eldartford
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| Why not horns? Herman... Sound radiates as a spherical wavefront (except as interrupted by walls). At the distance of the listener or microphone the spherical wavefront is nearly a flat plane. The microphone samples this wavefront at a point, and a planar speake... | |
| Why not horns? "Horn Nazis"? Well, even the Nazis did some things well (roads for example) but that doesn't justify their other deeds. As I have said, horns do Dixieland jazz superbly, but I can't listen to Dixieland all the time. | |
| Why not horns? I hope you horn enthusiasts are enjoying the world cup. Gives you a headache! | |
| Amp not enough power As power is increased (by increasing input signal) distortion increases. At some value of distortion the associated power is cited as the spec. A little difference in what you consider acceptable distortion can translate into different power, more... | |
| Bent Banana Plug Why straighten them? Electrons can go around corners quite well. | |
| Why not horns? Phase coherency, or lack thereof, is best evaluated by a speaker's ability to reproduce a square wave. The only speaker that I know of that does this well is the original full range Walsh driver. | |
| Why not horns? Herman... My thoughts are along the lines cited by Apollo66.Sorry, I can't give you a list of all the horns I have heard. And, since 1958 I never owned one. (It was then that I discovered their performance with horn music Dixieland Jazz). Based on... | |
| Why not horns? Herman... Sounding like trumpets is a quite precise description of what I find undesirable about horns. I think everyone will understand what I am saying, although they might disagree. As is often said on Audiogon, we couldn't care less about spec... | |
| Why not horns? Unsound... That's a neat instrument. Ideal for a steet performer. But it isn't a violin. | |
| Why not horns? If you want violins to sound like trumpets, get horns.On the other hand for, Dixieland Jazz, a horn speaker is ideal. | |
| options for highly compressed CDs? Compression can be undone by an expander. If the compression and expanding is done in a coordinated way, as with the DBX LP recording system, the results are very good.Peak limiting should only be executed to avoid cliping. The momentary gain redu... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Almarg... My house has been standing for about 180 years, and is not apt to fall down due to the 1812 overture ! After I built the subwoofer system I did have problens with rattling windows, but it was easy to find what was loose and fix it.200 fe... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Kijanki... As I mentioned even when the SPL is only moderate the large drivers, powered with big amps, reproduce the music with an efortless sound that small drivers, pumping their little hearts out, can't duplicate.And, when the deepest bass orga... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Dob.... My front channels (which is all I mentioned above) has three Channel Island D200 amps (Hypex module) driving MG1.6 main speakers. For the six subwoofer drivers I have three CarverPro ZR1600 stereo amps (six channels of 600 watts/channel) e... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? People who run 7 inch woofers and then complain about dynamic range have no one to blame but themselves. But, it's understandable because if you live in an apartment or a dense housing development you simply cannot generate realistic SPL for an or... |