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Hi Romy, first my apologize for the somewhat confusing reply I posted. The Dunlavy question is not related to the very funny Kharma news you mentioned (which is of course a very sick but brilliant joke! Heheh). I actually have the Dunlavy SC-V a...
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Hello Romy,for large SETs price seems to go up exponentially with the power handling (I am sure you know better than me why), so these amps are under strong pressure of having to justify their existence, other than small SETs or pentode push-pull amp...
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Hello everyone,@Romy the cat : I have read you with interest...i'm kind of new in this *audiophile* world, I can't stop laughing when I read your comments about the audiophile mafia, you are so right.Between mike Lavigne with his dartzeel dartzeel da...
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Having heard specifically the Kharma 3.2 at length in the home of a friend for the life of me I cannot see the fascination. Absolutely the coldest sound I've ever heard. This speaker even with tube amplification I can describe best as like a 200...
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In reference to:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1414
I had recently a guy in my listening room and he asked me if it would be possible to get the 300Hz range in the way how it sounds in my room but without using those larger uppe...
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Nope I’m not familiar with Octave Research OR1. I heard about Andy Rapapport but I never heard or have seen his amps. My thinking about all of this has littler rational and even less experience. I would never think about SS but the phenomenal success...
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Well, I do not know what it would mean. Regardless his “constitutional status” Row’s article is much more informative and much more educational for people who have interest in the MAXXes then the brainless saliva dropping that many industry cheerlead...
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...However, "a 2000 RPM meat slicer chopping the music up into little pieces" is, admittedly, more eloquent!Some time ago, I played around with a Kharma model (the big one that has woofers and the 3-in-one tweet**) at a friend's house. The furni...
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I have had similar impressions to other speakers using these drivers. For example I found the top of the line Avalon Eidolon diamond to be similarly colorless and lifeless. Also a pair of Vaic speakers (designed by the guy from Lumenwhite...
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I made afford to read more of Mike Malinowski article – another two pages. I reached the place where Mike said the following:
“The Tenors bring a remarkable top-to-bottom continuity, which I've often called the Kharma effect (the speaker, not the mo...
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I think this Mike is the same guy that is/was an Audio Asylum member that years ago had the Tenor amps driving some of those terrible sounding Kharma speakers, then traded them for some Magico or whatever and now seems to have the Alexandrias... I be...
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Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally you hear Crap tone from plastic co...
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[quote user="Amir"]Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally you hear Crap t...
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[quote user="N-set"] Amir wrote:Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally yo...
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Romy,
I wouldn't assume the ring material in the tube dampers to be sonically irrelevant. Polymer materials are viscoelastic, so should contribute to the damping effect, while a spring-like metal ring would have a more resonant behavior. In any ca...
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[quote user="ArmAlex"]The price is 167,000 Euro I was told. The material they used for bass cabinet at least looked like MDF. Sound was much better than any speaker I've heard in show, expect Cessaro which was wonderful. BTW Marten, Kharma, Focal, Ma...
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Well, as usual, we can read all over what one likes or dislikes....each his own of course. But, we can not read why someone did like or did not like something.Same for me of course, but it would be helpful to offer a kind of "priority" (or whatever o...
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Greg,
BTW, if you go for direct radiation and would like to go for Dunlavy-like symmetric configuration (perfect for along wall) then here is for you an idea that I do like very much. I took that idea from old version Kharma Audiocritique and made i...
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[quote user="msaudio"]…. but it will never sound good until you have everything in the line of playback as close to original as possible. [/quote] This is very faulty premise, I multiple times objected it. The people who play live music, record i...
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What do you know: I invested into my entertainment and subscribed “The Absolute Sound”. Sometimes it is really amusing to read this magazine. Those audio publications quite long time moved in my home from the “toilet reading” into the section where m...
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There were few exchanges in Lamm’s thread with Mike from Audio Federation referred here:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=8460
http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/502
The exchanges are nothing specials but I do feel that Mike...
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When I meet Jonathan Valin I laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming: “the entire wo...
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[quote user="frody8lp"]I'm crushed! Just for the record your sight is regarded as ridiculous. [/quote] I sincerely hope you. If people like you do not find me site “ridiculous” then I waste my life in audio. You come to the site searching your ways ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
It will not be 1” of wood but a few mm of something very strong- steel, aluminum or architecture plastic
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If you have an industrial plastics company close, you might look into a material called G10. Its avai...
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[quote user="StylinLP"] The thing is, there has been many many speakers like these offered in the last 15 years and they never got any attention. [/quote] You are right that there were many speakers like these offered in the last years but you wrong ...
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Hi Angelo,Thanks for the kind words about our website.Hmmmm... it is really difficult to make the sound of the Avalon speakers have no depth or imaging (I presume you are referring to the Opus or Eidolon? Their small Symbol speakers do indeed sound a...
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We have no access to Belkin Synopsis SPDIF cable (Romy use it in his system) and we are not sure how new Kharma digital cables sounds?
we had a test between two Purist Digital cables . Purist Anniversary 4600$ and Purist Neptune 1500$ SPDIF Ca...
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None of the commercial speakers might relay on the Imbedded principles because the obvious reasons. They always look for as neutral as possible location because they mostly designed for anechoic operation. However, if the Imbedded techniques are used...
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Well, here and there at my site I’m calling for rationalism in audio and suddenly I go enthusiastic regardless a perspectives of $200K Cessaro’s Gammas availability. Sounds hypocritical, doesn’t it? Well, not really.
I’m under no presumption that go...
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I was informed that there is a new Estelon Extreme loudspeaker out there that costs ¼ million dollars. Not with interest I read about it http://www.estelon.com…and concluded that this is as idiotic as it get. Nope, I did not listen it and I have ...
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