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Hi Romy,It seems that the idea of tone is not only lost to most speaker designers but to most electronics engineers as well. When you hear the excrement most designers call an amplifier you would swear that they have never not even once heard a real ...
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Hi Romy, Have you ever thought of trying to build or have built for you a SE OTL? You know that there is one on the market from the company transcendent sound using multiple 6C19PI output triodes? Perhaps a few of these 12C42C tubes would...
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Hi Romy, KR audio is making high power SET and parallel SET amps using tubes designed by them specifically for low frequency amplification (read as in not radio frequencies). They are getting the power with lower voltages and higher currents th...
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The question is, Romy, is it like reproduction where two parents get together and make a little one or is it like Dolly the sheep?Another example of a reproduction is in the art world. Here you frequently see "reproductions" of famous art works...
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If you contact the guy he will probably tell you where it is from. It is good and it is a bigger flame than the one used by Acapella. The ion tweeters absolutely need clean power AND need to be isolated from the rest of your system as the...
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"I really do not know. It sounds to me as purely speculative subject. I do not know how RAAL ribbons sound and I am not a big fan of ionic tweeters as I never seen them to work successfully with any other type of transducer."I have heard them work ve...
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"I see things differently. My view advocates that playback creates NEW Sound from scratch and the relation between the Sound of original event and the Sound of produced by playback have no inner-correlative point in audio and they mapped ONLY through...
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Hi Romy,I see now you are throwing around the term "absolute tone" in a relative manner again :) . Why would you want to neutralize absolute tone and with a metal tweeter no less!! You are talking about a tweeter "absolute tone" offsetting a po...
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It is a good question that I also asked when I saw this speaker. Afterall, everything being equal using the same materials for the drivers is more optimal from a coloration standpoint. My guess is cost. They already had splurged for...
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Hi all,In my experience it is VERY hard to get anything resembling realistic bass from a vented box, particularly with a Q of around 0.9 or 1. There is too much stored energy in the system and too much overhang. The best bass I have heard...
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I have a problem with how you are using the english language, Romy. You are using an absolute word (like absolute) to mean something you have invented and it is a relative thing. This for me won't do. I understand more or less what ...
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I like debating with you Romy but I simply don't agree with your position on this. I am sure in practice we are not very far apart but in terms of thinking about the issue of reproduction and tone our way of thinking about it differs.You keep u...
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"then I would suggest using a meaning of “tonal potential of playback”"Fine, just don't call anything from playback Absolute. The only absolute is live unamplified music, it must be so as it is the original event.Sorry Romy you lost me there in...
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"The same with the “absolute tone”. The “absolute tone” is a RELATIVE term (ironic???) that describes a capacity of reproduction projected to the expectations of a listener and the tonal quality of the recorder music."I think you have been bitt...
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I have noticed the same kind of control and "density" of sound from KR audio amps, which are zero feedback. Have you tried this brand of amp? The one thing that I can tell conclusively about the two different amps is that neither one suff...
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What I find interesting though, Romy, is that many of the SET measurements show gross distortion even when putting out very low power, which suggests that they are saturated from the high static DC current running through them as they must for a Clas...
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Merlin here is the Stereophile measurements on the Lamm ML2.1http://stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/1004lamm/index4.htmlAs you can see the rise in distortion vs. frequency shows only a small rise in distortion even down to 10Hz. This is an indica...
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"Indeed for classical work I often find a slightly under damped bass response to be emotionally evocative and of benefit to the illusion of the acoustic"Have you looked at the primary cause of this issue with most SET amps? I can tell you that ...
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Hi Samuel, I see that quite a few replies without much in the way of suggestions. Romy will not give you what you want, ie. a shopping list of speakers to audition, but I will give you one or two recommendations that I think sound quite good in...
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Hi Romy,The Vacuumstate amplifier is not a parallel SET it is basically like push pull but with some kind of trick dynamic bias control that keeps the tubes really together. Much of the low level information that gets lost with the usual push p...
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Hi Romy, I see here that you are of the mind that putting the attenuator AFTER the gain stage has negative consequences for the sound. I agree totally with this and had a discussion with Charles Hansen regarding this as well that the attenuator...
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Hi Keith,
Great to hear from you. I will try someday in the near future to get to over there. Perhaps the hifi show in Heathrow? Hmmm...did you try contacting Vacuumstate directly about a possible demo? As you probably know t...
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Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster. From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...
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There might be another reason not much difference was heard. That reason is that most of the musicians were incapable of eliciting the full potential from said instruments. My ex-girlfriend was also a professional violinist performing mos...
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http://www.dynavector.com/etechnical/fluxdamper.htmlhttp://www.dynavector.com/etechnical/microstylus.html...
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Hi Romy,Look here for information about the Dynavector 17D3 cart.http://www.dynavector.com/products/cart/e_17d3.htmlhttp://www.dynavector.com/etechnical/dispersion.htmlCheers,Brad...
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Hi Romy,Interesting test you have conducted. Were the responses mostly unflat near the frequency extremes or was there variations even in the midrange? The reason I ask is because if you look at most of the published curve responses it is...
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I have had similar impressions to other speakers using these drivers. For example I found the top of the line Avalon Eidolon diamond to be similarly colorless and lifeless. Also a pair of Vaic speakers (designed by the guy from Lumenwhite...
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Hi Romy,I too have for quite some time been on a quest for a truly transparent preamp. To this end I have tried some that were indeed very good such as the Silvaweld SWC 1000 that I now own and especially the Vacuumstate RTP-3d from Allen ...
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Clark, clark, clark. Can't you pull away from that microbe on the bark of that tree you are starring at and see the forest a bit? The performance is good, the sound is good, who gives a S*%T if the movie is a bit cheesy. I wouldn't ...
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