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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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[quote]Is not about the cost of
plywood bit the placement cost if the speakers have this type wings.
Sure, for monophonic films in 40s and multitude listeners in this it was
not a problems but for contemporary stereophonic sound it make the
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[quote]That is a bold waste of
speaker’s surface for a small result.[/quote]Yeah, but plywood is cheap and the result is audibly noticeable. Baffle extensions were recommended for all of the Altec VOT cabinets too. Make a big improvement for cheap ...
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Moreart, somebody sent me this link last year. You are surely the DIY pioneer of back loaded Manger.As you probably know this is a touchy speaker to work with. Rated at 91 dB/W input by the factory, we measure ~91 up to near 92 dB/1W/1m in our two mo...
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[quote]I do not know certainly
how the Western Electric L-9 was made but I think it is not sealed
enclosures. Some of the drivers of the period used the semi-transparent
cloth enclosures that you, Joe, might recognized as sealed.[/quote]The L-9...
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The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wouldn't call it an "open baf...
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Gimme a couple days to find the box and I'll send you a couple.PM or email your address.Joe...
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Just scored a box of these obsolete 300 ohm connectors for the REL.Drop me a line if you need one. Free to any REL owner.Joe...
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I agree...this is a tedious exchange. I feel sorry for the readers, if any.If can't defend myself against Romy arguing with me about what I heard, based solely on photographic analysis, in an entertaining manner, I must be losing my touch. Th...
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Wait...are you saying that FOUR people who have been to Camerata wrote you offline (within two days!) and they neglected to enter into this relevant discussion?Strange! H'mmm? If I were the guy mentioned above, I would have been in here screa...
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Yo Romy, face it... you need a smiley menu on this joint. For this exchange, I could use the one with rolling eyes and the one where one smiley whips out a hammer and konks the other smiley on the head with it a few times.Your cat architecture p...
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Are you saying you don't like naked blondes?...
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Any Google hits this site gets from my post is a gift from me to The Home of the Cat. Can't imagine anybody searching "Silbatone & Penderecki"..a rather odd combination of terms stemming out of a unique event.
Or how about "Silbatone &...
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Cat...your ability to look at a picture and diagnoseminutae of sound and even the character of the system owner is impressive.As you know from previous discussions, I am a fan of direct experience as a discovery procedure over intellectual manipu...
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Well, I was there, which is more than The Cat can say. In fact, The Cat never heard a complete WE system first hand, so I'll have to take that into advisement when the expected foaming-at-the-whiskers rant.I always wonder why people would giv...
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This is "Camerata"-- a listening space owned by In Yong Hwang, a retired TV anchorman. It is located in a beautiful museum development in Paju near the North Korean border outside of Seoul.I have known Mr. Hwang for 10 years and he is an old ...
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[QUOTE]So what is high end audio, then? I know for some it is the quest for
the perfect soundstage, but let us exclude them for the moment. Rather,
is it a way for us to become more connected to the Sound? In a sense,
like a crutch for an invalid ...
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[Quote]As
for my critique of "imaging" I do reject the mindless way the term is
used these days, particularly when musical perception is equated with
visual perception and visual logic and terminology are used to discuss
and evaluate system perfo...
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[Quote]each channel is trying to use a minimum dimension of throat for a given beneficial frequency and consequentially max own radiation profile.[/Quote]Aside from the fact that a narrow throat leads to higher distortion, this is a good practical ap...
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[QUOTE]But we have all heard
the difference, with standard stereo installations, where the bass
comes from down below and the highs come from up above.[/QUOTE]I suspect that much of this effect arises from the perceptual disjunction caused by using...
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First off, I will point out that neither Silbatone nor I claim or agree that the Aporia horn is a point source, because clearly it is not. The sound comes from two "areas" but even that is not a particularly useful notion.Although some do make that c...
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[QUOTE]I have to admit that it is not a good idea to judge a loudspeaker based upon somebody else’s comment[/QUOTE]Yet you continue to do it again and again... why? You know its bogus, I know its bogus, they know it is bogus. Dude, it is BOGUS. Just ...
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Keep in mind that there are 50 ohm and 75 ohm BNC connectors. The inner pins are different sizes. If you plug a 50 ohm male into a 75 ohm female, you will stretch out the receptacle and, over time, ruin it.There are also impedance matching considerat...
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You cant see the end of the wire to know if it has a connector.This might have been a stupid suggestion because most of those antennas will have spade lugs or no connector whatsoever, just bare wires....
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Yes, that WAS a common connector but this won't help you now. Radio Shack sold those as recently as ten years ago.Since the female side of the connectors has spring terminals there is some variability permitted in the diameter of the male contacts. I...
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[QUOTE]Joe still does not "get" that a playback do not impersonate the imaging of original performance event but rather create the imaging of reproductive intentions where the system arranger and certain elements of playback act as interpretive force...
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[QUOTE]I do not know that HP use to tell in 80s[/QUOTE]I know you don't, that's why I seriously suggest you check it out.The logic "musical intention of composer/conductor"-->minute analysis of 3D representation of orchestra performance in view of...
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[QUOTE] Joe Roberts wrote: Did you actually read 1980s TAS or just thought sniff it? I think I know the answer.
Nope, I did not. I arrived in US in 1992, spoke no English and was able to read cognitively after 1994-95. [/Quote]Well check it ou...
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[Quote]Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a good pizza. Unfortunately I won't find one in a Pizzahut. "That" man's 2 for 1 pleasure says a lot about his evaluating capabilities... I also enjoy several different kinds of music, mostly acoustic, but en...
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[QUOTE]Tone in language is entirely different from tone in language.[/QUOTE]OOPS... should read "Tone in language is entirely different from tone in music."Where's the edit button on this thing?....-----------------------------On single drivers and p...
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