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I listened to the samples letting them loop several times, both directly from my computer (via a pretty good set of headphones), and then on my main system (Mac computer > external drive > Cosecant USB DAC > pre amp > power amps > horns)... I drew th...
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It is know that in addition to basic tastes (I believe bitter, salty, sour, sweet) of the Western culture those “different” Japanese people recognize another taste they call it “Umami”. Umami, if I am not mistaken, is a sense deliciousnes...
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A local GSC member took me up to THE Show, in Newport Beach, CA. This was the first audio show I've attended in over 25 years. It was way more frenetic than any audio show I remember. Lousy sound everywhere, of course, and no good music, and the c...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do like the assembly. I o not fine it messy at all BTW. I would like to have inputs slightly closer to the grid of the first tube..[/quote]I'd prefer to have the ground terminals much closer to the ground plane and more o...
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Back in end of 90s, we read articles by Thomas Dunker, Joe Roberts, Bruce Edgar, and many others (some of them were designers and some of them just publicists) who were trying to persuade that horns are some kind of advantageous topology and that...
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Talking about the headphones amplifiers: Sugden HeadMaster.
I do not subscribe audio publication and buy them only if I’m mood to bitch about something. Occasionally I buy the British Hi-Fi+, which is kind of mandatory to buy living in the New Engla...
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[quote user="drdna"]Experimenting with the new 2A3 tubes has been a very interesting experience. It has given me insight into more specifically exactly what I am looking for in the stereo sounds, which I associate with the Sound.
The most we can as...
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[quote user="serenechaos"]A great match for Asian culture/music? Makoto Tanaka (Builder of the Nessie cabinet) was at the controls, playing bamboo flutes, bells & such. [/quote]
And I am not kidding. Each time someone invite me and try to ...
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I am trying to keep the discussion about midbass horns out of ULF thread, I guess if Rakesh would like he can create a separate thread dedicated to his specific installation and the design ideas. I would like to keep the content of the posts more...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I kind of all set with the conceptual ideas how much future midbass horn might be implemented. [/quote]
I would like to expend a bit about my conceptual ideas, as the folks who advised me in this threaded my find my...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also, I need to mention that a very small monitor
made with a full range driver that I heard once was the most interesting sound
the I even hear in audio. It was not the most interesting sound overall but
there was one s...
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Collin,I am pleased that you found my suggestions worthwhile.
I approached the issue of your music room with two questions in mind:1- How to avoid the structural angle from interfering with the sound2- Would an enlarged room be worthwhile...
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Yes indeed. The company was originally Nova Physics and appears to have been sold on to Sam Laufer, a lawyer by profession originally who brought in Mark Porzilli of Melos and Pipedreams fame. I do not know if this company actually manufactures or se...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Given speakers that can be driven dynamically by single stage amplification, there remain a host of issues, and among those issues is color. Most compression drivers are color-challenged to begin with…[/quote]
I would agr...
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The last year there was some chatter up about artificially created so called “digital drugs”. If you are not familiar with it get familiar here for instance:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2008-08-07-digital-drugs_N.ht...
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Made first sounds with my Dannoy incarnation. Hard to comment on it now as my setup turns out to have some problems:
1. I haven't bypassed the B2's input circuits yet. And they do kill the sound - one slight move of one of the p...
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There is always the argument that if you can't hear it, it can simply mean that your hearing sucks.......
When my second son was setting up his mobile recording studio we wanted an external RAID array for speed (mor...
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nl,
[quote user="nl"] I offered to be of assistance, as I have a little experience in these matters, but assistance is not appreciated so I will be leaving the Kingdom of Romy for more productive environments. [/quote]
where did this come from are ...
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This year’s THE Show was in bustling Irvine, rather than tony
Newport Beach. The difference in the
locations is just a few miles, but it was down-market all the way, with so few exhibitors (and so few attendees) it would surprise me if the promote...
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I was trying to find out what drivers the Allen Sides’ speaker uses and found a lot of noise about this among the people of Guitar Center – it is not surprising considering Allen Sides background.
http://www.clynemedia.com/gcpro/Ocean_Wa...
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Sorry, I do not share your sentiments with those 3 reasons. Below are my reasons.
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Three reasons:
1) To try high passing your upper-MF channel (S2 > 400Hz horn) above the 1250Hz secondary resonance assiciated ...
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Will try to answer all questions here.Romy: I understand why you do not wish to use the term “surround sound”, but it is the accepted term for what we are discussing. You may add other terminology, but it only muddies the debate until others accept i...
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[quote
user="Murataltuev"]Yes, back chamber is very small. And it is
tunable! So, I need 110Hz Tractrix...ok[/quote]
You might tune the Fs by using a acoustically semitransparent
fabric, like Audiotechnica does in their headphones. About the si...
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Paul, what I mean by 'Drain GND' is your idea of a GND cable connected at one end only. I have no access to mother earth and cannot install a dedicated rod. To avoid confusion, below is my actual power line and GND scheme.
As for...
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Jarek, my experience affirms that many “listening rooms”
are overdamped, and you can always put a rug or rugs on the wooden flooring
where you want it/them. And I have been able to get good sound in weird rooms.
Basically, regarding rooms, “to...
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It has been a difficult time last 2 months in my family. We went
over job change and we fired a live-in nanny that made some logical thine with
kids difficult. The new nanny we found had to quit in 2 weeks due to her
medical condition, so it was a...
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A site reader sent me last nigh a link to a Yahoo newsgroup where a guy posted at feedback about Accuphase T-1100
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FMtuners/message/66682
Here is the content of the newsgroup post:
David...
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wow. So much to digest here.
Further thoughts.This is where I’m at.
It
seems that I don’t have the space for optimum straight horns exiting directly
onto the listening position as per Romy’s diagram. And besides,...
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[quote user="anthony"] Macondo is no magic bullet. Sure, Macondo/DSET is put together in a way that it's components need for optimal operation, and when "used as directed" the performance is phenomonal, but it is still prone to room integr...
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Jorge,
You're right about using identical amps. No doubt.
I have not used Dr. Edgar's passive network but I have tried conventional passive networks on Edgarhorns. They worked alright.
And I have...
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