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[quote user="tuga"]Our milage varies and in my case it's still quite short.In any case, I would place glare on top of my list of appalling qualities of modern high-end loudspeakers.This glare (unlike clarity) results from an exaggerated high frequenc...
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[quote user="anthony"]I also have another SS pre just arrived with has been measurebated into existence with measured spec's difficult to confirm with the best measuring equipment getting about.[/quote]I've been listening to the new buffer with imd/t...
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There seems to be a lack of useful feedback on the actual sound quality of these oddball, relatively rare TAD mids. So I think it would be helpful to share some basic observations I gather after listening to them for a couple of days. I install these...
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[quote user="steverino"]I am no expert on digital although I certainly read a lot on DSD and DVD-A back in the day. However, once you use the standard D/A chip as lampizator acknowledges, you are at the point of a tweaker for the rest. It is like a s...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I figure out that it is time and put some acoustic treatment on the walls and at some spot of ceiling. The 2” pyramids in white, 24” by 24” look very nice; in fact they almost work like abstract yuppie-ornamentation po...
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Bill, when you were at my place I use two PP2000 running together as at that time I did not discover the effect. I was running my MF at -2dB and my tweeter at -1.5dB. As now I use one unit and I return back my MF and HF channels to the level as they ...
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[quote user="cv"]This is but one reason why I'm asking Martin Seddon to make me a pair of 160Hz horns...[/quote]Another problem….
Chris, be carefully with those large 160Hz horn and S2. The guys who make then have no instruments to center the mounti...
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I had today a long listening session. I listened a whole Mahler Second and I can tell you that I was the best upperbass I ever heard from a playback. I am not kidding. The upperbass literally despaired in the new room but what it is being called up...
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[quote user="Paul S"] It is stupid, of course, but still we persist in comparing "live" and "reproduced" sound. But NO ONE EVER confuses video with life… [/quote] I disagree with this statement. I would argue that it “in a way” reversed. I said “in ...
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[quote user="tuga"]
Resolution Audio Opus 21 iXS
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This RA looks like a step in the right direction.
You can keep the noisy HD database in a diferent roon, with mouse, keyboard and display and connect it with a optic cable (noise filteri...
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1) Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You do not use then in critica...
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Well, the conflict you pointed might sound reasonable but not completely.
The First quote is taken from a thread “Disregard Digital with Vacuum Tube
output”. In there I advocated do not look into D/A converters with tube output stages.
In was in 2...
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Well, maybe a little cussing first to set the tone. The older SPU's are now well sought after, many will end up in collections at now over inflated prices probably in the Far-East where they are worshipped. I've heard a few older SPU's and even those...
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Resolution Audio Opus 21 iXS
[quote]We went over to listen and Jon Iverson noticed the source read "iTunes." "Is that a music server too?"
"No, it's a streaming component, the iXS ($2500) that allows you to access your computer's music library ...
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That is the source of my constant bitching for years: what the CD players do not read the dist with WAV. If you have a raw 16/44 file that still might sound OK then burring the file on CD kills everything. So, why do not make the CD players and trans...
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OK, folks, here are the subject that bothers me for years and if you have not an opinion but knowledge about the subject then, please, share your view and experience. My interest is: how to slice and merge digital files. I have a large file, let say ...
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Hi Paul,The net gauge for one cable of the 140 strands of #40 stuff is #15 AWG, as far as circular mils of area vs current induced heating goes. The surface area is some 13 times that of a solid #15 gauge copper wire. A minimum of 10 times the surfac...
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I'm right there with you, temporarily installed in the middle of a Bagdad intersection.So, one day not too long ago I slipped out during lunch and picked up a pair of decent, closed-back, full-size, fairly antisocial looking headphones (ATH M-50s) an...
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Amir, what you have written is not a philosophy, it is not a path that guides decisions, not a document what gives others insight into what music does to you and why. I have been following your posting, and to be honest, it sounds more like an audio...
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What I find interesting though, Romy, is that many of the SET measurements show gross distortion even when putting out very low power, which suggests that they are saturated from the high static DC current running through them as they must for a Clas...
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[quote user="manisandher"] Have you tried this yet? If so, in percentage terms, how close do you think the digitized signal is to the original analog signal? (This is something that I'm hoping to try myself at some point, but I don't have a good ...
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Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law… From another side you still have live orchestra? Some opera houses in NY are practicing now to stage opera production with recorded orchestra sound.
Su...
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[quote user="Axel"]is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight sp...
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In fact, digital recording allows the industry to process easily every musical material (a very powerful exchange-tool). Unfortunately, digital recordings are also highly corruptible in the musical-expresive potential as you point...
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[quote user="Kcct82"]I didn't use John Hasquin's tapped horn design, I modeled my own in hornresp for my TAD woofer. I knew I would only need it up to ~55Hz so I was happy to have it flat from 23Hz-70Hz. The lowest crossover point for Behringer DCX 2...
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[quote user="steverino"]The real issue is that there is no reliable repair center where statistics could be gathered on the various problems and their resolution. Romy at least can send his units back if a problem develops and PP will actually try to...
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[quote user="Macman"]Hi Romy,Its an Altec 416-8A driver in a ~100 Hz exponential horn, Jbl 2441 in 350Hz tractix, Aurum Cantus G1 tweeter and Eminence Definimax 4012 HO in ~30Hz Tapped horn.I just hooked it up and the highs are promising but I though...
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Hi Romy, 'tis been awhile, but my friend Neil alerted me to this discussion, and thought I might contribute to it. While this segment of my TAD 'Whitepaper' deals with only the bugscreen, there are many other …" evolved results…" that, to my ear, and...
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Paul McGowan, the head of PS Audio send his newsletter with his comments about SACD. The comments are childish and in many way absolutely ignorant. I hate what the industry professionals twist the facts and go into pure falsification in order to ...
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[quote user="steverino"]FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP. The compression aspect is only really intrusive on orchestral works. Pop and jazz are already compressed and chamber music presents a more limited dynamic range if not limited contrast. B...
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