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AlloOnly the cheapo Shure see-saw... perhaps I can improvise a balance to check the weight.I thought about the compliance business, as the HK diaphragms look like the surround embossing is narrower, which would make them less compliant (if they are a...
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[quote user="ayebee"] The horns that Stereo Lab make are very good, especially considering the relatively modest prices. I bought the "Ultra-Fi" version of the 140Hz horns and they are of course not completely free of resonance ….Present system consi...
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May I at least ass-u-me that you plan to high pass these horns? If so, go ahead and figure that in, too. In any case, just looking at 70', impedance is not the only number you'll be running up, and the last place you want this load is for LF chan...
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I do not understand from what you said the sorts of problems you are dealing with. What are you using as high and low-pass X/Os. Where and how you cross the drivers can make huge differences in the sound. Also, how did you throttle back Macando to ma...
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Public - now that is broad. The Public wants easy; not perfect. I would offer a simple two way: 12" paper cones LF with first order low pass [not a horn]. Iwata or Yuichi radial hyperbolic [MF & HF] horn above with first order medium-high ...
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Yes, tapped horns are lower efficiency, mine are 105 dB (not 108 - 110 dB like the rest of the system). I don't even KNOW that SET or Class A is automatically appropriate for tapped horns... Something like op amp driven PP in class AB might even wo...
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Paul I have to admit being wrong about "BUdification" (enabl doted Lowther) process . I don't have explanation besides lenghty "brake -in " time but I would not bet on that. It may be a show stopper for you but I also admit liking them better in fron...
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Nice job of keeping R off the ribbon. Like you said, who cares about circuit "damping" there, anyway, given the freaking magnet in that thing versus the 0 weight of the ribbon. I'd say it's "damped enough"...It will be interesting to...
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Amir, it is funny to hear that you like $4,600 Purist but would prefer $10 Belkin SPDIF. The Synapse is basically an effective low pass filter, albeit this seems to help many systems. Like I said up the thread, I have not concerned myself with SPDIF...
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Gera, are you catapulted from another planet? Are you sure that you want to drive a mid horn with Rowland amp? What kind 6dB high-pass filter used RC network? Why digital filter had an obvious advantage in the attack and dynamics? What does it mean “...
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i have vitavox S2 and also altec 288c.i am trying to source the fane studio 8m,just missed a pair by 1 day on uk diy.until i get the fane and make a horn for it,i will use altec 515c in vot.i also have jbl 2405.yes i will definitely build the full ra...
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I have already got a tape recorder and now here is what I am thinking. Since there are quite a few tapes with Dolby A, Dolby B, Dolby c, Dolby S, Dolby SR, DBX and since some of the tapes were not properly EQ I would need an abili...
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No, I have not pushed it hard at all: I am just trying to understand it in the mean before I look at the extremes. Though 100db sensitive, the SH50 is designed to handle 1000W or some such absurd power, so it is surprising that it works so well. It i...
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I have the CD but didn't get a chance to listen to the B9 effects you mentioned yet, but all the 515Bs and 15" Vitavox I have heard were in larger vented boxes. I think of the dryness you told of as part of pushing a paper driver down in a sealed box...
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Hey Rom etal.I'm entering into unknown and difficult to intuit territory for me.I aquired a pair of very large constant dirrectivity horns EV hr9040 a, a little while ago and i now have a pair of jbl 2420's to power em. I haven't put them to gether, ...
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Romy, I suspect that 200 Hz high-pass will be too low for that driver, even 2nd order, and almost certainly with just 6 dB roll-off. I think more like 500 Hz with 1st order, and might still require the coil.Yellow-type drivers take on and ...
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So what's wrong with the 6SN7, apart from the high prices fetched by good ones? If building a 2A3 amp for personal use, it seems a likely choice. I do not know the 6E5P, but I do love the tone of the 6SN7, and I especially like it driving...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I did not expected that the main impediments in the super Milq project will be the organization (sound) of the filters, particularly the high-pass filters. [/quote] After some experiments it looks like the input stage of t...
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The best midrange comes from compression drivers, it has that minuteness, transparency and dynamics that no other topology can offer; the main problem with them is that they only cover a very specific mid frequency ran...
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Romy, you have said part of the Magic is the interaction between the Red and the Scanspeak "passive radiator". Could it be that reducing LF to the Red would decrease the "potency" of the intraction between the Red and current passive driver? If yes, ...
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I confess that at one point I tried PM6As in 2.5 cu. ft. vented boxes. Lousy, tipped-up balance and soggy, one-note "bass", contrary to the designer's claims. The only thing good about it was that the box did not add c...
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Nope, sorry, it does not make any sense for me. The use of Rowland amp I guess is fine if it being use for testing of the filters. Still if you use high-pass for your midrange horn then what resistor does in your RC filter? A first order filter, rega...
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I was thinking about the subject for a long time. People in audio love to make generalization, so do I, but in it is not so simple. People attribute to output tubes some “special” qualities but I more interested not about unnecessary drooling about A...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]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 stuff and concluded with ve...
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Well, spent a few more hours to listening Avicenna. Although it has much better sound then from the wall but there are a lot of moments in this sound that I do not like. It is kind of freakish and demoralizing as Avicenna feeds system with absolutely...
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[quote user="Canuck"]Romy Have you ever tried a PUREPOWER device feeding something like the Torus RM20 which has a huge transformer and then out to the components? The Torus stores a lot of energy in those huge transformers. Do you feel this ...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]A mid-bass horn for my Altec 515-8G drivers operating from 100-600hz [/quote]
Rony, I think your wish to have mid-bass horn with 515G is a bit faulty. A mid-bass horn for 515G shall be 50-600 Hz. Let me to explain. T...
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Hi Cat,
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I used my typical “flash” techniques and discovered some leeks in that 50 years old enclosure. Sure it the leaks were there then it would be no “acoustic suspensions” and the driver would run further. So, fixed the...
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[quote user="drdna"] I am kind of disappointed, since you typically advocate a very careful and systematic way of proceeding. What do you mean by extremely different positive?[/quote]Well, I it what it is. I am not DIY-Moron and I do not do und...
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[quote user="floobydust"]Okay, I think I understand.... and thanks for the link on the YO-186... if I can ever locate some of these I'll be sure to grab some (hmmm, a trip to Russia perhaps). As tubes get very hot internally, there were some procedur...
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