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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Back when Fane were still in business, I ordered a pair in 16O (I don't know if there is a theoretical best choice between the two for horn loading... Any thoughts ? However, the 8O model will require a smaller coil in th...
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well, i believe that the popularity of the better fostex tweeters comes from their typical, off-shelf sound which is soft and easy on ear in comparison with super-resolunt Ti or Be diaphragm equipped competition. they very much suit any sharpness com...
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Since I got my stable and good quality electricity back I recalibrated my bass horn. Again, I set it up with very precisely and absolutely without any measurements, juts by ear, to sound exactly how I want it to sound. This is in a way my crown jewel...
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Romy, yes it is an interesting subject and one that I have thought quite a bit about although not directly from the angle from which you are approaching it.One of Macondos great strengths is narrow directivity from high frequencies all the way down t...
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[quote user="drdna"]While I think a resonating speaker can add its own musicality to a reproduction, it is clearly adding harmonic distortion, etc. It may be pleasant, but you run the risk of needing differently tuned speakers for each type of ...
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This is a new tool, so some training is inevitable. Yes, I saw your first sample with the peaks and my first thought was that it was not the deck, as I could not imagine a mechanism which would produce such spikes so perfectly repetetive (ok, maybe a...
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It wound up taking 9 weeks to get my re-built cartridge back from/through the Ortofon DK/USA consortium, and then I let the re-built cartridge just sit there in is box for another 2 weeks. When I finally went to re-mount it, I managed to snap a ver...
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[quote]“The
Tenors bring a remarkable top-to-bottom continuity, which I've often
called the Kharma effect (the speaker, not the moral law of cause and
effect)...[/quote] This is intriguing. All of the Kharmas I've listened to have displayed contin...
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I am happy to have this here. I hope our members will take advantage of this and fill it up with information. I certainly will note any surprising observations I have with EAR 834 if I modify it.
It seems more like a general catalog of elements,...
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Sadly I have never spent the time to try and correlate the sonics of a tube with the trace characteristics. Ok, sometimes it is obvious. A flat line is a dead tube. Normally I measure and compare both sections of dual triodes. ...
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In nature, the SOUND always propagates "outwardly expanding", so to the ear, this is a natural thing.
Any containment is like a muffler on a car, constraining, restricting, resonating, chocking, forbidding, etc....
These are good tools to ...
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...For only $ 25k: http://polymeraudio.com/index.html It is sold under the name Polymer Audio and these people also sell amplifiers called "DK design"I haven't listened to this product & am referring here to the unusual ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Folding introduce a bunch
of resonating chambers and cost audio coloration in most of the cases that do MASK
OUT the transient dynamics but folding itself should not have an impact to dynamics
itself.[/quote]Might be the...
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Hi alex. Sure the 12 incher starts narrowing around 700. But the horn does too. And in that area you cross both at -6dB. which contributes to narrowing vertically. The magic is, to merge in a way that off axis its not getting too odd in a complex sum...
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I have identified a direction for my next speaker system. Whether it is a good one or not is a different topic -- I think it's a good one because I've lived with my current horn system for 10 years and have since developed an understanding of it's st...
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Roman:
since I came to GSC, I became more and more careful (at least trying) in proper choosing words, due to the need of expressing myself in a language which isn't my own, some finesse and subtleties get lost, so further explanation or underl...
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hey jessie-I've wondered the same thing-- and the more i end up twiddling around with it, the more I think it really either comes down to good measurements, or good listening! And in fact.. probably both in conjunction!I have a small 2 wa...
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Experimenting with Decca carts, I've temporaly disconected the SUT's and decided to check the RIAA calibrationand I think I have some (circuit?) problem.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
In the end of everything I was able to get very nice response. The...
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Great analyses, David, thanks. I can’t concur as now with anything. Macondo in the room with midbass horn was a complex installation and with ULF it became even more complex. Some of the things I setup by ear and do not use measurements, I just know ...
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Ant,For every individual the cause of this experience of dialog is possibly very different.For myself it is not so much the performance, for reasons it will be easy to see, but the composer and more closely the period when the composer live...
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Yes, Paul, you are right that it has to be pointed that the frequency extension, by itself, does not guarantee anything (but that’s why I posted the thread in Audio For Dummies section :-) ). OK, now let’s see how the tweeters should be used (in cont...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Oleg has a lot of bad press in Germany for unkept promises and defaulting on delivery of product. Just keep an open mind next to the open ear. The best product only serves a purpose if it a) arrives and b) performs.I really like t...
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hey romy and all-i recently came across a strange phenomenon (to me.. maybe not to everyone else!).I just started using RTA as a method of evaluating my results with my own 2 way speaker system, and I'm finding that I'm ending up liking the sound of ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Stonily they are very similar in my view with a very slight advantage of 6E6P in delicacy and softness. I do not know what you mean “respond differently regarding vibration.”[/quote]As I had been looking at all these tubes...
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[quote user="Amir"]I think our brain is so complex , the ear and brain structure are very very complex in music processing.low THD , high Slew rate , ... non of them could make us happy , i know making an theory for understanding relation of musicali...
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Well, I decided it was time to start using some "proper" interconnects between the preamp and DSET's, ordered them and had them delivered. To date I had been using cheap interconnects from the local electronic shop (literally $6) which should be ok...
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hello guys, greetings from Italy !! ..I would have a question being that they are still being optimized.
I have to buy the 6 caps that are on the PCB valves .. those at 400-450v.
On my ear..which I bought on ebay..they were ...
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Romy,Your Macondo system is something that has been a "role model" for what I'd like my playback system to be in the coming years. And much of what I've learned about horn playback systems I've learned from reading your writing and other posts on thi...
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[quote user="Stitch"]I don't think they are deaf, but honestly, you are the first who writes that this Cessaro Horn room was one of the best at show.I guess, you are the Deaf one, I know another one in Germany who writes very important messages =...
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Hi Roman!So, an SG-37FRP finally dropped on yr. laps;-) - glad it happened: not because you're now part of an Olympus-like lobby, but because you'll be able to judge with yr. own ears, much, MUCH better than theorically speculating on this or that......
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