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| The focus and air lie So- through all of this no-one has really been able to make the case about how 'focus' and 'air' are a lie, although like a number of other threads on the 'gon, it does seem that the terms have almost as many meanings as the number of people that ... | |
| Looking for Polarity Invert Feature... If you have a recording that was done with 2 or 3 microphones, the effect can be heard. The effect has to do with the fact that audio waveforms are not always symmetrical. Take a look at an audio waveform on an oscilloscope and you will see what I... | |
| Help mismatch maybe? Mapman, the short answer is no. All you have to do is look at the designer's intent, particularly with the speaker designer. What is the amp that he is using in the design process? Is it tubed? If so, its likely that he has engineered the speaker ... | |
| Holographic imaging Doppler effect??! I would think that if there is any doppler effect in the recording, you would certainly **not** want to compensate for it. Otherwise you would not be playing it back right :)I get the feeling that a lot of these holography system... | |
| Looking for Polarity Invert Feature... One of the first preamps to have the invert feature was the original Atma-Sphere MP-1 (1989). It is the one signal processing feature that we have on our preamps (easy enough to do since our preamps are internally fully balanced). | |
| Help mismatch maybe? You have a mismatch. The speakers are a Power Paradigm device (they expect constant power from the amplifier, regardless of load), and your amplifiers so far are Voltage Paradigm (they make constant voltage regardless of load). Anytime you mix the... | |
| Class D and High Efficiency Speakers? High Efficiency speakers in general prefer an amplifier with a relatively high source impedance, due to the reactive nature of high efficiency drivers.The use of low output impedance amplifiers with high efficiency drivers is the reason why horns ... | |
| Holographic imaging Mapman, my experience has been that anywhere you can involve tubes in audio will help, as long as the tubes are in a competent circuit :) | |
| Holographic imaging Having worked with a good number of master tapes, I might be able to help with the terms here. Bloom: a function of harmonic distortion, part of a spectrum: neutral, warmth, bloom, thick or fat, bloated, muddy all describe distortion, usually lack... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, just to set the record straight, an OTL may have a lot of tubes but that is not the same thing as being really expensive and difficult to maintain (although the Fouriers did contribute mightily to that myth).Krell is correct in that a high... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, FWIW they were never one of our dealers.The Fertin full-range driver is an extremely high quality driver, yet it is not driven well by a 'constant voltage' amplifier like the Krell. The manufacturer specifies 'current source' amplifiers fo... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, what dealer were you with? | |
| Pioneer sx-636 vintage reciever? Pioneer always made reliable receivers and the SX series was no exception (I've serviced hundreds of them). However you have to understand that the unit is not 'permanent', in that the filter capacitors in the power supply need to be replaced, and... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, given the example you gave, any amp can drive any speaker. However, in the context of what has become high end audio, it will not always drive the speaker *well*. Even a set of our smallest amps can drive a set of the old Apogee Full Range... | |
| An Audiophile's journey No amp comes close... seehttp://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html |