bdp24
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| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Listening to the same J.S. Bach or Mozart piece twice in a row increases my pleasure in hearing it, as I better understand it. And it’s free! | |
| Anyone know how to set up Rythmik subwoofers on an ARCAM AVE550 receiver? Call Rythmik and talk to designer/owner Brian Ding. If you want to connect the subs to the speaker output terminals (binding posts) on the receiver, when you order the subs ask for the PEQ or PEQ3 plate amp. Both include binding posts for high-lev... | |
| What is the forum code word for "listen to this stoned". I'd like to use it on these two: Ha, excellent one schubert! I can't be around stoners, and not just because of all the coughing (and coughing, and coughing, and coughing.....). All they do is act like silly teenagers; it's pathetic and even worse, boring. | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! @prof, your third paragraph perfectly expresses my own feelings on the subject. There is of course no such thing as a perfectly uncolored (or transparent, or anything else) loudspeaker, but some allow me to "suspend my disbelief" enough to enjoy t... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! @mijostyn, you sound like the guys on the Home Theater Subwoofer sites. They too consider the SPL output capability of a sub as the only criteria with which to assess it’s quality. Linkwitz and Richie/Ding designed their OB/Dipole subs for the rep... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? @artemus_5, I would have my 100w version modified to run in Class A, but it is powering a loudspeaker which contains magnetic-planar drivers, known for their very low sensitivity. Not as much so as Maggies, but close.I for years used a 25w/ch Clas... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! A 3dB boost at 20Hz is NOT a shelving circuit. A shelving circuit is a progressive low-pass compensation filter, not a static figure (6dB/octave, the boost therefore increasing as frequency decreases), which exactly compensates for the 6dB/octave ... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! @mijostyn, what were the dimensions of your OB/Dipole sub frames? Were they H-frames, or W-frames? Linkwitz chose to go with the W, Danny Richie with the H (though he provides plans for both on his GR Research website).Did you incorporate the mand... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! Actually, though most of Doug Sax's work was as a mastering engineer, he DID do some recording, including the Sheffield Direct-To-Disk albums. On those he was recording AND mastering engineer, mastering of course as the recording was taking place. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? There is one maker of a well-regarded tube power amp (I’ll allow he and it to remain anonymous, so as to not appear to be "pushing" them) who offers the amp in both Class-A/B form, and in pure Class-A. Both versions share the same circuit architec... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! Speaking of transparency.....it was when I read Harry Pearson say in a review of a loudspeaker that it was "transparent in the same way the original is" that I realized he didn’t actually understand what the term transparent means. If the original... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! @mijostyn, Siegfried Linkwitz disagreed (R.I.P.) with you ;-). Have you actually ever heard an OB/Dipole sub, or are you speaking in purely theoretical terms?Rythmik's Brian Ding, even though collaborating with Danny Richie on the OB/Dipole Sub (i... | |
| Any Magnepan Mini Maggies fans here Do you know about the Planar Speaker Asylum? There is lots of discussion there on that subject by Maggie owners. | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! There are those who still feel the best bass QUALITY they ever heard was that produced by the two bass panels of the Magneplanar Tympani loudspeakers; the original T-I up through the final Tympani, the T-IVa. The T-IVa (upon which the new MG30.7 b... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! @prof, I too have heard that "ghostly sound" from planars (most recently a pair of Maggie 1.7’s), but that can be and often is a result of comb-filtering caused by the back wave of the speaker bouncing off the wall behind it, meeting up with the f... |