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[quote user="msaudio"] Romy I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. [/quote]
It is not my view. I wrote about it many times before...
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[quote user="be"]I just spoke with a guy who have made both permanent magnets and electro magnets for loudspeakers.He said that the reason that electro magnetic speakers have a smoother and more grain free sound, is due to the temperature rise in the...
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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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I've heard these Haniwa speakers on Sunday. They sounded terrible. My niece and her boyfriend went on Friday and couldn't get Kubo to play something other than classical music. When playing classical music, the sound was okay but kinda boom...
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By "unlikely" I mean that although I understand the "injection" concept I can hardly imagine successfully adding another front-firing driver into that complex mix. I would hardly know where to start. Basically, I am in awe.No doubt t...
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I haven't given it a lot of thought other than to note the irony that there are quite a few dedicated OTL people who use autoformers ahead of their speakers. In fact, I think there is fairly brisk underground traffic in autoformers for this use...
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Jarek, how many 10" Scanspeaks do you think it would take to get way down in your room? And remember that, according to Romy, the "best sounding" Dannoy, the heart of this speaker system, still only plays up to 90 db peaks (70 dB continuous with seri...
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I have also been working on a pair of Macondo-inspired horn-speakers. Horns from Stereo Lab, but with horn-drivers from JBL, rather than the elusive Vitavox. I hold Romy's forum in very high regard because of the content-standard of the posted messag...
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The more-driver/more-power method has in fact been used to very good effect in rooms that +/- eat bass. The set-up I remember had about 8 515s per side and LOTS of power that I suppose it did not actually use very often; but it did provide nice,...
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[quote user="manisandher"]Hi Dima,Do you know if this is similar to the approach Tim de Paravicini took in his direct-coupled amp placed inside a Quad? I'm currently using Quad speakers (I gave up on the horn approach through sheer frustration) and i...
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KOT, with the ML2s I found very little difference in the sound of various 6C33Cs, but the old Svetlanas certainly "held to spec" better (and longer..). I find the 6C33C to be more "direct" sounding than 845 or 211, but this in the context of a 3-sta...
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Excellent points about the A2, and especially the possible result of a "swinging" capacitor, if this is, indeed, how the stage works. I cannot offhand think of a single gain stage where a coupling cap is used just like this, but at those values, and...
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Ha! You're either old or you read too much. There was also Arnie Nudell. Back to Bob Fulton, he never made 2 "statement" speakers alike! I actually owned E modulars from him. They were +/- the same as the Js, but with smaller subs. Ironically (cons...
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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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Yep, he heard and talked about some of the right things, down to problems when he needed "more" but more was not available. But can one really "hear these at their best" with any 94 dB speaker, let alone Magicos? Odd that neither of these reviews s...
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Hi drdna, Three things that I have found that can seriously damage the performance of our horn system is: Speaker location, heavy gage or multi stranded speaker wire, and room reflections. When you locate the speakers, m...
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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 the tweeter was wire...
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I actually preferred this video to most of the "reviews" I've read, for years; it is what it is. Not sure, but I think maybe most of the problems of that system have to do with LF, apart - of course - from the fact that something like this will alwa...
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Yes, sounds via YouTube are relative at best, and no one should really judge a speaker that way, although one is usually safe with a summary dismissal where any commercial hi-fi product is concerned. I guess I was amused by the "sales notes" and arb...
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I'm not sure how or even whether the DSP latency +/- correlates to "typical" ULF phase/delay/contour issues that must be "dealt with" in any case, for power relegation and system integration. It's not exactly, specifically relevant, but I have heard...
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In regular off the shelf hi-fi system , be it a total lack of LF in your speakers or the "pinch" of dome tweeters or the midrange mud. Romy like all of us throws money on the problem and he usually chooses well regarded and expensive solutions. The...
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Too true, Steve. As it happens, the distance between sidewalls just in front of my speakers is over 50 feet, and a wide hallway opens to large rooms along and at the end of its course. I have said all along in my The Loudspeakers thread that an "ongo...
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That's a whole lotta Bidat you've got there, Romy. By contrast, I'm guessing the 1-box iDAT-44+ (not including its wall wart) is smaller than the box pictured above with the torroidal tranny in it. The torroidal tranny inside my...
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Since I haven't complained about it for a couple of days, my company truck's CD player is so bad that it gets almost nothing right, ever.Still, while subjecting myself to this singularly terrible sound, I began to notice that every so often some ...
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For the person who very easy toss comments like “utter nonsense”, BS and “does not make sense” you are very uninformed. If you stop position yourself as an ignorant teenager who “knows everything” then you have chance to learn something. The Car Talk...
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Perhaps your own priorities and habits are changing somewhat over time? No surprise there. If so, I guess the idea is to meditate on what you want from the room now, and arrange it primarily for that. I have a lightweight chair that I use for imme...
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Romy, you specifically mentioned Shindo, and this is a well-known example of the "Old Parts School" that seems to be able to channel It. Examples I have heard have all been simpler Music via simpler speakers, so I don't know how it works with big sym...
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It seems pretty clear that what we do not have here is the proverbial "all-out assult on the state of the art"? For one thing, this requires a dedicated system approach, and when was the last time you saw anyone do this?&nbs...
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Ok, so imagine I'm someone living in the US with a keen interest in playing my collection of CD's and LPs. I need some speakers priced between 5000 and 10000 dollars to go with my 25 watt tube amp. I won't buy Edgars because Bruce once said that bent...
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Nice, primer, Romy. Thanks.I had a pair of Wright WPA3.5s until last year. They are a very simple DHT (2A3) SET and that easily slips into A2. Although they use some sort of cathode follower-type loop of the 6SN7 driver's "pairs" to...
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