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| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Was Leonardo da Vinci an engineer, or an artist? Is the Eiffel tower an engineering feat, or a work of art? | |
| Speaker Wire. Hokum or Truth? In a few years all this argument will be over. Power amplifiers will accept digital input, via fiber optic that could be miles long. Power amps will be "monoblocks" located within inches of the speakers, and perhaps even integrated with the crosso... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psychicanimal...That will be very easy to measure. You're on! | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Maxgain...I wonder why you think that being a scientist prevents one from being an artist? I consider myself an artist who likes to eat. Also, remember that an artist must be first a technician. How many fine paintings have been lost because the c... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers In my opinion, and with 50 years of experience building speakers (mostly by the old fashoned trial and error method) transmission lines are the best boxes, but as sean says are hard to get right. Sealed boxes are almost idiot-proof, and so, in the... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Maxgain...As a "scientist" whose specialty has been the design of tests for complex military electromechanical equipment (missile guidance systems) I am really anxious to do a fair and objective evaluation. This is to satisfy MYSELF. To hell with ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Sorry for the delay guys. We are involved with two weddings in the first half of April, so I really can't rip up the living room just yet. Keep the faith! | |
| Pro Audio Amp Recommendations From an earlier posting:I happen to have both the CarverPro ZR1600, and a QSC RMX 1450. The QSC is good for 450 watts at very low cost and I bought it for a subwoofer application. I did not expect very good results using it full range, but I hooke... | |
| Best Floorstanding Speaker under $1000 USD I would always recommend that you LISTEN to some Maggies. They (and other planars) are quite different from box speakers, and the decision as to whether you like the planar sound is yours alone. If you do like it, (and many people swear by it) Mag... | |
| Anyone have a Kill-A-Watt meter? Highend64...The 59.9 Hz frequency measurement is wrong. The power grid system maintains very tight control of frequency and even electrical phase angle, so that different generators can be interconnected, and so that electric clocks and other devi... | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? Jimjenjr...My second loudspeaker (circa 1955) was a 12 inch Wharfdale full range. I put it in a folded horn corner enclosure that I built. The interesting thing about this driver was the wool flannel cloth surround. (Really low Fs). Foam came late... | |
| Believe it or not, an A.M. radio question A straight long wire is best for short wave long distance reception. For the regular Broadcast band, apart from the ferite rod that used to be commonplace, Loops (open coils) are often used. One approach that I read about had the antenna wire hidd... | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? Back in the 1950's, the 24 inch Hartley woofer was the ultimate. Only competition was the 30 inch Electrovoice. | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Why fight this sealed vs ported battle? GO PLANAR! | |
| Budget Cartridge Questions Shure never made a bad cartridge. The M97 is an excellent choice, but I also suggest that the V15MR is about as good as it gets short of Kilobuck MC units and their similarly priced preamps. |