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| Triangle Art Metis Horn Speakers I was there too and was also very impressed with the Triangle Art room. Last year they were downstairs in one of the big ballrooms and those same speakers could fill that huge space with what sounded very much like a live performance to me - at le... | |
| Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. The only system I've ever heard that didn't have any cables or wiring at all was an old phonograph player. It worked, but I prefer cables. | |
| Speakers that disappear A lot of speakers can disappear on some content. Maybe there are some that can disappear on all content, if put in the right situation. I imagine a single dipole positioned correctly could project a perceived image far behind the speaker. I think ... | |
| 32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to Interesting. One is using graphene as a dielectric and the other as a conductor in a liquid base. I read that there are also some graphene/copper hybrid cables that somehow use fine copper wires to help connect the strands of graphene as much as p... | |
| 32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to I wonder if we'll see graphene make it's way into speaker cables and other conductors. Voice coils seem like a great potential application for graphene. | |
| Do your ears deceive you? Speaking of being able to hear the difference between violins, apparently not all accomplished violin players can tell them apart even when they’re actually playing them, and even if they were pretty sure that they could. Maybe the welding goggles... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. I got here at ASC too late to meet Chris. I’ve only played an electric bass a tiny bit. A few years ago someone gave me one that suffered some kind of rattle with the knobs on the main body. I didn’t have an appropriate amp to work with it, but go... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. @bdp24 Below 60Hz is sub-bass? The lowest frequency produced by a standard 4-string bass (acoustic and electric; why do people insist on calling an electric bass a bass "guitar"? That’s an oxymoron!)---the E string played "open"---is 41Hz. That’... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. The bass traps in corners are typically more like upper bass / lower midrange traps. That's an important and problematic range in a lot of rooms, and a reasonable amount of traps in the corners can definitely improve the clarity in that range, wh... | |
| New, Very Interesting CD Transport A good CD transport should load fast and be very mechanically silent. I had an old Sony ES CD player years ago that I used as a transport. It would only play redbook CDs, and it loaded faster, switched tracks faster, and ran more silently than any... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Something new to me about slew rate and horns - higher efficiency speakers can do what a lower efficiency speaker would require a higher slew rate from the amplifier to do. So low efficiency combined with a desire to play loud creates a requiremen... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response @terry9 My experience of slew rates is different. I am driving ESL's, and my amps sound good with 30V/us output transistors, better with 40V/us, and better yet with 50 V/us; that is, better transient response. Interesting. Reading up on slew ra... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Years ago I tried to measure transient response to come up with an understanding of why I thought horns sounded better than direct radiators. In nearfield measurements I was shocked to see that cheap little bookshelf speakers that only sounded OK ... | |
| Don't do anything! I’ll share an experience I had with gear breaking in. Years ago I needed to buy two of the same stereo amp for a bi-amping project I was working on. I got the amps long before I was ready to use both of them, so I gave them both a listen, determin... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? Nonsense. This isn’t a scientific forum. No one here owes you any "rigorous" explanation or any other kind of proof, although of course you’re free to conduct your own experiments and share the results. If the empirical evidence described by user... |