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Post #201 and #202 of Midbass horns and real estate. Before you moved to your new house, we had said that your right channel would send up a red flag because of cubby hole were your equipment is presently setting. Then it was mentioned to put up a sl...
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I think that I saw someone offering a silicon nitride thrust plate along with the ball bearing years ago. Jam, your solution of simply flipping the thrust plate upside down makes perfect sense, but I suppose a silicon nitride (or similarly hard) plat...
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Actually you certainly are attacking us - without reason and without accuracy. My math works fine - We delivered 3 units in all to Bill. All met all our specs. One suffered a blown ceramic fuse shortly after installation. Not a QC issue, but proper ...
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[quote user="Gregm"] It's better than a Marten Supreme because the mid is cut off @500Hz whereas Marten cuts it off at 1,3kHz "where the ear is at its most sensitive". Note: they must be referring to latest technology ears -- not the tradi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I personally tend to use TT with heavy platters and I feel that if a platter is substantially heavy then there is no different how you would drive the platter. Put a platter of 100kG then you will never recognize HOW the pl...
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Alex,
if I were at the show I would be interested to hear the Coincident new Pure Reference speaker. They are the Coincident’s new move into the miserable world of ceramic drivers. The Pure Reference is the typical Israel Blume’s design but wi...
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It doesn't seem prudent to look at the speaker without considering the amplifier at all. We would be designing a speaker that would work with a theoretical amp -- but not one that's available.I propose the following:Characteristics of many commercial...
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Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider usin...
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Lamm uses Russian ceramic sockets, at least use to use them 10 yeas back. What he uses not I have no idea. The material of sockets is not as important – the profile of contact is the key. Unfortunately Russian sockets use triangular contact that make...
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I was considering for a while making some re-arrangement with electricity lines in my house: to add and remove some lines from my stand by generator, to power pool from different circuit and some more changes. I was kind of considering running a dedi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I do not know any advantages because the fact that the sound softer. I personally believe that the electromagnets have HIGHER MOMENTUM FLUX MODULATION and that make them to “sit” slightly… or exactly what I would like t...
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I have compaired the Ortofon Jubilee to the MC3000II. The former is more "unctuous", "viscous", "smooth", or "suave", and easier on recordings, per se. The latter, although very tape-like in balance, attack and transparency, is less ...
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[quote user="Markus"]I usually manage to read you quite well, but this
Romy the Cat wrote:
direct or indirect phase constructors.
has me baffled. What do you mean, please?[/quote] When I wrote it I meant different ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I wanted to add that I have found that the effects I just mentioned occur even when the sound is EQ'd to "compensate". Setting aside the other issues raised by EQ, the notes in the EQ'd spectrum still "develop" with the upw...
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"... and I do not know if 3A/167M is better than anything else and I do not see why the metal socket is necessarily better then plastic – the socket is not the part of the tube."As you know, the 437A is like an on-steroids ECC83, ALL glass built, no ...
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[quote user="be"]Very interesting "review" thanks.The 150D is possibly not the most relevant comparison, it does not seem to be a high quality product since its ESR values are not even mentionned in the data sheets.Tha T97 series: ( http://www.vishay...
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Well, I do not know what it would mean. Regardless his “constitutional status” Row’s article is much more informative and much more educational for people who have interest in the MAXXes then the brainless saliva dropping that many industry cheerlead...
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The Olympians are OK, I told about them in Kitties go to London thread. From your explanation above I understood that you drove your s5 with Robertson, Krells etc… You still did not say how you you’re the S5. If you insist that you never drove S5 wi...
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Romy,I could not agree more! The only reason that I mention it is because we do see enough speakers with exactly these acoustic instrument problems: energy that leaks through the horn material, ringing from undamped material, wrong cutoffs (a trumpet...
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Greg,
BTW, if you go for direct radiation and would like to go for Dunlavy-like symmetric configuration (perfect for along wall) then here is for you an idea that I do like very much. I took that idea from old version Kharma Audiocritique and made i...
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Paul, I can’t say anything about it and I invest zero trust to what the seller say. The fact that he insists that “customers have never returned any or complained of their quality” does makes me horny however. The socket at your picture does have nam...
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[quote user="Paul S"] a maxed/modded Museatex iDAT-44+ DAC (adapted for battery power; no AC!)[/quote]
Yes, Paul it is good that you remind me it as I have been thinking about it for a few years and never put my hands on it. I am not a bit fun of ba...
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[quote user="miab"]I'm curious as to why the preference to paper cones as opposed to carbon/poly/kevlar/ceramic/.... With weight and stiffness advantages of other materials, would advancing technology not be well implemented towards drivers? [/quote]...
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Petar, I looked at the "custom" driver you posted the address for. It is interesting to look at, all right, but I am not set up to build drivers from scratch. Since I pretty much have to buy something that is either useable as-is or something that ...
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I never had that Selenium 405 driver. Generally the phenolic diaphragms are very tricky and might have some excessive softness and some luck of transients. Selenium also had a habit to load gap with ferrofluid – it also might slightly detransientize ...
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Paul, Alinco magnets perfectly able to drop a charge "just like that" and I presume that it is what happened. If cause the environmental difficulties would not do it alone, at least for that time. Over winter I had output tubes worn up on both amps a...
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Yes, Paul, you are right that it has to be pointed that the frequency extension, by itself, does not guarantee anything (but that’s why I posted the thread in Audio For Dummies section :-) ). OK, now let’s see how the tweeters should be used (in cont...
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Adrian, I have not tried the top Deccas for many years. My last experience with them was as ever: I absolutely loved their unrivaled immediacy and presence, which I found totally addictive, and it also made other cartridges sound pretty pathetic by ...
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Was talking with various audio people about the 6C33C I was amazed that people are so clueless about this tube. The people are so filled with some foolish prejudges and faulty notions about 6C33C that I deseeded to put together a brief “6C33C user ma...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] To that I would only add the following: Start saving up now for a second pair of S2s.[/quote]
Yes and no. I used the second S2 for lower MF range but it is not only way to go. I would propose that any driver with large a...
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