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Analog source and analog related accessories
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 Analog set-up (5)
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 Tape machines (2)
Digital source and digital related tools
 Transports-Players (17)
 D-A Processors (18)
 Recorders, A-D Processors (14)
Line-level and power electronics
 Line-level Amplifier (13)
 Power Amplifier (49)
 Crossovers (7)
 Vacuum tubes (58)
Acoustic system and listening room
 Horn loaded (160)
 +1dB effect form basshorn.
 2440 vs. 2441 vs. 4001
 45Hz Bass Horn on Vitavox AK151
 A beter attempt to deal with Klangfilm.
 A phase plug for upperbass horn.
 A slightly crazy idea for a new approach to LF
 A sober view on Cogent "True-to-Life" Sound.
 A tribune to Transient Evenness or …
 A tribute to a properly implemented honk.
 A wonderful write up about ribbons.
 About beauty and ugliness of horn speakers.
 About importance of time-coherency
 About midbass-horn equalization....
 About restoring the magnetic field of compression driver
 About selection of the crossover point.
 About the “beauty” of digital crossovers.
 About the compression driver bug-screens
 About the elliptical mouth upperbass horns.
 About the JMLC horn curve.
 About the tweeters phase alignment.
 Adding one Horn. Some revelation of Macondo.
 Adding one more spherical to Macondo.
 Adjustable back chamber
 Again and again: the upper bass channel.
 Altec Model 19
 An amplifier for Tweeters
 An objective tool to trace gap better horn rate and crossover?
 An ultimate horn profile?
 Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers.
 Audio Gravity force and drivers’ integration
 Azura 204Hz and 340Hz Le Cleac
 Back chamber of Vitavox S2 and Sound
 Bass Horn vs. Sealed Enclosures.
 Bass horns delay
 Basshorn vs. non-Basshorn, further talk.
 Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept
 Beware of the monophonic honk.
 Canadian Speaker Proposal
 Center your drivers, boys.
 CES: New horn guy in town.
 Cetla Ledom 91
 Compression drivers and the “clean signal”.
 Compression drivers saga
 Crossover point: no abstract intellectual values
 Cutting a big horn...
 Denouncing of idea of Bass Horns.
 "Different" way to use Vitavox S2
 Dream Hi-Eff Speakers for an “inmate”.
 Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers
 Electronluv horn systems
 Electro-Voice T350, T35 tweeters.
 Engaging the David Haigner’s idea
 Evaluation of tractrix curves based on visual surface reflections.
 Eventually - reasonable midbass horn from GOTO
 Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 14-inchers
 Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 15-inchers
 Fostex new magnesium Tweeters .
 Fostex T 500A MK 2 Horn Super Tweeter
 From an experienced TAD (TD2001) user...
 George Orwell and loudspeakers.
 German Odeon horns.
 German virtual reed!
 Getting more from MF channel: AMI™ solution
 Greek Anima Loudspeakers
 Heil’s Air Motion Transformers
 Horn-loaded acoustic system: the Macondo
 Horns and digital crossovers.
 Horns as an "equalizer"
 Horns do what they do
 How to select mid/upper bass horn drivers.
 How to use Vitavox’s S2
 Invention of Tractrix Curve
 Japanese Cone Suspensions: YL1250, YL75000, YL55000
 JBL Everest DD66000
 Jean Hiraga’s cooking of Altec 604
 Jeffrey Jackson: midbass horns
 Jessie Dazzle Peoject
 Johan Dreyer on Goto drivers
 Johan Dreyer’s comments on basshorn
 KHorn facts and truth
 Kilimanjaro compression electromagnet drivers
 Klangfilm: sometimes actual knowledge is better then a fetish imagination
 Learned from S2 electromagnet: Lowthers
 Look at horn upperbass drivers sincerely
 Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later.
 Macondo Acoustic System Frame design.
 Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting
 Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems
 Magico Ultimate Horns
 Make your own copression driver
 Make Your Own Horns
 Meyer X-10
 Midbass Horns and Real Estate.
 More about the EdgarHorn Bass
 More speakers attitude...
 Moving to the SET/Horns world
 Mystery of Vitavox S2 resolved!
 New Macondo and “absolute tone”
 Null-set dipole tweeters.
 Ocean Way Audio HR2 loudspeaker
 Out-sourcing 40Hz
 Perfect HF and the “kinky” Electro-Voice T350.
 Practical Guide for Back Chambers Tuning.
 Problems with horns: mid-range drivers
 Problems with horns: mid-range horns.
 Problems with horns: tweeters.
 Problems with horns: upper bass
 Proximity of horn’s crossover and it’s ability to care over-amplitude.
 RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo.
 Radiation patterns matching with horns.
 Resonance Damping in Horns
 Roundup: RAAL, “Water Drop”, Ribbons, Vitavox, generalizations.
 Show Report PiS Fest
 Silbatone Acoustics speaker
 Some basics of the horn equalization.
 Some conical horns anti-propaganda
 Some horn writing by Thomas Dunker.
 Some Horns propaganda
 Srajan, 6Moons, sex industry and sapphire horns
 Staging Acompany SA8535 tweeter
 Stop having a fear of horn vignetteing
 Synergy Horns
 TAD 2002
 TAD 4003
 TAD PT-R9 tweeter: love and hate...
 The “absolute tone” in drivers
 The “choking sound” of upperbass horns
 The bottom limit of the Vitavox S2 driver.
 The CH Audio Design drivers.
 The Edgarhorn RTA response.
 The EdgarHorns: the new old business plan
 The Evolution of Honk.
 The IDEAL horn system
 The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next?
 The midbass throat considerations.
 The state of High-Efficiency Loudspeakers.
 The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound
 The ways to delay horns channels.
 Tractrix vs. Exponential curve for lower frequencies.
 Tractrix vs. others for LF
 Transition : Driver to throat, when throat is smaller than driver
 Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons and Linaeum Tweeters
 Upper Bass Horn Setup
 Upperbass 115Hz by Dominik
 Using TD4001 drivers
 Vertical tilt adjustment for horns
 Vintage Altec drivers / horns lingo.
 Vintage JBL products lingo.
 Vitavox S2 field-coil: after a few hours.
 Vitavox S2 revelation: follow up
 Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets
 Vitavox S2: notes to dairy…
 Vitavox, RAAL, EV T350 and SA8535
 Western Electric 15A horn
 Who builds horns?
 Why elephants do not jamp a rope
 Why horn-loaded loudspeakers are bad.
 Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes…
 Why I hate HornResp.
 YL audio, ALE , GOTO , and Onken.
 Boxed (34)
 Opened baffle (8)
 Speakers setup (27)
 Listening Rooms (17)
Secondary audio devises and trivial Gizmos
 Cables (7)
 Power lines and supplies (10)
Listening Practice
 Evaluation methods (70)
 “How audio might sound”
 +1dB effect form basshorn.
 A new 'chic' foolishness about mono systems
 About a "consciousness of a playback system"
 About Darwinism of Music and audio assessments.
 About DSET-driven multi-way acoustic system maintenance assessment.
 About my listening habits.
 About Stupid Dynamic
 About the “beauty” of digital crossovers.
 About the Audio Neutrality.
 About the mysery of audio DIY enthusiasm
 About the tweeters phase alignment.
 About TTH characteristic in Audio
 About vowelness and bubbleness of Sound
 Absolutely Transparent Stage and Audio Events
 An important thing about listening practice
 Are You On the Road to Audio Hell?
 Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or…
 Audio critique – open your mind!
 Audio must not use none-presentational evidences
 Color Theory 101
 Critique audio performance before acquire a new element.
 DBT - a signature of listening ignorance
 Deficiency of a sensible attitude in playback.
 Do not “compare” audio equipment.
 Do not pursue full-range without being ready.
 Don't evaluate audio by sound of "live" music.
 Further guidelines for Audio Neutrality...
 Goals of audio
 Here is where the key of High End
 High End Audio and musical content.
 How to build the best audio payback
 How to evaluate playback... or the Six-Leveled-Listening Benefits™
 I would shade some light about “abstract audio”
 Immediate Gratification by Surrogate Sonic Effects
 It is imposable to “hear distortions”.
 Learn to listen your listening rooms
 Macondo and not only Macondo positioning
 Matching audio to music: false
 Melquiades: too early for a verdict?
 My Audio Reviewing agenda.
 My old Fi-Hi gear associations...
 Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment
 Out-impedance and "bass"
 Playback evaluations made easy.
 Position your speakers anal-retentively.
 SET and speakers: disregard Volume
 Some explanations about "Engineering of Audio"
 Soundstage vs. spatial reconstruction via Soundstage’s inner-dynamic.
 Speakers: a hi-fi disaster.
 The “absolute tone” in drivers
 The “Implied Sound” in Audio.
 The “Inverted High End” ™
 The Active High Frequency Solution - AHFS
 The best audio system: my secrets are partially out.
 The corrupted listening culture.
 The nature of "soundstage" in audio.
 The realty of UHF and LF relation
 The Sound and How We Hear It
 The sound that could not be "sold".
 The trade show listening rules.
 The unintended consequences of the binaural things in Hi-Fi.
 Time Alignment : Live Performances vs Audio
 Upper-Sound of Upper-Importance
 Use absolute polarity as an early speakers test.
 Verify that you sources do not underperform.
 What does make a playback to stop?
 What you loose about tweeters...
 Why I hate the “Japanese Sound”
 You should expect to hear just the music
 Collection Organization (5)

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