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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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What I hate usually and in audio in particularly is the situation when a professional know that s/he is able to deliver a satisfactory resale and s/he subordinate and enslave everything to this believe. Pretend you are have a house with a single ...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, there is an interesting phenomenon that I never was able to understand. I observe Lamm’s show rooms from I think 1998-1999 to 2006 when I did my last audio show. Surprisingly all Lamm rooms at audio shows sound ...
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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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[quote user="Saturntube"]A the CES show the selling price was $ 100 thousand dollars for the speakers only and $ 200 k for the whole system with Viola Xovers and amplifiers. [/quote]
The $100K for speakers only and $200K for the whole system? ...
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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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Well after getting little communication from PP I decided to sell my unit. The last communication from them was on 1-7 here is their response:Hi Steve,The reports you have provided are giving us valuable clues to the cause of the noise, but are not d...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]What's the position with regard to this (or any other) material that you capture from the ether in this way? Are there copyright/reproduction issues? I'd be interested in getting a full CD at this quality. The L...
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Hi Romy, I don't doubt for a moment that there are plenty of people 'who know' who will wax lyrical about the benefits of open loop eq in feedback circuits. There are people 'who know' who will tell me that valve amplifiers cannot be as good as trans...
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CES 2013: Yes, there it is. THE Arm.The Manufacturer says (Roksan): Sorry guys, it can't be made cheaper, $35.000,-- is the price we need for that sonic revolutionHis Dealer said: Guys, when the Sound of a Graham Arm is worth $6000,-- then the sound ...
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[quote user="ArmAlex"]I have no experiance of Constellation sound, but I think it should not be something special. In CES they shared a room with Magico which is unbelievably unlistenable.[/quote] Room sharing at the shows is a complicated subject an...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] And what they were doing, at CES 2006, was fine indeed. [/quote]
Nope it was not. Cogent sound was not near as interesting as it could/should be, and the Cogent boys know it, or at least they are slowly learning it.&...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I recieved and accepted an invitation to hear an earlier version of the Cogent speakers, and I was subsequently asked for a considered opinion of the sound. I guess the designers had read from my posts various criticis...
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[quote user="smith"]What a ridiculous waste of money![/quote]I completely disagree. Let's be honest here, the majority of audiophiles are atypical people (wierd, anal, eccentric, driven, insecure, etc.) and plenty of them require handholding, c...
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Well, I would say this CES was very low on decent sound. Sometimes I had to fight with the urge to leave a room or two immediately after hearing a few bars of music being played.Still the hope is not lost. At a fringe show at the Flamingo hotel (THE ...
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[quote user="steverino"]Romy, Even you do not believe that the Pure Power device is a panacea. If you did you wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars , hundreds of hours and hundreds of posts here trying to figure out why it didn't work properly str...
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Hi Romy,B&W are the internationally acknowledged masters in using pseudo-science in their marketing and very effective it is too. If ever there was a quotient for the difference between claimed and actual performance theirs would be the largest. ...
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[quote user="Chirag"] Hey, what kind of crossovering is the DimAmp seeing? Are you sticking to 1st order slopes even with the nasty breakups higher up in the 21W carbon woofer? [/quote]Sure, my 21W has no “nasty breakups higher up”, well it per...
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Lamm juts announced the “Wold Premier of Lamm ML3 Signature single-ended triode moonoblocks” at CES 2008. It will be paired with large Wilsons in 2500sq feet room. To drive 95dB sensitive speaker with 32W in 2500sq feet is a sizable task but it will ...
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Hi Rony The only think a manufacturer has over the me is custume made drivers not saying that makes them better.Also you came up with a design conclusion and assembled you own system(That makes you a DIYer).You choose not to endores an...
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Hi Romy,
I've met musicians who understand music to a far greater degree than (I suspect) you or I ever would. I wouldn't however necessarily trust their judgement on matters relating to good playback. Some of them use quite appalling systems and ye...
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[quote user="SearcherOfBetterSound"]Not released yet though. They are an interesting company to me and whether or not their products are acceptable to you or me or not, they at least talk about some of their experiences and knowledge and tech&nb...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"][QUOTE]This makes it inappropriate for evaluating a system or a component from a technical point of view when compared to jazz band or, even better, to a symphonic orchestra which are far richer in diversity, scale or any ot...
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[quote user="steverino"]As for Guy Sergeant's comment about the demo choices, I assume those kind of artificial sounding mixes are done on purpose as are demos with dynamically or frequency limited demo material. [/quote] Hm, I would not be concern i...
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hi Dominic i made myself the same question regarding the high frequencies in the orphean horn. the reason is probably because this horn has no compression, and the horn length is not so deep, and the exit diameter is 2 inch, quit big. If you read my ...
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This is the last article in the planed overview. Here I would like to cover options available among commercially available High-Efficiency systems. As you might expect it will not be too exiting.
In a ways commercial systems inherent all problems of...
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Hi Romy,When you visited our room, you played 3 pieces of music on our 1000 dollar speakers.All were nice recordings, one was Saint Saens 3, one was a very contemporary sounding piece of 17C Harpsichord? and I can't remember the third although I did ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I don't know to what extent they've tried to apply the Naturflux thinking to the Field Coil circuit. It would not surprise me if that was much more difficult to do. It may have made the costs far too high. I don't know. [/q...
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Part 5: HornsIt was quite bad, bad on all horns…..
The first was the “new horns guy” …
(references to: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=484)
This year behaved quite nicely. Seeing me he immediately told that he has not...
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People who know me know that if I person does audio then it does not automatically imply that he is my best friend. I generally do not bring “just audio people” in my home and if I do then they are selected people who I feel might have a potentia...
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