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As good as my ULF turned out to be but purely conceptually it is not an ultimate proper playback solution. I have midbass horns runs down to 42Hz and ULF kicks in at 25Hz with 3rg order. In reality does to the geometry of my room and the fact the dis...
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[quote user="Paul S"]In the Christmas Spirit, a couple of notes in passing:1) These units might need a LOT of power to make ULF in those cases...B) "Conventions in Vegas" re: pro speakers = "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" re: used cars.[/quote] What...
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[quote user="Djjjj"]Thanks a lot, rowuk.I do read the Macondo axioms again when I got your suggestion. We never think our system is a perfect one, we will and must do our best to improve our system and correct flaws.Hope to keep in touch and get more...
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If you try/find an acceptable active MC step-up, please share your experience. I think the (stupid) Boulder op amp is the only one I've heard so far that does not sound severely "compressed" to me, and it really pisses me off that I have n...
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Just to share with you with my ideas about the Scepter 500 clones. I´m not sure if I will use the w3801 bass drivers. I felt in love with Altec 416 and quite frankly I very much doubt that Onkyo would sound better or equally good. It surely doesn´t s...
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Josh, I admit I pretty much ass-u-me things sound bad until proven otherwise, because that's how it's gone for the 55 years or so I've been at this. Still, these are just the sorts of speakers I'd go out of my way to hear, given 1/2 a chance. Ironi...
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Romy,Did you ever experiment with DML or BMR type drivers for ambience channels?https://www.tectonicaudiolabs.com/audio-components/bmr-speakers/https://uk.kef.com/products/t101-satellite-speakersThere is something quite wonderful about how they work ...
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Yes, it's been that way for me, too, for years, now; "solutions" are no longer considered good enough if they yield only intermittant Musical satisfaction, or if getting and keeping things optimal for each session takes "too much" time and effort. Li...
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Romy, since you put it just like this, yes, this is EXACTLY how my wife sees it, that I am just sitting there for hours on end, parked motionless in front of speakers that make a lot of noise throughout the whole house, and all the while I act "as if...
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The thought of an arrary of images well forward of the speakers is troubling, but - other factors being equal - I love it when I get +/- that sort of thing behind the speakers along with sound energy from the "performance" th...
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My own experiments along these lines suggest that relative motion of the driver itself is a factor, along with attendent augmentation and/or cancellation of certain frequencies, depending on whether the frequencies and/or resonances in question are u...
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I remember the old Decca cartridges as quite maddening, a real love/hate connundrum. Unrivaled, totally addictive "immediacy", and dynamics that made anything else sound muffled and plain wrong, but also about as user-unfriendly and unrel...
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A while back I saw a movie about a couple of scientists who were commisioned by a large pharmaceutical company to find medicinal plants in the Amazon rain forest. A native Shaman demonstrated a very threatened plant with amazing curitive powers...
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Romy, this is a classic case of our "memories" telling us something that our ears refute. Here, you are working against not only the initial limitiations of the design but also the effects of age on everything that did not get replaced during the re...
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Sometimes it is not so much as adding color, but taking it away. Most cheap cone drivers will exhibit a loose sound, so if you want to get the cellos more clearly, you need to get some meat off the bones or they wil get lost in the mess.Having a th...
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Thanks for sharing, Romy! "Micro" and "macro" "schematics" would be a nice adjunct, to show how you hook up electronics and speakers, as well as speaker positioning. Of course, lots of recordings are treated with synthetic reverb, so those are gettin...
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I hear you, Romy, too many other things going on to do this full time, like "the old days". To save time and effort, you could try to "repeat" the original Dannoy configuration (same gear and location) and hear if it is "repeatable". If not, you're d...
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Terry, while your point is well taken, and it's been put several ways by several of us since posts of the Remedios experiement began, I think Romy's idea has pretty much stayed rooted in an intra-personal experiment with how he "felt" when hearing th...
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"self-matching input impedance "Aren't they trying to say the input is grounded? It sounds like they're using the current signal from cart, not voltage. Like the 47 Labs stuff. This concept has merit, but I never tried it. To ...
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What I find irksome is exactly this: [quote]Hi-Fi
companies and Hi-Fi marketing are lost touch with the nature of sound
reproduction and so deep in disassociation with the means of Real Audio
that they are forced to pull out of ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] Surely one of the objectives of this site is to allow people to be guided towards good sound by discussing the issues involved in getting there. Whether that entails discussing the merits of different recordings or perform...
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Well, I have just taken receipt of my Orelo speakers (pic attached) - the bigger version of the Orelino speakers, with 3x 15" bass drivers per channel as opposed to 3x 12" drivers.I realize that Romy doesn't regard the coaxial BMS mid/high compressio...
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Thanks for the link, Murat. I have seen the WE copy drivers before, but today I confused the 555 with the 750/753, etc. paper drivers. If the 555 sounds good over anywhere near its claimed frequency range, and if you are in a position to buy 2, why ...
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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 the dynamics at a&nbs...
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This there is the last in the “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. The previous threads might be found at:
Problems with horns: tweeters.Problems with horns: mid-range horns.Problems with horns: mid-range drivers.
This would be probably the most contro...
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I wanted to add that I have found that the effects I just mentioned occur even when the sound is EQ'd to "compensate". Setting aside the other issues raised by EQ, the notes in the EQ'd spectrum still "develop" with the upward tilt, where ...
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The idea of 360 degree radiation of sound has great intuitive appeal to me since I feel the best recordings are done with two omnidirectional microphones. The most precise reproduction of the musical event would seem to be: sounds enter microph...
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Firstly let me say that I believe musicians could be just about the most important people to judge the quality of Hi Fi. They know how the music sounds during creation so can best judge if that quality has been preserved (less destroyed) at playback....
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But doesn't putting the drivers on an inward-firing arc more or less shoot all the sound into a point, like the opposite of the Big Bang?This seems like an invitation to phase problems in the real world, and it also seems like it could bugg...
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Hi, Flm. Welcome. Try reading some long threads in our archives and you will get a better idea how to open a dialog. Pretty sure there are some Lowther threads, but no reason to limit yourself to those. "Accurate" in the case of speakers means faithf...
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