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Yesterday a local audio guy came over and I played to him my Altec 19 in the finally cleared fireplace room. While he enjoyed his frumpy music I paid attention to how unintelligent sound was. I do not know if it was Altec 19 or the electronics that d...
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I think it was Wagner who first incorporated in his composition the concept of masking. He felt that during loud sounds people are losing ability to recognize the instrumental complexity. Later on during the stupid mp3 times or digital compression, o...
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Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...
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Deciding for horns is actually very easy. Why:1) in the common sense range for each horn/driver they have far LESS distortion than any standard dynamic driver covering the same bandwidth. I define distortion as frequencies not originally in the recor...
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Bud, excellent footnote, and just the sort of thing I always find out about the hard way! Still, the effing C hinge also "adjusts" according to R, while the shape of the curve changes as the L changes relative to the changing C...Sure, by all means ...
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I was playing last nigh something and feel that the Puncher although adds adds some pinch in dynamic but makes the sound quite unpleasant as well. I think it has a lot of to do with the fact the Puncher has built in compressor that extends picks but ...
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Ok, I do not know what it was: was it DHT, was it 300B, was it some other specifics of this given amp or whatever… but those two aspects that I named: intentional density of colors and randomness of pace are something that I would like to exercise in...
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Hi Romy, Hi Jeffrey Steve and I have been working on the bass compression driver for quite some time now, about 3 weeks ago we made some design changes that really paid off, as of now I'm convinced that a compression driver is...
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The wonderful Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 (the “Gran Partita”) for winds and double bass is as good as it could be, in fact it is the probably the most brilliant music ever was written for the instruments. I love it but I lately would like to have i...
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I give you an association: fat american with to much money and no brain sit in dreary shack by side of road trying to fill every desperate hour with something to give his life meaning. He listens to half ass designs and declares them great usin...
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[quote user="oxric"] I have always felt that if I went for a vertical array of 10" drivers, I would keep the drivers closer spaced than you do in your 'Dunlavy' made enclosure. Based on the 110" height of the tower, I see that you would be doing this...
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Romy, I'm very proud that you are following me and commenting my achievements.I just don't understand why you are doing it in a manner that you are the one and others are idiots and morons. If you don't understand others, you can ask them questions. ...
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I've been listening to my system tuned by Romy. So far, this is what I think is happening. I don't want look like a kid puffing up to look like an adult, so will try to be simple.The most noticeable difference is the increased dynamics an...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy rain all this weekend so have been listening to the Stahl-Tek and the MSB platinum III with 'signature' upgrades , MSB seems to float the sound ona cloud of coton candy, almost to the detriment of resolution , perhaps there i...
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Ending up re-amping my MF channel, I found myself at unexpected situation that I am not completely compostable with Macondo HF. It is not that the HF are bad but they were made to serve the interest of older, slightly softer operating single-stag...
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I think guessing what the hell they did with tweeters would make since if whatever they did sound right. Since Living Voice’s is not the company that has a lot of exposure in US I do not think I will ever hear those speakers. Even if they have US rep...
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A month or so ago I came to an occasion to fish a large isolation transformer. It is not that I believe in isolation transformers as all my former experiments with them delivered quite gruesome sonic result. However, since the APS people are still no...
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[quote user="KIS"]Your facts about Plasma Tweeters are incorrect. It is so far off that it is useless discussing it."I feel that that their Sound is very muck syntactic" ..."I feel the plasma tweeters take the sub-dynamic, deneuralized sound of elect...
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As many know I sine move in the new house do not have a fully functional Macondo and most of the time I listen Dunlavy with SS amp. Melquiades sit in there, collecting dust , waiting what it will be called to duty again. This weekend it was called an...
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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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Frankly speaking I kind of thankfully drifting away from observing what is going on in the industry and particularly in amplifiers. Since 1998-99 I was using explicitly Lamm amplifiers that were heads and shoulder more interesting then anything else ...
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Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Likely, the wider ribbons are less good for HF-only than a long, narrow ribbon, like the G3 and G3Si use. Across the board, the larger the ribbon gets (and the lower the ribbon is made to go), the worse ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] A technical understanding is necessary and I am always trying to learn more... [/quote]Jessie, you might at this point have worries/interests about technicalities of horns operation or a desire to find theoretical justifi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I feel that air-cap has own coloration. This “no resolution”, vacuum-clean HF dynamic is coloration itself as I do recognize this characteristic across all music that the corrector plays. The sound of the air-correc...
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As Amy moved in a few month back I inherited her Bose play station.
http://www.amazon.com/Bose-SoundDock-Series-30-Pin-Speaker/dp/B001DLTDQC/
This radio is a platform for iPad and active speaker. Since we have two home we now own ...
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[quote user="Ali Hassan"]
I give you an association: fat american with to much money and no brain sit in dreary shack by side of road trying to fill every desperate hour with something to give his life meaning. He listens to half ass designs ...
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[quote user="Stitch"] I wanted to do that, but they are so rare and I found nobody to visit. [/quote] Well, let me give you my version. I know ML2 quite well and I made a number of people to buy it, not soliciting them but rather demonstrating to t...
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I can’t stress now much I am fallen in love with my new PP2000. I was playing it today all day and can’t not see any single thing that I would bitch. I perhaps is missing too much the sound of proper electricity but my feeling is that the new uni...
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I have to admit that the live Zander’s Bruckner Fifth from the end of 2007 made me to re-think how I would like Macondo to sound. It is not that I recognized new Macondo’s “Hi-Fi problems”, whatever it has I am very comfortable with it, but I rather ...
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