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| Turntable Pre-Echo Sound....? I saw a cartoon in Stereo Review years ago wherein a customer asked his dealer about hearing the first few notes softly before hearing them at full volume. The dealer replied,"yes, that's a common phenomenon... YES, THAT'S A COMMMON PHENOMENON..."... | |
| Five "Golden Rules" of HiFi? 1. Make sure there really is a record on the spinning platter before you lower the needle.2. Set up an electric fence around your ribbon speakers before the neighbor kids come over. Don't forget to plug it in.3. Your speakers should probably cost ... | |
| Alternatives to the Paradigm S4? Biomimetic,Most of Earl's "Transducers" book is over my head, as it's pretty math-intensive. But he lapses into English often enough that it's still useful to the likes of me.In my opinion the more accessible and in many cases more useful book of ... | |
| Alternatives to the Paradigm S4? Thanks, Biominetic. Revel is in a rather unusual and perhaps almost unique position as part of Harmon International. They have ready access to the rocket scientists, and president Floyd Toole is a leading researcher in correlating subjective prefe... | |
| Alternatives to the Paradigm S4? Bose has a very active development division, and they use Neodymium magnets...Hey, I'm not dissing Neo magnets; I use 'em. But the advantage of Neodymium in most applications isn't strength; in most cases a ferrite magnet can be just as strong if ... | |
| Floor standers or Monitors? Hi Marco/Jax2,I've talked about scattered multiple subwoofers a time or two on Audiogon threads, but can't seem to find any of them at the moment. Audio Asylum threads tend to be more, ah, permanent - so here's a link:http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi... | |
| Floor standers or Monitors? On paper, monitors + subs will almost certainly "outperform" equivalent price floorstanders if you only look at the raw numbers.The problem is this: Most subs are designed for loudest deepest possible bass in smallest possible box, and such detail... | |
| Blue Ridge Sound Engineering Speakers ??? Is there a connection between Carl and Hifisoundguy?Hifisoundguy has posted the exact same question, word for word or almost word for word, on four other boards, along with a link to the company website.He then follows up with a post saying that h... | |
| Blue Ridge Sound Engineering Speakers ??? Hi Carl,First of all, my compliments on your innovative design. In a size and price range dominated by 5" two-ways, you have certainly chosen a road less travelled. Obviously you have paid a great deal of attention to getting a smooth on-axis freq... | |
| tubes and analog I'm friends with a physicist named Earl Geddes who specializes in acoustics and psychoacoustics, has authored books and holds patents in the field, and who not long ago presented several papers to the Audio Engineering Society on the subject of di... | |
| Sub. selection Okay, I have some rather unorthodox views on bass reproduction, so let me just toss this out and see where it lands.The problem with bass reproduction in small rooms is not that there are too many peaks and dips - the problem is that there are too... | |
| Speaks for sensitive, tinnitus-y ears? Kjmo,The problem might not be the beaming at the top end of the tweeter's range.The problem might be excess off-axis energy in the lower end of the tweeter's range, 3-4 kHz. This is typically where the ear is most sensitive, and most speakers have... | |
| DIY speaker enclosure, maybe TL? Tom,In my opinion the C92-6 is the only Accuton unit I see on Madisound's website that's a reasonably good candidate for transmission line loading.I have built roughly 50 different transmission line designs, though many were experimental only. Her... | |
| SET amps and speaker sensitivity. In my experience there's a huge range of preferred loudness levels among different listeners. Whether you listen at 70 dB average SPL or 90 dB average SPL will make a hundredfold difference in your amplifier power requirements. So in my opinion, "... | |
| DIY speaker enclosure, maybe TL? Hello Tom,Which Accuton drivers do you plan on putting into a transmission line? Sugggestions I might make (if any) would depend somewhat on the woofer's parameters.Thanks!Duke |