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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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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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...with Romy. So far it has been all abstract, following some known good solutions (like Vibraplane)...and it will largely stay like that for some time unfortunately.My actual space is too small to build a reasonable acoustical system, I use headphon...
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Over the years there have been occasional reviews of low powered SS, but mostly in passing because they undercut (by sounding better) the bigger SS amps whether by the same vendor or others. Yes many years ago I had a low powered semi faux hybrid Jol...
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Hi Scooter,
Thanks for joining the discussion. My replies to your comments are below, please excuse the cut-n'paste.
Thanks for taking the time to post more details on your set up and photos.
Yo...
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If you put your speakers in the back extra bedroom, you could have your cake and eat it 2. You will have a normal living room and your headphones sound that you love from small room will be back and better then ever and it don't cost anything except ...
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Zanon, you seem to feel that RTA has some intrinsic value. In any case, in terms of results, I think you already have a sense of where this is going. If you are bound to use your present speakers in a room you yourself deem too large for them, t...
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[quote user="zanon"]Does anyone know of CD mixed especially for headphone?Maybe two mics, 6 inches apart, is the correct way to record for such a playback system.[/quote]The problem is that even with artificial head recordings you don't get a proper ...
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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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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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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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I feel a kind of "healthy envy" for the way you have been able to get the sound you were looking for, and I mean sound in the sense of conveying more clearly the purpose and content-load of the music. I can't help thinking that after all, everything ...
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Oh I think it is very much a recursive arc but not in terms of audio fidelity etc as much as life history. But sometimes we can reculer pour mieux sauter. As big a problem as audio systems are to musical fidelity, the room effect is just as jarring. ...
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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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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 integration and poor setup so will like...
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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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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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[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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I do not think is has anything to do with parametric equalizer or writing own curves, at least I have no interest in it. The immediate questions that I would like to have answered are following: 1) Can Macondo or elements of Macondo produce ANY sound...
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Paul, I've been definitely looking at the DIY CNC "market" for ideas!! Esp. regarding the frame construction.The problem is that they are happy once all the frame resonances go to 3-5Hz, so they usea lot of mass loading. Here, my airsprings resonate ...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Nope, it has nothing to do nether neither with electro-magnetic drivers nor with classic notion of traducing channels. Think about out the movie “Man in Black” and about the size of the Galaxy … The caT [/quote]:D LOLI'll h...
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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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[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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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="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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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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[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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Yes, the raised-floor-with-vaulted-ceiling rooms are very hard to charge properly. Perhaps you might at this point begin to work on some of the floor sink treatments discussed up this thread?The corner "nook" can be framed in, if need be, with a doo...
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