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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Knightcrawler on 2006-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
The Aura 1808 had free air resonance at 24Hz and required enormous sealed enclosure of 14-16 cu feet.  Wilson Audio used the Aura 1808 in their unfortunately-ported XS subwoofers and soaked from their relatively small enclosure an extra 19dB...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Audio people know that loudspeakers mostly define the quality of sound reproduction. Also, everyone knows that the capacity of the loudspeakers mostly determined by the capacity of the drivers that loudspeakers use. Regardless of the topologies, appl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 12-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-16 
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It always was mystery for me but there is no good 12” drivers outs there, at least that I know. There are many 12-inchers out there but all of them are not good. The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 2-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-10 
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This is about the Focal Utopia TN51 tweeter.... It is hard to imagine not much I like this tweeter, in fact there is something insanely beautiful in this tweeter and from a certain perspective (narrow-certain) I like it even more then the HF o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 15-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-15 
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The exceptional 15-inchers would be two fitted in two categories: the bass 15-inchers and wide-range 15-inchers. It is imposable to think about the exceptional and wide -range 15-inchers and do not mention the 1946 -1973 production of the Tannoy Dual...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 14-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-16 
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Oops, I almost forgot the size of 14”. This is kind of off the wall size but still there was two exceptional drivers in this size that I met. The first is JBL 1400ND. The 1400ND was initially used in JBL K2 system. It had underhung voice coil, neody...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 10-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-18 
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We enter a complicated region as the lower driver we go the drivers could be used for different purposes and it is very hard to generalize. A 10-incher might be MF driver and LF driver. In my past I experimented with few MF 10-inchers, including some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Pandora's Piano by Lbjefferies7 on 2012-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
A superbly interesting pursuit...I would be most interested in that description of that specific sound.  It is true that some concert grands do certain things better than smaller pianos but there are rare instances of truly exceptional small(er) pian...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #319: Not the primary reason no by Edgar= on 2025-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  349 Replies 
I add that only to highlight there is more to it than just the sound  pressure, adding ULF will impact your system electrically as well but yes, in a far more subtle way.The primary difficulty i see is the phase flip at the bottom. There is just mo w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: further corrections by guy sergeant on 2004-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
any chance of a similar climb down on the 'adequate but not exceptional' 834P? have a good christmas! Guy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 14-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Oops, I almost forgot the size of 14”. This is kind of off the wall size but still there was two exceptional drivers in this size that I met. The first is JBL 1400ND. The 1400ND was initially used in JBL K2 system. It had underhung voice coil, neody...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Audio people know that loudspeakers mostly define the quality of sound reproduction. Also, everyone knows that the capacity of the loudspeakers mostly determined by the capacity of the drivers that loudspeakers use. Regardless of the topologies, appl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Paragons of wine and women by de charlus on 2013-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio in Playback Listening  71 Replies 
Yes, I have a few acquaintances who have damned the vinous pearls that I've cast before them with the very faintest of praise. One said that a 1990 Montrachet Ramonet was "as good as Cloudy Bay". Actually, although the Mouton was pretty special, alon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 15-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
The exceptional 15-inchers would be two fitted in two categories: the bass 15-inchers and wide-range 15-inchers. It is imposable to think about the exceptional and wide -range 15-inchers and do not mention the 1946 -1973 production of the Tannoy Dual...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Depends... by Romy the Cat on 2025-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bill Gaw: over 50 years of high-end audio experience and tim... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Anthony, they are very very good drivers. Perhaps cuz they are one of the best in their class. Still I would like not to make cult out of anything. The relative quality of components is very important things if they used properly. However, when we pa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: AMR DP-777 by Amir on 2017-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Abington Something = Abbingdon Music Research in Didital Things  14 Replies 
I think DP-777 sounds best when i turn off it's Jitter correction and i use bit Perfect I mode in 16bit 44.1khz mode.I think AMR DP-777 is very very good DAC but in my idea it is a-little bold sounding if i criticize tone.It sounds clear , very clear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Benchmarking by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Scooter wrote :"...Has anyone tried the Benchmark DAC Pre?..." You might have a look at this post from the Computer Audiophile site (if I've done things right, the link will take you directly to the correct place on the page) :htt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The Auro 2D looks like a garbage... by Romy the Cat on 2025-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A dive to Auro 3D in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
By the way I was trying to listen Auto 2D. I have no idea why but it is such a despicable garbage. I did all correct configurations. I have exceptionally good result when I play Auro 3D over 2D configuration, using just side channels nothing else, ju...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Do not blame me, blame Richter.... by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prokofiev's cantata in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Well, I never head this work but there was something the picked my curiosity. A year or so ago I read Richter’s book that combined his autobiography and dairies.  Generally I’m not fond of Richter and his autobiography in this book was expectedl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: No problems with necessary power by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Upper Bass : Frequency range between 100 and 500Hz – Driver loaded into a 120Hz straight horn, driven by DSET dedicated channel. Mid Bass : Frequency range between 40 and 100Hz – Driver loaded into a 45Hz straight hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Low Power Class A Solidstate Design by Amir on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I think low power ss design is the only way we can make ss to sound good. in my idea all high power ss design i heard had no emotion in their sound in comparison by good SET designs like AN UK Ankoru.the first SS design that make me happy in comparis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Re: Troughline Tuner by guy sergeant on 2005-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Of course I haven't compared it with the Sansui, which appears to be a very serious machine but the Leak sounds more natural to me than the other highly regarded tuners available over here (in the UK) such as the various Naim models, the Audiola...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Hard wiring by Paul S on 2007-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Well, it is a given that I am not a horn guy right now to begin with.   Of course, the "theater speakers" were and are mostly dinosaurs and/or mostly of historical/nostalgic interest.  I just want to mention some excepti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Stacking LF drivers for indoor results? [Re: Macondo alteration: first... by Ronnie on 2006-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
I'm moving my two finished LF boxes (connected as 1 channel) around the room, trying to set them up to play more frequency-flat than I've been able to make them with only one box per channel.Putting one in the ceiling and the other on the floor, both...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: '55 Gould Vs. '81 Gould by Lbjefferies7 on 2009-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
It appears that I need both.  I have had quite a relationship with these pieces.  I go back and forth between them.  I think that this is purely because of the differences between young and old Gould.  For me, they need eachother, in a way.  I think ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Well, why not? by Paul S on 2008-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
The problems I've had with small DHTs have had nothing to do with tone, which has been SOTA in some cases, IMO.  The cheap-o Wright's 6SN7/2A3 pairing is excellent with respect to tone and even with respect to "authority", within its limits...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: "Perfected" DEBZs (Keep or Sell?) by Paul S on 2010-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
As I have shared several times here, I happen to regard the Lowther as nothing more than a means to an end.  Partly because of this, I have taken my lumps with this marque.  Today, I am pleased to have finally made the speakers I imagined 6 years ago...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #779: A Dim Sum even Einstein could not crack by oxric on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Rakesh, Equi=Tech is a know player in the fields of audio electricity. Back in 2001-2002 I had 3 of the Equi=Tech transformers. I was not pleased with results. I do not like the balanced operation for power lines – in my vi...
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