ctsooner
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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thanks so much for the post and the help. I sold my OSDE knowing the QX-5/Twenty is out as well as Steve's new DAC. I may be able to afford his new DAC if something comes through this next week or so, and that's now on the table. I'll be gettin... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive When I said I'd love to see your designs, I meant the speakers that you are building, not the designs. Not an engineer. I can read a schematic, but not building anything anymore, lol. The one great thing about our hobby is that all the folks li... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Marketing ploy? Seriously? No it's not a marketing ploy at all. It's just an agree to disagree. I just pointed out that no matter how you treat it, it's still going to break up. Even a big name maker of paper coned drivers admits this. To man... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Smoothed and damped does not eliminate the breakup distortion, it just minimizes the harshness of it. At the same time, it damps information someone may have spent 10's of thousand's on the front end of the system to get. Metal cone drivers use ... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive This really is a great thread. I understand that so many of you love the paper cones. Again we all hear differently and we also listen differently. Breakup can be very well damped and smoothed, but the fact remains that the cone is in breakup.... | |
| Great Stereophile article on a friend of mine, drummer Billy Drummond thanks bdp. I haven't been keeping up on drums in so long and I've forgotten so much. Gumwood not hickory, yes! I got the ply correct though, lol. My first instructor shared the story of Gretch shells. That just brought me full circle, thanks... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Well put Oros. You and I seem to be in a similar camp. | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Ohlala, of course lol | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Erik you read something into my comments that I never said. I was planning to get this Ayre with a Melco when I purchased thEmpirical as I've know. All about it for a bit. What Steve did to my mini server has it sounding outstanding. I'd have kept... | |
| Great Stereophile article on a friend of mine, drummer Billy Drummond I'd love another kit, however I have MS and am numb from the waist down, lol. I also have lost so much coordination that I couldn't even sound good on my old Ludwig pad, lol. Nice kit though. Mine was the stop sign badge of course and I too had ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD What are you talking about Erik? What point? Proves nothing other than I am upgrading again as I have been planing for ages. The digital system I have/selling is awesome and worthy to be in the highest of systems. I already miss the darn thing... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Darn, I'm sorry, but it won't let me edit a post that's over 30 minutes old. I forgot to answer you on the drivers. Their drivers come from ScanSpeak, but they don't have part numbers as they are not standard models. All of them are custom or us... | |
| Great Stereophile article on a friend of mine, drummer Billy Drummond I need to start listening to him, lol. I too have loved jazz for years, but don't know enough about it. | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive ohlalaThey vary depending on which speaker. The range is from $136.00 to $2700.00, but that is the cost for rebuild. New drivers are not priced out. Paper cones are always in break-up at all frequencies, but because of the cone profile and the fa... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD The Mini that I have was totally rebuilt by Steve himself as it was his old server he used at shows. I has it's limit, but with the Hynes regulated power supply and all the mods he did, it's not like any mini I've ever heard. I'm about to purcha... |