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In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Balance, texture and weightPosted by Paul S on: 12/11/2007
I have long wrestled with the apparently relentless upward tilt of hi-fi. It's like a rock skipping across a pond, and the overall direction of the rock's travel is upward in terms of frequency. Also, the rock "wipes" or smears out the texture or "good granulation" as it travels. I find this most noticable in the lower-MF/upper bass, but it also quite annoying in the range of the cymbal, where the "splash" seems to go mostly upward.
Injection seems like a perfectly logical - if very difficult - way to try to offset this failing (without screwing up other stuff).
Meanwhile, people speak of tubes as "warm", but it seems like tubes themselves are prone to this upward splashing, and different IC also serves up different versions of it.
Weekend before last, my AC was truly spectacular, and I "wasted" some of it to mess around with IC, thinking just as it relates to these issues.
I will write about the IC experiments elsewhere later, but I will say that the IC I tried was (pause for effect) solid silver, including connectors, and I have to say I got some very interesting results. I think I mentioned a while back that the Mundorf silver caps (which I do not use, BTW) are "interesting", and by this I meant as they relate to these issues, and this is why I tried the solid silver IC.
Please understand (for the love of God...) that I do NOT think I am "solving" these problems with wire! I am just experimenting with effects as they relate to the issues in question.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site