shadorne
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| What does one purchase after owning horns? Since the discussion revolves around dynamics. I'll just mention that the Sheffield Labs Drum Track XRCD is a good way to compare speakers for dynamics. Horns or no horns it takes considerable engineering/technology to play these drum tracks clean... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Is it more difficult for an amp to drive,say, two 6.5" woofers than one 8" ? Given similar individual impedance and the woofers are in parallel then yes. This is one of the sad realities of multi-woofer designs - they look cool though and smaller... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Eniac,World class woofers have 4" diameter short voice coils in a long magnetic gap. Most 7 inch woofers have a 1 1/2" diameter long voice coil in a short gap (i.e. plenty of distortion). Great woofers start at around 12 inch and some are as much ... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Agree with Johnk - it is entirely WAF cosmetic, cost and footprint driven.There is NOTHING true about the MYTH "can provide very fast and accurate bass response"Most of these woofers use voice coils that are no bigger than a tweeter!!!!!There is a... | |
| Hearing Damage over 20khz? but there are subharmonics generated below these supersonic frequencies that translate into harmonic information and/or spatial cues in the range that we DO hear.Subharmonics in a bell is called music.Subharmonics from an audio system is simply u... | |
| advice on projectors and screens Dave - the auto-iris in the Epson 8350 can be really annoying. This is how they get better contrast and better blacks out of cheaper designs. If you have not opened the box you may want to reconsider. | |
| ATC's - 10's vs 20's I have not compared directly but ATC design speakers according to a strict engineering philosophy. This means that differences across the entire product range are much smaller than other manufacturers. If you like the 10's then you'll like the 20'... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Grege,I have done the same. 256 Kbps with a good compression (like AAC) will not be identified by most people on most music. There will always be exceptions but once you get to 256 of higher then exceptions become vanishingly small.Sadly most do n... | |
| What subwoofers keep up with Quad ESL 57 ? Try an ATC C4 sub woofer. The ATC's were originally designed to get the low distortion and exceptional quality sound of the Quad 57 midrange but at much much higher SPL's and without the distortion inherent in other conventional designs. ATC sub w... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW At one point not too long ago the idea of raising speaker cables off the floor was ridiculed (Enid Lumly at TAS) Are you actually suggesting that this isn't completely ludicrous? | |
| What Mobile Fidelity lp or cd is your fav ? I second Crime of the Century (CD)Disagree with Tom Petty Full Moon Fever (CD) - all they did was turn up the treble. The standard CD sounded better balanced, IMHO. Ditto for Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes (CD) - the new remastered version available... | |
| Great and well-recorded jazz on CD Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin Second that one.Also "Dave Grusin Homage to Duke" | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW This should be harmless but some iterations use a loop or coil. This is similar to an inductor or choke. This may pick up stray alternating magnetic fields from transformers and from the speaker voice coils and possibly the speaker wires themselve... | |
| CD Sound Quality -- please help educate me This was well before they discovered the deleterious effects of jitter.You would indeed benefit by purchasing a well recommended used player that is not more than 5 years old.Cambridge 540c used (from 2008) would be a good choice but there are man... | |
| What happened to my bass? I posted this on Ethan Winers forum as well. His response: "Yes, it is probably one or more deep nulls". And he also says to measure the room. A good track to test in room bass response is Rebecca Pidgeon Spanish Harlem. The bass line should stay... |