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Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be sai...
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[i]"because I
"foresaw" that it would take a personally-developed 5-way system with
dedicated amps not only to optimize this approach, but it would take
about that just to overcome what I did/do not like about horns"[/i]I tend to think it's more w...
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I had one for about a week and was not happy. Switched to a Kenwood KT1100.
Here an honest review that matches my experience. Bottom line is that on stuff this old, the individual buyer will determine the price, not the market.
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Well, this concept of Defense Mode is good for superficial explanation (or for selling to ourselves own justifications) and I use to use it in past but I do not use it for a few years as unfortunately it is not what it is. The correction of “the wron...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
*********** From here, read carefuly because it is important ***********
The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioni...
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There is no mystery to quantum mechanics. Tunneling is a deceptive term, as it refers to an imaginary "hill" of potential that must be overcome.
Imagine it like miniature golf. There is a big hill with a tiny hole at the bottom and you want to ge...
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Clark Johnsen’s passed away yesterday. I visited him in hospital a few months back, had
a good talk about life and about end. Clark was probably the most interesting listener
who visited my listening room. We had the strangest conversations someti...
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Very sad to hear it. My condolences to his finally. I hope Vladimir eventually got peace in the end of his life. I did not talk to him for over 1o years and I do not know what he was all about last years. The last contact I had with him it was I ...
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As with all our ventures in life, the measure of our success is in hindsight what would have I have done differently. Although it is fairly early days for me yet, at the moment, if I went back to the drawing board and had to start again, I would ...
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I was rushing when I made the last post. Wanted to share a little more about my thought process and how I arrived at doing another large-scale masochistic audio project. Making a bass horn is a huge risk - the results can vary from exceeding expect...
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What a beauty of FM life in Boston! The WHRB ran a week-long (53 hours) Sir Edward Elgar Orgy and today, at the end of the programming they broadcasted a cycle of the Elgar’s own conducting of his own. What a grate dissent in time and into the ...
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It happened last night and it was beyond wonderful – it was extraordinary. Our local Boston Discovery Ensemble:
http://www.discoveryensemble.com/
….visited last night the WGBH’s Frazer Studio and played life some fragments from Be...
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The Adrian’s quote about being stunned and disappointed can’t better express my view on the subject. I admit that I am driven by disappointed and in a way anger for the horrendous sound I got from my Koetsu Onyx Platinum. However, it was not a an...
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Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...
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Reading Paul’s reply I came across to asking myself of what we call painting. Let get for instance any famous works, let I be the early Dali’s portrait of his sister “Figure at Window”. What we call as the “Figure at Window”?
When we mention the “...
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I mean to make this post with the observations for a number of weeks. The days are passing by and I hoped that I might get deeper to the bottom of it. Unfortunately I was not able to.
So, the Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 is feeding a modified Yamaha ...
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Wonderful horn, Chris. 160Hz is very-very interesting size for using S2 at it bottom knee for a lover mid-range channel. I when to 250Hz (I did not go lower because some my own reasons) but I think the 180Hz should the perfect frequency. With damping...
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In my post above I have mention that Srajan is in a way a brainless parrot that repeats the heard and has no ability of desire to understand what was the noise about. His comments that 6E5P and E810F are “close electrical” is a good indication how it...
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Digital Crossovers are wonderful. They are wonderful because they might help to very easy to learn if you are not a Moron ™. I have covered this subject in the threads:
Dream Hi-Eff Speakers for an “inmate” and in Horns and digital crossovers.Still...
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Perhaps you are right. Buying out tubes from manufacture is a secure way to go. Still, I abandoned this practice in 2002 when Lamm sold me a pair of 12AX3 for his L2. When I got them one of the tubes was with paces of metal riddling inside. I figure ...
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It might not be necessarily the new wire. With analog there are other billion reasons why it might not sound as it should. Still, I personally can’t stay listening “new” wire with MC cartridges. If you recently futzed with the arm wire then you...
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Post #23:
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horny
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2008-11-04
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"] horny wrote:Mentioning line and plane sources (and dipoles) at Romy`s site is sort of forbiden.
thanks for telling me. i don't care about dipoles though. i understand that they have advantages but to me that's not ...
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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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jd wrote :
"...I may have come up with a way of making the BIG horns fairly painlessly..."
Yes well, I really must give up the absinthe !Lbjefferies7 wrote :"...Not "end-of-life"in the sense that it will be built and then I...
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Yep, if I do it then I will do it right: with a single driver, with full length, with proper mouth, with slow profile and if it had curve then it will be properly linearly expending curve, not with the resonant chambers or with steps. The problem...
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Yep, the Gorecki 3 is a famous work. There was some controversy
around. Jewish interests highjacked the work it as the Sorrowful theme of Holocaust
but Gorecki admitted that it was not his intention although closer to the end
of his life he was mo...
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I spent a bigger part of day today to finish the “End of Life" Phonostage, there were many things to do but it is now over. Done! Complete! Amen! I it closed up and sat in it’s permanent place.
A few observations looking back. First, I spent a LOT...
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[quote user="scooter"] The old WCRB just signed off forever. . . let's see if the content moves forward in any meaningful way. Still a net loss to the region and the rare occasion in the US that a for-proft business was moved to a not-for profit ...
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I met a few days back a person who does high-end audio and in fact he does. He has multiple turntables, he has discrimination taste in audio components/elements, has his ideas how a playback might or should be built. For all intended purpose he i...
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Since my First, “End of Life" Phonostage will be done soon ( my mechanism has been doing the box for 3 month)
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=5856
I think again what will be the Second Phonostage to care my other arms...
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