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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy wrote: "... Also it is very “kinky” moment how the delay from upperbass interacts with the delay from midbass. I know that not a lot of people would understand it but there are ways to “spread delays” or to us...
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This may not be the right place. I am always emotionally involved with the music I listen to. Sometimes there is a quality to it that makes tears stream down my face - not matter what gendre of music or whether it is sad or happy.This subject was d...
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Romy,I merely thought that you felt I was riding roughshod over your advice, when it was in fact a degree of naivety requiring extensive clarification that may have made it appear thus. Regardless of your indifference to praise and/or criticism, I'd ...
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Gargoyle, I don't know how much experience you already have with this stuff. I want to be clear that I have not played seriously with LF boosting horns since about 1973, and even at that time I was pretty much stuck on copying existing horns, includ...
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I've only had the pleasure of listening to 'professional' horns (whatever 'professional' really stands for)--horn normally used in concerts and small venues. (It was always so obvious to me--by listening--that the range of the horn-loaded 'bass...
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I understand that this is just an excercise, but one thing I keep coming back to as I experiment with hi-fi is to try to minimize the number of changes I make at once so I can - hopefully - keep track of and sort out what each change brings to m...
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Romy wrote (in blue)Do you mean to post WAV files that might be indicative to the sound of Ortofone Jubilee.Yes.Farmer when he went into his Australian TT craze spread CDs that according to him demonstrated “good sound from the new TT”.Well, if an ac...
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Back in the 90's i bought a pair of Aura 1808 woofers and made a set of 24 cubic foot corner enclosures 1 1/2 thick, crossover at 100hz, close to 300 pounds, way over built enclosure with a baffle on the face of the enclosure that i could remove. I T...
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Here is a VERY interesting paper http://www.anstendig.org/Stereo.htmlSTEREO: A MISUNDERSTANDINGTHE THEORY, SOUND-SYSTEMS, AND PROBLEMS OF HEARINGThere is a common misconception that the addition of stereophonic sound-reproduction was the necessary, c...
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The discussion of topology is interesting, but what in fact are we addressing? The factors that have been mentioned are: 1) Sound, which in this case seems to be dependent on "either you get it" - or don't2) Topology, which in my experience has so ma...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
clarkjohnsen wrote:Folks, in case you care to learn the truth of the matter, AC Polarity is the subject of Chapter 7.5, pages 63-66. Its connection to acoustic polarity is established there too. That Romy should so boldl...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Frank himself will often cut in at this point to head off most of the speculative nonsense. Not to co- opt him here, but I find it interesting that most of the Schroder arms (sorry, no umlaut...) are particularly subject to ...
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Just a brief note on my recent addition: Placette Active preamp. Due to a recent purchase of Tannoy Golds, I had the opportunity to pull an old McIntosh SS amp out of the closet recently. This amp has gain controls, so I tried running it ...
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Just how important are subharmonics and undertones in audio, and how they affect tone? I played around for a while with the Townshend supertweeters, this is a ribbon tweeter that you can barely listen to: you plug it in and put it next to your...
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[quote user="drdna"] Okay, this is of course an excellent point. Naturally, if the system is optimized to begin with, this type of stuff will not have a beneficial effect. If you have done the experiments before, then you know what to expect from...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Amir,in my world there is a process for selection and it is not AB or changing power cords. That does not mean that I deny that equipment (including cables) can change sound. It means that the normal audiophool description "it was...
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YES! We all know music lovers who have never heard great audio playback, and could probably care less about audio. They do know alot about music though. They are musicians, engineers, artists, regular people, those that have season ...
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[quote user="Amir"] ... because i can easily hear difference of 2m AC cable and 4m AC cable ... [/quote]
Yes, it's true. This reminds me of when I was testing different parts in an amplifier, and I was getting help from my fath...
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I think we are back again to the issue of the dedicated AC lines and what external (outside of the home) garbage can enter through them. My own anecdotal impression is that there are two opposing trends from the power company. One is positive in that...
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Stephano Two good ears has put a post on his site about his new 4 way passive xover.I think this is a better direction than the digital xo. The designer, Thomas, designed also the preamp and I guess he has taken into consideration the input and ...
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I like a lot how the room is looking, the plants in the center look great and sort of hide Melquiades very well. I am sure the acoustic properties of the plant will make up for the wall to wall carpet no problem. Actually I had trouble finding...
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As I have shared several times here, I happen to regard the Lowther as nothing more than a means to an end. Partly because of this, I have taken my lumps with this marque. Today, I am pleased to have finally made the speakers I imagined 6 years ago...
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[quote user="HypnoToad"] Take the best components, the best listening environment and will you have the perfect system, maybe for a few fleeting moments.Everything can be improved, speaker positions adjusted, components upgraded. Take the perfect pho...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]the hum people apparently pick their own ground loops that too masked in noise without PP2000.[/quote]It is not exactly correct. There is 60 Hz hum eliminated by lifting the ground to the amplifiers. The neutral is connec...
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In my unit there is definately a change in sound running from wall from early in the day to late evening. In the late evening being the better. Before the Purepower this was much more noticeable but to quantify it, the worse day with the Purepower is...
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Richard, my only "motivation" is to keep the light on and my eye on the prize. Sticking just with recent events, of the 3 units Bill Gaw just dealt with, either 2 or all 3 of them failed to self spec. Bill returned 1 of his own 2 units to you for se...
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I was slowly looking for a compression driver that would go in my Fundamental Chanel down to 200Hz. The YL Acoustic 550N attracted my attention. Then I realized that it is the narrow throat type of the drivers, aka WE555, not exactly that I would...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is a strange felling I have after reading it again. I feel like somebody cooked a beautiful and superbly testy meal, using the most refine cooking techniques and the best ingredients and then, a person took this entire m...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]it is highly possible that you are correct but it was exactly the point of my in initial post - the people worship the clock upgrades but 99% of then just throw in the new clocks, or do exactly what I did. [/quote]And I ...
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Dear Romy,I suggest the following, if you are interested: Select three recordings of varying quality; copy ten minutes of each of the three recordings to Redbook CD; send to me by air mail the CD that contains three ten minute tracks; include i...
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