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| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? Twoleftears above has it right:"listen[ing] to a digitally synthesized simulacrum of various speakers they sold."Yes. These are NOT recordings of speakers in rooms.What they have done is to take a real speaker through a measurement session ala Ste... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? Reading between their lines, the comparison is performed inside a computer of how each speaker is supposed to sound based upon their measurements. This means you are never hearing a recording of a real speaker. In studios, software can simulate di... | |
| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? Shadome, thanks for your replies. Let me clarify some speaker-design information you may have been given in error. About the sound of MQA- I have spent little time with it.The idea of linear phase in speakers is tricky to understand without going ... | |
| Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX Thank you Steve, for your kind support and to the others as well! To be clear: Your Chroma II’s were upgraded to Chroma HX-- the differences described on our website. And now your HX circuits and wires, and solder, and binding posts have received ... | |
| A/D/S Fans: help me find a center channel Agreed on the ADS L570, or even the older L520 and L420 (smaller). I used to retail them. You'd have to lay them on their side, which would hurt the center-sound only for someone sitting far off axis, at the side of the room.I hear many people lik... | |
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| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? Dahlquist DQ-10s were not time coherent. The schematics of its crossover circuit.show high-order filters. | |
| High order crossovers My thanks, too, @ trelja. | |
| High order crossovers Good answers, Duke. Thanks for stepping into the batter’s box! I would add there are many crossover parts, mostly capacitors, that cannot pass small signals and/or very large ones. When a crossover can be made simple, this can be easy to hear unle... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? It helps to hear, literally, what is going on, by listening to the cabinet’s walls through a stethoscope, playing music and test tones. You find two things:Flexing of the cabinet walls allows low bass to come through. Out in your room, this adds i... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Thank you joc3021-- good points above with which I agree!Your first one was about someone being in the mood, etc.The second was walking into the confirming-biases trap.To get out of that trap, the following has helped me:Whenever a change is made ... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? It is certainly wonderful to feel happy and satisfied from a listening session. It’s understandable to expect higher levels, greater versions of those events.Now, we experience ’things’ whenever we can name them.Perhaps here we seek the experience... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? You are completely right. We are users of crazy machinery expected to generate any music on command over there, where we live. We don't want to hear any noise, nor any distortion or test tones. We want the sounds coming out to be musical sounds.Th... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Thanks for your comments- I’ll keep this brief.There are two types of listening:Analytic-- looking for defects, tone balance, image, special effects, distortions, ... a very long list. This is the style of listening used by studio engineers, stere... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? I have found that when the speakers are truly ’right’ in the time domain (not suffering from metal-cone breakups and cabinet/surface reflections), then the tone balance of the recording becomes secondary to anyone’s experience, not primary as you ... |