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I play trumpet professionally, I conduct semi professionally. Neither of those two characteristics helps me with (expensive or any other) audio. Actually they are in fact more in the way.As a trumpet player, much of what I hear comes from the wrong s...
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Every professional microphone on the planet is symmetrical and needs a transformer or symmetrical amp to work properly. Do we have an issue right up front? I am not sure why symmetry should be the scape goat here. Granted, nonlinearities in the trans...
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I mean we can take real live analog music, convert it 100% to digital and get incredible playback if we pay attention to details but we can't take an ANALog 60/50Hz AC signal and clean it up enough for MEGA expensive equipment.Electricity IS a proble...
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I think that there is an additional "musical" factor in older recordings. The recording engineers were often not technical people, rather had strong musical background themselves. I believe that they did have a different goal based on the tools that ...
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You only need the first two notes and you know that this is WONDERFUL Bach.Rony, what is your "bitch" with Ophélies playing? I do not need always a "hysterically" correct reading or the virtuoso showing off everything they can.What I like about her p...
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http://www.burwenaudio.com/Sound_System.html
I think that Mr. Burwen has been at the cutting edge of horn technology longer than anyone else that I know. I am surprised that the search here did not bring up any hits.
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It is easy to calculate the lobes that are created when we use multiple drivers. That means we can mathematically derive the closest distance that all of the horns in the entire system will "play" together. When we are close to sound sources, the pro...
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If you read Danleys paper, you see that the lower you go in frequency, the more this device turns into a direct radiator. He just vents the HF drivers from the throat, more or less optimised, the midrange drivers a bit further out and the LF drivers ...
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Hi Romy,
perhaps we are speaking about two different things. English is my first language, but I have been living in Germany for 37 years and perhaps my words are not sufficient.I had a rehearsal for a church concert last night and as usual, sat in...
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Is this type of driver not similar to those used in headphone?. Very high efficiency, wide bandwidth, very low XMAX. The lightest and fastest are probably the orthodynamic type like FOSTEX RP, HiFiMAN or Audeze LCD2....
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Would it not be possible to create a type of transmissionline, but with a closed port and many bends to spread the internal resonances and provide means to damp them.Perhaps it is even good to tune an open transmissionline to a couple of octaves belo...
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Actually, when the string section has to play ultra softly, they use a mute or damper on the bridge. This is a device that limits the ability of the bridge to pass the string vibration to the resonant body of the instrument. http://www.youtube.com/wa...
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Reverberation time is surely a part of it but I think that there is more. If I am in the quiet church alone and close my eyes, I know how big the space is. If I am in a concert hall with managed acoustics and close my eyes, I know nothing. I believe ...
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Romy,lips are a very interesting part of the resonant musical instrument.I did an experiment many years ago by gluing a headphone driver to a mouthpiece and feeding it a sine wave, sawtooth and square wave. With the sawtooth and square wave the sound...
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With an orchestra that I play with we had a concert series at a public sauna. We had to wear tuxedos like penguins and had a tent set up outside to entertain the sauna members between their time in the cabin. We played populist stuff like Ravel Boler...
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Most of my colleagues are more interested in HOW the recorded music was performed than how it was recorded or played back. When I listen to music, even my cheap iPhone speaker gives me a respresentation of the players "soul".Add that to the pain in t...
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Brass instruments function much differently than audio horns. First of all they are built extremely resonant by mismatching length and horn taper. The taper of the bell is there not for horn type efficiency, rather to change the acoustical length of ...
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I get much enjoyment from the Norwegian Radio web radio. They have a wonderful mix of the music that I like which is orchestral and advanced chamber music. They broadcast at 192KB which is not super fidelity, but their choice of special performances ...
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Romy,I can only agree with your desire. I wish that I had started learning Russian for the same reasons you mention for German.I am an American that has been living in Germany since 1975. It took a couple of years to be able to understand the deeper ...
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I think that single speakers are a good start, not the means to an end.Romy, you are very adamant about the PROCESS. Gain experience, make changes based on what you learn. Is it not sensible to start with ONE DRIVER and learn its strengths and weakne...
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I have been lurking here for a while and am fascinated at the discussions of TONE. I play trumpet professionally in Germany and have many opportunities to experience big rooms and big pipe organs as well as symphony halls with various degrees of acou...
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