eldartford
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| Ancient performance with today's sonics... Newbee...Thanks. I will look into these recordings. Perhaps when they transcribed the punched rolls to a digital file they were able to do a little editing to restore some aspects of the original performance.I have heard the Bosendorfer reproducin... | |
| Ancient performance with today's sonics... Newbee...Piano rolls do not duplicate all the subtleties that a pianist can impart to the performance, so, because of this I think that ragtime/honky tonk music is more suitable than classical music for this media. Current versions of the automate... | |
| Love it, or Hate it ? (wood trim) I remember when the wood case was an extra cost option. When your audio equipment consisted of a receiver or preamp on a bookshelf and a power amp hidden away on a low shelf the wood case looked good. Today, with a rack full of stuff, and a crazy ... | |
| Regarding supertweeters I believe in supertweeters, because I know, from personal experience, that auditory ability exists well above the frequency at which you can detect the pure sine wave that is used for testing.However, I think you may be on to a point about CDs, an... | |
| Vinyl Reason Nsgarch...The cosmos is, I must tell you, digital at its heart. But cheer up! The RESOLUTION is so good that for all practical purposes it looks like analog. There is a message here for audiophiles. | |
| Vinyl Reason Albertporter...You are not the typical vinyl fan. The ones I know are endlessly tweeking and adjusting and upgrading. And they seem to enjoy it, and talking about it.Your photography is good. Do you use a digital camera, or are you still into film? | |
| Vinyl Reason Audiophiles love to tweek their equipment.Vinyl playback systems can be endlessly "tweeked", but unlike most digital tweeks (like the plastic thing you place on top of your CDP) the analog tweeks actually make sense and can significantly affect th... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? 1...Listen to a female vocalist. Does she appear between the speakers?2...Listen to a male news anouncer on the radio. Does his voice have an unnatural boom?3...Listen to a piano recording. Does it sound like a piano?4...Listen to a large orchestr... | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? Tacet, MDG. | |
| Senior Audiophiles - Audiophile since the 60-70's? Tbg...Yes, things have changed. It used to be that the "experts" were those with the best technical skills, and experience, but nowadays it seems to be those with the most money to spend. Ok, but it aint the same, and leads to a lot of snobishness. | |
| Categorizing records Being naturally adverse to clerical work, over many years on the job, which involved many memos and other documents I developed a chaotic method that actually proved to be, in its own way effective. After reading something, I simply threw it on to... | |
| Center Channel Needed? The center channel plays a very different role for movies than for music. My (good) system is used only for music, and my center channel is identical the the front left and right, consisting of a custom two driver subwoofer system and MG1.6 planar... | |
| 4 Ohm Speakers, 8 Ohm Amps Bridging a stereo amp with a 4 ohm speaker means that each amp sees 2 ohms, and many cannot opearate properly with such a low load. A 4 ohm speaker, not bridged, should not be a problem with any decent amp. | |
| speaker excursion..."mo power"..and bass..Sean Cinematic_systems...Whoops! You are right that in a second order or higher passive crossover some power is "dumped to ground". For example, for the woofer, after the inductor rolls off the highs, a capacitor to ground rolls them off further. Howev... | |
| Problem with bass managment with many universals- About the "optimum" SW crossover frequency...let me repeat my view that this varies a great deal according to the music. In general I think that the upper range of the SW is just as relevant as the lower range of the main speakers. In my particula... |