bruce19
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| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover @imhififan Wow! What a fine piece of information. Good detective work! Now I've got to decide do I go down the rabbit hole of comparing the sound of capacitors. Mmmmm.......very tempting | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover @timlub Your 15 inch/1inch speaker sounds interesting, particularly coupled with the efficiency rating it sports. Have you considered selling it as a DIY kit? I was looking around and was surprised at the lack of selection of DIY speaker kits. May... | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover @imhififan That is good news to hear your take on the value. The cap was somewhat damaged as I removed it from the circuit board so I was just a bit concerned about whether it would measure accurately.@timlub What kind of speakers to you build? Do... | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover @I really appreciate your interest and input | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover @timlub As it turns out I have gone that route with guidance from the stellar tech support man, Josh, at Madisound I bought a mix of Solen and Claritycap polypropylene caps. It is worth mentioning that Solen is made in France and Clarity is made ... | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover Great dialog timlub and imhififan. Your raising some of the questions I have been wondering about as a novice in this arena. For instance is the capacitor only important as a capacitor or do its other properties such as inductance and resistance e... | |
| Mystery Capacitor and the Tangent RS4 Crossover Many Thanks for the thoughts from all of you! By way of update, I acquired a LCR meter and tested the mystery cap and all the others and now am pretty confident. Many thanks also to Josh of Madisound.com who was most helpful! I have made a schemat... | |
| Advice from anyone with Tangent RS4 speakers? Don't know if anyone is around from this original thread but I have a pair of Tangent RS4s whose crossovers I am currently in the midst of trying to rebuild. I used to power them in the 80s with an Adcom GFA1 amp (200 watts/channel which I underst... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? … Aren’t violins made of wood? Guitars, pianos, Clarinets, bassoons. Why would it occur to someone to pick on wood as being on unmusical? | |
| What do you sit on? @millercarbon, Is this the chair you were thinking of,,,,https://relaxtheback.com/collections/zero-gravity-chairs/products/novus-zero-gravity-recliner?varian...I came across it when going though the search of old threads on this site thoughtfully ... | |
| Simple question, or is it... Bravo Millercarbon!Too many of us , myself included, are afraid to recognize the miraculous in the mundane or sometimes maybe just too preoccupied with the trivial. | |
| Who buy PS AUDIO ? Thanks to all of you who shared your experience with PS audio, this discussion has gone a long way to restoring my confidence in them. I have never owned any of their equipment but have been considering them among the other options for an upgrade ... | |
| Are you a special snowflake? My dear snowflake we are all special. | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? @artemus_5 I did not compare the two side by side. I have been told told by a knowledgeable dealer that upgrading from the Yamaha to the 2i would not be worthwhile. I am am currently looking at the microrendu or ultrarendu as a cost effective a... | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? @whatsthatbuzzI found this book, "File Based Audio" by Hans Beekhuysen answer a lot of the questions you pose. |