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| Seeking listening help in Austin area "What in the Hell is "electroscopic" and "mangetostatic" operation?!"Insight that Barry is more of an amp guy than a speaker guy."Class-A, no feedback, current mode gain, very high bandwidth and most uniquely, the distortion does not change with f... | |
| Speed kills.... Thank you both very much, Inna and Russell. At least I can still talk a good game!Russell (or anyone else!), if by any chance you’ll be at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in a couple of weeks, I hope you can stop by Room 3002. Duke | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound One day I was walking down the street in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Through the slightly-open doorway of a shop I heard the sound of a saxophone. Instantly I could tell that it was a live saxophone instead of a good recording through speak... | |
| Speed kills.... Ime Stax headphones are a very tough act to follow. What they do well, they do very very well. In general I think the closest approaches in a loudspeaker system will be what Erik suggested, "large drivers in a well treated room." And imo those "la... | |
| Small dedicated listening rooms "My thought is that you need to listen in the near field. You mitigate many of the challenges and sacrifice very little. It is easy to set up, imaging can be stunning and the level of impact and immediacy is thrilling."Excellent suggestion!The se... | |
| Small dedicated listening rooms In my opinion there are two main acoustic challenges presented by small rooms, and these are really the same issue just different parts of the spectrum.Most obvious is the increased boundary reinforcement in the bass region. This can be addressed ... | |
| DIY ?uestion @trelja , Thank you very much!!I would love to see plans for the D and C, and the C's crossover!!Yeah the series crossover is a strange beast at first glance! Instead of blocking the lows from reaching the tweeter and the highs from reaching ... | |
| DIY ?uestion Thank you very much, @trelja. I made a lot of sawdust trying out different transmission line ideas in the late 70’s and 80’s.You wrote:"Bud Fried considered it critical importance to select a driver with as low a Qts specification as possible. Ove... | |
| Siegfried Linkwitz Passes Rest in peace, Siegfried. And thank you for your kindness and brilliant contributions. | |
| DIY ?uestion @trelja said: "True transmission lines (TL) handily outperform both bass reflex / ported and sealed and aperiodic bass loading configurations."I agree that good transmission lines sound wonderful, and have greater potential than either reflex or s... | |
| High order crossovers @ trelja,Wow, THANK YOU SO MUCH for that in-depth education!! I think you have just explained something I observed years ago but did not understand.In the course of my own crossover builds, I found that a cluster of resistors paralleled to get a ... | |
| Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX Review @kenjit wrote: "Why are you so eager to prevent a discussion? What harm is there?"You have demonstrated an agenda to disparage Roy Johnson and Green Mountain Audio, and you have done so unfairly. That’s not a "discussion", it is trying to do harm ... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @prof wrote: "I don’t know what speaker you are describing in your last response to me. The Waveform monitor has a 5" woofer - both it and the Mach Solo measured quite well."Duke replies: I couldn’t find the diameter of the Waveform midrange drive... | |
| Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX Review Kenjit: "There were no measurements. He just stuck a 0.21mh coil on the woofer and called it a day"If Roy says he used measurements in the design process and you say he did not, guess who we’re going to believe?Kenjit: "No baffle step, nothing."I ... | |
| Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX Review @kenjit : "I think they are reasonable questions which require answers."You clearly have an agenda. Let it go.Kenjit: "Like what?"The kinds of measurements and analysis he conducts, and the time coherent results he gets. Imo the things he can do w... |