atmasphere
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| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Now if running tubes, subjectively there is some argument, tubes have poor damping and hence very little bass control to speak off , a sealed enclosure might be an advantage here, TL too , due to the loading.Actually in practice the reverse is tru... | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... The fact that an amplifier may or may not 'double down' really says nothing about its sound. | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Right.I've spent a lot of time in the recording studio. I think you will find that the more you process the signal digitally, the less musical the final result will be.An fact the more you process the signal, analog or digital, the less musical th... | |
| Phase inverting problem The only way you are going to be able to hear absolute phase is if the recording is done with 2 microphones only. The vast majority use more than this. As soon as other phase relationships are introduced by any additional mics, the delicate inform... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Rauliruegas, OK let's go with that for a moment. You hang it from the ceiling- where is the tonearm? Hanging also? On a separate string? Obviously *that* is not going to work...So, you have to connect them together somehow so the sacred geometry i... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki, with the 1600 ohm parameter selected, it assumes a high impedance at the other end as there would be distortion if it were actually driving a load of a lower impedance. You will hear big differences in cables with it set up this way.As a ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Y'all realize that by going 'nude', that the platform has become your plinth, right? The same rules apply.Now if the original plinth has problems, is not acoustically 'dead', IOW has a resonant signature, it may well sound better to switch things ... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Unsound, just FWIW, field coil technology in and of itself has no power limitations any more than regular magnetic systems.Of course, most of the FC drivers we have seen so far are designed for high efficiency applications, and so do not handle al... | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Stimbo22, I've used active crossovers quite a bit. They are very tricky to say the least. For the most part though, at least so far anyway, I have seen better results using one amplifier to drive the speaker while using a passive crossover. One th... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Eldartford, FWIW our preamp has an output impedance much lower than 600 ohms. A lot of tube preamps do as well. The trick is: what is their output impedance at 20 Hz or 5Hz. With most tube preamps the output impedance at these frequencies will be ... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? The output impedance of a preamp has to be much power than 600 ohms in order to *drive* 600 ohms. Also, the output impedance at 5Hz should be the same as it is at 1KHz so there is no low frequency rolloff. You can see right away why most preamps w... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Weseixas, you wrote: no one driver is going to go from 30-500+ hz IMO and still produce high sensitivity it would also produce 2 much distortion IMO.I guess I take issue with this. The TAD driver I mentioned does exactly this range quite easily, a... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki, yes, I think I can. The purity of metal has a lot to do with 'diode effects' in the material. The idea is that strands of wire do not conduct completely linearly- they are affected by diode junctions that exist between them.However these ... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Weseixas, that TAD driver I mentioned can cross over easily at 500Hz. So it can be matched with a horn midrange easily enough. I've seen some such horns have good response to 17KHz, although for what I want to call 'hifi' I would want to supplemen... | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Stimbo22, most horns (Khorns included) have high efficiency drivers that, because of their efficiency, are also highly reactive. Such drivers have a lot of back EMF because of the greater precision and efficiency of their magnetic motors.The back ... |