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Amir, I have a couple of options for swapping phase, at different points in my system. On 2 occasions when Clark visited me at my place, I could switch phase and he could hear it, every time. I was pretty impressed by this, though he insisted that it...
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Our (late) friend Clark Johnsen would not let this rest, lecturing about both power and audio signal polarity.https://positive-feedback.com/Issue1/cjwoodeffect.htmBest regards,...
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I have to say, I learned as much with ML-2s in my system as I have with any audio component I ever used. Truly a game-changing amplifier. This is no exageration.Sorry to hear he is gone; he did leave an Audio Legacy.Paul S...
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How nice for LF that he has (apparently) cultivated a viable market and marketing for his audio products. I wish him every success, as he has worked hard for a long time to get to this point. No sense speculating about the Sound, I suppose; and it mi...
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It is well that Noam Chomsky be brought into the "non-musical" part of this discussion; his viewpoints "should" be more widely understood and incorporated as bases for "global action" if we hope to continue inhabiting this planet en masse. Meanwhile,...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI_FT4YHU
For "Them", it's not personal...
Paul S
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Stumbled onto this 2018 bio-pic on cable TV last night. Wow! For those who can't get enough of Maria Callas, this is a must. The best parts for me were performances I had not seen/heard before. My God, she was spectacular!Paul S...
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Not sure how I feel about Biden, but you can have Hitler, Stalin, Putin, and/or Trump! Divide and Conquer! Give 20% a stake, 1% a say, and eff everyone else! Same around the world.Most music looks away from this.Paul S...
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Amir, I mentioned up the thread that friend Mark has 2 Firewalls in his already-optimised electricity delivery system, and I have heard his hi-fi running off the batteries. IMO, his hi-fi sounds best from grid power, with the batteries "in the loop" ...
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Sure, we talk about "long bearings" around here, but in the end few of us get as far as you have, if only because this one issue is just one issue, after all, and few have the time, money, and persistence to throw at compiling everything it takes to ...
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True enough, Robin, whether or not this factor was critical in this case. My extensive mad experiments with de-constructing and reconstructing paper coned drivers a few years back showed me it's not necessarilly helpful to get off the beaten path wit...
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Bill, you have made lots of changes in a "short" time period. I hope you kept track of all of it. Knowing nothing about your sound, I can only repeat that Romy said the Dannoy sonic fulcrum was the interaction between FR Tannoy and "passive" Scanspea...
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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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Bill, if one assumes headroom for satisfactory peaks, and given the rest of your set-up, it "sounds like" you are effectively using your Dannoys to butter up the overall sound, like a sort of improved injection channel. As for all the sand, perhaps l...
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I guess the legend speaks truth; it won't open for me, anyway...Paul S...
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Wow, Bill, that sounds like a lifetime of work - and no rest - to me! Hats off again if you can listen for more than 2 sessions in a row without glitches! It has been over 20 years since I gave a thought to combining sight and sound systems. But how ...
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Hmmm... I guess you have to start somewhere, and it did originally seem to me that the "headwaters" of the divergent projects were the "original accidental" Dannoys, with the disconnected Scanspeak 10" riding shotgun in a weirdly-connected chamber of...
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Jarek, where will you start? Even "using your ears" requires some sort of baseline, if to avoid the insanity of "random experiments". Enclosure volume and baffle size are variables in terms of sound, along with crossovers, and anything else you might...
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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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Steve, thanks for the scholarly perspective. I am happy to have recordings, including multiple iterations of some works, so I can listen to and even compare various performances, since it seems there is always room for variations. Regarding early mus...
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I hate when I'm listening to think of the composers, or performers themselves, in cases where their personal lives or politics were (are) vulgar, or even abhorant. Plenty of examples, unfortunately. As for Brahms, we have discussed here that not all...
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I sometimes listen to a little DX radio with crappy headphones, but not much of the "difficult" modern music gets aired around here. I may have some Schoenberg LPs that I never listen to, really can't talk about. What I often hear is along the lines ...
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Sure, Steve, there are various"schools" of Music, and many examples to choose from. We seem to have our preferences, and some music I may never warm up to, although, as I read your post, I was transported back to my childhood, as Peter and the Wolf b...
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Bill, I had an issue like you described with your right speaker that I FINALLY traced to a "cold" solder joint in an RCA plug, on the amp end of the right pre-to-amp IC. To my ears, the old paper drivers are very, very sensitive to their "surrounding...
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Hope it isn't the case, but it sounds like you have just described "the best sound" (or, in any case, the sound you're after) from Remedios as being limited to 90 dB SPL, through your wide range of experiments with the basic configuration. I don't re...
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Romy, you have said part of the Magic is the interaction between the Red and the Scanspeak "passive radiator". Could it be that reducing LF to the Red would decrease the "potency" of the intraction between the Red and current passive driver? If yes, ...
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Congratulations on your success! Will you say more about Red vs. Vitavox sound characteristics at your chosen X/O range? It sounds like your room is also driving your choices. Do you now get the dynamics you want using this X/O frequency?Best regards...
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Yesterday I was more-or-less randomly reading Stereophile, skimming, in case something interesting to me appears, and Mr. Fremer in his Ortofon Verismo cartridge report told that top Ortofon cartridges use "6 nines" copper wire that has been gold pla...
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How does the SPL/dynamic range correlate to frequency? Most of the old 10" drivers can play louder if not pushed down too far. I think as the years passed, the Tannoy had like most similar drivers a sort of "sliding scale" dynamics, and they would pl...
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Where did I get the idea that you were going to replace the super-thick baffles, rather than adding to them?Hearing is believing!Paul S...
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