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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, isn't this the first time you have tried the film caps for PS and the "ALL-NEW" "SUPER-SOFT" diode bridge? I would certainly go back to known quantities before I did or un-did anything serious. Not that I always...
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If to look at the Melquiades schematic in the channel “A” you will see 78H first order low pass filter.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/6-Chennal_Melquiades_DSET_Amplifier.pdf
The low-pass filter in Milq and the low-pass filters generally is great...
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[quote user="hagtech"] I run the driver tube at 170V @20mA. I don't think you need to run this tube at high current. It is very linear with wide signal swings at this bias. [/quote]
Good operation points for use it as a driver. You might...
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My Grandma died. She was in her 90s…
The funeral was next morning. I learned about Grandma in the beginning of the day but a lot of little pathetic errands did not allow me to leave for Philadelphia right the way, not to mention that there was...
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Holly cow, who could even expect that it will be so! BSO opened today the summer season with Mahler second. Levine is at his, look to be permanent recovery, and Michael Tilson Thomas stood at the podium. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Layla Clai...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting? Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock. San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...
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Actually I care less about the design philosophy in this case but rather about the result. Obviously the 150W-200W (200W?) of Zarathustra’s pure class A would be completely useless for my horns. I would like to have something to drive with that amp a...
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R,
I note you calimed a fondness for certain softdomes; looks like there are some newer scanspeaks that may have the tonal qualities of your favoured types but with higher sensitivity, which will match the Focal well.
Eg: D2904 types at
http://...
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Hi,[quote user="morricab"]the unit I tried (the Sonic Euphoria passive) did not live up to my hopes.[/quote]
Given my somewhat loose but existing ties with S&B and with Music First Audio I need to be careful what I am saying. But let me suggest...
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Scooter, I was thinking myself if it was a pirated CD and I very carefully inspected it, I did not found any signs of not authenticity but I am not expect in it. To me it looks like a legitimate DG album. Though I admit that with contemporary mea...
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[quote user="Paul S"]
I'm not sure exactly what I expected from swapping the digital cable at this point, but what I got was not it.Before I bought the Belkin Synopsis cable I just swapped out, I had sought out and purchased an Acoustic Revive cab...
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First, you miss a reference to the phase “I am a very intelligent person”. It was the Melvin Udall’s quote from “As good as it gets”, not that I do not have meaning behind it but the meaning is bit more elusive then it is on surface.
However, ...
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"Speakers Corner Records revives classical music powerhouse with new Decca labal reissues! Much can be said about Decca. About how the record label founded in Britain in 1929 grew to be such a classical genre powerhouse, revered by audiophiles for su...
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[quote user="eduardo"]Amir:audio
practice relates to "actual sound" not to (any kind) of overloaded
analysys of "inner character of recorded or played material ". You
don´t analyze sound,you analyze the capability of a
given "sound-conceived str...
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I truly enjoy reading the different internet audio idiots expressing their “wisdom” about what I do. There is a site out there filed with typical audio white trash and they suddenly developed a desire to criticize my admiration of FM based upon ...
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The played today a little with Vitavox S2 driver with electromagnet and made some measurements. Measuring the relative magnetic force (I use Hirst GM04) I found out that increase current up to 3A linearly increases the magnetic force in the gap...
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Jessie, at the home page, in the left, within the GoodSoundClub Section there is the “Announcements” item of menu, which will bring you to the thread with the instruction how to upload the images to the site.
Regarding the issues that you are trying...
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The Anstendig Institute wrote:"...The attempt to reproduce the way sound is heard by means of stereophonic sound reproduction is a misunderstanding that is the result of a fault in logic..."Yes, it would be better to record each source of sound with ...
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Best amplifier is the one that you just built…Yes, it is a common unfortunate law of Audio but the people who know me personally know that try do not behave according to this behavioral pattern. So, this weekend I decided to do try the new Melquiades...
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[quote user="darkmoebius"] I would never just jump in and attempt to build the Melq (or any other amp) without months of studying the design … [/quote]
Good motivations. To simplify everything: the Melquiades was at attempt to make two stages, capac...
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I was contemplating the 6 Channel Super Melquiades conversion – it will quite a revision – and I am slowly inclining to make it not 6 Channel but 7 channels…Anyhow, the post will not be about the needs of extra 7th channel but rather about one of the...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
There is absolutely nothing in Fane 8M specifications that is responsible for the diver sound. So, what is the purpose to ask about the new specifications?One might think that someone can use “specifications” as an assu...
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Hello Malinowski,
Sounds like you may already have the necessary experience in working with plaster, but in case you're not used to making anything this large:
For the final horns, especially if they are large, use hard modeling plaster. My up...
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With the omnidirectivety paranoia many people might loose from attention that fact that in order to be good omnidirectional speaker the RAAL new speaker has to be just a good conventional speaker first. The new RAAL speaker (does it have a name?) as ...
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Keith,
you see, in Alphas the MF driver does down to let say even 500Hz then it mans that they need to bring those bass W-bins unto 500Hz but it is imposable even theoretically. Let me to expanse, it I very simple. When a “reflected” horn fires up a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote:That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuf...
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Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...
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[quote user="KLegind"]Initially I thought the Zu might be an interesting speaker in the context of tube amplification, however I tried the fullrange driver approach and I have misgivings about it...
Anyhow, the industry rag Hifi World (with wh...
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[quote user="MochaMike"]A stereo three way horn system with a dual concentric 15" woofers backloaded to 50 cycles and front loaded with a short round tractrix horn 200-800 cycles handed off to the concentric 2" com...
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[quote user="anthony"]Have put all my DHT's on the curve tracer to see if pairs can be matched for preamp duties. [/quote] It was very interesting to read about all of it. If you have a socket for YO186 then you can accommodate all 4V tubes and I si...
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