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The CD got here in maybe 2 days, "Letters For The Future", Time For Three, DG label. It is structured and played as a concerto. I just played it via my Accustic Arts Drive 1 transport/iDAT 44++ DAC, etc. I am glad I got the CD, as it makes the Music ...
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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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Romy, thanks for another nudge toward Bruckner. I was not at all aware of Schuricht before your post, and I do like what I heard of his 8th and 9th via headphones, off the computer, although I realize this is a just thumbnail version. You have said s...
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Last night as I prepared to go to sleep, I double-checked the volume setting on the small clock radio I keep bedside. It is actually a pretty cool little radio (Kaito KA1107), and I have intended for some time to get better headphones or earbuds for...
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Last night as I lay down in bed I checked what was on the local PBS FM, using my headphones. Beethoven's 7th Symphony was near the end of the first movement, and it was being played well enough that I continued listening through to the end.I was try...
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http://www.webbtjanst.se/lenco/loudspeakers.asp shows some photos of unfinished horns. Comments on mouse-over.The 250Hz horns are probably not super optimal since I'm crossing over at, I think, around 1600Hz right now. Yes, the little horns...
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Paul, would you think 6336 will be more stable/predictable?Have you had any experience with it?30H: sorry, forgot to mention that the PP pair is autobiasedwith a common 900R resistor...EL34: indeed it's a very popular tube for driving Stax electrosta...
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Risking that the topic has already been discussed and that I postin a wrong category (Romy feel free to (re)move this post:Is there any sense in trying 6C33 at higher volatges and lower currents?More precisely, I've been wondering if 1/2 6C33 @ 300-...
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Well 10k PS and 700V out ought to do it for headphones, all right (!), and the chokes ought to crank enough EMF to stand your hair on end at ten paces.Not sure why you need to fight DC, but...I already told of my own preference for bias adjustment op...
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Gentlemen, I can only hope to be wrong on the air-borne feedback.Actually your project Anthony made me think of coming back to my Staxquiades project - a Milq inspired monster amp for my Stax headphones. Do you have a source of big PSU Nichicons at ...
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This seems like an appropriate place to share my latest thoughts about Macondo copying!I thought I built almost copies of the Macondo upperbass horns, yet I've really only achieved quite questionable results. Impressive from time to time, but never f...
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But doesn't putting the drivers on an inward-firing arc more or less shoot all the sound into a point, like the opposite of the Big Bang?This seems like an invitation to phase problems in the real world, and it also seems like it could bugg...
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It's not the "technical" stuff that's being solicited here, rather it is your sonic objectives laid out in plain, simple terms. Looking at the "stuff" is not enough, especially if no one knows how it sounds to you, or how you want it to sound. What...
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[quote user="haralanov"] Congratulations you have found and use this principle, otherwise the back chamber acts like pneumatic brake for the lower working range of the diaphragm! [/quote] Actually it shall act as “pneumatic brake” in a compression dr...
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Well, I have just taken receipt of my Orelo speakers (pic attached) - the bigger version of the Orelino speakers, with 3x 15" bass drivers per channel as opposed to 3x 12" drivers.I realize that Romy doesn't regard the coaxial BMS mid/high compressio...
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Romy says:"Then you can get some kind 250Hz -350Hz horn and would load it with whatever driver you like"manisandher wrote: "For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that ...
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Although I mostly buy CD's, I have never been a fan of the format and still prefer LP's. As such I would welcome some value added content. The trouble is, I suspect it won't be music (the only real value added content of interes...
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Just a short comment on the motor rumble on my particular example of EMT930: using a 40yrs old idler I could clearly hear the joyful sound of the motor when playing a test empty track (through quite efficient Stax O2 headphones, max volume on their 7...
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See link below for some marketing hype relating to the audio potential for graphene. Somewhat interesting title given the mediocre performance of modern (all) headphones. But new technologies always hold some future hope:
http://www.technologyrevie...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Here is my second attempt to make ad-hog analog transfers. The file is 280 Meg in 167kH and 24 bit. Do not download it if you can’t not play 167kH. The file is 0.5dB hotter then it shall be and has some clipping. I wonder i...
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Yep, the TU-X1 is just wonderful. Find someone to align it, have a good antenna, good attenuator (it is hard to use it without one) and headphones to set the attenuator right – it is all that might ever need from FM. BTW, are you planning to record a...
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I have an issuer that I do not how to resolve. I will not explain details but what I need is your feedback. Below is a short fragmant in 88/24 of Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2 with Evgeny Kissin at piano; and Levine leads BSO. This is from this week b...
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Romy, this is a classic case of our "memories" telling us something that our ears refute. Here, you are working against not only the initial limitiations of the design but also the effects of age on everything that did not get replaced during the re...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] So, I would call Jubilee as a noise highlighting cartridge. (BTW, there is one subject regarding it that I need to look further ….) [/quote]
This is VERY interesting phenomena that I am trying to decipher but so far unsuc...
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Please, have some fun. First download the white paper to see what the patent artists came up with. It is essentially correct but not to scale.
Note that it requires 18 offset sets of blocks around the periphery of a cone. About two degrees of space ...
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[quote user="Chirag"] It seems the 6e5p is driving the transformer directly. I've used various versions of even simple mosfet followers to good effect at the headphone level, but never considered using a speaker level transformer. Did you and D...
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Hi N-set,
Interesting query on the small Stax. I don't want to go down the path of equipment reviewer but do want to answer your question and contribute where I can.
I have not tried the portable Stax model. Out of the gate, I could not reconc...
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scooter, thanks you. That was very nice of you. Last two my Cats eat 3 paid of headphones and
I just do not feel it worthy for me to get anything fancier then a few dollars
for commuting purpose. After trying some of the buds (thankfully my Cats l...
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As with the "audiophile" recordings, it is often difficult for me to separate the sound, per se, from "the way it sounds to me", in terms of content. Also, IMO, even the best "sound" cannot rescue a poor score/performance/recording/mix/processing/co...
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[quote user="scooter"] However, I had one very interesting observation living the "Class D;" plugged directly into the wall socket, they always sounded the same, regardless of day or time of day. That is the only audio gear I have ever encountered th...
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