dan_ed
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| New arm DaVinci, TW-Acustic or? Doug, Talea #009 has arrived on my table. Polished nickle finish. It matches my black Gavia. :-)Anyone in New England who would care for a listen, please contact me. | |
| Turntable Upgrade Suggestions Unless Basis has changed things, you're Rega arm will need to be modified to use on a Basis table. It is a sleeve that is epoxied over the threads. This makes it pretty much a one-way change, but on their tables it is a much better solution. | |
| Graham Phantom DV XV-1s setup question I think you'll find the XV-1s will relax quite a bit over the next 50 hours or so. It is not a bad idea to run with a heavier VTF (2-2.2) for this breakin period, and just keep the VTA neutral for now. Once it does begin to relax would be the time... | |
| Why not horns? ALL speakers have colorations. Pick the ones which annoy you the least. | |
| Why not horns? Herman, we can use flea power because of the efficiency of the drivers that can be used with horn loading. Horns are a device that give a certain amount of gain with a particular driver. The efficiency can be enhanced with a horn, but the horn its... | |
| Why not horns? The fact that there is a horn connected has nothing to do with the power requirement of the driver. My seismic horn subs go down to ~25Hz and use 18", 400watt pro drivers. They need a certain amount of power just to move that much air, let alone d... | |
| Why not horns? "A horn does not require a 250W amp." I hope that was meant to be sarcastic. ;-) | |
| Why not horns? I know, the analog purists in the group dismiss this immediately. They've never heard it but are convinced it won't work well so they wouldn't even consider it. That's fine. After many years of chasing the dream I have a system that makes ME very ... | |
| Why not horns? I would not say that digital filtering/processing can't sound good, because it can sound very good. I could probably be happy with that solution if I weren't so involved with analog.Yes, the pro-audio guys are definitely not concerned with our sil... | |
| Why not horns? MACROjack. I apologize for keep using micro-jack! Just realized I was doing that.There is a huge tap-age of DSP in the home theater circles. It is certainly very good these days. But there is only so much that can be done by hardware and software.... | |
| Why not horns? One thing I have always found interesting about Bill's horn is the cast flange. This would seem to give the best control in the critical throat area. Now that I think about it some more, this is also why I have put off trying a proto. I think I co... | |
| Why not horns? Yes, Microjack. Exactly. It is all about trade-offs. I have heard my system using both digital and analog active line level crossovers. There is no question things change differently with the two approaches. I don't like what I hear with a digital... | |
| Why not horns? There is not way to go from analog, to digital, and back to analog without losing information. That is just a physical fact. | |
| Why not horns? MIcrojack, I can't fully include you as a horn guy if you don't use bass horns. :-) Hybrids are for cowards. :-)Just kidding here. I almost gave up and went the box route for the bass. I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I may have to a some point... | |
| Why three motors? Thanks Dave and Hiho. I was indeed looking at the first picture. |