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You've looked at the PRO 170 Audax drivers I believe. What did you feel their shortcomings were?...
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Last week I listened to some small back loaded speakers using Fostex drivers where the cabinets had deliberately been made to replicate some of the qualities of a double bass or cello. Apparently very thin cabinet walls etc.While I have some reservat...
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I had dinner with Mike Harvey from Octave this weekend. Mike acquired the intellectual rights, tooling, drawings and jigs needed to manufacture the S2's. I believe that newly manufactured S2's will be available very soon. Mike is sufficiently thoroug...
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The 112's on my amplifier were made in 1926. I think they sound good but I actually chose them because I wanted low gain. Regardless of that there is a certain different pleasure to be gained from playing modern recordings using tubes made over 80 y...
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The references to inertia and lightness are not to do with how a DHT works electrically but to do with how sounds reproduced by them 'can' be ie without smearing or overhang. Its a characteristic I hear in live unamplified music and one that is endea...
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By 'lighter' I mean that the DHT amplifying stage subjectively has less inertia and is able to change direction more quickly. I suppose nimble might be a better word.
At the moment I usually do use the amplifier 'full range'. (My speakers will no...
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What do you mean by 'sonic verdure'? Do you mean virtues?
If so I would say that they typically offer a lighter, unfettered presentation of timbre & dynamic range across the full frequency range provided that the HT and LT supplies allow them to....
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I made a simple SE amplifier using the 6B4G for a friend. Initially, it was ac heated and sounded fluid & lively with a very agreeable gentle quality particularly with strings and woodwind. But, however I arranged the ac supply & hum bucking methods ...
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Hi Romy,
I currently use a 3 stage transformer coupled amp with 112's, 71a's (as drivers) and your favourite 300B output valves:-) I'm not sure whether I'd go back to a capacitor coupled amp. I just acquired some Tango NC20 IT's to replace the NC...
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Surely all audio components would ideally be transparent not specifically the pre-amplifier. I have yet to hear any audio components that really are. (and I wouldn't be able to hear them if they were!)...
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Hi John,
I was involved with the Voyd originally. I have no connection with AN UK now except that I use one of their UK made Io cartridges.
With regard to the SP10 Mk2 I like it very much. It removes any sense that a record is playing. I use a ...
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I have a cousin who is autistic. He is happy most of the time but he isn't really able to communicate his feelings to anyone else. He is also a very talented musician who plays the violin & piano very well. There are many interesting aspect...
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Hi Dominic,
I have some Rola's. Although intended (in organs etc) for quite widerange use I'm not sure that for listening to music they should be allowed to go too high. The other thing I found was that what lower frequencies they produced were more...
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I heard the top parts played on their own as compact monitors. As such they are sold here for something like £6000/pr ($11000) It is an exercise in Star Wars inspired industrial design and not really for listening to music. As a result I'm sure...
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I believe this system was actually developed for people living in parts of the world where the electricity supply is truly terrible, in the first instance a customer living in a more remote part of Thailand. I believe that the number of batterie...
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perhaps you need a rig like this to run things from[IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/murrayjohnson/Picture073.jpg[/IMG]...
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Hi Pete,You have a similar size room to me. I'd rather like a large 4 or 5 way setup but don't have the space. I use the S2's (in barbaric stylee) in damped RH330's. Beneath them I use a frontloaded (folded) bass horn Vitavox made called the Oracle. ...
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I might also be interested and am in the UK. Any rough idea of price?rgsGuy...
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never mind idler drive & all that rumble, get a proper turntable[IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/murrayjohnson/pre-ampinsidechinesTT022.jpg[/IMG]Seriously though, thats interesting if 60Kg of rotating mass isn't enough.What would ...
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Hi Romy,Its good to hear you are now getting this horn to work more as you'd wish.Perhaps Vitavox weren't such barbarians after all?!!!CN458 Schematic (500 Hz)
What values are you using?rgs,Guy...
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Hi Romy,I listened to the bigger brothers of this last weekend. The first smps amps I have heard that I didn't need to turn off straight away. Certainly cool running with plenty of power. It wouldn't replace your valve amps but might be entertaining ...
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I think it might be more interesting to read and then evaluate the book itself than to evaluate one or two individuals' reviews of the book. That's always the case with books, films, music or whatever. I would always try to ignore reviewers opinions ...
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Romy,I feel you may be doing John Attwood a disservice here. There are two reviews of this book. The first one which you quote extensively from appears to have been written by Lynn Olson. The second, much shorter review is John Attwoods. While h...
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Hi Romy,I have listened to one of these alot recently although unfortunately I don't own one!http://www.dejavuaudio.com/PREAMPS-KONDO-KSL-M77.HTMI'm sure you wouldn't enjoy it at all but others might and ought to try to at least hear one if they have...
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Hi Romy,Up to what frequency do you suppose the aerolam cabinet has an advantage over a more conventional, braced, birch ply enclosure? Is it possible to tell?As I recall, the main difference between the SL6 and SL600 was in the quality of what low b...
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"with only disadvantage in sensitively department" That's quite a big disadvantage from where I look at it.The way you describe the speakers with all of your other amplifiers seems to match how I recall them sounding. I cannot imagine how...
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What you say may be true. I'm not sure there was an amplifier available in the mid to late 1980's that would have been suitable for these. They did get good reviews but I suspect that some of this was due to awe inspired by the technical achieve...
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Hi Romy,My experiences with the SL6 and SL600 date back 15-20 years. My problems with the sound I could get from them related to their inability to recreate music with scale or drama. I found the subjective lack of high frequency output made every re...
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Hi Romy,How would such a time delay manifest itself in the resulting sound? Have you had the opportunity to listen to such an attempted system? Would the benefits of having a hornloaded AK151 not outweigh this or would it just sound too wrong to...
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