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...seems to me finacio-emotional not technical. The Macondo and 9 channel Melquiades are really one device, essentially an active speaker. If a maker did not feel obliged to put the amp and the speaker in different boxes he would obviously optimise t...
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To argue that time alignment is unnecessary is to go against a very basic feature of the auditory system: sound location from phase information. But if so, then the effect ought to be frequency specific, with a much lower magnitude ...
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The audio product is peripheral to their main business and it is essentially the same as their standard double conversion ups. They say they have done more than change the fans to quiet, but they are short on specifics. Then again the markup is much ...
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It is a UK company, and Romy has unknowingly heard the AG1500 unit in my system (to the extent to which the rest of it makes it audible). I use it to drive a full range Melquiades SET, a DAC, and an FM tuner. It is carefully made, internally, and has...
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Does http://makemkv.com/ not work on these?...
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Rather like offering a sew-it-yourself cover for a Bentley....
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The logic here is that to be able to play and appreciate a Stradivarius you have to make it yourself. That is too hard a line. There are plenty of basic things that the vast majority of installations get wrong. We are talking about lifting the baseli...
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The model here is not that of the audio industry but of contemporary art. You have spent years refining the physical instantiation of a compelling idea. A patron now wants a piece of it. You have a workshop of assistants to make it for...
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I know you do not want to do it, but it is a shame not to do it: actually manufacture a version of the Macondo with an integrated dset, cut down enough (say three channels) to make it feasible while still demonstrating the advantages of the dset idea...
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These look like the absurdly expensive Yamamoto soundcraft teflon version, which I have used, and which do not work because the receptacles for the pins are shaped so that there is only a single point of contact when the pins go in. So the heaters pe...
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This http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/danley/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OS80-Spec-sheet.pdf has been mentioned before; speaker cable length is soluble, and then you use your main system, remotely controlled by your phone via wifi, no?...
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Paul, yes behind one of the walls is a large volume cabinet, and one of my thoughts was to put a full range driver there, controlling the enclosure as necessary, and taking into account that I am not after amazing LF here. In space that small it woul...
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Yes, listening to orchestral music in bed seems all wrong, indecent almost, hence my saying chamber music at most. So what matters here most is tone, and then primarily MF and upper bass. So the ambition is low, and I am after a simple solution prior...
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Thank you both for your thoughts. The space is interesting: not a cellar, but a sleeping area just big enough to fit a super king size bed, with one of the walls being half open, so it would not pressurize quite like a fully sealed room. Further, it ...
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It has been mentioned here before that playback in cars can sometimes sound excellent, despite improbably simple implementations. Does anyone have any general comments on the elements that work well in very small spaces? The space I have in mind is a...
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Paul, I have used in the past standard double conversion units where I have converted the fans to quieter ones, and installed controls on their speed. There is generally substantial overhead on the cooling, and these things are designed to shut down ...
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I wonder how many of those who feel the need to use a pp have tried other double conversion devices. Rather as with amplifiers it is the core topology that matters most. A pp is just a double conversion ups, there is no other innovation in there tha...
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If you bought it through a third party, then they are liable for your refund, not the manufacturer. How they get their money back is their own problem. ...
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The coupling capacitor is a first order high pass filter. I have .68 in there for there for this purpose. Obviously the slope will be shallow, so precision in the value will not be critical....
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...with your amplifier project in mind, remembering the elegance of rectifying three phases....
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I am sure you are right a properly implemented device would be in no need of such things, but my point was the diversity of digital forms is too great for someone to do it properly in one machine. And surely sorting out a bad digital stream *is* feas...
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http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/synchro-mesh
Of the idea: I do not know how well it works in practice....
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If the relatively recent DA11 is any guide, it is hard to be optimistic. Though offering reasonable sound in optimal circumstances it has farcically inept noise rejection via the USB input, so much so that one could use it as a "system sounds" altern...
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What about a digital buffer: a device that takes any digital stream, from whatever cheap, village source you feed it, stores enough to reclock it properly, and then feeds it out to the DAC of your choice? Since even the cheapest reading devices offer...
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But is the wood not sitting on concrete, through which the vibrations from elsewhere in the building are conducted? If so I suppose the wood and the concrete will make differential contributions, and you might want to couple more proximally to one bu...
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N-Set, I do not claim to add to the facts you have already comprehensively given, I am merely asking about the logic, and I do not suggest to have a definitive answer, hence my ending with a question. I can see three reasons why other people use spik...
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It seems reasonable to begin with the science -- as a preliminary to listening -- but I do not follow the logic here. The source of the vibration is principally the floor: the table should therefore not be coupled with spikes but decoupled from the f...
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Perhaps we expect too much of these things, from a different era, and very different context of application. And I imagine the cost of the EV version would exceed the 25% attrition rate of the regular versions. ...
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So, it seems the replacement valve was duff. It was a 6c33c from 1966, not a 6c33c-V which I had before, but that ought to be irrelevant. Odd. ...
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What about thick, oiled, soft-tanned leather, ideally hippo? It is soft and thick, yet strong. Cowhide will do, but I have not seen it tanned quite as softly. ...
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