They are old and have certainly not been played t...
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We have university level training for professional musicians, conductors, recording engineers, scientists and doctors for perception/hearing. Hell, we even have doctors to reprogram our brain to "stop" hearing Tinnitus - but no training for LISTENING...
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We have all run into the situation that IF we toe in the speakers, we increase localization of the recorded sonic events, if we toe out, the "imaging" becomes more diffuse. I will maintain that for a given type of listener and genre, we do not have t...
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When the stars align and the playback through a stroke of luck happens to align with that the recording/mastering is. The problem is that recording engineers are not recording for audiophile playback. They use tons of microphones to create an "intell...
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Actually, it is fascinating to see someone who has well defined objectives on slippery ice. What surprised me was the extreme cut off of the Macondo - somewhat like an unfaithful wife, but actually (from my view) Macondo was 100% faithful to its crea...
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My view of Gödels "incompleteness" has more to do with systems not being able to verify themselves from within. This certainly can apply to audio in that the playback specifications can be very "qualified" but the "quality" must be found outside of t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I hope you remember the famous picture when Albert Einstein shows
his tang? Now, pretend that it is not Einstein but Kurt Gödel….
[/quote]Kurt Gödel with all his brilliance was above all, paranoid. Sticking his tongue out...
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Of course some of us can have all that we need in one serious audio system - just like some of us can have all that we need with one wife, one car, one trumpet. That being said, some of us are NOT happy with one of anything and “need” a wife and love...
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Hmmm. teaching middle class “musicians” serious music. A very noble project that you have....
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It is comforting to know that the Vitavox is in the running with the Tannoy. I am very interested in the results - also with the crossover intentions....
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Maybe with the Dunnoy, we have a “working” point source? Perhaps this type of “point source” puts audio playback artifacts in a better location than with the traditional spread of drivers?...
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As the recordings themselves are missing so much information, creating a plausible image (certainly not the original) is the actual “art” involved.I must admit that I do not generally have issues with singers mouths stretching between the speakers or...
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Being a trumpeter, I certainly have an opinion about this - on many levels.I believe one of the major benefits of a trumpet (horn) is the ability to completely melt into the orchestral fabric or with ease move outside when MY voice in my opinion has ...
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What Romy has done up until now is very similar to what a conductor of an orchestra does:Search for music to performBuild the ensemble to play itDecide on the venue to perform inTrain all of the forces involved to play in accordIn real time, guide th...
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I am not sure what to make of the decision. I understand the quandry surrounding "high maintenance" dates but am not sure about the replacement. I guess we will see after the honeymoon. I am surprised that you have not tried - or written about the IB...
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Reading Romys ventures for years has given me a (probably primitive) picture of how his "world" works. Regardless, the changes in his "style" of posting have shifted as much as the "content". I do not think that the Dunlavy/Dunnoys would have had the...
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Not here and not on YouTube...
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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 IsolationReconstruction of sine w...
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The idea of high quality delay makes me wonder if the delay effectively increases the virtual length of the room - allowing longer wavelengths before the room Schroeder frequency is reached. This would be a "softer" bass without the room compression....
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Maybe it is just me but I cannot help thinking that videos simply take up more time and space for the same content. Let us take Romys video. 40 minutes. How many pages would have been a post with identical content? How long would it take me to read a...
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The frequency where your room turns into a pressure chamber changes the way that we perceive bass. This is how we get "bass" in a too small space like an automobile. When removing the ULF channel, all of the music is transmitted in a natural way for ...
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I too believe that "reproduction" has nothing to do with my audio experience as there is nothing to reproduce. There is so much missing in any recorded signal that the "original" geometry can not even be close to restored. At best, we could create a ...
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A DSP is a great tool for modelling crossovers. It lets us experiment with a lot of things with no additional costs. There is a sonic hit, but far lower than "guessing" at crossovers.What seems to get the most traction here is using inherently well b...
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Koh,if time alignment is critical (in my world it is), the sources of the sound (the driver diaphragms) need to be aligned. A very long exponential horn and a short tractrix are not „impossible“ to align, but what reflective surfaces ftom the exp. ho...
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