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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: Starting from scratch - new amps new system
Post Subject: moreoverPosted by Dominic on: 2/5/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:

No, you did not do before and you are not doing it still. I think the problem with that you are expressing is that you have no desire to EXPLAIN FOR YOURSELF what you do.  Forgot about the amplifiers, speakers and the rest of the audio crap. So, far you kind off are shoveling the names and definition but it does not look that those definitions have a lot of realization for you at this point. I do not mean to be rude but I also would like to be honest and I do not feel that so far you’re looking for anything relevant. Save you money and save your time and pursuit for a time being different projects outside the audio domain.


To more fully address this from my perspective.
I don't feel i'm in a real position at this point to be going directly after the more abstract goals in playback. I have some more experimenting to do to more fully understand some relationships. I am however, fairly certain of the way i want to go as far as overall system topology. That of a well designed horn system (which still seems like a moving target) with dedicated badwidth amps per channel that share a voice and accomodateWhat i want in terms of this topic is a flexible though simplified tool that will allow me to experiment with multi amping and hopefully channel tuning. I don't intend for my current speaker setup to be anything like the eventual solution ( outside of any upstream influence the speakers' textural substrate for the tonal perspective is all wrong, like printing a photo on the wrong kind of paper, despite using the right colour process, or something) I'm not sure why you don't get this point, but i won't worry too much abut it: i just want a tool that can grow with me, it doesn't have to be tremendously anything to start with as long as it serves as base that can be adjusted. I bought those above speakers as a tool. I've never had really solid LF capability nor strongly dynamic upper mid to work with, it's been a useful adventure. Which is not a bad cop, since vintage jbl stuff has a 1:1 resale value.
Within this context, i was thinking that one option (i was getting at this before) would be to build something simplified that works around the key parts of the melq so that i could at some point try the melq sound by modifying a bit. Another option would be to use something like the bottlehead for HF and a gainclone for LF, I stated this thread with the aim of finding other options and the usefull-ish suggestion i got was to go with a thouroughly but abstrusely documented single channel. While totally useful in its own way, especially from the all important sonic perspective, it falls down on a couple points: it's one channel, two, i basically need my hand held to build an amp; hence the bottlehead idea since the instructions are apparently very easy to follow and well documented. If it weren't for the fact that i'm loathe to rehabilitate my marantz gear i'd just as soon collect the parts for a 4-way melq setup over the next couple years and just listen to good music in the meantime. To reiterate; what i want to do right now is re-amp post haste without having to spend again in order to biamp or try 'dedicating', hopefully with something that hits some of those points in the first post, which was not an exhaustive list as i was writing that at well after 4 in the morning, blech. Perhaps there's no-one who can really find a solution for me, but it was worth a shot i figured. It's just so hard to find appropriate solutions to -in the context of the 'real world'- abstract opaque concerns. Hell it's hard enough just finding a compression driver in a 'hifi' speaker to listen to.
 There's still a bit more on this subject i'd like to hash out but my mindset at this hour isn't bearing further fruit on the topic.

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