eldartford
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| Sound quality of Magneplanar MC1 wall speaker It is essential that you use two subwoffers. These Maggies are not intended to be full range speakers. Apart from that, they sound like Maggies...good. | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Rauliruegas..."I know for sure that you are an inexperience audio people". Stupid remark. I go back to about 1953 with my own systems, and used others before that. I remember when high end meant that you used triangular wooden "needles" that you s... | |
| the 4 ohm rating A speaker voice coil has inductance as well as resistance. An 8 ohm coil, in order to produce the same force from less current must have more turns...twice as many. This means twice the inductance. Not good.Magneplanar speakers don't have voice co... | |
| Speaker design myths revealed golix@macunlimited.net...The term "sealed box" means that the box is relatively small and air tight so that air compressed within the box contributes much of the spring effect on the driver cone. Because of the air spring (which is very linear) th... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Albertporter...I think we are coming to an agreement! I should not have implied that ALL vinyl playback is noisy and inferior to digital. You should not have implied that ALL vinyl playback is quiet and superior to digital. We agree that to achiev... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Albertporter...Of course not all sonic characteristics can be measured, but some can. I have heard it said, as a general statement, that vinyl playback has separation as good as digital. For your particular cartridge, to my surprise, that appears ... | |
| Zobel network My Seas Odin speakers (rears) have a network across the two W18E001 magnesium cone woofers. Its purpose is to tame a well defined peak in the response of these drivers, just before they roll off. Away from this peak, the response is very flat, and... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Gregm...A quick check of specs shows...Ortofons run 25dB at 1 KHz and 15dB at 15KHz. One model, Jubilee, is 27 and 20.Clearaudio claims 30 dB for the Virtuoso MM and 35dB for the Sigma gold.I believe that almost all cartridges are in this range, w... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Gregm...The most likely result of my current reevaluation of vinyl is that I go back to a MC pickup. Benz was the one I heard, and liked. I used to have Ortofons and Signet, which I also liked (except when the stylus needed replacement). Is your l... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Gregm...As you say, it is signal-to-noise ratio that matters, not noise level per se. This is why surface noise is not a problem with most pop music that is recorded with very ittle dynamic range. Classical is another story.Can you offer a list of... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Rauliruegas, and Albertporter....Your suggestion that my disagreement with you regarding some aspects of LP technology stems from a lack of experience is foolish, because you have no way of knowing. I freely admit to now owning a playback system l... | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...My SW systems are built into the wall behind the Maggies, and "play through" the screens. So they are not moved around. I pull the Maggies out 4-6 feet when in use.I do not run the Maggies full range. I think that getting the really LF ... | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...I am now set up with a crossover where I can alter the SW X/O frequency while music is playing by twisting a knob, and my ears and my spectrum analyser tells me what happens. With a white noise test signal (flat 20-20KHz) I am able to v... | |
| the 4 ohm rating Six of one and half a dozen the other. The greater proportion of 4 ohm drivers reflects the fact that most drivers (these days) are 4 ohms. | |
| Two subwoofers in smallish HT room? Sogood51...It was a surprise to me, but I measured about 4.5 watts rms into each of my three SW system, a total of less than 15 watts, to shake the windows in my listening room, using a warble test signal around 30 Hz. The assumption that LF takes... |