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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I know at least 3-4 other people who very much like me bough in the Koetsu hype and bought the top of the line Koetsu needles. All of them hate it. The point that I try to make is that if the vintage Koetsu were so good th...
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...sorry Paul. The ref to the M4 (alc) puts things into better perspective. However, please note that in numbers it's about ½ the size of a cd. This means that there is only ½ as much information ref the music being stored. Maybe Mr Philips wishes to...
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I am not sure I grasped the main question -- I am myself challenged -- but to the following is impossible: [quote]if, as the reviewer says, there is no drop in quality from redbook CD, (...) the files in question are MP3...[/quote]Your reviewer is au...
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[quote]there are many other artists who feel their music would be better served by a more dynamic record[/quote]You put it politely -- diplomatically.It seems more likely that artists (& companies) feel that louder sells better. So Amplitude &...
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[quote user="be"]Gregm, you wrote: "Yet, the best result -- i.e. most homogeneous sonically -- came from the thinner wires in interconnects."Did you use silver wire for your comparison?[/quote]I used copper in my example above. Later on, I received r...
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[quote user="be"]I recognise your observations about the Ag vs. Cu sound, but instead of mixing the two materials I think it is better to change the diameter.I experienced 0.5 mm silver wire to be too thin soundvice, have you tried 1.0 mm or even mor...
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...Why not also try a paralleled "solid-core" (single wire per leg) cable. You can twist the paralleled wires if you wish. Proceed carefully, using about 1-1 ½" between the wires. Try silver on the return first...Just as an experiment; as you note, y...
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[quote]“The
Tenors bring a remarkable top-to-bottom continuity, which I've often
called the Kharma effect (the speaker, not the moral law of cause and
effect)...[/quote] This is intriguing. All of the Kharmas I've listened to have displayed contin...
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Paul -- I used 1st order & bandpass on the Beyma. I think that 2nd on the Lowther would have been better.I set out to try and extend one "way" from the end of a wide-range drive unit, downwards. This I found to be well nigh impossible -- perhaps ...
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and not very encouraging. The set up was as follows: a Lowther ex4 playing from ~12k down in a big ~100Hz tratrix. A Murata up on top, and a 15" Beyma on the bottom. The Beyma is in an Onken so the results may not be fully indicative of performance i...
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...we'll have to compromise somewhere. So, since it isn't the spkr's range, then it must be the amplifier. Forget the ML's 18W. We must have ~38-40, so let's say our machine is using a 45 / 211 / 610 /g70 type of tube.Also I don't suggest we conclude...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Greg, I have written about my "DEBZ" speakers several times at this site, [/quote]D. Olsher's Basszilla -- of course! Sorry, Paul, I forgot.[quote user="Paul S"]If I were to do the DEBZ concept right now, I would tune the BR...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...it is difficult to design an objectionably performing powerful full-range SET without considering speaker, particularly the moment of LF section damping. It is not always the case the MF, HF and LF would require the same...
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It doesn't seem prudent to look at the speaker without considering the amplifier at all. We would be designing a speaker that would work with a theoretical amp -- but not one that's available.I propose the following:Characteristics of many commercial...
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[quote user="miab"]I'm curious as to why the preference to paper cones as opposed to carbon/poly/kevlar/ceramic/.... With weight and stiffness advantages of other materials, would advancing technology not be well implemented towards drivers? [/quote]...
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...Eliette v K? I couldn't find online info on it, but I'm sure it's been published....
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[quote user="drdna"]Is it possible that a simple experiment can be done with cassette players and the Dolby filter since this equalization affects compression for example? Adrian[/quote]If you are referring to the "soundstage" quality of such playbac...
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As most of us know, the answer to Sherlock's pointer is, the dog did nothing in the night-time -- and that was the curious incident. [quote user="morricab"] Romy sez: "I see things differently. My view advocates that playback creates NEW Sound from s...
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[quote user="morricab"]It is a good question that I also asked when I saw this speaker. Afterall, everything being equal using the same materials for the drivers is more optimal from a coloration standpoint. My guess is cost. Personally, ...
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What I find irksome is exactly this: [quote]Hi-Fi
companies and Hi-Fi marketing are lost touch with the nature of sound
reproduction and so deep in disassociation with the means of Real Audio
that they are forced to pull out of ...
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...For only $ 25k: http://polymeraudio.com/index.html It is sold under the name Polymer Audio and these people also sell amplifiers called "DK design"I haven't listened to this product & am referring here to the unusual ...
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[quote user="Merlin"]If there's one thing I hate about internet forums it's people postulating about sounic characteristics and possible failing in equipment they have never heard.[/quote]Quite so. However, the approach here is simply to ask -- it do...
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I.e. seek "louder" as if they wear permanent ear-plugs[quote user="guy sergeant"]The record companies demand that sound engineers make the recordings so that the band sounds as loud (noticeable) as possible when played on the radio. Music recorded in...
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Chris, I'm not Romy but I've listened to some of their products -- about which I'll talk later. First:[quote user="dazzdax"]Hi Roman, FM Acoustics amplifiers from Switserland have been regarded by many audiophiles (mostly the ones with lots of money)...
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...MQWT topology?(matchstick quarter-wavelength tube)...
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Mind boggling iteration! I.e. & eliminating common denominators, "If the sound is wrong... it is wrong."Agreed. IMO they are right -- ain't no two ways about it.[quote]The Cybernetic Audio System, on the other hand, uses a closed-loop feedba...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I had today a conversation with RAAL’s Alex and he pinched to me a very interesting idea. He feels that I attenuate the outpit of my “Water Drop” too much. I have no doubts that I attenuate it as much as necessary and Alex ...
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[quote user="Dominic"]I'm liking lately the idea of getting a chinese 845 based SET off ebay. Point to point(less fiddly modification), there's a choke coupled one available now, umm, 10 or so watts for under a thousand dollars, you know that sort of...
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Speculating again.Maybe they have an extra driver firing downward that's invisible in the pictures? ...
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Romy notesQ[quote]
It uses at the buttom a regular sealed or ported box and the driver as direct radiator but they also put the speaker on the spikes and made the bottom looks like it is a horn output. Also at this larger model[/quote]On the smalle...
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