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| Articles You Feel Should be Shared A fascinating YouTube account of loudspeaker panel resonances. Plenty of food for thought for any potential DIY speaker builders. The World’s Second Best Speakers by Tech Ingredients https://youtu.be/EEh01PX-q9I | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer @asctim I would bet though that if you took two different reasonably well designed speakers with the same baffle shape, same driver sizes and driver placements on the baffles, let’s say a 5" woofer and 1" dome tweeter on 16" x 7" baffle, they co... | |
| Favorite Platform for Linn LP12 @lewm Linn’s notorious marketing campaign and attitude to business strategy had a fair bit to do with it too. It only really came to an end once the Linn / Naim alliance came to an end and even the staunchly anti digital Linn had to do an embarr... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Short answer, no. You can’t easily improve dynamics, dispersion or bandwidth via equalisation. Not without introducing additional distortion artefacts. However you could make their frequency responses sound a lot closer. In fact quite a few peo... | |
| If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it… @cdc So true, but It’s not your fault, it’s the stereo. A lot of hi-fi equipment draws attention to itself. Makes it nigh impossible to hear the music. Well said! I'm sure others have said something similar before, (MC ?) but never so ... | |
| I Don't Want to be an Audiophile, What am I... @knotscott, "I’m very much concerned with whether or not the sound can convince my brain that there’s music being played. We all have a very unique requirement to satisfy that illusion, and for some it is indeed a very steep climb....." This ... | |
| I Don't Want to be an Audiophile, What am I... The distinction between audiophile and music lover is one that I first became aware of back in the days I used to read both the music press and the Hi-Fi press. Not only did the readers of the music press not seem to overly care about their repla... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @roxy54 I'm surprised you don't like this hard edged version, I prefer it to the 1966 original. Of course that's the Kinks themselves, live from their 1996 album, To the Bone. Sounds like Ray on vocals although Dave has covered it himself on oc... | |
| How important Is shielding with RCA wires? (Ethan Winer, new video) Good video. Ethan Winer is always a voice worth listening to. So as often in audio, it’s a question of application. Shielding is important when it comes to applications like cartridges and guitars, but maybe not so much for RCA cables. Certainly... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @roxy54 Ha! By a strange YouTube algorithm this appears as I'm searching for Do You Remember Walter! "I won't take all that they hand me down Make out a smile, though I wear a frown And I'm not gonna take it all lying down Cause once I ge... | |
| RIP Max Townshend Shocking news. Max has been a seemingly ever present figure in the world of audio for at least as long as I've had any interest in it. There's a report in positive feedback which attributed the cause of the 78 year olds death to heart failure. H... | |
| How do you get Happy as an Audiophile? Positive psychology certainly has its fair share of detractors. To ignore the causes of anything is one highly dubious means of attempting to build anything substantial. Besides, perhaps the terms happy and audiophile are mutually incompatibl... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption @mahgister "I am flabbergasted by history....By psychological science , by the minority of people in a spiritual resistance..." Well, some people do say that history has a way of repeating itself. Perhaps not surprising given that huma... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption @mahgister 20 years ago interview of an enlightened scientist whose worst fears are coming true in the world.... Interview, Richard Strohman, PhD. [Interview conducted in 2000; Previously published at the original Truth Barrier,... | |
| Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money? @kahlenz "In a double-blind A/B test at normal listening levels most people would have a hard time distinguishing between LS50s and speakers that cost 100x as much. They would, however, immediately be able to tell the difference between the LS5... |