alexberger
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| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? There are 4 types of vintage DD turntables:1. DJ DD turntables ( like - Technics 1200). Most have pitch control.2. Broadcast and studio DD TTs (like - Technics SP10mk2,mk3 or EMT950, EMT948). Don't have pitch control by default. It was available l... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? I think JBL M2 have too low sensitivity 92dB for horn + 15" woofer speakers.This fact kills they advantages over box speakers.Yes, they should have better high and low frequencies extension compared to typical horn speakers, BUT They will never s... | |
| Who Has the New Top Technics SL1200GRE? Does it blow your other expensive tables away? I think belt drive is flawed design solution.I had Nottingham Spacedeck for many years, and when I compared it to my friend Lenco L75 on piano music It became for me very clear how much Nottinham ruins rhythm and pace of music interpretation.Since... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @mijostyn , Horns can be made with very little coloration and certainly get the nod in terms of efficiency. If you are in love with low powered amps there is no better solution. However, I don't like them. I do not like them because they are p... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @georgehifi ,I think horn coloration issue was exaggerate by modern audiophiles.Why most recording studious have been using horns for monitoring, from old Tannoy, Altec and JBL to modern Ocean Ways, Tad and Kinoshita?IMHO beryllium tweeters sou... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. I don't understand why do you contrapose high sensitivity and natural tone of speakers?There is not trade off between high sensitivity and natural tone. But there is a very clear correlation between low sensitivity and compression. | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @glupson, All those links worked for me. I do not know if there are some "requirements" in design of such speakers. Of course, talking strictly about sound, there may be a lot of discussion. However, it is also understandable if majority of peo... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @georgehifi , Yes for me this has always been the downfall of high sensitivity speakers, they are usually too coloured for me. If you can live with that fine, but I’ve always chased the opposite, I’d sacrifice a little sensitivity for neutrali... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @roxy54 Sorry. Here are links: Tune Audio Marvel - https://youtu.be/JCLuH_NeVgI Avantgarde Uno - https://youtu.be/4s8AeLSdk2M Avantgarde Duo - https://youtu.be/-cjmSP574Y4 Tri-Audio - https://youtu.be/oed2nHBWVJY | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Here are my fresh memories from Montreal audio show this year.I listened a number of very high efficiency speakers systems there.There are different solutions for different price and with different kind of sound: Tune Audio Marvel - https://www.yo... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. I don't say all high efficiency speakers are good and all low sensitivity speakers are bad.For example, I like Harbeth and Spendor Classic speakers.What is interesting they sound much more dynamic compared to similar efficiency speakers (probably ... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @viridian ,I heard first about TD in speakers and transistor amplifiers from Russian audio designer and guru - Anatoly Markovich Lichnitsky. This person liked to listen mono records (mostly classical from 78RPM era) and didn’t care about all au... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Hi @atmasphere ,All transistor amplifiers (maybe, except pure class A) have thermal distortion.Worst at all - thermal distortion have inertia and they are nonlinear.Our brain is very sensitive to this kind of distortions because they are not natur... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Thank you. @roxy54 ,I'm pleased to know that other people knew about this problem.The actual article was written by Derek Alexander-Wilson.I like high sensitivity speakers. IMHO they have a lot of advantages:1. They sound alive, musical.2. Th... | |
| Best Computer Speakers Does anybody new what was happens with Serene Audio company that produced Talisman speaker. IMHO Talisman speaker where a number of levels better then any Audioengine and other computer monitors.They were a real Hi-End sounded computer monitors... |