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"with only disadvantage in sensitively department" That's quite a big disadvantage from where I look at it.The way you describe the speakers with all of your other amplifiers seems to match how I recall them sounding. I cannot imagine how...
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What you say may be true. I'm not sure there was an amplifier available in the mid to late 1980's that would have been suitable for these. They did get good reviews but I suspect that some of this was due to awe inspired by the technical achieve...
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Hi Romy,My experiences with the SL6 and SL600 date back 15-20 years. My problems with the sound I could get from them related to their inability to recreate music with scale or drama. I found the subjective lack of high frequency output made every re...
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Hi Romy,How would such a time delay manifest itself in the resulting sound? Have you had the opportunity to listen to such an attempted system? Would the benefits of having a hornloaded AK151 not outweigh this or would it just sound too wrong to...
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I would, of course, be more forthright when discussing what I felt were the plus or minus points of a friends system. They would be familiar with the system I have, the sound I like etc. I would know that my comments would have no effect on our ...
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I think I get what you are saying. There have been many occasions where I've bitten my tongue when presented with someone's precious and expensive cacophony of noise. I often take a small pleasure in telling them that it's either incredible or u...
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In fact, a battle of ego which leads nowhere rather than an educational exchange of views which leads somewhaere. Very often a comment engenders an emotional reaction -- rather than a (rational) discussion.The latter (discussion) could result in a us...
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Hi Romy,Wouldn't the Audax PRO170 be a suitable driver to try or do you think it has too many weaknesses? I realise Audax are no longer operating but there must be thousands of these drivers out there. I always quite liked what it could do even if it...
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From the Macondo to the Celestion SL600 !I cannot think of two speakers that could be more different in terms of design philosophy and (I imagine) the presentation of music.If you can get any noise out of the SL600's I'll be interested to hear what y...
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I have a preference for making the power supply a certain way and using certain types of components. If I do that and am consistent about it, I can get better results from some of those old tubes than I can from the more recent types. But hearing one...
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I'm sure there are many bad implementations of the 845 and 211. Almost all of the commercially available ones are pretty mediocre. However I have heard good examples of both so I know it can be done. I've yet to hear an impressive 6C33 amp so it...
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...because I do listen to rock, jazz & blues. Indeed, this is ~25% of my music content.
deemon wrote:
Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
“Better Audio” is an active filter that incentives a listener with his/her listening experience producing “better music” (more content-loaded) in a more “consumable way” and the worst music in a less attractive wa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Well, Gregm, obviously you should not take me too literally when I mention the “fallen Chinese satellites”, I slightly dramatized what was sod to me, making it more absurd, but did I?
Rgs,Romy the Cat[/quote] And I did ...
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But I wouldn't rule out playing rock on a system that offer fidelity to the music in classical repertory. However, back to the reproduction "system".The expression Romy used of "musical content" is interesting. I use the expression musical ...
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"ASR do not use the regular ICs but the ICs that they removed form the demilitarized Russian nuclear missiles console and fallen Chinese satellites" :) ...which means that they use cheap, used ICs. So, the dealer has a better margin & can di...
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I am somewhat familiar with the dact: I used it in non controlled manner but familiar environment; it was assembled by someone else who also provided the necessary power supply; it was in two chassis about 15x15x~30 cm each (one for ps), so the equal...
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Romy,If making a Tractrix Horn to cover between 100Hz & 1000Hz do you have to choose an Fc or mouth size that equates to 50 Hz? I've often read, and don't know if its true, that tractrix horns actually need to have their Fc an octave lower t...
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Romy, Did you ever listen to a Class A amp made by Andy Rapapport which later became the Octave Research OR1? I never opened one up to look but I remember someone telling me (possibly salesman BS, I can't remember) about how much attention was paid i...
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I would agree with you that Lamm's system of naming his products wouldn't appear to be helpful to anyone. They are all too alike. When I was involved in that side of the business, I would always have preferred to use names rather than numbers, ...
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If you are a manufacturer with a range of products you have to export and sell to distributors all over the world (many of whom don't speak english), it is far easier to give your products numbers rather than names. It is also far easier for those di...
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..."jaw dropping" as the audio moron (TM) would say.Admittedly, a totally new musical experience -- and unexpected, despite Romy's descriptions.Despite the less than ideal surroundings (3yr old playing in the room, average spl level, etc) I was ...
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Scott asks:"Why would it be so interesting to have Clark's personal take on the matter? "Only because it's less uninteresting (if you will) than the opinion of Mr T he quoted. I have virtual acquaintance with Clark and not with T.And of course, ...
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rather than quote part of what Mr Tommassini (no doubt an excellent man) wrote in a journal, it would be interesting to have your personal take on the matter (of "reality" as it were)...Is it that the pianist in Ms Rice, being now a Minister, will be...
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...but thanks anyhow. I remember listening to a performance by Mengelberg (during war II -- '41?/ German orch) which struck me as being very intense & powerful -- BUT that's from memory, so it may just be that I was differently impressi...
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Thank you for the tips, Romy. "...Tchaikovsky with any sentimentalism or without any hysteria?where else you have heard Tchaikovsky with any sentimentalism or without any hysteria?"Actually I'll be looking forward to that (after Mravinski, Rozhdestve...
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...I'll have a chance to listen to Tchai-6 & Mozart. Never knew there was so much Golovanov available (OK, it;s not really that much -- but more than one Mussorgski I had). Now all I need is money to buy and availability of the titles...
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"...what would you do with this driver." Please don't anyone take my silly joke at face value. It's fine for what it is (they sell to radio stations & the like) -- bad for what it isn't (indespensable atop yr spkr; improvement for yr cell ph...
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Two basic premises:A) The concept we all operate on is: a chain of components connected between one another that pick up info from a medium, transform the info into ac and amplify that info; then, we attach speakers to the last of thes...
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I had to dismantle a friends chuffing PM6A drivers the other day (only to find that the foam spider had disintegrated after 5 years, nice work Lowther) What was interesting, possibly, was the coating that Lowther seem to be applying to the voice coil...
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