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What if you designed your ultimate speaker?
Allow me to point out that there are and have long been not only 2-way, 3-way and 4-way speakers, but also 5-way and even 6-way designs. So to my mind the multi-way concept in general is clearly a scalable one, and don't let the 17-way thing throw... 
What if you designed your ultimate speaker?
Here is a link to the other thread (which I didn't author), and if you read my post there you can see that I too did not subscribe to the notion of a "best" tweeter design.First, here a major correction on my part is in order, quickly before I mak... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hey E, loading is the main reason I'm trying an SUT. My phonostage offers plenty of MC gain on its own, however my current cart doesn't seem to get along well with the resistive loading it provides in terms of tonal balance, at any of the availabl... 
The best tweeter design
Why is an inverted (concave) dome on this list if a conventional (convex) dome is not unless made of diamond or horn-loaded, and leaving out 'soft' domes unless configured as a "ring radiator"? Too arbitrary to be meaningful IMO.[I'm deleting the ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hey E, I'm shortly expecting my new -- and first ever -- SUT, which will have 9X and 16X ratios. I've got a 2 week audition period, and it will be interesting to compare it against resistive loading. I do know that my phonostage sounds best at its... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hey E, sorry I misspelled your moniker above -- it was late and I was stupid ;^)System apart on occasion of my better half rearranging the furniture (um, thanks honey, or something), so no listening to report :-(On a brighter note however, I restr... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hi LJ, I remember you from the Alex Chilton thead. I try to keep my end up here, but this thread tends to die when we don't get enough interaction, such as Rushton and Emorisev have had. We just need more members posting here to reach a critical m... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Stranglers - "La Folie" [EMI UK LP '81]Hoodoo Gurus - "Stoneage Romeos" [Demon UK LP '84]The Monochrome Set - "Fin" [el/Cherry Red UK LP '86]The Real Kids - "Outta Place" [Star Rhythm LP '82]Redd Kross - "Neurotica" [Big Time LP '87] 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
I regularly spin older 45s but hardly ever list any, so here's some random titles culled from recent stacks, just as a reality check (and of course your reading pleasure)! These are mostly from the 60's with a few earlier and later exceptions here... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Tim Hardin - "The Best Of..." [Verve/Forecast LP '70, rec. '67] Writer of much-covered tunes such as "Reason To Believe", "If I Were A Carpenter", "Misty Roses" etc.Roy Head & The Traits - "Treat Me Right" [Scepter LP '65]Sweet - "Sweet Fanny ... 
Rolling Stone top 100 Guitarists - Howe/Van Halen
I especially dug The Syndicats, though there's no evidence of "musical genius" there (really the point)! 
"They are here" vs. "You are there"
Neither: "They Are There" 
What are we listening to tonight?
...Then there's this thread (scroll down and click on >> to skip to the most recent page, currently 37...) 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
McCoy Tyner - Mosaic Select Boxset [Mosaic 3CD '07, orig. 4 Blue Note albums rec. '68 - '70] Went to see the McCoy Tyner Quartet w/Gary Bartz sax in concert the other night, both still gettin' it done (also we were quite blown away by Eric Gravatt... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Bobby Bland - "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" [MCA reissue LP '84, orig. Duke '64]Nina Simone - "The High Priestess Of Soul" [Philips LP '67]The Ramsey Lewis Trio - "Upendo Ni Pamoja" [Columbia LP '72]Sun Ra - "The Magic City" [ABC/Impulse LP '73, rec....