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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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I was sitting in the pub a few years ago and overheard a conversation between two audio engineers. They had been drinking for a few hours and had reached the point of grand challenges & wagers."I can assemble a music reproduction&n...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I have just listened to it - you are right - very very good. I will send you a recording Asahina made of the 5th in 1960. I think you will enjoy it very much as well. .... dare I say it is even better t...
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[quote user="drdna"] It might also be instructive to have Joe visit Boston and listen to Romy's system, but I bet he would not go either. [/quote]
Probably, it would be instructive but I really do not want it to be as some kind of competition betwe...
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I am in academics. In this world it is no challenge to find people who want to tell me that they are right and everybody else is wrong.The problem with any scholar stuck in his/her theoretical bubble is that there is no room for that person to change...
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Cat...your ability to look at a picture and diagnoseminutae of sound and even the character of the system owner is impressive.As you know from previous discussions, I am a fan of direct experience as a discovery procedure over intellectual manipu...
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While I would agree that modern construction should be much more robust than that of 5-6 decades ago, actual machining and manufacturing costs today are significantly higher than they were back then and there is much less of it going on. Look a...
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The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wouldn't call it an "open baf...
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[quote user="haralanov"] Now back to the topic. Most of the WE drivers are full of compromises but unfortunately no one speak about it. People just create hype about them, but they do not recognize what is wrong with their sound, and because of t...
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[quote]I do not know certainly
how the Western Electric L-9 was made but I think it is not sealed
enclosures. Some of the drivers of the period used the semi-transparent
cloth enclosures that you, Joe, might recognized as sealed.[/quote]The L-9...
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Wait...are you saying that FOUR people who have been to Camerata wrote you offline (within two days!) and they neglected to enter into this relevant discussion?Strange! H'mmm? If I were the guy mentioned above, I would have been in here screa...
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Perrew,
I would take RL filtration ageist C filtration any time and under any circumstance. If you look at the circuit of 600R LCR classic Tango filter
http://www.vinylsavor.de/lcreq.gif
…then you will see that the serial capacitance al...
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I like to stress a point that the mammals that write thier doodles for audio publication are not juts ignorant fools but also the cheap, low class, falseificators. No wonder that the audio manufacturing companies do employ the so-called reviewers as ...
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A few years ago playing with my favorite Vitavox S2 driver I was asking myself how it might sound if instead of the Alnico magnet the electromagnets would be used. As many other driver of the period the Vitavox did not utilized the only one magnet ty...
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Paul,
The idea of the not threaded forum is good that it is always there is opportunity to go back to all there and update own views, or to extend them. In many moths/years when the ML2 stop be a novelty for you, you might return to this thered and ...
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The Valve Technology Milestone Timeline Courtesy to the National Valve Museum
1640
The first vacuum. Otto von Guericke's air pump
1643
The barometer first demonstrated by Evangelista Torricelli
1654
Magdeberg Hemispheres a d...
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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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[quote user="Kcct82"] Hey guys, I bought the Goto 505TT with S150 horn brand new over 2 years ago. Guess what? I'd still be in sonic shit if I followed the 200-1000hz "recommendation". The 505TT does not perform well below 400hz and when I final...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.[/quote]Oh, sure, Mike is perfectly sincere and this is BTW might be ...
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Go today two emails from the site readers with two links to the CES comments.
First one is from Jeffrey Jackson who looks like was recruited by Joe the Uninvolved Archeologist with the room:
http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/01/ces-...
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Gera, if you would
like to incorporate the Western Electric 13a with 555 then you need to make a decision
how low you will drive it. You chose the 120Hz but it might
not be useable frequency, it might be much higher in order to get “better”
sound...
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Hi Roman and thanks for your interest in my journey and first-hand impressions... I'm back after about a three weeks long Japan (mostly audio related) trip.
I'm still digesting the several systems I listened to, so a bit overdosed and not really w...
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I think it is a simple case of different strokes for different folks.
Drdna writes about communicating the essence of sound - I write about the essence of music. He writes about wondering what Coltrane was thinking. I write about hearing him looki...
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Stefano, welcome to the club, not the GoodSoundClub but the club of understanding of what is going on.
The subject of drivers in Tailored Audio™ is complicated and one of the biggest problems in this complicity is to defeat the attitude of judgment ...
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- I did whatever I could, I whispered to him the most seducing, but he refused it.- Whatever you whispered to him I know, - replied Voland, – but it was not the most seducing. However, I would say to you, - smiling he referred to Mas...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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It looks like a new horn maker wanted to be know: the Eleven Horns
http://www.elevenhorns.com/welcome.htm
"... so.. what is a junkie? well, I guess an example is the best way to explain... between the two of us, we own a few dr...
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Joe, I do appreciate that that invitation is open-ended and I might take advantage of it sometimes. Frankly I do not feel any specific temptations that I need to “drop everything” and to run to another side of the globe to audition the Silbatone. The...
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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 user="scooter"] Getting reasonable sound would be an entirely different beast, however...[/quote]
This is very much true and even it is an audio centric-site I kind of was avoiding this direction as I would like to keep the thread in m...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.
The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be abou...
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