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Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have learned today that there is something g deeply wrong with it. [/quote]Not quite. What is wrong is not the Amplifier, but the use of headphones to replay recordings made for speaker reproduction. The way this pu...
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There are a few moments I am working with now. One is the notorious “viola dryness” – the concept that I am staggering for years. Another thing is that my room each some dynamics of my Macondo – something that my old room did not do. OK it is given t...
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You may remember I also use transformer shunting for attenuation, in my case the taps are selected by "communications" shunts/relays. My output is quite low R, but variable, and only the transformers for isolation (no "active buffer". I was wonderin...
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I am stuck with headphones for a while. In my search for a decent system I bumped into some interesting and odd stuff. Smyth Research Realiser A8 is an sound processing product for headphones. The theme is that one can reproduce the sound of any syst...
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Well, that is a small room, all right. Regardless, a "mid-bass deficiency" alone could literally evicerate big works. I have written up the Kubelik/BPO/Dvorak 9, because I think so highly of that performance. It should absoutely be loaded to the g...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Audio has sort of wrapper on a gift– can make it more attractive but has completely no affect to the substance of the gift.[/quote]I do often believe that I miss some content by hearing acoustic music through any random&nbs...
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Hello Andy,I like your recordings although i am listening on headphones which i normally do not use. My Main setup is not operational right now.They do sound clean, clear and dynamic.Can you let us hear a recording of the live vs playback? This would...
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Yeah, that is low life for sure but that kind of takedown is becoming more common. People are copying the politicos (of all types and persuasions). If they can't give a memorized answer or it jars one of their buzz phrases they feel free to slime yo...
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I have a new client who put me shitty office with no privacy of any kind. I am sitting in there like in Bagdad intersection – that sucks; hopefully it will not last long. To insult the injury right around me some a bunch of hoodlums with HR paranoia...
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[quote user="manisandher"] For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. [/quote]I very much applaud to the desire to have speakers that do ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I wonder if anyone heard any deserving attention headphone amplifiers? Any further advise to a person who never imploded any dedicated headphone amps?
[/quote]Did you have a chance to hear Single Power gears? I'm p...
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Hi Cat[quote user="Romy the Cat"] However, here is where the trick begins. Putting the headphones on, playing them along with the big loudspeakers system and adjusting the volume of the “big system” (primary the LF channel) it is possible to take the...
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[quote user="N-set"]On the collapse, I did not experience anything that drastic so far...but I do get a lot of irritating chaos on complicated loud passages. At this moment I tend to blame the amplifier (a characteristic "breaking" of the solid state...
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For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. Why did I embark on this quest? Well although I’m quite happy with my headphones, I miss being...
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I have a local audio guy coming to my room recently and he hive
me an interesting feedback. He said that my playback sounds like a headphone. I
had years back, when I lived in Boston apartment somebody told the same things.
There is a point to com...
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Paul, my headphones are electrostats that need a separate driver. I use Blue Hawaii amp with a quad EL34. The preamp has a direct output from the selector switch, which will be connected to the headphone amp....
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Congratulations, Romy, and Long and Happy Life Together, Romy and Amy!Although my wife and I have been married for over 44 years, and she is a good travel companion, still I could hold her head under water as easily as I could ply her with Bruckner v...
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As usual on Sunday evenings, I listened via headphones to the weekly local FM classical music broadcast. Last night they wound up with a phenomenal piece - Contact - from American composer Kevin Puts, played by a string trio - Time For Three - fronti...
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Well, probably too much looking into to the word “insult” made
the focus of it a bit off the target. I
do not know what makes the headphones to have bad imaging devise. There are zillion papers written about it, whoever
care about it might look ...
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But didn't Romy say up above that he was running it out of the headphone output not the regular back panel outputs? Or did I misunderstand? He specifically complained about the headphones as lacking low end back in the day....
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Michael,
I never head Single Power gears, or ever herd this company. I kind of have very specific type of sound that am wiling to get out the headphones. It is hard to describe but it should be very-very soft and moist but still with upper bass horn...
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Decoud (and others), where do you source big Nichicon caps, pref. in EU?I'm slowly preparing to attack a Staxquiades - a mastodont Milq inspiredamp to power Stax headphones (PP 6E5 DC to PP 2A3/300B/EL34). I need 10.000uF/500V and 10.000/350V caps.Mo...
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Scooter, thank you for the warnings. I already own O2 MkI for +/-2 yrs and got to know them a bit. As I said I do not like headphones in generalbut I have no other choice. I own 2 more staxes: Sigma and Lambda Pro and Omega can do things others canno...
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Jarek, congrats on getting a project to where you can listen to it! Are you planning to use this with headpones, or have you used it with headphones? I saw it is "limited" to 5V in, but perhaps enough overall gain with buffer for 'phones"? I realize ...
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Romy wrote :
"...to my big surprise I hear the most proper events stopping effect in …. headphones, or in an environment that has a lot of issuers with reverberation decays..."
I've made this observation when listening to music in very small ...
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Firstly, thank you to Montepilot, Paul S, KLegind, zanon and Romy for all your thoughts on the Zu Druids. I recently tried high-passing the Druids at various frequencies and using a pair of Wilson-Benesch Chimeras and various amps for LF and uppe...
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Funny, but Lukas Fikus actually introduces the "Golden Gate" as something he cooked up at the behest of prospective customers, and at some point he mentions it's his best seller. IMO, he "earned" his following with free advice, and now they are cla...
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No worries Mani.Interestingly enough, my "reference" is also headphones. They take you in a very different direction than speakers, which is maybe why we both have druids....
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I have never experienced anything close to "excellent" sound in a car - even without the engine running.The reflections and resonances do not kill the music, but the presentation is really DEAD. The problem is how our hearing works. Reflections that ...
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Well, what I am complaining about pretty much sounds like like how running a hotrod on low octane gasoline feels.It's been well over a year since I put in good 5651s, so I just went ahead and replaced those. This quieted things down but di...
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