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A reader of my site sent me interesting information. It looks like Accuphase came up with a new model: T1100.
http://www.accuphase.com/cat/t-1100_e.pdf
In this new model more functionality went to DSP, but the most important the ...
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When I am alone and listen music or if I listed music with those very-very few who do not need my explanation what they are hearing then I very seldom do something else. Smoking cigars does not count.
One of the activities that I do enjoy some...
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[quote user="Kerry Brown"] A digital crossover with lower bit depth and sampling rate than the recordings it's processing won't deliver maximum sound quality; unfortunately my DEQX crossover is limited to 24/96 so it can't process hi-res digital ...
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MusicLover wrote:
IF you think I am mocking you , then I will stop posting. I thought I'd try your website since you seem to at least be doing the right thngs, which is building your own system. But if your ego is going ...
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I met a few days back a person who does high-end audio and in fact he does. He has multiple turntables, he has discrimination taste in audio components/elements, has his ideas how a playback might or should be built. For all intended purpose he i...
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[quote user="morricab"] I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone. The reason why is this: They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty resona...
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Well, this is a big subject.
Kind of. For sure a better DAC produce better sound. How much a better DAC shall
cost? That is a complicated topic that has absolutely no relation to how the
DAC sound. I remember a dealer that I know pick up a new spe...
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I find that one of the most interning and stimulating ideas that you expressed was your experience with your bass horn
[quote user="Reinhard"] Midbass horns: are there are two 20 cycle bass horns which normally have 6,50 m in length and 3,20 i...
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Marc Mickelson always was one of the heroes of audio propaganda – he always was able to load a maximum cargo of “strategic information” to the readers without being insulting to anyone and without too obvious demonstration of his real intentions. I r...
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Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...
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*** I am positive that if
you get 100 pieces of exactly your model of Tannoy, they will ALL sound
different.
Very likely, I have 6
drivers and one of them sound as I need, all the rest of them are compromised.
They still have the similar char...
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CEC TL0 3.0 (I have CEC TL0 3.0 model 2018) is my favorite Transport and the question is could it be improved?
CEC has very very good dynamics good bass good pace good rhythm good dimension very accurate sound, low jitter and very tr...
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There is always the argument that if you can't hear it, it can simply mean that your hearing sucks.......
When my second son was setting up his mobile recording studio we wanted an external RAID array for speed (mor...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] I learned nonetheless to use for my (limited) task (fine tuning my speakers and audio system in my music room) the great IVIE IE-30 R.T.A. and IVIE IE-20 white/pink noise generator [/quote]
You do not need white/pink...
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I reread my posts at
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11547
and
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=3981
and
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostI...
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Here is a good article, not that I agree with everything that the author say but the direction is very good.
http://guthrytrojan.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
An Acquired Taste
by Guthry Trojan from March 28, 2006
It ...
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RE Peralmusic soundfilesThis is something that a Jacob Ganz wrote for NPR (my underlining):"I spoke again with Bob Ludwig, the mastering engineer quoted in the
story, who has submitted "Mastered for iTunes" tracks to Apple. He says
the compan...
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Ok, none it is time to dive into the practical process of tweeters alignment. Once again I presume that we are taking about monopole tweeters that use AFTER your midranges compression drivers (read my previous post). Some people use term “supertweete...
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I am not following the products as I use to do in past, do not buy anything in audio and do not look forward to. Sometimes I look on-line what is our on in audio industry and what is more and more amazes me the level of obnoxiousness , impunity a...
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If you followed, a few days ago in the conversation with “Michaelz” I was spinning my usual plot, bitching that most of the today’s pianists play, unintelligent as senseless, almost like with the "rubber fingers”:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD
1) BEETHOVEN - CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVESHERMAN SCHERCHEN CONDUCTING THE VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCH.JAN PEERCE · MARIA STADER · OTTO WIENERVIENNA ACADEMY CHORUS
Transfered from ...
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Well, after all I was pointed out to the place where the annoyed wonna-be-Magico-owners came from:
http://forums.avguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=349&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50
Nothing new, I well accustomed to the satiations when pro...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First of all, if you have
multiple of PP3000 then be advices that them connected in parallel substantially
descries sound quality for each of them. Then might be use ONLY at different
phases of some measures should be ta...
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Ok, I do not know what it was: was it DHT, was it 300B, was it some other specifics of this given amp or whatever… but those two aspects that I named: intentional density of colors and randomness of pace are something that I would like to exercise in...
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I think this post need to have an epigrapher:
“We knew what we wanted to hear, and so we developped, and developped, and developped... In hundreds of small and bigger steps. Over thirty years. Till we were "there" where we always wanted ...
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Somebody at AA asked about the difference between electromagnets and perm magnet. Thankfully the AA idiots who pick the pieces of brain at my site and already learned that the idiotic blabbering about “the electromagnets have more flux” is comple...
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Thanks, ferenc.
I went to Ocean Way Recording the Federated Mike mentioned but I did not see anything in there and I did not know that they have also an oceanwayaudio.com site. They call it the HR2 and it was built for them by Allen Sides, so ...
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Keep in mind that CD players are an electro
mechanical
interface with all the possibilities of jitter etc coming into
play. Streaming
audio via the V link bypasses most of the nasties and is certainly
a much
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[quote user="anthony"] 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 integr...
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Cody, sweat hart, why do you do it to me? Why are
you making me at the very first day to destroy the very best in me? Just last
night I made a New Year resolution promising to be kinder to the idiots who are
forming high-end audio industry and tod...
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