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A friend of mine asked my last night if I feel that PurePower’s Sound as good as a playback during those extremely seldom moments when electrify is good. It was a good question and I feel that it is worth to cover.
First off all I can not say about ...
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Yes, both ends of the spectrum are tough to integrate with a quality MF.Of course, electrostats have no "push", but they seem to do all right (understatement) just supplementing way up there, in an array.The thing is, the "big" ribbons and 'stat...
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Romy, Not sure I can add much more.... you'll find out yourself of course. Overall, I can not comment on the "enabl" treatment beyond what, Dave, Chris and Bud have said (Dave and Chris are the Planet10 guys). I think I would have tried th...
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I live in San Francisco, of course. I have a horn system as everyone knows and a smaller standard electrodynamic system, which is no longer made. As everything is heavily customized. I do not think it will suit your purposes. However, what is absolut...
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Alex, contrary to the numerous speculation that many people more or less reasonably spread about the subject, my experience indicates that there are no such a things as “preferable crossover frequencies". The chosen optimum crossover frequencies are...
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Haralanov, Yes and no. Of cause no one would deny the benefits of ULF reproduction but the key questions would be: 1) what kind of reproduction? 2) how to talk about it? There is no language to convey the ULF message. The 20K repose is meaningless an...
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[quote user="amperidian"]Speaking of impressive technical skill ... I just listened to Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi Album released under decca label. Although very proficient in the technical area, to me it sounds very much like she is missing the...
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[quote user="Chirag"] Hey, what kind of crossovering is the DimAmp seeing? Are you sticking to 1st order slopes even with the nasty breakups higher up in the 21W carbon woofer? [/quote]Sure, my 21W has no “nasty breakups higher up”, well it per...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Nope, I of course do not do not deny out ability for vertical allocation of sources but I do deny it in context of a loudspeaker with properly integrated drivers. I might recognize some degree of vertical HF imagine shiftin...
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Hi RomyWe build horns anyway some one would like , i have been making the horns that are in the pic for me + the drivers that it use the drivers are a mid bass driver are a6" alum field coil driver i like the sound of field coil magnets +...
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Last time we wrote you thought I should focus less on tweeters and more on midbass.I am not done yet, but I have found a very nice midbass solution. Somewhat unorthodox, maybe.I have come to love police sirens! Without having A/B compared it to a pai...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Funny that people think that phase issues just go away with so-called "FR" drivers, which have their own electrical and mechanical phase problems. Of course it doesn't get any "better" with multi-way, multi-amped mega systems......
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It is not necessarily so. You do not complain about HF harshness due to electricity problem. You complain only about excessive higher frequencies. However, the excessive higher frequencies might come from zillion another reasons, including the topolo...
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Hm, good point. They indeed might
be from UK. Anyhow, I did have Fostex super tweeters. I think one the cheapest
(wish was the best) and one second from their best. My experience with them irrelevant
as it was long time ago and I because I used at...
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hi RomyI don’t feel much friction with your response. Thats mostly fine. But I replied assuming such a question is raised by someone who has experienced DIY background and basics how to „design sound“.This is of course a precondition. Of course we ca...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]tuga wrote:Our milage varies and in my case it's still quite short.In any case, I would place glare on top of my list of appalling qualities of modern high-end loudspeakers.This glare (unlike clarity) results from an ex...
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[quote user="drdna"]The idea of 360 degree radiation of sound has great intuitive appeal to me since I feel the best recordings are done with two omnidirectional microphones. The most precise reproduction of the musical event would seem to be: ...
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In this exalted company its probably not up to much but I've not heard anything else demo-ed that makes me want to change. :)Front end: Vista laptop with XXHighend software (best sounding bargain in Hi Fi). Fireface 400 external soundcardDAC/Pre amp:...
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Thanks, el`Ol
What I wonderful devise to position a tweeter on it! It has even perfect size for my Water Drop! It will not help in my case as my tweeter is firmly makes and my MF channel is flimsy but for somebody why would need a perfect tweeter al...
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Hello Paul,
When I need to repair an old speaker, I always try Orange County Speakers (http://www.speakerrepair.com/) or Simply Speakers (http://www.simplyspeakers.com). They are very good at sourcing old speaker parts and repairing tweeters, etc...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="drdna"] Try a simple experiment. Connect only one driver at a time. Listen only to the ribbon tweeters. Now listen only to the woofers. Etc. Can you distinguish different heights for the image? [/quote] Of caus...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I detected that the Water Drop tweeter has VERY interesting ability to react to the stage of out stage. I am driving the Water Drop with a full range Melquiades SET. As you know the full-rage Milq use a moderate Lindale tra...
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Paul,The two channel system is separate from the HT system - the gigantic plywood folded horn subwoofers support the screen but that's the only connection to the HT audio system.The HT system is three Orb Audio 8" powered subwoofers, 3 x Gallo Ref. S...
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I came across an article:http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/enigmacoustics-sopranino-super-tweeter-review that introduced electrostatic tweeter that might be interesting. The company has a web site that is to unpleasant to reread/navigate: http://www....
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In his latest YouTube,Romy mentioned using my prepro to time align my drivers.I use the Trinnov Altitude 16 prepro which has a total of 20 channels. 16 of the channels have balanced analog outputs and the othe four Channels use the rca and optical sp...
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Thanks for the advice Romy.But actually, I may not need new tweeters after all (for the time being, at least, until the dreaded 'Autumn Sound' arrives).You see, when I connected them up, I didn't really think too carefully about the speaker...
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Romy,I have thought about what you might do to create some audio cash flow and two things came to mind.1. Audio doctor house calls. This would not mainly be to "audio people," as their goals and frustrations would usually not be what you would be w...
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As the builder behind these horns, I can answer some of your questions. It's true, I was primarily focused on the woodworking/building side, and now I'm experimenting with amplification and crossovers. I can't speak authoritatively on those subjects...
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hi Romymy name is Angelo. I am swiss/italian, live in brazil the last 10 years . I grew up assisting my father buiding speakers and comercialize them in small numbers. I where listening for many years on Klipschorn replica with altec 416-8b...
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Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point directly to me). At my angle the...
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