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I thought it was a garden variety truism, if not the truth, that musiicians typically "make do" with - whatever - in the way of hi-fi.Although we "should" demand "the same thing" from hi-fi that we seek from live music, I would not be surprised if it...
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Unfortuanately, the NJ Symphony "Golden Collection" is up for sale. The orchestra paid so much for the collection, they can not pay off the debt. They are looking for high rollers who can buy the instruments, but permit the orchestr...
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What a great question, Adrian.To answer within the context of the thread, I think I try to "split the difference", beginning with as "neutral" a cartridge as I could find,at least as compared to The Grail, Master Tape. And I still cling to...
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...to obsess about speaker wire. Thinking about this a little more I realise that my preference for foil cables has always been in relation to speakers with passive crossovers. DSET is much more simple, the amplifier is driving the transducer direc...
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Hi Romy,I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone. The reason why is this: They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty resonances as the reso...
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Charlus,As you expressed here this would be an End of life speaker project, and I am sure you will not fancy any other speaker once you start with this, even Vox Olympian etc. Yes it will take a lot of money and a lot of time, but you will have fun...
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I guy that I know invited me a few way back to listen a new speaker that he brought from a Plaishner , the Switzerland manufacturer. The company make own flat loudspeakers and now they looks like parley to making speakers. This is very innovative des...
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That is one textbook HF ribbon, Romy, long, narrow and naked as a jaybird.Don't be surprised if eventually a certain amount of magnetic "dust" somehow finds its way into that ultra-strong magnet gap. Who knows what it is or where it c...
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[quote user="coops"]Just a quick note ,I went over to Germany and listened to a pair of Cessaro Alpha's at the home of TW Acoustic's Thomas Woschnick, I thought them absolutely superb, far more 'real' than any other speaker I have heard, ( impossible...
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Fostex T 500A MK 2 Horn Super TweeterArticle By Bill Gaw at www.enjoythemusic.com
As most of you know by now, I'm a horny type of guy. While my wife may dispute this, my audio system (actually my second partner) would have to agree as all seven spea...
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Be, there might be any number of reasons for listening to speakers more or less on or off axis, but I think in the case of drivers firing early across the axes of other drivers there are identifiable issues that can be heard as "problems" by some lis...
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[quote user="drdna"]The idea of 360 degree radiation of sound has great intuitive appeal to me since I feel the best recordings are done with two omnidirectional microphones. The most precise reproduction of the musical event would seem to be: ...
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[quote user="drdna"]Well, You really need to figure out what you want out of your speakers. There are some questions I would ask myself if I were in your position:1. You can eliminate a lot of speakers based on their size, sinc...
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Well written article, I think, and he is good enough to share right away that he is a "vintage" guy, and an AN guy, which helps me contextualize his observations, even though he does not reveal the nature of the $$$$$$ "ultimate horn speakers" (...
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I tried the ML2s via their 16 Ohm taps, even though my speakers drop to 4R at about 80 Hz before going back up their average 8 Ohms at 30 Hz. The overall sound off the 16 Ohm taps was more balanced and integrated top top bottom, ...
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I think the key to understanding this case is that it is beginning to look like the tubes that came with the amp all were over the hill, electrically. Since I have no way to test them other than by ear, that is what I have done. So f...
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My prize to the most interesting and educational room at the show goes to a room with WAVAC 833 power SETs. Visiting this room made me to think a lot and made me to draw a lot of very valuable to me conclusions.
I heard a lot about those amps. Recen...
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Hi Romy,When you visited our room, you played 3 pieces of music on our 1000 dollar speakers.All were nice recordings, one was Saint Saens 3, one was a very contemporary sounding piece of 17C Harpsichord? and I can't remember the third although I did ...
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Will the facination with "pro" sound never die? The best of these speakers sound like SS from the 80s, meaning they impose that "signature" on the sound, and IMO they simply miss the fine points of Music, volume and "dynamics" notwithstanding. Do n...
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Sound was decent today but the electricity was just bad enough to bugger the music.I tried to listen to a number of LPs and at one point Alicia De Larrocha was sounding pretty good; then it went away and I thought I'd just compare Gould's French Suit...
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Romy, the first time that I noticed that the speaker wires are very important to the sound was when Steve put some very expensive audiophile wires in place of our normal magnet wire. I walked into the room while familiar musi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
...I would like you do not distract yourself on the irrelevant directions: cables, room treatment and etc. They all are important things but the problem that you describe is more basic then all little things... ...Bruce...
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[quote user="drdna"]Looking again at the EdgarHorns, the placement in the room seems nearly optimal and they are now properly time aligned. Looking at the phase of the individual drivers and listening to each of them individually revealed that ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Unfortunately there was no further explanation, analyses, or a desire to look deeper (as usually on internet audio). [/quote]Glad you enjoyed the "Philosophy" section by Imai-san... some of his old writings deeply influe...
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[quote user="manisandher"]Hi all, This thread has been a facinating read for me, and has prompted me to resurrect my old Celestion SL600 speakers. But their copper dome tweeters are looking (and sounding) rather worse for wear. Does anyone know where...
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Before I answer some of the points raised....I have recently updated my website with details of the microphone - pictures will tell much of the story.This will answer some questions and raise some more.The short version of the concept is this: by aco...
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I'm sure lots of us would be happy to trade halls with someone else, and I'll bet some us would swap without having heard what we're swapping for. I know I would, because I know the odds would be in my favor.The "funny" thing these da...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] samuel33 wrote: …. I can't stop laughing when I read your comments about the audiophile mafia, you are so right.
Samuel, it is important, reading my self-obsessive rage about the industry, do not take the things out...
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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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Romy, it sounds like you are well into this, already. We used to use extremely sheer silk with our "secret" doping formulae. The key is to keep it as thin and flexible as possible. Today, I would look for resin/glue with "fibers" in it to bridge t...
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