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Today was a good day in The Loudspeaker Land. I’ve been
using The Loudspeakers to do some targeted listening, with excellent results. I
already mentioned at the start of this thread that I had lost my
cartridge/tonearm synergy a while ago, and...
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Jarek, one might also consider that the "small" Auro-capable processors are 7.2 channels (larger might be 14.2). When thinking/speaking of "Auro 3D", I think we are a long way from Romy's original 2-rear-speakers "RI". It is still not clear to me if ...
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Thanks, Bill. The system you describe sounds like my brother''s old home theater surround sound, which did a nice job with 5.1 DVDs, for concerts, opera, and musical theater. I presently use only a turntable or CD/DAC source with my hi-fi, in stereo ...
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Bill,
thank you for the ton of useful information! This is pretty much what I
thought, that the recordings should more or less suit the process to begin
with. To be clear: regarding “un-processed” main stereo + “reverb” only, are you saying
t...
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If the idea is to avoid winding up with just a few recordings that sound good via ones system, then one must somehow deal with inevitable variations in the "native presentation" that "inheres in the recording". Softening the sound of the system is on...
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Robin, my live venue preferences are similar to yours. I was thinking about how we deal with the sound matrix in our listening rooms, based on the variables we are presented with. I remember when I gave no thought to soundstage and little thought abo...
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What can we say about perspective? Does it relate to
soundstage? How can it not relate to soundstage? Is it something fixed in the playback,
or can it vary from one recording to the next, even when nothing about the
system is changed? Is it always...
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I’m thinking I’ve never mentioned on this board that the
listening room I’ve used for the past 16 years is 21’ X 17 ½’ X 8’. It has three large openings into a very
large house, including a long, wide hallway and successive open rooms. This
m...
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Edgar, of course I am not interested in blanket "recommendations" out of context. After all, it's a Big World out there, and time grows short for me. Do you know that there are several GSC threads where RI has been discusssed, going back some time? S...
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Just trying to put your own observations about the RI, etc. in some sort of context, Edgar, since the idea of "better" RI seasoning seems to be moot at present. As it happens, I actually like the general notion that "quality does not matter" for RI, ...
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Edgar, what are you using for main, stereo speakers and amps to drive them? Are you using Dunnoys FR in front and Reds for RI behind, or what?Paul S...
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For both people who care about VTA, I offer this
cautionary tale:
Today I listened to a 2-LP set: Lynn Harrell and James
Levine, Beethoven’s 5 Sonatas for Cello and Piano. As ever, I had set VTA based
on the note on the sleeve that te...
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Something about The Loudspeakers that shoppers have
likely noticed is that the original design electrically splits the 18” woofer
from the MF, HF and UHF drivers. And,
just to be clear, there is sound thinking based on lots of experience behi...
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I went back and read the introduction at NAT's website, and it makes me suspicious, right away. It makes me wonder if there is an engineer who also has a hard time reading about "his design", or if they all work together to sell expensive amplifiers....
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I liked a NAT Audio PP amp I heard years ago, but I do not offer any oinions on this astounding amp, except, WTF?!?:https://www.nataudio.com/products/vacuum-tube-power-amplifiers/item/26-magma.htmlPaul S...
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A while back I mentioned that I would not want speakers
that could not “do” Gieseking. Well, The Loudspeakers do Gieseking, all right,
including telling me more about his performances of Debussy’s Etudes. I have
long admired and appreciated Giesek...
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I was thinking, Bill, that you now have S3s running down to 400 Hz. If you ever said what you are using below the S3s now, I don't remember. I have only heard the 15" Vitavox a couple of times, many years ago, but I did once own Altec Lansing 515Bs, ...
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Bill, I am happy that you've improved your bass. As Romy mentioned in an earlier post about Bruckner, RTA is just one tool, and we have to listen and hear results with Music we know and love. When you told of the disappearing S2s, I was going to ment...
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So
far, the “better” my reproduction gets, the more variable recordings get. I
mean, they are all over the place. Considering this alone, who knows how a
given recording needs to be manipulated in order to “correct” it? Plenty of
problems I h...
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Bill, of course I supposed the DSP-free sound would sound better than processed to me, based on my experience. I just wanted to know how you felt about it, when it was put like that. I went to big SS amps despite I prefer the sound of small SET amps,...
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Something worth thinking about as one chases an “ultimate
sound system” is that “accurate” playback will likely reveal sounds of the
recording process along with the musical performance. And The Loudspeakers are
certainly “guilty” of this. From kn...
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Like I’ve said, my aim was to find/build a pair of
speakers that could be driven “full range” by one of my Marantz MA-9S2 amps per
stereo channel, and these speakers would have to give me greater insight into
Bruckner in order to fill the bill. I ...
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Well, Romy, at this point I am listening more to the
Music than to the performances, if you know what I mean. I already shared the
Solti/CSO 7th LP, an old London ffrr stereo that does not seem to
have the weird curve. So far, that’s the beginning...
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Like I said in my previous post, I lost my
tonearm/cartridge synergy a while back, and then I realized that I needed to
replace the surrounds on the drivers in my BassZillas, and I shut the system
down for some time, until I got The Loudspeake...
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You may remember I also use transformer shunting for attenuation, in my case the taps are selected by "communications" shunts/relays. My output is quite low R, but variable, and only the transformers for isolation (no "active buffer". I was wonderin...
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Jarek, congrats on getting a project to where you can listen to it! Are you planning to use this with headpones, or have you used it with headphones? I saw it is "limited" to 5V in, but perhaps enough overall gain with buffer for 'phones"? I realize ...
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Bill, it sounds like you have made a significant investment (time and resources) into (re)producing reverberation with your entire system, also setting time alignments of various drivers, across the board, and I assume you would not have gotten this ...
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I just remembered that Haralanov and I discussed at length the merits of "mechanical filters" vs. electronic filters. We also agreed that a tweeter can sound much better when it's nested in a larger paper cone.Best regards,Paul S...
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Bill, sorry to hear a low followed the high, and I know what you mean about getting old, but you did not mention in this post that you use DSP to improve the "overall" sound quality and to produce specific room effects, but Romy - as far as I know -...
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Happy Birthday and Congratulations, Romy! Nice to hear
you took the “me time” and you’re getting the results you’ve been after for so
long. When you talked about Bruckner’s long expositions and the “almost”
feeling you get, I may not know exac...
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