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[quote user="Stitch"]TKD has also high quality Parts which are not listed in the catalogue. I heard, some personal contact can be helpful to get their best units. They will be built on custom order only, in batches, when they made it, it is done. Pri...
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Of course - as ever - the cited discussion has nothing to do with the arm...and - as ever - the price is no indicator of its performance capabilities...Stitch, do you know if the vertical "leaf" bearing is on the plane of the arm tube, as it seems to...
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Well it hard to find for whatever reasons. “Bescal” released it but I would not trust then and would look for the original Everest release. I do not know who sell CD and I have seen ay used market they goes for stupid prices. Still, you might fish th...
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but...If you stay with the conversation long enough, and perhaps if the designer is honest enough, TT designers may well mention in passing various compromises that they have been stuck with, for myriads of rea...
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Thinking back, I was never consciously in a position to "introduce the subject" as you seem to wish to, for a variety of reasons. In my case, the musician either had his/her own ideas about "audio" already, or it seemed utterly remote as a topic...
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Rony, you do not specifically say that you use horns to reproduce violins, but if you do then you have your work cut out for you. Moving upstream, massed violins are T-O-U-G-H to get right, under any circumstances. Very few front ends make good on ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]...Certainly, in the end, I have "rated" my own systems on Musical "Satisfaction", which I put in quotes because what keeps my interest at any given point in time seems to vary, at least somewhat. Hard to imagine stopping on one...
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Hi Romy,I think it is a 3000. The other platter/base seems (from the ebay advert) to be home-made with a 16" diameter.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5860808877&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1I presume...
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Robin, my live venue preferences are similar to yours. I was thinking about how we deal with the sound matrix in our listening rooms, based on the variables we are presented with. I remember when I gave no thought to soundstage and little thought abo...
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Yes, this sort of OT stuff is real drudgery; but unfortunately, it must be decided and implemented by the true OCD DIY Audio Guy for "best possible performance".The two options with respect to keeping the horn "conditioned" (temperature and possibly ...
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Thanks, Roman... I strangely (?!?) feel me like a schoolboy at his first primary schoolday... virtually ALL my (limited) audio knowledge, vanished... and I'm dealing with brand-new problems, like a crossover with fixed slopes and cut-off frequencies ...
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Jorge,I would hope that the specifications of the Fane 8M drivers would not depart from the specifications of the old 8Ms that you have helpfully attached here. I just sent the pdf file to your email directly, not having seen that you had posted it h...
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[quote user="Jorge"]I have seen Beyma rewrite their specs when they redo a driver and even add a letter to the driver for that change, even if it is the same driver.Now I have seen variable FS responses form different drivers of the same model also....
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6moon published the news: June 2014 - DIYers unite - Vitavox HiFi announce the launch of their Constructor Series bass enclosures. "For home builders constructing their own multi-way horn systems, the bass enclosure is often the most daunting prospec...
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[quote user="Stitch"] Sound was really lifelike, true in tone, for 1000 visitors in a cinema with a 2W amplifier....of course it can't be compared in rooms for one owner with pinpoint imaging, but it was a good performance. A lot of listeners scratch...
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Jorge, not to stoop to a shopping list, but I thought I also mentioned the 375 in the post where I introduced Rullit. Anyway, I meant to. Since there is no mention of the 375 there now, I will drop it again. This was the driver I lusted after in my...
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I agree that it sounds unlikely, hence the incredulity factor (?!?) in the header. However, I admit being facinated, in a morbid sort of way.Each individual channel/track seems to come "down a chute" about 1 1/2 octaves wide, with each channel/t...
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The thought of an arrary of images well forward of the speakers is troubling, but - other factors being equal - I love it when I get +/- that sort of thing behind the speakers along with sound energy from the "performance" th...
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Romy, I'm not sure what you are saying.I notice "qualities" of "silence" especially in content-loaded music, and most especially during well done live concert recordings. Here, the "silence" is part of the score as rendered, and it is part...
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Hi everyone Guess what! Just had a visit to this system last night. Upfront, the owner - thank you Klaus again - is a very welcoming and friendly fellow. But also remarkably reasonable and decent. Total absence of any need to show off. You rather nee...
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Hi Romy, Just a couple comments on recorded quality and dvds. If you have a chance try to find the DVD called Eroica put out by the BBC a couple of years ago. It is a quasi-reinactment of Beethoven's unveiling of his new masterpiece...
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I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...
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I've played around with a couple of amplifiers that have variable output impedance, namely the Berning ZH-270 and Wolcott Presence P220M. The Wolcott Presence in particular is interesting, as the constantly-variable output impedance control can...
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Robin, I don't know why, but for no reason at all I was thinking the 1" polyester driver was a dome! Its being a compression driver likely means a 2" diaphragm, and it certainly opens the door for sub-2kHz performance. Actually, it's 8" drivers doing...
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Put the "differences" idea in the bank. We want "insight" and "involvement"; a "connection", as it were; not just the sound, per se, but the performances, and the performance as a whole. Also consider that Time is a factor; we may "get tired of" a gi...
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Well, it says something that you had a chance to stay listen to "the best amplifier in the world" and yet you walked out. Although it does not tell us what you heard it does seem to reflect on the set-up, at least, and so, if only indirectly, o...
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Of all the manufacturers you could be poking fun at you've chosen two who actually care about what they make and sell. Whenever I encounter Bruce Edgar he always strikes me as a courteous and serious guy trying to offer value for money, high performa...
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I have a lot of respect for several TT designs, including the Micro 8000, for example; but I am very suspicious of this particular TT. The reason is that this TT appears to be more of an intellectual exercise than a "best solution" for the greater pr...
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Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...
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Hey Boys, Remember even if you use a modern "pancake" compression driver, you still have no control over the flare rate the manufacturer used within the phasing plug. And most of the time they are not willing to tell you, or they don't even know...
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