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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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I don't know the full story of how loudspeakers went from field coils to permanent magnets. I believe that ultimately it was dictated by the price and availability of Alnico. Eventually Alnico became cheap enough to make similar or higher strength ma...
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Thanks, Be, for a correction but the fun part is no one acknowledged your blander. The Goto drivers I think are exotic terra incognito for most people and I think it is how Goto Company is willing to keep it. No one talk about nuts and bolt of Goto c...
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I pulled these images from a Japanese 2nd hand store. I understand that Goto used to work at YL so I thought these images might go with Johan's description about the insides.
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Wow, price inflation in TTs were a lot worse than I thought! (more than 400% in nominal prices in the example of Goldmund).
You are right, the prices in audio seem a riddle wrapped in a mystery within an enigma. As a manufacturer, it is almost...
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There is a pair of Goto SG146 drivers at Japanese Yahoo:
http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f105296325
….use a translation language of your chose to translate it to the language of your choose. They are Goto bass drives ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]One of the emails that I receive is very interesting. The author warns: “...when experimenting with throaths I found that if the compression is big, near 2 or higher you get some big, smooth, unfocused aqualung sound. You...
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So, two almost two years later and this contraption is still in my room and "ain´t goin nowhere" :-)Guys, I became obsessed with horn speakers and specially with Onkyo product so I would like to share with you my latest experiences.The speakers I tal...
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[quote user="eduardo"]
YL 75000 has heavy phase plug indeed , rca style (see sketch) while 1250 ( I never had one) gets a fixed metal dome equivalent to spherical piece on 75000 and rca plugs without conical shape pointing the exit of throat. Ir...
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[quote user="Paul S"]No "cost assumption" was made or posited about bearings, rather the remark was framed as a question, just wondering, likewise the very general remarks about belts (along with the closing disclaimer). If the air system is cheap, ...
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Hm, I am not familiar with Starker’s take on Schelomo. I have his Jewish sketches with some Japanese pianist. Well, whoever he did worth having… BTW, have you seen Rostropovich playing Schelomo:
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Over the course of the past year I was very slowly experimenting to the sound of my headphone amp. I know much more about it sound then I knew last year and I learned a lot more how to get “different” sound from it. The more amps ages and the more I ...
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Well, like in anything else there are two sides of the medal. I did not deal a lot with 3009. It is a fine arm. The very short time when I had the arm it impressed me as an arm identical to 3012 but with less developed bass. I did not get any s...
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What I find interesting is that none of the Japanese store that sell cartridges for domestic marker sell the Shelter 90X. Who knows, perhaps the 90X is the big conspiracy between Shelter and US importers who decided to capitalize on the success of Sh...
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Hi
Maybe you should rent the apartment over you? Nice place for sub horns,
with opening in the ceiling like our japanese friends do ;)
I am planning subhorns with floor-to-ceiling mouths in each corner of the front wall of my listening room, w...
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[quote user="drdna"] Would you then suggest that this approach demands the DSET approach to succeed? [/quote]
The DSET resolves all problems with SET amplification; it is not surprise that Sakuma went there. BTW, my familiarity with Sakuma’s DSET wa...
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YL 75000 has heavy phase plug indeed , rca style (see sketch) while 1250 ( I never had one) gets a fixed metal dome equivalent to spherical piece on 75000 and rca plugs without conical shape pointing the exit of throat. Ironi...
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I always felt that my demands for quality of Audio Sound might be to degree be moderated by conducting efforts. The true enigma for me is this aspect is John Barbirolli. Barbirolli is one of my the most admired conductors of mine and he is one ve...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, for sure no one deny to Berlin Philharmonic rights to
make money. The boxes now cost $500 and I am sure that in 10 years Japanese
will be selling it on eBay for $10.000.
Anyhow, I do not buy these records but I a...
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The recent events in my playback made me to think about he new prospective duty of tweeters. Since the Super Melquiades was enlisted for duty the Vitavox S2 got it’s own dedicated amplifier channel and stopped to “see” the coil of upper bass driver. ...
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It was reported, and I do not know how accurate it is, that Silbatone did not use WE driver but used a Japanese replica by GIP.
http://www.gip-laboratory.com/
http://www.amtrans.co.jp/audio/gip/lineup.shtml
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[quote user="de charlus"]Ok, understood, at least somewhat. Are you suggesting that the S2 operates at the frequencies between 1000hz and 3.6khz? I am not insisting upon using the driver at the frequencies that I was initially suggesting; far fro...
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The headphone amplifiers are mystery for me. Form one perspective it should be simple but from another perspective I never heard any interestingly performing headphones amplifiers. Well, I have to take it back probably as wherever I even heard differ...
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Writing a yesterday about Korean Silbatone Acoustics:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=15405
…I was thinking about a relationship between a nation cuisine and nation high-end sound. I do not know if it pos...
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It is nice to see the de-centresation of audio manufacturing. Formerly US, UK, Germany, France, a few Scandinavians and off the wall Japanese were making high-end audio. Today the lead positions in interesting high-end audio have moved to Poland...
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[quote user="Paul S"]OK, Romy, that EnABL stuff got my attention!I can't recall all of the bad ideas borne of good research, but this EnABL thing sounds a little fishy, and certainly it sounds too good to be true, as existing in a simple and really u...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner…...
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Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Nevertheless, if that bass was truncated between the stages then the devastations are way more severe. [/quote]That may be so, however an LF response of less than -0.1db down @ 10Hz is what is normally called "ruler f...
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Recently, I would say the last 2-3 years, I detected a very foolish tendency that audio people are brewing within themselves. A typical today’s audiofool holds within itself a hope about existing of a “secret”, no discovered yet, SS high power amplif...
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[quote user="angeloitacare"] Of course, Avantgarde with their price tag never will be for mass consumption. I offered Holger then to see If I could commercialize his horns in japan, Do u know how much was the dealer price for a pair of trios at that ...
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In reference to the two (or three) prototypes, the base design contains one (1) driver, a second proposal to the base design uses two (2) drivers (using almost the same exact enclosure--an increase of volume/area in the chamber containing the two [2]...
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