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...if setting up ones system and new room can be described as 'nice'. Interesting though I bet...and if each others company was enjoyed then "nice" would certainly apply.
[quote user="scooter"]- Other than some (quite)...
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This is a part of HigherFi site. They are in a very specific business and they do what they do fine. The site is pretty much enumeration of everything in audio with price tags. They completely silent and with no expertise of any kind offered to buye...
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[quote user="behhl"]Hi Romy, but I am simply curious that your Designed-&-Made-Yourself have always had the flavour of the names and places from A Hundred Years of Solitude ... Macondo the village, Melquiades the gypsy ... so why the departue now...
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Well, the license of think this way was given to me by one mini-monitor that I found to sound “promising” for the objectives that I would like to achieve. In fact not even the monitor itself but the bass driver, the drive that in a way was unique cha...
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Romy I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. I do believe, in a 2 way speaker system crossed over at 800hz with a good wood horn i wil...
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[quote user="Thorsten"]....because where humans are concerned objectivity does not exist [/quote]Thorsten, as many times we talk about it as many times you completely in denial of a very simple and very powerful thing that the human perception itself...
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[quote user="Markus"]Hi Romy,
in another thread you recommended the JBL LE8 as a good driver for the 200-1,000 Hz region. Any specific version of that driver? It has been produced in different variants over a rather long time.[/quote]
Markus, I do ...
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Hi James,
Theoretically a straight 33 feet long mono subhorn with the drivers at one end of the room and the mouth exiting the floor at the other end would probably cover from 10Hz to 30Hz with no problem, with the apropriate drivers.
I don't hav...
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[quote user="Antonio J"] INTEGRATION that's the clue and that's what I always feel lacks in my room, I mean extreme integration, real integration, the feeling that the recorded bass sound has its own boundaries, not my room's. [/quote]
I do not comp...
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Well, it is always difficult to me to deal with audio people because any expressing any abstract notion in front of them those enslaved people perceived as a preamble to some kind of “deliverable good” and the sick audiophile imagination has already ...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yes, I did not realize that the price of £225 is for a PAIR; usually price is given per driver. I guess the £225 per pair is not and of the world but I still insist to pay 65 cents per 1 Euro as it use to do… In past I n...
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I went to see what Speedysteve7 does. I did not read the text. I just glanced at the text and seen the mentioning of multisampling with digital amps, mentioning of digital crossover. All of it and the most important the rock-end-roll crap the he ...
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The Wolf at Our Heels
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune.
By Jan Swafford
Y...
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Lawrence,
Here is the Webster Online Dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moron) definition of the word Moron:Definition of MORON1usually offensive : a person affected with mild mental retardation2: a very stupid personIn this thre...
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Hi Romy, but I am simply curious that your Designed-&-Made-Yourself
have always had the flavour of the names and places from A Hundred
Years of Solitude ... Macondo the village, Melquiades the gypsy ... so
why the departue now to Zarathustra? ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Yes, Bud, I agree that the most common problem for the full-tilt regenerators is that they begin to exhibit various problems in direct proportion to current demands. And this seems to be true even when they are used "below capac...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I have an unexpected advice to you. Label all knobs,
testing points, input and outputs. Everything sounds to you very logical and self-explanatory
not but, so it was to me. In 12 years you will be looking at the ...
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[quote user="JKnechtel"]Rakesh,I think your in the UK, amiright? I see you are. Never mind, was going to ask who your woodworker was. I need to find someone similar here. If your willing to share your plans for you stands, let me know. I really...
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Stitch,
You outlined very nicely the pattern that exists with quite many products in audio, I call it Whorish Fear Marketing I can’t say that the same happens with Schroeder arms. I just do not know as I never paid any attention to those arms...
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I would like to suggest an alternative factor or explanation to your recent ULF/midbass findings.When you were chronicling the design and implementation of your midbass horns I was curious as to the effect of the very close placement of the two h...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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Source: http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/10/harmans-managed-studer-or-end-of-swiss.html
The American Gray Cardinal Monster – Harman International, LTD that fucked up any single company that they owned, took over Swiss Studer.
htt...
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[quote user="I.M.Distortion"]…. i will prove to you in the future that my idea for time alignment is correct. [/quote]
You do not need to prove me anything. Read my site archives and you might learn why alignment the drivers how you propo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...
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[quote user="msaudio"] Romy I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. [/quote]
It is not my view. I wrote about it many times before...
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Hi all
The WE 555 is IMHO an interesting driver, made for a very spesific use,
which is driving a "full-range" horn in the theatre.
As we all know, the wide range system with Jensen 18"woofers and Bostwick tweeter came later, at first the 555 an...
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I have mention Daniel in the Julia Fischer’s thread and posted a clip with him playing the Brahms Double Concerto
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=10119
Today I woke up, turned on my Schwartz and heard a ve...
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[quote user="k100"] If I were to try to find a pair of ML2's that are older production, what years of production does this include? [/quote]
All ML2.1 are the new version of ML2 and they are not good as ML2. However, I have seen the original ML2 mar...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do some very interesting experiments with Rohde & Schwarz tuner. Dima and I have discovered a way to use the Schwarz without the wide bandwidth amplifier, driving the Multiplex Decoder from the Schwarz’s preamps. Bas...
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