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Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...
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After spending two weeks with high-passed Celestion SL-600 reinforced with external LF section I would like to make some observations. I had a single SL-600 monitor (I always tend to use one for assessment purpose) on it’s original stands in the very...
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Digital Crossovers are wonderful. They are wonderful because they might help to very easy to learn if you are not a Moron ™. I have covered this subject in the threads:
Dream Hi-Eff Speakers for an “inmate” and in Horns and digital crossovers.Still...
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It might not be necessarily the new wire. With analog there are other billion reasons why it might not sound as it should. Still, I personally can’t stay listening “new” wire with MC cartridges. If you recently futzed with the arm wire then you...
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[i]"because I
"foresaw" that it would take a personally-developed 5-way system with
dedicated amps not only to optimize this approach, but it would take
about that just to overcome what I did/do not like about horns"[/i]I tend to think it's more w...
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Wonderful horn, Chris. 160Hz is very-very interesting size for using S2 at it bottom knee for a lover mid-range channel. I when to 250Hz (I did not go lower because some my own reasons) but I think the 180Hz should the perfect frequency. With damping...
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Reading Paul’s reply I came across to asking myself of what we call painting. Let get for instance any famous works, let I be the early Dali’s portrait of his sister “Figure at Window”. What we call as the “Figure at Window”?
When we mention the “...
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Perhaps you are right. Buying out tubes from manufacture is a secure way to go. Still, I abandoned this practice in 2002 when Lamm sold me a pair of 12AX3 for his L2. When I got them one of the tubes was with paces of metal riddling inside. I figure ...
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Romy,
Your approach makes sense; I will look into fitting a "12.5 db voltage divider".
As I did not have any noise issues when using the same equipment with a variety of direct radiating speakers, I can only speculate as to what other informat...
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I constantly complain that the majority of audio people have corrupted listening culture. The last time I was bitching about it in the article “Remote control - the ultimate enemy.” However, the remote control is juts one of the tools of corruption. ...
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What a beauty of FM life in Boston! The WHRB ran a week-long (53 hours) Sir Edward Elgar Orgy and today, at the end of the programming they broadcasted a cycle of the Elgar’s own conducting of his own. What a grate dissent in time and into the ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
*********** From here, read carefuly because it is important ***********
The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioni...
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Romy the Cat wrote: Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdfI have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if...
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[quote user="scooter"] The old WCRB just signed off forever. . . let's see if the content moves forward in any meaningful way. Still a net loss to the region and the rare occasion in the US that a for-proft business was moved to a not-for profit ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdf[/quote] I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might v...
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Yep, if I do it then I will do it right: with a single driver, with full length, with proper mouth, with slow profile and if it had curve then it will be properly linearly expending curve, not with the resonant chambers or with steps. The problem...
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The Adrian’s quote about being stunned and disappointed can’t better express my view on the subject. I admit that I am driven by disappointed and in a way anger for the horrendous sound I got from my Koetsu Onyx Platinum. However, it was not a an...
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jd wrote :
"...I may have come up with a way of making the BIG horns fairly painlessly..."
Yes well, I really must give up the absinthe !Lbjefferies7 wrote :"...Not "end-of-life"in the sense that it will be built and then I...
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At CES there were Viagra-junkie sized power cords everywhere for $5000. Around our room were $10k and $20k speakers that sounded like a wet jukebox. It was the land of delusion.Value per topology is one way to measure but let's instead start with a p...
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[QUOTE]So what is high end audio, then? I know for some it is the quest for
the perfect soundstage, but let us exclude them for the moment. Rather,
is it a way for us to become more connected to the Sound? In a sense,
like a crutch for an invalid ...
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"To help him concentrate, Heisman often listened to a constant loop of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier,’’ which he felt synthesized the mind’s competing strains of emotion and reason…"
What he left behind: A 1,905-page suicide note
By...
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Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...
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[quote user="zanon"]My room is big … So how to measure it's size? Just write in floorplan of the entire house.[/quote]
I do not think that we need to measure room size but we need to understand the acoustic consequences of the room size and to...
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For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations. It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, I do not care one way or another and I truly have no “concern”. I have my drivers; I think I have some spare – so why would I care about new productions. [/quote]Romy, I am very pleased that you have your drivers. And...
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Stefano, and thanks for the opportunity to contribute money to something worthy.
It might sound like sarcasm but it is not. It today world is very difficult to find “people in original need” to donate our services or money. Do not forget that...
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It happened last night and it was beyond wonderful – it was extraordinary. Our local Boston Discovery Ensemble:
http://www.discoveryensemble.com/
….visited last night the WGBH’s Frazer Studio and played life some fragments from Be...
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[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...
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As with all our ventures in life, the measure of our success is in hindsight what would have I have done differently. Although it is fairly early days for me yet, at the moment, if I went back to the drawing board and had to start again, I would ...
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I had one for about a week and was not happy. Switched to a Kenwood KT1100.
Here an honest review that matches my experience. Bottom line is that on stuff this old, the individual buyer will determine the price, not the market.
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