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Thanks for the link, Romy. With JGH (RIP) long gone, it's good that HP survived. Is it just me, or has he pared down his writing style somewhat since "the Episode"?Here is another link, to his review of this year's version of the "Pipe Dream" speak...
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Thanks, Bill. The system you describe sounds like my brother''s old home theater surround sound, which did a nice job with 5.1 DVDs, for concerts, opera, and musical theater. I presently use only a turntable or CD/DAC source with my hi-fi, in stereo ...
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Bill, of course I supposed the DSP-free sound would sound better than processed to me, based on my experience. I just wanted to know how you felt about it, when it was put like that. I went to big SS amps despite I prefer the sound of small SET amps,...
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Hi Kitty,This combo is quite interesting and amazingly coincidental....I had scan speak 18W's sitting around from my old speakers and just recently had them put in sealed boxes. I was using a Seas silk dome on top (in free a...
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Romy, are you thinking I am running a center channel now? I am not. I am just running the new stereo speakers, right and left. I had already decided that I wasn't going for the center channel before I went this way, for all the reasons I cited. I mad...
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Every musician/composer I know who has heard the Harbeth Monitor 40s has liked them, for whataever this is worth. They aren't cheap and they are not efficient, but they are pitched well within their limits and they provide enough deta...
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There are those who claim to drive some of the big vintage speakers with SETs at AA. Like those ancient top models from University, Wharfdale, Tannoy, etc., etc. Not that this is the same as an objective approach.I've heard it tried ...
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[quote user="be"]Gregm, you wrote: "Yet, the best result -- i.e. most homogeneous sonically -- came from the thinner wires in interconnects."Did you use silver wire for your comparison?[/quote]I used copper in my example above. Later on, I received r...
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Sometimes it is not so much as adding color, but taking it away. Most cheap cone drivers will exhibit a loose sound, so if you want to get the cellos more clearly, you need to get some meat off the bones or they wil get lost in the mess.Having a th...
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With a nod (and existential apologies) to H-G Gadamer...If to take your stated objective (Techno "Music") seriously, it might well be that materializing your image of yourself in possession of the speakers you've shared could fulfill and even satisfy...
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That sure looks like an interesting configuration for a change , all right, but are those "ceramic" drivers, or what? Does anyone know?What's with all the "space age" materials these days? I mean, are people actually listening or do they just "...
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What am I trying to do ?Nothing more than have fun and enjoy some speakers that I've owned for a long time. Period. I know it's way overkill for my neighborhood. I know it's like playing the A2 system in a closet.I ...
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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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Glad to see there'sanother reviewer taking bribes. Why would we otherwise praise a piece of equipment to high heaven? I personally prefer free passes to porno sites, like Newegg.com,or music direct,where I can lust over all those hot to trot pieces o...
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Steve, of course I have noted very obvious, problematic "phase issues" with speakers in the past. And of course we want the Sound to fill the room - apropos - with Music, not noise. But good luck with keeping track of "phase angles", and good luck ...
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[quote user="Michaelz"]I know that piano sound board is very expensive. How ever, one can get brken old upright pianos for free, or for very little (except you need to have a truck to move them. No clue for lack of time though:^...
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Maybe no other hi-fi group has thought more about the cabinet's contribution to sound than the single-driver crowd. Many of them like the "immediacy", "integrity" and "purity" of the single driver sound so much that they endlessly hu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Not kidding?! :-)Yes, I always felt that Tannoy the vintage 10" sealed box were the best Tannoy out there. Still they were the best not because they were best but because the 10” had less bass extension and did not go into ...
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As I play the old-but-new-to-me ML2s more, and as I slowly replace tubes, performance has changed a lot, and all for the better. Understand that I am not really talking about the ML2s, but about the sound I am getting, which is so different and...
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We enter a complicated region as the lower driver we go the drivers could be used for different purposes and it is very hard to generalize. A 10-incher might be MF driver and LF driver. In my past I experimented with few MF 10-inchers, including some...
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SamFrom your listings perhaps you do not mind if certain qualities of the speakers themselves come to the fore, as long as you get other things you want?I think the Verity Parsifals do need the Encore (is that it?) bass units, and you'd certainl...
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Now first of all our ears were designed to hear up to 20,000 cycles there-abouts if not perhaps more, a scientific fact I can't really argue against. So I find it difficult to accept a proposition that we don't enjoy listening to sounds from 2,...
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Yes, the "bottom drops out" of the "IB" depending on whether or how it's "opened", and one way or another, the cabinet may or may not "assist" the driver at some point. This is where one has to decide how much to ask from the particular driver or dri...
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It has been a while since I heard any Velodyne subs. Do they change models annually, like everyone else? Whatever; they have been around for a long time, and I have heard many of them over the years, including several of the Stereophile Recommended...
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I should begin by mentioning that I actually liked Vandersteen's original 2C, within its limits, driven by a nice soft pp amp, like the CJ MV50. But to me V's designs got/get worse with every "improvement", right up to and including the la...
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Hi Romy
a good sound in a room does not depend only on the speaker chain, but essencially also of the room acoustics. Probably many of the Trio systems didn’t sound right just because of that…. I was at Holgers Home in Lautersbach back in 94. He ha...
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Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...
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Josh, I also loved my old RTR HF 'stat arrays, doubled over old Peerless tweeters, but I sold all that Fulton stuff to Dr. Dynaco several years ago. My idea for the 'stats and the ribbons is that I do not depend on them for tone but use them only ab...
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But who says an A2-capable amp should actually be driven into A2 in use? I thought you planned to operate the amp well within its limits, to get the DHT benefits without subjecting the amp to the sorts of stress that always spoils these little thing...
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Consigned to the root cellar? In such a small space, "cranking it up" is a relative term, but I think this could be more interesting than headphones. Anyway, there's no substitute for trial and error. I would say, basically, use a good front end a...
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